Edinburgh News: theatre
Edinburgh Theatre Arts to Reprise Broadway Comedy for the 2018 Fringe
Following their success in 2016 with Lucy Prebble’s Enron, and in 2017 with Alan Ayckbourn’s Improbable Fiction, renowned Edinburgh amateur theatre company, Edinburgh Theatre Arts (E
Good Grief! - Death comes to the Fringe
This year, the charity-run initiative Death on the Fringe, that aims to get us talking about the one thing that faces us all, returns for its fifth year to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Edinburgh based theatre company Tortoise in a Nutshell makes welcome return to 2018 Fringe
This August, Edinburgh based visual theatre company Tortoise in a Nutshell returns to the Fringe with their 2015 Imaginate commissioned show The Lost Things.
Drama At The Dockers, Leith Dockers Club, Review
Citadel Arts Group brings a triple-bill entitled Drama At The Dockers, performing for the ninth consecutive year at the lively, community-focused Leith Festival.
Two New Awards Announced to Support Theatre for Social Change in 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The SIT-UP Awards are new to this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe and are launched by Fringe patron and philanthropist, David Graham.
The Last Ship, Festival Theatre, Review
Sea shanties and Celtic folk orchestrate Sting’s inspiring debut musical, The Last Ship, which sings the plight of the working class of Newcastle upon Tyne during the end of the region’s shi
Edinburgh’s Lyceum Co-production of Anti-fascist Play Tops 2018 CATS
A new version by Zinnie Harris of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist classic, Rhinoceros, that responded to the rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe, has topped the 2018 Critics’ Awards for Theatre i
Downs With Love, Assembly Roxy, Review
It should be a given that everyone deserves to love and be loved, but society appears to be uncomfortable with this when the people involved have a disability.
Scotland’s Makar, Jackie Kay, to present at this year’s Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland
The annual ceremony of the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS), that recognises the breadth of talent in Scottish theatre from directing and acting to design, technical and musical contribu
Restored Riddle’s Court to be New Edinburgh Festival Fringe Venue
Following a £6million restoration project, Edinburgh’s beautiful Grade A listed building, Riddle’s Court near the top of the Royal Mile, will be transformed into an Edinburgh Festival Fringe theatre v
Call to Young Creatives from Edinburgh by National Theatre of Scotland
The National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) is marking Scotland’s Year of Young People in 2018 by staging a major radical new festival of international performing arts, Futureproof, created by young people