Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced that after the success of last year's The Magic of Christmas, it will be creating, in partnership with the Macrobert Arts Centre, a wonder-filled, outdoor Christmas experience and filmed performance of L. Frank Baum's much-loved Christmas tale The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Blood of the Young’s production of PRIDE & PREJUDICE* (*SORT OF) by Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen, has extended its booking period to Sunday 17 April 2022 at the Criterion Theatre. Tickets go on sale today at 2:30pm.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced that after the success of the opening season of its new audio-digital venture Sound Stage, it will be premiering two new audio plays over the Autumn – the first being, in association with the leading independent audio production company Naked Productions, award-winning novelist and playwright Cathy Forde’s new play Helping Hands.
PRIDE AND PREDJUDICE (SORT OF) opens tonight at the Criterion Theatre in London’s West End. The cast of Isobel McArthur’s unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s classic love story created a special video to celebrate opening night.
The panellists and cast have been announced for the New Nordics Festival at Jacksons Lane, which brings together five days of the best new plays from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as well as free talks and workshops with Nordic industry professionals.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre and The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, in association with Naked Productions, are delighted to announce the Sound Stage premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker's new environmentally themed play Who Are You?
OneOff Award and two-time OnComm award-winning The Show Must Go Online have announced the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. The production is the Season Finale of The Show Must Go Online before entering a chrysalis period.
Olivier and Tony Award-winning producer David Pugh has announced that he will be presenting the Tron Theatre Glasgow, the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Blood of the Young's production of Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) by Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen at the Criterion Theatre for an open-ended run.
Alan Cumming, the Scots-born superstar of stage and screen - and much more in between - returned to his drama school roots today (Monday, August 30) to receive an honorary doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
The season also includes a long-awaited return of such critically acclaimed shows as Antigone, Interrupted which will see Scottish Dance Theatre touring for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, and TuTuMucky, a smash hit from Botis Seva blending hip hop, ballet and contemporary dance.
Rooted in the experience of the last year as a woman of colour, this intimate digital artwork brings spoken word, poetry, movement and soundscape artforms together to explore the meaning of female resilience in Scotland today. Thirteen Fragments is an artistic response to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Post Covid-19 Futures Commission addressing how Scotland can emerge from the pandemic as a more equitable society. A National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) co-production, commissioned as part of the RSE’s Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission.
Hannah Lavery's new adaptation to retell Stevenson's classic Victorian tale, Jekyll and Hyde from the perspective of the women who occupy the peripheries of the original story.
Set within the theatre's picturesque Explorers' Garden, Alice in Wonderland World will take audiences on an interactive, journey, where they will travel along the Playing Card Pathway, through the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, a Gigantic Game of Chess in the Red Queen's Pillared Garden, the White Queen's Palace appearing amongst the trees, see the giant cuddly Caterpillar and join in the search for the Cheshire Cat!
Tickets for Sophia, along with the remaining two Sound Stage productions from Roy Williams and Timberlake Wertenbaker are currently on sale and can be purchased through Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh websites. Learn more here!
This innovative production mixes dance, music, theatre and puppetry and will premiere simultaneously at the Manchester International Festival and online this July.
Today Raw Material and Capital Theatres in association with the National Theatre of Scotland announce a new large-scale production James IV – Queen of the Fight that will come to stages across Scotland in autumn 2022.
From 7-10 July, Pitlochry Festival Theatre's open-air amphitheatre will première a new stage adaptation by the theatre's Artistic Director, Elizabeth Newman, of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1848 short story, White Nights: A Sentimental Story from The Diary of a Dreamer.
The 2021 UK Tour opens at Cambridge Arts Theatre before visiting Bath, Guilford, Oxford, Malvern, Shrewsbury, Manchester, Brighton, Glasgow, York, Blackpool, Stoke and Edinburgh. Further tour dates to be announced.
One of the UK's leading drama schools is launching The Mountview Prize to celebrate trailblazers who inspire social change and whose lived experience is inspirational to others.
This summer will be an entirely outdoor rep season in various locations across the Pitlochry campus. This twenty-two strong acting Ensemble will be performing in Pitlochry for different lengths of time throughout the summer, some for a week, some for two and others for many months.
