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KELI Comes to Scottish Stages in 2025


by Stephi Wild - November 21, 2024

Best known as the virtuoso accordionist in the visionary folk trio Lau, Martin Green has spent the past two years on an odyssey deep into the world of brass bands, culminating in this staging of KELI, marking its world premiere as a stage play....

Dawn Sievewright Will Lead World Premiere of WILD ROSE at The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh


by Stephi Wild - October 04, 2024

Olivier Award-nominated Dawn Sievewright will star as Rose-Lynn Harlan in the upcoming world premiere of brand-new musical Wild Rose, written by Nicole Taylor (One Day, Three Girls, The C Word, The Nest) and directed by John Tiffany (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Black Watch)....

TERO BURU A New Play Celebrating Scottish Artist Beldina Odenyo Comes to Glasgow


by Stephi Wild - September 26, 2024

Tero Buru is a new play by the late, great Beldina Odenyo which has been posthumously interpreted by Beldina's sister, Leah McAleer and Beldina's friend and collaborator Julia Taudevin. ...

The Fifth Step Comes To Glasgow Pavilion


by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 21, 2024

A hotly-anticipated new play from playwright David Ireland has sold out the evenings of the Pavilion Theatre on the weekend of the 30th August....

Review: JUNE CARTER CASH : THE WOMAN, HER MUSIC AND ME, Summerhall


by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 06, 2024

In this raw yet uplifting show, Charlene Boyd gets to grips with a life less ordinary. More than a simple biography of June’s life and music, this play with songs sees Charlene explore her own relationship with her musical heroine and their shared experience as performers and working mothers....

National Theatre of Scotland to Present FIFTH STEP, DEAR BILLY, and More at Edinburgh Festival


by Blair Ingenthron - July 29, 2024

The National Theatre of Scotland is set to make its presence known at the Edinburgh Festivals this August, with three productions being performed on the world stage....

Pace Theatre Company Announces Premiere Of New Stage Play By Frances Poet


by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 23, 2024

There Is No Room in our Bathroom for Lewis Capaldi is the newest work from award-winning playwright, FRANCES POET (Still, Traverse Theatre; Fibres, Citizens Theatre; Adam, National Theatre of Scotland)....

LAST NIGHT I DREAMT THAT SOMEBODY LOVED ME Comes to Scotland in September


by Stephi Wild - June 05, 2024

Ben Harrison and David Paul Jones will present the World Premiere of Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me, Songs and Stories of An Eighties Teenager....

Cast Set For Diamond Anniversary Panto PETER PAN at The King's Theatre, Glasgow


by Stephi Wild - May 30, 2024

The King's Theatre, Glasgow will welcome the return of Darren Brownlie and Blythe Jandoo to the cast of this year's high-flying pantomime Peter Pan, produced by Crossroads Pantomimes. They will be joined by King's Theatre newcomer, Scottish actress Hannah Jarrett-Scott....

MY ENGLISH PERSIAN KITCHEN Opens at Edinburgh Fringe in August


by Stephi Wild - May 23, 2024

Soho Theatre and Traverse Theatre will present the World Premiere of My English Persian Kitchen, Hannah Khalil’s life-affirming new play, directed by Chris White opening at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 1 – 25 August before transferring to London for a three-week run from 16 September to 5 Octo...

Past Shows

Tero Buru
11/15 - 11/16/2024


Tero Buru is a new play paying tribute to the late Scottish-Kenyan artist Beldina Odenyo, brought to life posthumously by her sister Leah McAleer and ...


June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me is a new play featuring Charlene Boyd, who both writes and performs in this exploration of ...

Dear Billy
8/13 - 8/25/2024


Dear Billy is a unique theatrical production celebrating the life and legacy of Scotland's beloved comedian, Billy Connolly. Written and performed by Gary McNair, the ...

The Fifth Step
8/17 - 8/25/2024


The Fifth Step is a gripping new play by David Ireland that delves into the complexities of recovery and intimacy through the lens of Alcoholics ...

Ghosts
2/26 - 3/12/2021


A young boy in 18th Century Glasgow, leads us on a powerful journey of over 500 years of resistance through the streets of the Merchant ...

Lament for Sheku bayoh
Lament for Sheku bayoh
11/21 - 11/22/2020


A young black man lost his life. Five years ago. In police custody. In Scotland. Soon after 7am, on a Sunday morning - May 3rd, ...

Lament for Sheku Bayoh
11/20 - 11/21/2020


Soon after 7am, on a Sunday morning - May 3rd, 2015, Sheku Bayoh, a 31 year-old gas engineer, husband and father of two died in ...


