Bard in the Botanics celebrates its 25th anniversary with the upcoming season, Lovers and Madmen, emphasizing bold risk-taking, fresh interpretations, and a commitment to engaging, actor-driven storytelling in classical theatre.
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Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 – Keep it Fringe 2026: Sixteen Artists Share £40k
Keep it Fringe 2026: Sixteen Artists Share £40k as the Fringe Society Sounds the Alarm on Sustainability There’s a rhythm to the build up of the Festival Fringe, usually picking up pace around Springtime: the clocks go forward, the posters get sent away for vetting, baked potatoes become more valuable than gold, and the Fringe … Continue reading Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 – Keep it Fringe 2026: Sixteen Artists Share £40k
Have a Gander at Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s 75th Anniversary Appeal
There’s turning seventy‑five with a polite slice of Victoria sponge… and then there’s turning seventy‑five the Pitlochry Festival Theatre way: by calling in a trio of Scotland’s most recognisable exports and handing them the mic. Growing old tastefully no longer fits the theatre's dynamic: it's here to stir up momentum and energy. If there was ever any … Continue reading Have a Gander at Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s 75th Anniversary Appeal
Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 – 1,730 New Shows Confirmed as Edinburgh Braces for Impact
There’s a particular sound that echoes across Edinburgh every year. It’s not the seagulls, nor the clatter of scaffolding as yet another venue sprouts from a car park. It’s the collective gasp of Fringe‑goers realising the programme has ballooned again — this time by 1,730 new shows, bringing the total to 2,083; so far. And … Continue reading Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 – 1,730 New Shows Confirmed as Edinburgh Braces for Impact
Have a Gander at Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days – Siobhán Redmond Digs Into Beckett’s Bleak Brilliance at Pitlochry
Just when you thought the news from Pitlochry Festival Theatre was about to halt; here they go rolling out another big hitter for Alan Cumming’s inaugural season — and this time it’s Beckett. The Theatre has announced that Siobhán Redmond (currently starring alongside Cumming, Forbes Masson in The National Theatre of Scotland’s The High Life … Continue reading Have a Gander at Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days – Siobhán Redmond Digs Into Beckett’s Bleak Brilliance at Pitlochry
Have a Gander at CELIDH – Pitlochry’s Set for a Right Good Knees-Up
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is limbering up the ankles and clearing the floor, because this October the town’s in for a stoater. The UK première of CEILIDH, a new musical steeped in Scotland’s favourite communal chaos ritual, will take over Pitlochry Town Hall from 7–17 October — and it’s arriving with some serious creative heft behind … Continue reading Have a Gander at CELIDH – Pitlochry’s Set for a Right Good Knees-Up
Have a Gander at Edinburgh’s International Children’s: Imaginate
Imaginate’s 2026 Children’s Festival – Edinburgh’s Most Essential Festival Steps Into a New Era Edinburgh is never short on festivals, but only one of them quietly shapes the cultural future of the city. The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival has long been the place where imagination is taken seriously, where young audiences are treated as thinkers, … Continue reading Have a Gander at Edinburgh’s International Children’s: Imaginate
Have a Gander at Many Good Men; Educators Pack and Documentary
Civic Digits - Codebase, Edinburgh. Picture credit: Neil Hanna Many Good Men: A New Chapter in Scotland’s Fight Against Misogyny Civic Digits and the Educational Institute of Scotland have unveiled the Many Good Men Education Pack—a resource that feels less like a teaching aid and more like a necessary intervention. In a landscape where misogyny … Continue reading Have a Gander at Many Good Men; Educators Pack and Documentary
Have a Gander at Out in the Hills: Scotland’s New Queer Beacon in the Highlands, Pitlochry Theatre
Photo Credit - Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Out In The Hills: a midwinter queer uprising with tartan edges There are January weekends that drag like wet tweed, and there are January weekends that feel like a defibrillator to Scotland’s cultural heart. Out In The Hills is decisively the latter: a concentrated blast of theatre, conversation, music, and gloriously … Continue reading Have a Gander at Out in the Hills: Scotland’s New Queer Beacon in the Highlands, Pitlochry Theatre
Have a Gander at Pitlochry Festival Theatre 2026: Alan Cumming’s Debut Season
Alan Cumming’s Inaugural Season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre Alan Cumming has unveiled a debut season as Artistic Director for Pitlochry Festival Theatre that reads like a love letter to theatre itself — ambitious in scale, affectionate in memory and defiantly theatrical in taste. Timed to coincide with the company’s 75th anniversary in 2026, the programme … Continue reading Have a Gander at Pitlochry Festival Theatre 2026: Alan Cumming’s Debut Season