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Fergus Morgan

Scotland Correspondent

About Fergus Morgan

Fergus Morgan is The Stage’s Scotland Correspondent. He has also written for The Scotsman, The Independent, TimeOut, WhatsOnStage, Exeunt Magazine and Vice, and publishes The Crush Bar on Substack.

Recent Articles

Scottish election: what do the parties pledge for the arts?

News

The six big parties in the running for the Scottish election have released manifestos as part of their campaigns, including their pledges for the arts

‘Feel-good’ arts festival to launch in Edinburgh parallel to the EdFringe

News

A new ‘feel-good’ 12-day arts festival will run in Edinburgh this August in the seaside suburb of Portobello

Edinburgh’s Pleasance in fresh row about noise complaints from residents

News

Edinburgh Festival Fringe venue operator Pleasance Theatre Trust has become embroiled in a planning row with local residents over noise levels during the August arts festival

Gush review

Reviews

Deft debut monologue about sexuality, pregnancy and parenthood

Francesca Moody's Shedinburgh to have first London run post Edinburgh

News

Producer Francesca Moody’s pop-up venue Shedinburgh will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, before relocating to London for its first ever run in the capital

Crystal Pite: ‘Running through all my work is the question of what moves us’

Features

From creating dances as a child to forming her own company, the multi-Olivier award-winning choreographer Crystal Pite tells Fergus Morgan about her international career

Jamie Muscato: ‘I was embarrassed of singing for a long time’

Features

Once shy of revealing his singing, the musical theatre star of Les Misérables, The Great Gatsby and more tells Fergus Morgan about his path to selling out solo shows in the West End

Our Town starring Michael Sheen – review round-up

Review Round-Ups

The actor and activist stars in Thornton Wilder’s classic play, but is the inaugural production of his new Welsh National Theatre a success? Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews

An Lanntair in Outer Hebrides fears ‘profound’ impact of looming funding cuts

News

An Lanntair, the largest arts centre in the Outer Hebrides, has warned of an ’immediate and profound’ impact if plans to axe its local authority funding are followed through

Edinburgh writers to take monologues into homes across the city

News

Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith is part of a group of four Edinburgh-based writers that will produce half-hour monologues to be performed in homes across the city

The Burns Project review

Reviews

Inventively staged patchwork portrait of Scotland’s national poet

Edinburgh Horror Festival paused while ‘burnt out’ volunteers consider future

News

Edinburgh Horror Festival will not take place this year, with organisers saying its members are ’burnt out or facing personal challenges’

Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre lands extra £2.5m towards redevelopment

News

The redevelopment of Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre has received an extra £2.5m from the Scottish government that ‘closes the funding gap for the main construction works’

Scottish Budget labelled ‘inexplicable and disappointing’ by arts organisations

News

Leading Scottish arts organisations have labelled the absence of a funding uplift for them in this week’s Budget as ’inexplicable and disappointing’

High Noon starring Billy Crudup and Denise Gough – review round-up

Review Round-Ups

Director Thea Sharrock’s staging boasts a starry cast, but does Eric Roth’s adaptation of this classic western captivate the critics? Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews.