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Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming on returning to his roots in his new Scottish theatre job

Martin Green's stage show Keli will bring the worlds of brass band music and theatre together. Picture: Sandy Butler

New Scottish stage show to explore 'magical' world of brass bands

Martin O'Connor, is the writer and performer of Through the Shortbread Tin, which the National Theatre of Scotland will take on tour in 2025.

Scotland's most infamous hoax and blind Highland bard brought to life

The Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh has been closed since March 2023.

Charity behind doomed theatre demands new venue is built on same site

Actor Bill Paterson.

Bill Paterson recalls life-changing experience in trailblazing play

Jack Lowden (l) and Sean Gilder (r) in The Fifth Step

EIF Theatre & Music reviews: The Fifth Step | Fire in My Mouth + more

The House of Cleopatra promote their show which is running every day at Assembly Checkpoint. The immersive show celebrates the legendary queen of ancient Egypt in a mix of historical drama and high-energy musical spectacle.

Edinburgh restores souls as the world comes together as one Janet Christie

Director Cora Bissett and writer-performer Charlene Boyd have created the Fringe show June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me. Picture: Jess Hardwick

The Fringe show that emerged from child-minding and celebrates a country queen

Lead actors Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal, with Charlotte Wells, the writer and director of Aftersun, which opened the 2022 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Jack Lowden and Charlotte Wells become inaugural patrons of reborn Filmhouse

Is fear of the B-word behind silence on global affairs in this election? Joyce McMillan

A stage production of Wild Rose, based on the three-time Scottish Bafta-winning film, will run at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh

The Scottish Bafta-winning film set for showcase Edinburgh theatre run

Itxaso Moreno, Christina Strachan and Rebecca Wilkie in Shō And The Demons Of The Deep

Theatre - Shō And The Demons Of The Deep, looks at how dreams can become nightma...

Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson. Picture: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson on turning sitcom The High Life into a musical

Catriona Faint & Alyth Ross in rehearsals for James V - Katherine PIC: Niall Walker

Rona Munro on the fifth instalment in her 'James Plays' series

Charlene Boyd is writing and performing the stage show June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me, which will premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Picture: Jeremiah Reynolds

Charlene Boyd on the Scottish stage show honouring country star June Carter Cash

Actor Jack Lowden at Leith Theatre. Picture: Andy O'Brien

Slow Horses star Jack Lowden returns to the stage in Scotland

Gary McNair in Dear Billy. PIC: John Devlin

2024 Arts Preview: The Year Ahead in Theatre

Theatremaker Gary McNair has created the stage show 'Dear Billy.' Picture: John Devlin

Big Yin tribute to be staged at the Fringe 52 years after comedy legend's debut

Writer and broadcaster Damian Barr is adapting his award-winning memoir Maggie & Me with playwright James Ley for a new National Theatre of Scotland play. Picture: Kirsty Anderson

Maggie & Me: Damian Barr's 1980s memoir to become new stage play

The new National Theatre of Scotland production Dracula: Mina's Reckoning is at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen until 9 September and will then tour around Scotland until 14 October. Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic

Theatre, dance and opera companies warn over ‘wilful demise’ of culture sector

Morna Pearson with Danielle Jam at Slains Castle PIC: Richard Frew / National Theatre of Scotland

Morna Pearson on reimagining Dracula for the stage

Hope Dickson Leach's new version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Edinburgh International Film Festival diary, 21 August

The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. Picture: Eamonn McGoldrick

Unions accuse “Big Six” venues of putting Scottish jobs at risk

Lesley Hart, Maureen Carr, Adiza Shardow, Chloe-Ann Tylor and Efè Agwele in rehearsals for Thrown PIC: Tiu Makkonen

Nat McCleary on new play Thrown: 'It's not something that offers tidy answers'

Thrown features an all-female ensemble. (Pic: Mihaela Bodlovic)

Punchy new production comes to Ballater

Gary McNair in Dear Billy PIC: Eoin Carey

Theatre reviews: Dear Billy | Beautiful People

Sir Billy Connolly.

5 of the best films starring Billy Connolly

Gary McNair PIC: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Gary McNair on his new Billy Connolly show, Dear Billy

A dress rehearsal for the Scottish Opera's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers, at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow.

