Shows
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Things To DoTop 5: Queer Contact Festival 2017
Contact Theatre's Queer Contact Festival celebrates the 60th anniversary of the publication of the Wolfenden Report with Nigerian singer Le Gateau Chocolat, drag king Lucy Jane Parkinson, 201 Dance Company and others Read more »| 31 Jan 2017 -
ReviewsScottish Opera: The Trial
Scottish Opera’s production of The Trial promises to be memorable at the very least. This adaptation of Franz Kafka’s modernist classic boasts a ... Read more »| 30 Jan 2017 -
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Picnic at Hanging Rock @ The Lyceum, Edinburgh
Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, originally published in 1967 and later immortalised by Peter Weir's 1975 film of the same name, has b... Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
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New Year theatre highlights in the North
Our guide to the best theatre in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester this winter season, from fairytales with Opera North to period drama at the Playhouse. Read more »| 17 Jan 2017 -
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Pay What You Decide Theatre at The Lowry
The Lowry in Salford are launching a new season of theatre where you get to try before you buy Read more »| 16 Jan 2017 -
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Ridiculusmus on MDMA, PTSD & Give Me Your Love
A new work by adventurous theatre group Ridiculusmus explores the healing potential in altered states of consciousness. We speak to directors David Wood... Read more »| 13 Jan 2017
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PreviewsManipulate Visual Theatre Festival turns 10
With the panto season well and truly over, we turn our attention to Scotland's visual theatre and film festival Read more »| 10 Jan 2017 -
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PUSH Festival 2017: Top five picks
The five theatre shows at PUSH 2017 we're most looking forward to Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
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Theatre at Storyhouse: from Shakespeare to Alice
Chester's major new arts venue Storyhouse brings a theatre back to the city for the first time in a decade, and will present a mixture of home-produced summe... Read more »| 20 Dec 2016 -
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Scottish Ballet: Hansel & Gretel
Magic, humour, a frisson of scariness, a celebration of food and a happy ending: Hansel & Gretel, choreographed by Christopher Hampson, is perfect for a ... Read more »| 13 Dec 2016 -
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Black Beauty @ Traverse
Though Anna Sewell’s bestselling novel Black Beauty teaches moral lessons about empathy, compassion and respect and finishes on a positive note, much o... Read more »| 06 Dec 2016 -
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A treat. What better way to celebrate the festive season than this rambunctious, zany version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland written and directed ... Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
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Cultural Highlights: Strictly Ballroom in Leeds
Strictly Ballroom: The Musical With all the glistening lametta, prawn cocktail starters and Only Fools and Horses re-runs of Christmas, there’s arguab... Read more »| 29 Nov 2016 -
ReviewsRambert – Ghost Dances, Frames and Tomorrow
The iconic Ghost Dances, [★★★★★] visceral, sinister and melancholic, with its meld of skeletal Ghosts and folk dancing Dead, still in its 36th year, holds it... Read more »| 26 Nov 2016 -
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A Brief History of Evil
We all tell lies. If not to others, then occasionally to ourselves. And while some of these lies are for our own good, some prove to be more sinister. A Comp... Read more »| 09 Nov 2016