Tag: Theatre
Palestinian Children to perform in Edinburgh
Children from Shatila, a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut, will perform Peter Mortimer’s fable, Croak, the King and a Change in the Weather, on Wednesday 6 April at The Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh.
Croak, the...
Time to Save the Stockbridge Theatre – Saturday 26th March 2011
The City of Edinburgh Council, which owns The Stockbridge Theatre has recently advised that it is about to be put on the market for sale. Campaigners want to keep it open and are staging...
The Hard Man at The King’s 31 March to 9 April
Celebrated Scots stage and screen star Alex Ferns, who chillingly portrayed one of television’s most hated villains, Trevor Morgan in Eastenders, is set to play the part of Johnnie Byrne in a major revival...
Traverse Theatre to host award-winning talent
The Traverse Theatre will host some of Scotlands top new talent in April. The Platform 18 award is run by The Arches to recognise emerging directors in Scotland. This years two winning performances will be coming...
Student theatre company stages School for Scandal
The student led theatre company, Et Al, will be putting on three performances of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal, premiering on Sunday 20th March at the Forest Cafe.
The production is non-ticketed but donations...
Young Actors Win Edinburgh Opportunity
The independent arts charity Ideas Tap recently announced the winners of a competition to get £10, 000 of funding to enable young creatives to perform at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
We spoke to the...
Iain Crichton Smith’s LazyBed : March 2011 Edinburgh
Newly formed amateur company, Falling Cutlery, will present LAZYBED by much-loved Scottish writer Iain Crichton Smith on 17 - 19 March 2011 at 7.30 pm at The Studio at Augustine United Church George IV...
Strange Theatre presents ‘Mother, à la carte’
This play should attract men, women, mothers young and old, groups of friends enjoying a mum’s night out, or anyone wanting to enjoy an entertaining lunch hour together. Grown up children may like to...
REVIEW: Master Class – ****
Maria Callas, the US born Greek opera singer made her name as La Divinia in Italy, where she triumphed in bel canto operas by Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini. Insecurity about her weight and experience of love,...
Blues Brothers competition – We have winners!
The question was:- Apart from The Blues Brothers name two other films in which John Belushi starred with Dan Aykroyd.
The answer is:- 1941 and Neighbors
We have emailed the winners. Well done to all three...
Lung Ha’s Theatre Company – An Introduction
Edinburgh has been a hub of all things theatrical for decades, and 2011 looks set to be another exciting year. One organisation offering something a little bit different is Lung Ha’s Theatre Company, who...
Maria Callas at The King’s
Actress Stephanie Beacham, known worldwide for her role as Sable Colby in The Colbys and Dynasty, takes to the stage this season as the great diva Maria Callas, in the award winning Master Class...
Traverse’s Class Act is 21 – this weekend!
The Traverse Theatre’s flagship education project, Class Act, turns 21 this year. To celebrate this achievement, the Traverse will stage a Gala performance of 21 plays from each year of the project on 29...
Burns’ Night coming soon!
I couldn’t believe that people in Scotland have a whole day devoted to a poet and that they actually do celebrate it. But, then, every reason to celebrate is good, especially if the night...
Beckett at The Traverse
Gare St Lazare Players Ireland, Ireland's most travelled theatre company, make a return visit to Edinburgh to perform their signature work, The Beckett Trilogy on 21st & 22nd January at 7.30pm at The...
Swan Lake on Ice comes to The Playhouse
The world’s premiere theatrical ice skating company, THE IMPERIAL ICE STARS, return to the UK this autumn with a dynamic new interpretation of their award-winning masterpiece Swan Lake on Ice, as part of a...
The New Victoria
We spoke recently with the Artistic Director of The New Victoria Limited, Helen Raw. Helen is part of a three woman team trying very hard to save the old Odeon building on South Clerk...
Fire juggling
We presume that this is something you really can't practice at home......so the juggler was seen in Rose Street the other day....practising!
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Traverse Theatre wins award
The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh has won a prize in a special award scheme to highlight companies in Scotland that do more to help blind and partially sighted people.
The Go Shop Awards scheme -...
Spring Awakening at The Traverse
The Traverse Theatre Company and Grid Iron have joined forces to present a new version of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening by Douglas Maxwell. This exciting project, directed by Ben Harrison, represents the...
Behind closed doors
Hollywood husband and wife Maxwell Caulfield and Juliet Mills head up an all-star cast in Peter Hall's critically acclaimed production of Alan Ayckbourn's 'Bedroom Farce'.
The play follows Trevor and Susannah, who have a problem...
Chess at The Edinburgh Playhouse
Star judge of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, Craig Revel Horwood, is bringing his new show to Edinburgh’s Playhouse next week.
Craig is directing and choreographing the new production of ‘Chess’ which is coming to the capital...
Dance for All
Director Tracy Hawkes celebrates Dance For All’s double anniversary this August at the venue which she now owns and where she herself originally trained as a dancer in the 1970s.
Formerly known as The Theatre...
Fringe First at The Traverse
The Traverse Theatre has received three Scotsman Fringe First awards for shows in its 2010 Festival season.
The three winning plays in the opening week of awards include DC Jackson’s My Romantic History, Speechless by...
Freefall – The Traverse
A sudden shock, and a man’s life flashes before his eyes. In an intense rush of extraordinary images and tangled memories, he attempts to reconnect the events that have shaped him.
Winner of two Irish...
Calendar Girls
Following a sell-out, record breaking run in Edinburgh last year Calendar Girls has triumphed in the West End and possibly in the whole of the UK. Now it's back in Edinburgh for two weeks...
10 Dates with Mad Mary
Yes you would have to be mad. To want to go out on a date with Mary, a freshly released 25 year-old former prisoner. But she managed to get 10 people to date her...
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