A true crime story. Inspired by our enduring fascination with true crime, Rob Drummond turns investigative journalist for this new one-man show about a mysterious ...

Let The Right One In
4/30 - 6/5/2020


“I live on blood. But I am not… that… can I come in?” Let the Right One In is a truly rare piece of theatre, ...


What is happening, is really happening. Step into a world of constant self-refinement. Two performers engage in a continuous verbal scuffle, bringing streams of empty ...

The Enemy
4/25 - 5/9/2020


A radical re-imagining of the classic Henrik Ibsen play about truth, power and deception from Kieran Hurley, award-winning playwright and screenwriter of the critically acclaimed ...

Just Start Here
2/28 - 2/29/2020


A two-day festival of bold new work, taking over shop-fronts, working men’s clubs and the streets of Dumfries this February. At Just Start Here, dive ...

Adam
Adam
5/4 - 2/16/2019


Adam is the remarkable true story of a young trans man having to make that choice. From Egypt to Scotland, it charts Adam's fight across ...

Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
9/1 - 11/10/2018


The hugely romantic Cyrano de Bergerac is given a Glaswegian heart in a new production of Edwin Morgan’s Glaswegian-Scots translation by Citizens Theatre Artistic Director ...

Futureproof
Futureproof
9/28 - 10/28/2018


The National Theatre of Scotland is marking Scotland’s Year of Young People in 2018 by staging a major radical new festival of international performing arts, ...

The 306: Dusk
The 306: Dusk
10/12 - 10/27/2018


2018. Armistice Day. A pregnant school teacher on a trip to the battlefields goes AWOL in a wood whilst on a personal mission of remembrance. ...

A Mile in My Shoes
A Mile in My Shoes
9/29 - 10/7/2018


Empathy Museum (UK) are bringing their international touring hit A Mile in My Shoes to Scotland. Located at sites in Forres and Elgin and housed ...

Chronicles
Chronicles
10/6 - 10/7/2018


Scottish dance collective Project X (UK) and Thulani Rachia (UK/South Africa) present Chronicles. Working with young people from Edinburgh, they have co-created a new piece ...

Scotties
Scotties
9/13 - 10/6/2018


"Beir abhaile ar marbh / Send home our dead" - A telegram from Ireland in 1937 inspires the untold story of ten young lads from ...

The Drift
The Drift
10/6


The Drift, by writer and performer Hannah Lavery, is fresh from its appearance at the National Theatre of Scotland’s Just Start Here weekender. The Drift ...

Eve
Eve
8/3 - 9/15/2018


Eve tells the story of a child raised as a boy, when she knew all along that was wrong. That child grew up to be ...

My Left/Right Foot - The Musical


Local am-dram society is under pressure to comply with the equalities agenda. They come up with a cunning plan; create a gripping show starring ‘the ...

First Snow
First Snow
8/1 - 8/26/2018


Isabelle summons her family back to their ancestral home in Quebec. Despite their history, they come. Her right-wing brother Harry, daughter Mina, and Catherine, the ...

Midsummer
Midsummer
8/2 - 8/26/2018


It’s Midsummer. In Edinburgh. It’s raining. Bob and Helena may have only just met but they’re about to embark on a lustful lost weekend of ...

Eddie and the Slumber Sisters


Meet the Slumber Sisters. An all-singing trio whose job it is to monitor our dreams and ensure that our night-time wanderings remain healthy and safe. ...

Gut
Gut
4/20 - 5/19/2018


I know my boy. I’d know if something had happened to him. Maddy and Rory are devoted parents to 3-year-old Joshua, committed to keeping him ...

Ma, Pa and the Little Mouths


A snake will always find a way in. And he has. We’ve been sleeping so long that he’s had a feast… And this snake has ...

How To Act
How To Act
3/6 - 3/23/2018


Internationally-renowned theatre director Anthony Nicholl has travelled the globe on a life-long quest to discover the true essence of theatre. Today he gives a masterclass, ...

Rocket Post on Screen
Rocket Post on Screen
11/8 - 3/3/2018


Rocket Post is an extraordinary true story for families, packed with songs, charm and humour. Filmed specially for the Screen Machine at performances on Harris, ...

Appointment with the Wicker Man


On a remote Scottish island, amateur theatre company The Loch Parry Players are rehearsing their stage version of cult film The Wicker Man. Their unique ...

Medea
8/1 - 8/31/2002


A tale of horror, of the breaking of the ultimate taboo – of the snuffing out of the future – Medea is the classic drama ...

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