Theatre
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Have your parents ever sat you down and told you about the 1960s? My parents do it all of the time. And they…
‘Are you hummable?’ was the question asked of Willy Russell when engaged on what became ‘Blood Brothers’.…
Some strains of musette might have been better than the incongruous chanteur that crooned the audience to…
The stark scene is set with three tables on stage, each with a chair, a microphone and a mug. The noise of…
Virginia Woolf’s daring and radical novel, Orlando: A Biography, was published in 1928. Under the guise of…
Comedian Hugh Hughes brings a series of acclaimed plays to The Traverse that muse on his Welsh identity
What can be a better way to spend a couple of daytime hours than a good old fashioned mutton pie (only one of…
It was my great uncle John that first introduced me to, what I think is safe to say as it is quite widely…
For over a decade Philip Gandey’s show the Lady Boys of Bangkok in the Meadows has been the Fringe show that…
Amnesty International announced this morning that Cora Bissett’s Roadkill is the winner of the 2010 Amnesty…
"I hope they have good bikes in heaven" enthuses five-year-old Aidan as he thinks of his best friend Jack who…
There’s a potentially promising start to Teenage Riot, as a series of images are projected onto the cubic…
It's a quirky micro-festival in a home in Pilrig, in North central Edinburgh. A fringe of a Fringe event. Not…
"There's nothing I would say, 'Don't bring your mum to!'" says Traverse artistic director, Dominic…
It’s a brave thing for an amateur company to put on a play by a living writer of the stature of Alasdair Gray…
Edinburgh Playhouse has played host to it’s own "Fame Academy" having run an intensive fortnight’s workshop…
Kath Mainland, Chief Executive of the Festival Fringe Society, on a typical day at the Fringe.
Amateur theatre company HATS find Lanark author highly supportive of their new production of his "modern…