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Citizens Theatre Marks One Year To Go As Redevelopment Progresses
by BWW News Desk - December 08, 2023
As 2023 draws to a close, the Citizens Theatre marks an important milestone in its ongoing redevelopment, with work on the building set to complete next year and productions on stage returning by the end of 2024.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint Announces 2024 Spring Season
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 07, 2023
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) just announced the 18 wonderful new plays as part of its upcoming Spring 2024 season, co-presented with Aberdeen Performing Arts, Ayr Gaiety, Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival, Macrobert Arts Centre and Traverse Theatre.
Top Picks For The 2024 Glasgow International Comedy Festival
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 06, 2023
BWW Scotland Editor selects her top picks of the 2024 Glasgow International Comedy Festival
Review: ALADDIN, Perth Theatre
by Mary Baillie - December 04, 2023
In their humble abode of Killicrankie, the McTwankie family are in a spin trying to keep their laundry business afloat while the evil Countess searches impatiently for the cave of pleasures, treasures and immeasurable measures. The piece is enjoyable for children, but slightly misses the mark for adults.
Award Winning Lea Salonga Returns With Dazzling New Tour
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 04, 2023
Lea will launch the tour with her first return to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane – the iconic venue where she made her name as the original Miss Saigon 35 years ago – ahead of bringing her spine-tingling vocals to the Festival Theatre on Sunday June 30.
Review: ALADDIN, Macrobert Arts Centre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 03, 2023
Get ready for a disco inferno, as we join the McTwank family in the town that Stirling Stella almost forgot- Discotopia. Here lives widow Marge O'Reen McTwank, owner of the last laundrette in town. Her oldest daughter, Aladdin, is wildly in love with Prince Jasper but can love survive the grease stains and smell of fabric conditioner?
Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, PACE at the Art Department, Paisley
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 03, 2023
Panto is back! Join CHRIS ALEXANDER and ALAN ORR this Christmas for PACE Theatre Company’s 34th annual pantomime.
Review: SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN MAWS, Oran Mor, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 02, 2023
Think you’re having a bad day? Snow White’s is worse. She’s just found out that not only has her dad, the King, remarried – but he’s only gone and died!
Review: AGANEZA SCROOGE, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 02, 2023
The entire pantosphere is decking the halls and rocking around their Christmas trees. Well, everywhere except one place: Dickensian Street, home of the frightful Aganeza Scrooge, the scariest skinflint in the pantosphere. A woman so tight with money she makes Fifers look generous. And Aganeza HATES Christmas!
Xiomaro's Big Apple Street Photography To Return To Scotland
by BWW News Desk - December 01, 2023
'Discover the captivating street photography of New York artist Xiomaro in his latest exhibition at the Glasgow Gallery of Photography.'
Greenside Reveals Brand New City Centre Venue For Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024
by BWW News Desk - December 01, 2023
2024 marks a start of an epic new chapter for Greenside at Edinburgh Fringe with a reinvention and new direction. The long discussed Fringe Community Hub saw the core Fringe venue bid a fond farewell to Greenside@Infirmary Street at the end of Fringe 2023. Greenside can also announce that they will not be returning to Greenside@Nicolson Square due to substantial planned building work.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Director Jenny Niven Named In The Top 10 Of The List Magazine's 'Hot 100'
by BWW News Desk - November 30, 2023
Edinburgh International Book Festival Director Jenny Niven named in the Top 10 of The List magazine’s ‘Hot 100’.
Local Kiltmakers Present 'Wicked' With Bespoke Tartan Cape For ST Andrews Day
by BWW News Desk - November 30, 2023
The production flies back to the Edinburgh Playhouse from Thursday 7 December 2023 to Sunday 14 January 2024.
Glasgow International Comedy Festival Announces Huge Headliners
by Natalie O'Donoghue - November 29, 2023
Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) has announced its return with huge headliners set to once again transform Glasgow into the ‘funniest city in the world’ from 13th - 31st March 2024.
Review: THE PANTOMIME ADVENTURES OF PETER PAN, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
by Natalie O'Donoghue - November 29, 2023
Join Peter Pan as he sets sail on a brand-new adventure for Christmas 2023. Returning for another year to the Festival Theatre, are pantomime favourites Allan Stewart, Grant Stott and Jordan Young.
Dates Set as SPECTRA Celebrates Ten Luminous Years in 2024
by BWW News Desk - November 29, 2023
SPECTRA, Scotland's festival of light, will return to Aberdeen with a striking programme of free artworks and events that will light up the city from 08 to 11 February 2024.
MANIPULATE FESTIVAL 2024 Announces Programme Of Animation, Puppetry And Visual Theatre
by BWW News Desk - November 28, 2023
Manipulate Festival 2024 returns to Edinburgh with a lineup of animation, puppetry, and visual theatre. Don't miss this exciting event from 1-11 February 2024 at various venues and online.
Review: THE SNOW QUEEN, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
by Natalie O'Donoghue - November 25, 2023
When the beautiful and fearsome Snow Queen steals young Kei away to her frozen kingdom, she leaves behind the brave and brilliant Gerda, an Edinburgh lass who will stop at nothing to rescue her best friend.
The Traverse Reveals First Shows of the Spring 2024 Season
by BWW News Desk - November 24, 2023
Traverse Theatre has announced the first batch of shows set to take place in the new year, with even more to come. Learn more about the full lineup here!
Cast Set For THE SYNDICATE at The Theatre Royal, Glasgow in 2024
by BWW News Desk - November 24, 2023
Max George is set to make his stage acting debut in the world premiere of Kay Mellor's The Syndicate UK Tour. Max is best known as a member of boy band The Wanted, whose hits include All Time Low and Chasing the Sun. His previous acting credits include the role of Clint in smash hit FOX TV show Glee.
Manchester Based Theatre NPO ThickSkin Appoints Six New Trustees
by BWW News Desk - November 22, 2023
ThickSkin, a Manchester-based theatre NPO, has appointed six new trustees. Learn more here!
Review: FLEG, Oran Mor, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - November 19, 2023
In East Belfast, a man’s loyalty to the Union spirals into an all-consuming obsession with the ‘fleg’ outside his house in this new dark comedy.
Adaptation of MAGGIE & ME Comes to Scotland in 2024
by BWW News Desk - November 17, 2023
Maggie & Me, Damian Barr’s award-winning and darkly witty memoir about growing up gay in Thatcher’s Britain is coming to Scottish stages, in a bold and explosive new production.   
Alan Bissett Will Perform MOIRA MARATHON Across Scotland in 2024
by BWW News Desk - November 17, 2023
Since 2009, Alan Bissett's series of one-woman shows The Moira Monologues, about Moira Bell - single mother, cleaner and Falkirk's Hardest Woman - have been leaving audiences all over Scotland weak with laughter and garnering rave reviews. Now, for the first time, Alan will be touring all three shows as a one-night spectacular, giving audiences the chance to experience Moira's hilarious journey in a single sitting.
Forbes Masson to Star in JEKYLL & HYDE At The Lyceum
by BWW News Desk - November 15, 2023
Forbes Masson has been cast in the Scottish premiere of Jekyll & Hyde at the Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.

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