Scotland

Reviews

Still

Frances Poet

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse 3

1–29 September 2021

This is Paradise

Michael John O’Neill

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse 3

1–29 September 2021

Isabelle Farah: Ellipsis

RBM Comedy

Assembly Roxy

28 August 2021

Ross & Rachel

James Fritz

Francesca Moody Productions

Shedinburgh (Soho Theatre)

25–29 August 2021

Lament for Sheku Bayoh

Hannah Lavery

Edinburgh International Festival, National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Lyce...

Royal Lyceum Theatre

25–31 August 2021

Move

Julia Taudevin

Disaster Plan

Traverse 3

24 August–7 September 2021

Eavesdropping (Walk This Play)

Hannah Lavery and Sarah MacGillivray

ThickSkin

Traverse 3

20 August–17 September 2021

Leaf by Niggle

J R R Tolkien

Puppet State Theatre

Scottish Storytelling Centre

17–24 August 2021

An Evening With An Immigrant

Inua Ellams

Inua Ellams and Fuel

Traverse 3

17–23 August 2021

Madhouse

Nottingham New Theatre

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

16–27 August 2021

For All The Lost You Lost

Morosophy Productions

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

16–21 August 2021

I am Not Victoria Wood

Julia Knight

Pepita Productions

Pleasance Courtyard

11–15 August 2021

Screen 9

Kate Barton

Piccolo Theatre and The Pleasance

Pleasance at EICC

10–29 August 2021

We’ll Meet in Moscow

Natalie McGrath

Traverse Theatre Company

Traverse 3

10–31 August 2021

Wolves Within

Svend-Erik Engh and Neil Sutcliffe

Scottish Storytelling Centre

10–28 August 2021

Eugene

Daniel Nicholas, Ingenious Fools, Pleasance and York Theatre Royal

Pleasance Courtyard

10–15 August 2021

Granny Smith

Tracey Boot

Theatre Transformations / Tracey Boot

French Institute in Scotland

9–30 August 2021

Styx

Max Barton

Second Body

Assembly George Square Gardens

9–15 August 2021

Zumba Gold

Amelia Gann

Pleasance Courtyard

9–15 August 2021

Shell Shock

Based on the novel by Neil Blower Watkins

Mountain Hare and Smokescreen Productions

Assembly Roxy

9–15 August 2021

Dark Spirits, Black Humor: A Night of Cocktails and Storytelling

Mark Jude Sullivan

InHouse Theatre

The Wolves bar, downtown Los Angeles

8–29 August 2021

Wish List

Katherine Soper

New Celts Productions and Bone Struck Theatre

theSpaceTriplex

8–28 August 2021

Saved

Graeme Leak

Scissor Kick

ZOOTV

8–28 August 2021

Corpsing

Calum Ferguson and Lewis Lauder

New Celts Productions and Red Rabbit Theatre

theSpaceTriplex

7–27 August 2021

Prison Game

Marcus Hercules

Hercules Productions with HOME Manchester and Pleasance

Pleasance Online

7–30 August 2021

A Theatrical Life

Daniel Munson

Siobhan Bremer

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Possible

Shôn Dale-Jones

National Theatre Wales

Pleasance Online

6–30 August 2021

Heroes

Majk Stokes

Quaker Meeting House Online

6–30 August 2021

Miss Lindsay's Secret

Maria MacDonell

Maria MacDonell / Georgina MacDonell Finlayson / Alan Finlayson

Scottish Storytelling Centre

6–30 August 2021

Under The Floorboards

Simon Shaw

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Sugar

Mabel Thomas

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Sharon (Orla Graham), Hayley (Shannon Wilkinson) and Leah (Sarah Reid)

Two Fingers Up

Gina Donnelly and Séon Simpson

SkelpieLimmer

The MAC Belfast / Summerhall

6–29 August 2021

Wallace & Gromit: In Concert

Carrot Productions

Fringe Player

6–30 August 2021

We Missed You

Julia Masli and Viggo Venn

Assembly Showcatcher

6–30 August 2021

The Saviour

Deirdre Kinahan

Landmark Productions

Assembly Showcatcher

6–30 August 2021

Color Inside the Lines

Jenny Stafford

Flying Solo!

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal

Melissa Center

Whole Self Stories

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Under Milk Wood - Semi Skimmed

Dylan Thomas, adapted by Guy Masterson

Guy Masterson / Theatre Tours International Ltd

Assembly George Square Gardens

6–11 August 2021

Bacon

Pip Utton

Pip Utton Theatre Co.

Pleasance Courtyard

6–13 August 2021

Are You Boxed In, Mr Dennis?

