AuthorsMichael Gambon and Peter Egan have been confirmed to star in two of the Gate Theatre Dublin’s productions in the Samuel Beckett season at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. Gambon, star of the Singing Detective…
Thom Dibdin
Currently Scotland Correspondent for The Stage, Thom Dibdin has been a freelance contributor to the paper since 1994.
He has a special interest in Scottish cultural affairs and is based in Edinburgh, where he runs the Annals of Edinburgh Stage website.
Crime and Punishment leads Glasgow Citz autumn season
Dostoyevsky sits at the heart of the Glasgow Citizen’s autumn season, reuniting artistic director Dominic Hill with writer Chris Hannan in a new adaptation of Crime and Punishment. The season also features a new production…
First nominees for James Tait Black drama award announced
Two National Theatre Wales-commissioned scripts are among five nominees for the £10,000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Drama, organised by the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the National Theatre of Scotland. The Radicalisation…
Alan Cumming and Perth’s The Seafarer win at Scottish theatre awards
Alan Cumming and Blythe Duff have won the best male and female performance awards at the annual Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, held at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre today. Cumming’s role in his one-man Macbeth…
Janet Archer appointed as Creative Scotland chief
Janet Archer has been announced as the new head of Creative Scotland, six months after previous chief executive Andrew Dixon resigned. Archer will take up the post of chief executive of July 1. She has…
Ex-NTS chief Vicky Featherstone celebrated by Scottish critics
Vicky Featherstone is to be awarded a special CATS Whiskers award at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, at Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre this weekend. Featherstone has been recognised for her work as the founding…
Scotland culture minister brands Maria Miller’s arts policy “reductive”
Scotland’s culture minister Fiona Hyslop has criticised her UK counterpart Maria Miller, claiming that Miller’s focus on the economic benefits of the arts sector “reduce it to nothing more than a commodity”. Instead, Hyslop emphasised…
Theatre the big winner as Edinburgh Fringe grows again
This summer’s Edinburgh Fringe will be the largest ever with a 6.5% increase on last year’s figures to 2,871 shows registered with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. The biggest gain is to the theatre section…
Ayr Gaiety revives its summer variety show
Ayr’s Gaiety Theatre is to revive its summer variety season in June when the All New Gaiety Whirl opens for a two-week run. Producer and star of the revival is Michael Courtney. He decided to…
Scottish Opera to stage Don Giovanni and Don Pasquale
Scottish Opera will create new main-stage productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in a 2013/14 season that otherwise focusses on smaller shows. The 14-show season will contain only three main-stage productions due…
Famous Spiegelterrace to return for Edinburgh Fringe 2013
The Famous Spiegelterrace on George Street will return for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe in a modified format after local concerns following last year’s event. The terrace, which costs £600,000 to build and manage, is an…
Made in Scotland Fringe programme announced
A play about the London riots of 2011 and a piece of dance theatre initially created for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad are among more than a dozen productions to feature in the Scottish Government-funded Made…
Alan Cumming’s Macbeth among CATS nominees
Alan Cumming in his solo version of Macbeth has received one of eight nominations for the National Theatre of Scotland at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, announced today. The NTS’ nominations range across…
Underbelly launches Topside for Edinburgh Fringe 2013
The Studio – a 200-seat theatre in Edinburgh Festival Theatre’s new rehearsal and educational building – will open for this year’s Fringe, when it will be run by leading promoters Underbelly as a new venue,…
Edinburgh Royal Lyceum to premiere Ian Rankin play
The first play by crime novelist Ian Rankin and a new examination of the union of England and Scotland, in the year of the Scottish independence referendum, are the highlights of the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh’s…
Fergus Linehan appointed new Edinburgh festival director
Fergus Linehan, former director of both the Sydney Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival, has been appointed director designate of the Edinburgh International Festival. Linehan will begin the job part time in May in order to…
Glasgow Citz appoints Judith Kilvington as executive director
Graeae Theatre’s Judith Kilvington has been appointed executive director at the Glasgow Citizens, working alongside artistic director Dominic Hill as the theatre moves towards a £10 million redevelopment. Kilvington, who will take up the post…
Creative Scotland begins hunt for new chief executive
Creative Scotland has advertised the post of new chief executive, with with a salary of £110,000 a year – £10,000 a year less than outgoing chief Andrew Dixon, who resigned last December. The deadline for…
Kevin McKidd joins fight against Moray arts cuts
Trainspotting star Kevin McKidd has joined 51 Moray-based artists and arts professionals who have signed an open letter to Moray Council, arguing for a rethink of the recently announced 100% cut to its arts budget….
Edinburgh festival 2013 to celebrate art and technology
The Edinburgh International Festival will examine the relationship between art and new technology this summer, in a programme that is particularly strong in theatre and sees two mini-festivals within it. Of 11 world premiers in…
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