Scottish Opera boss tells of ‘direct impact’ of ‘diminution’ of music teaching

Jackie Wylie is artistic director and chief executive of the Nationa Theatre of Scotland. Picture: Kirsty Anderson

National Theatre pledges to bring in 'more diverse voices' under future vision

The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Kidnapped is currently touring across Scotland (Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic)

Stage reinvention of Kidnapped shakes up idea of a night at the theatre

Writer Andrew O'Hagan. Picture: Jon Tonks/PA Wire

Mayflies author Andrew O’Hagan to launch new Truman Capote play at the Fringe

Ryan J Mackay and Malcolm Cumming will be playing Davie Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart in the forthcoming National Theatre of Scotland production of Kidnapped. Image: Laurence Winram

Kidnapped: Turning Stevenson's adventure into a new coming-of-age stage show

Andy Arnold is artistic director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. Picture: John Johnston

Tron Theatre boss hits out after city council pulls the plug on its funding

Eilidh Loan PIC: National Theatre of Scotland

Ones to watch in 2023: Eilidh Loan

The National Theatre of Scotland show Thrown will be performed around Scotland to coincide with Highland Games events before a run at the Edinburgh International Festival in August. Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic

Thrown: The all-women stage show exploring ‘what it means to be Scottish’

Ewan Black as Turnbull, Malcolm Cumming as Donald and Daniel Cahill as James IV PIC: Mihaela Bodlovic

Arts review of 2022: Joyce McMillan on the year in theatre

Deputy First Minister John Swinney MSP was watched by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as he delivered his budget to the Scottish Parliament.Picture: Andrew Cowan/Scottish Parliament/PA Wire

Creative Scotland in crisis after 10 per cent Scottish Government funding cut

National Theatre of Scotland artistic director Jackie Wylie (front row, second from right) with some of artists and creatives working on the company's 2023 shows. Picture: Kirsty Anderson

National Theatre reviews role due to 'fragile' economic climate

Gary McNair is creating the National Theatre of Scotland show 'Dear Billy.' Picture: Tommy Ga Ken Wan

New Billy Connolly-inspired stage show to go on tour around Scotland

The Stamping Ground, a new musical inspired by the songs of Runrig, has been one of the most successful shows at Eden Court this year. Picture: Ewen Weatherspoon

Arts centre to cut jobs, scale back opening hours and offer discounted tickets

Omar Austin as Joseph Knight in Enough of Him PIC: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Enough of Him: new play remembers the slave who won his freedom in a Scottish co...
In his new drama for the National Theatre of Scotland, playwright May Sumbwanyambe tells the story of Joseph Knight – a slave who made legal history in 1778, wh...

Actor, director and playwright Isobel McArthur and musician, sound designer and composer Michael John McCarthy are leading the creation of the new stage version of Kidnapped for the National Theatre of Scotland.

Kidnapped: Stevenson adventure to become 'coming-of-age rom com' for the stage

Rocket Post! comes to the Barn next month. (Tommy Ga-Ken Wan)

A story that is out of this world ...

Alan Cumming is portraying Scotland's most celebrated poet, Robert Burns, in the new dance-theatre show Burn, which is currently touring Scotland. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Festival Diary: Alan Cumming returns for book festival and a bagel party

Alan Cumming in Burn.

EIF theatre review: Alan Cumming in Burn

The Book of Life

Edinburgh International Festival: 4 theatre highlights for 2022

The National Theatre of Scotland is creating it own version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for Paisley over the next year. Picture: Robert Perry

Wizard of Oz to be relocated to Paisley by National Theatre of Scotland

Nigel Havers presents The Bidding Room. which will be filmed in Leith Theatre for around 10 weeks this year.

The Bidding Room: Historic theatre to be become new home of daytime TV show

Chloe Hodgson, Amy Conachan, Betty Valencia and Amber Sylvia Edwards in Orphans. PIC: Mihaela Bodlovic

Theatre reviews: Orphans | My Doric Diary

Orphans will officially open at the Armadillo in Glasgow on Thursday. Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic

Making a song and dance out of Scottishness might make be a saviour for theatres

Alan Cumming, who is set to star as Robert Burns in his solo dance theatre debut during the Edinburgh International Festival. Picture: Edinburgh International Festival/PA Wire

EIF launch: Theatre programme's scale impresses

Reuben Joseph, Harry Ward, Charlie West and Martin Quinn in rehearsals for the new National Theatre of Scotland production of Orphans PIC: Eoin Carey

'It's wild with grief' – Douglas Maxwell on adapting Orphans for the stage

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Nationwide audiences watch Gothic horror filmed at Leith Theatre - Liam Rudden

Erin Armstrong stars in Lena PIC: Murdo Macleod

How the Beacon in Greenock took centre stage

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is coming to Leith Theatre

Jekyll and Hyde: The strange case of the hybrid theatre show

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