Dennis Elkins

Flying Solo! Presents

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Charlie's a Clepto

Clare Monnelly

Axis Ballymun and Dublin Port Company

Assembly Showcatcher

6–30 August 2021

Plasters

Emma Tadmoor

theSpaceTriplex

6–21 August 2021

Love in the Time of Lockdown

SwanWing Productions

theSpaceTriplex

6–14 August 2021

Saving Mr Ultimate

New Celts Productions and Extra Arca

theSpaceTriplex

6–27 August 2021

I Love You Mum - I promise I won't Die

Mark Wheeller

Tie It Up Theatre

Fringe Player

6–28 August 2021

King John: A Theatrical Film

William Shakespeare, adapted by Abey Bradbury

Cream Faced Loons and SquadFour Productions

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

CITY

John McCarthy

John McCarthy / Everyman Theatre

Fringe Player

6–28 August 2021

Myra's Story

Brian Foster

Assembly Festival

Assembly George Square Gardens

6–29 August 2021

Jane Eyre

Adapted from the novel by Charlotte Brontë

Blue Orange Arts

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

6–14 August 2021

Afloat

Eva O'Connor and Hildegard Ryan

Sunday's Child

Summerhall

6–29 August 2021

Conversations

Rob Ward

Emmerson & Ward, Curve and De Montford University

Pleasance Online

6–30 August 2021

Clowntime

John Feffer

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

Pool (No Water)

Mark Ravenhill

New Celts Productions and Oddly Ordinary Theatre Company

theSpaceTriplex

6–28 August 2021

On Your Bike

Ben James & Jon Venable

Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

6–28 August 2021

Femme Ta Bouche

Teddy Walker

A Drunken Sailor

theSpaceTriplex

6–21 August 2021

Agave vs The Lion

Sarah Crockarell adapting The Bacchae by Euripides

Flying Solo! Presents

[email protected]

6–30 August 2021

The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Wardrobe Ensemble with The Wardrobe Theatre

Fringe Player

6–30 August 2021

Journey Across the Impossible

Apollo Saxophone Quartet

Fringe Player

6–30 August 2021

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Adapted from the short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Fringe Management

Gilded Balloon Teviot

5–29 August 2021

Mediocre White Male

Will Close and Joe von Malachowski

Assembly Roxy

4–15 August 2021

Fear of Roses

Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller

Black Bat Productions

Assembly Roxy

4–26 August 2021

News

Glasgow's Tron reopens

12 September 2021

Following eighteen months of outdoor pop-ups and online work, the Tron announces its reopening season.

Scottish Opera tours G&S Gondoliers

5 September 2021

A new Scottish Opera production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers opens at Theatre Royal Glasgow before touring to Edinburgh, Inverness and London's Hackney Empire.

Edinburgh's crippled Fringe Festival launches Save the Fringe

29 August 2021

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has launched a £7.5m fundraising campaign to secure its future.

balletLORENT back on tour

24 August 2021

The tour of balletLORENT’s The Lost Happy Endings resumes in September.

Scottish Opera returns indoors

20 August 2021

Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights tour will journey the length and breadth of Scotland to 9 venues for a total of 11 performances.

Lights come on at the Lanternhouse

17 August 2021

Lanternhouse opens its doors in October with a programme of theatre, dance, music, comedy and more.

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance re-opening

15 August 2021

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre have announced a re-opening date and an autumn season of dance and theatre.

Scottish Opera Young Company in Weill première

29 July 2021

Scottish Opera’s Young Company, will perform the Scottish première of Kurt Weill’s absurd one-act comedy The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken.

Stars of Québec return to Edinburgh

16 July 2021

A virtual showcase of circus, theatre and dance for Qué[email protected] for Assembly Festival will be launched in an hour-long broadcast before the shows start running live.

Edinburgh Fringe puts first shows on sale

5 July 2021

Tickets are now available for more than 170 shows at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with more to be announced weekly.

All or Nothing Aerial Dance tour

2 July 2021

Edinburgh's All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre will tour Scotland with a new outdoor, interactive production, The Swings, staged on a five-metre-high swing set.

Features

Edinburgh is back, up and down

5 September 2021

A bit of an Edinburgh round-up from National news editor Sandra Giorgetti.

Edinburgh Festival 2021 and Beyond

30 July 2021

As August approaches, lovers of the arts inevitably turn their thoughts to the Scottish capital.

Test and Superspreader Events

2 July 2021

As Terminus Day approaches, we review the current state of play for the events industry.

Social distancing headaches

30 April 2021

Philip Fisher reports on the latest position on social distancing in Scottish theatres and contrasts it with the stance of the UK government.