We all appreciate the chance to go to the theatre more often. There are some wonderful venues around the country and some really superb drama companies whose interpretations of old classics and brand new material are well worth seeing. However, the theatre is something most people like to experience in good company and this makes […]

For those of us who don’t know, ‘Mela’ is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘gathering’ and it is used across the Indian Subcontinent to refer to all sorts of religious, cultural, sporting and even trade events.
Held at the waterfront beside Ocean Terminal in Leith, this year’s Mela Festival in Edinburgh, one of the biggest of its […]

This August sees the start of the worlds largest culture, theatre, arts and music festival – the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. Although these two are often conflated, and indeed they do operate as one great whole in a wider cultural sense, they are not just one festival, but in fact many festivals […]

Thanks to a shake-up in the Scottish Arts Council, several of Scotland’s best known and loved arts organisations have lost vital sources of funding, at has been revealed recently.
Two of the best known, the Scots language dictionary and The Borderline Theatre company are amongst those hit by the financial reshuffle.
The Council says that the redistribution […]

Despite efforts to revitalise its fortunes back in February by including it in an arts festival, the Derby Playhouse is still in dire straits.
The theatre has been in administration for months ever since the city council and Arts Council withdrew funding over doubts about the competence of the management team.
Although the Arts Council have demanded […]

Waiting for Godot, the renowned play by Samuel Beckett, is being taken on its longest ever tour of Ireland.
Organised by Dublin’s Gate Theatre to mark its 80th anniversary, the show will travel across 32 counties to play in 40 different venues between September and October of this year. This previous record for a touring play […]

Yet another award winning ‘Theatre Royal’ has hit the headlines recently.
Following on from our report on the award winning of York’s Theatre Royal (see York Theatre Royal Wins Prestigious national Award), Norwich’s theatre of the same name drew its own praise when it was declared the overall winner of the equally prestigious Royal Institution of […]

Contestants from the reality TV shows I’d Do Anything and How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria have been cast in famous West End musical Les Miserables
Nancy Sullivan, who appeared recently in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s show looking for new talent to perform in the musical Oliver, will appear as Eponine in Les Miserables, […]

The Scottish Government has announced the first spending within ‘CashBack’ scheme, where money seized from convicted criminals is put back into the society in constructive ways.
The Scots Government will be granting £600,000 to various arts projects in order to encourage social inclusion for young people - although the funding will require match-funding from the private sector […]

It has been confirmed that in 2009 artistic director David Farr is to leave his position at The Lyric theatre in Hammersmith, London, to join the internationally renowned Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) as an associate director.
Mr. Farr has been with The Lyric since June 2005, enriching the theatre with his bold visions, as shown in […]

 The communications team at York Theatre Royal have been presented with the prestigious Theatre Management Award for Outstanding Achievement in Marketing at the TWA Awards in London, despite the fact that the team has only worked together for one year - which is a real credit to them.
The award is intended as a recognition of novel and […]