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John Aggasild on bringing SPRING/SUMMER 2019 to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

Comedian Billy Kirkwood on bringing Dad Club to the 2019 Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

Jay Lafferty on bringing Wheesht! to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

Garrett Millerick blogs for BroadwayWorldUK about bringing his 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Sunflower to London's Soho Theatre.

The National Theatre today announced a UK tour of Bijan Sheibani's production of A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaney's remarkable taboo-breaking 1950s play, which was first produced in the Lyttelton Theatre in 2014, designed by Hildegard Bechtler and reconceived in an exciting new production, featuring a live on-stage band, for the tour.

Big Burns Supper raises the roof yet again after another storming festival in Dumfries.

Beverly and husband Laurence are throwing a party for their newlywed neighbours, Tony and Angela. Joining them is highly strung Susan who's been banished from the party of her teenage daughter Abigail. Welcome to 1970's suburbia and its heady mix of free-flowing cocktails, classic disco and cheese and pineapple sticks. As tensions rise and tempers flare the sheen of respectability is torn away by the warring couples with hilarious and potentially disastrous consequences.

ITV's award-winning comedy celebrates over a decade of all-inclusive hilarity, having followed the ensemble cast of holiday makers and staff for ten series since it first broadcast in 2007. Litten has now written an all new set of Alicante escapades for the much-loved cast members as they swap sangria for the stage - after a quick spruce up at the Blow 'n' Go!

Detective Inspector John Rebus is retired but the shadows of his former life still follow him through the streets of Edinburgh. Whisky helped but now he's denying himself that pleasure. But when the daughter of a murder victim appears outside his flat, he's back on the case and off the wagon.

We've all seen the dozens of articles and gripes on Twitter about 'audience etiquette' and comments on how somebody has behaved while in a theatre. But where do these audience members go to put across their side of the story? TripAdvisor.

This brilliant new staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed 'Les Mis for the 21stCentury'. With scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, the magnificent score of Les Miserables includes the songs I Dreamed a Dream, On My Own, Bring Him Home, One Day More, Master Of The House and many more. Seen by over 120 million people worldwide in 45 countries and in 22 languages, Les Miserables is undisputedly one of the world's most popular musicals

Rothesay Pavilion announces two new directors and is set to re-open in 2019.

UNFIX festival will take place in Glasgow in March 2019 offering a platform for international and local artists to investigate ecological crisis and renewal through the lens of social, cultural, political, environmental and personal transformation.

Rock of Ages is an LA love story lavished with over 25 classic rock anthems. Lose yourself in a city and a time where the dreams are as big as the hair, and yes, they can come true! This hilarious musical comedy will have you singing and laughing along with its epic songs played loud and proud by an awesome live band.

BWW catches up with producer Graham Main to talk about the 2019 Big Burns Supper festival.

2019 is the 260th birthday of Scotland's National Bard, Robert Burns and to mark the occasion Big Burns Supper festival is throwing out a warm invitation to audiences old and new from near and far to join them alongside a host of top Scottish and international artists for the biggest contemporary celebration of Scotland's national poet in the town he called home, Dumfries.

BroadwayWorld caught up with Scarlett Maltman and Cathy Read to chat about their podcast Industry Minds and why they feel that we need a stronger focus on mental health in the arts.BroadwayWorld caught up with Scarlett and Cathy Read to chat about their podcast Industry Minds and why they feel that we need a stronger focus on mental health in the arts.

BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue selects her top picks from the Glasgow International Comedy Festival programme.

A huge hit with critics and audiences alike, and following sold out runs in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Edinburgh Fringe, TILDA SWINTON ANSWERS AN AD ON CRAIGSLIST is making its eagerly-awaited London premiere at VAULT Festival 2019.

The life-affirming, song-and-dance-filled, Scottish musical drama, based on the true story of seven feisty Glaswegian teenagers, whose lives change forever when their school friend and her asylum-seeking family are forcibly taken from their home to be deported.