Theatre
The Skinny theatre guide to plays, musicals, and theatre festivals throughout Scotland. We bring you the latest news in Scottish theatre, with highlights and reviews. Get backstage access with The Skinny's exclusive playwright, director, and festival curator interviews.
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ShowsGym Party @ The Studio, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 4-5 Apr
Finally, Made in China bring their hugely successful Gym Party to the Northwest. It's about time. Gracing the Royal Exchange Studio with a characteristically... Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
Shows
Uncensored Life: A Celebration for John Calder @ Traverse
Another celebration of a Scotsman comes to the foreground. On 18 and 19 April, John Calder visits the Traverse. Still writing at the age of 87, it makes... Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
ShowsLet's Dance @ Macrobert
It seems the spring and summer brings out the dancer in us all, as the Macrobert launches its 2014 Let's Dance programme. Northern Ballet kicks off the enti... Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
Interviews
Theatre as Research: The Hunger for Trade project
A collaboration across theatres and continents, Hunger for Trade is a performing-arts response to the international food crisis. Playwright Simon Stephens heads up the Royal Exchange Theatre's involvement – and considers the history of a humble nectarine Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
Interviews
Nights at the Circus
Cirque du Soleil's new show comes to Glasgow next month – we have a word with some of the performers, and talk to Bright Night International, helping to train the next generation of circus performers in time for the Commonwealth Youth Circus this summer Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
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The Events @ Everyman, Liverpool, 8-12 Apr
Edinburgh Fringe First Award-winner and the Guardian’s No. 1 play of 2013, David Greig’s quiet yet provocative drama The Events makes its way to ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014
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The Play That Goes Wrong @ The Kings
It’s in a play that goes wrong where everything goes precisely to plan. No detail of this melodramatic masterpiece was left to chance Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
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Wendy Hoose @ Tron Glasgow
Written by Johnny McKnight of Random Accomplice and directed by Robert Softley Gale from Birds of Paradise, Wendy Hoose tackles the difficulties of 'getting your leg over' in quite an original, yet reasonably credible way. Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
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Dorothy Paul @ King's Theatre
Dorothy Paul, Scotland’s much loved lady of show-biz, takes the stage with her newly-devised performance at The King’s Theatre. After entertaining for over sixty years she has unsurprisingly secured a loyal, white-haired fanbase Read more »| 24 Mar 2014 -
FestivalsYDance: Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival 2014 reveals its lineup
As part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural programme, YDance are organising the first Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival, which will take place at Tramway from 10-12 July. We announce the companies taking part Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Festivals
Edinburgh International Festival's Jonathan Mills announces 2014 programme
A look at the highlights of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, announced today, featuring theatre, opera, music, film and events, with comments from departing Festival Director Jonathan Mills Read more »| 18 Mar 2014 -
Shows
This Wide Night @ Tron Theatre
Directed by David Greig, Chloë Moss' This Wide Night zooms in on the lives of two women who seemingly have nothing in common, except the fact that they ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2014 -
ShowsNoel Coward's Private Lives @ The Lyceum
Noel Coward’s Private Lives, put on at the Lyceum, is an absolutely delightful production, one that seems almost tailor-made for the opulence of the Ly... Read more »| 17 Mar 2014 -
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Orlando @ Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, until 22 Mar
'My body was flooded with rapture and my brain with ideas. I wrote rapidly till 12...' So wrote Virginia Woolf to her lover Vita Sackville-West in 1927, desc... Read more »| 12 Mar 2014 -
Interviews
Curtains Up: Liverpool's Everyman reopens
As Liverpool's Everyman theatre reopens its doors after a two-year revamp, artistic director Gemma Bodinetz shares her vision for a democratic but daring space Read more »| 12 Mar 2014