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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Summerhall Arts In Vitro Residency; a three 12‑week, non‑residential studio placement for visual artists Finding time, space and financial breathing room is the quiet, ongoing labour of a working artist; the In Vitro Residency from Summerhall Arts, in partnership with the Hugo Burge Foundation, is a pragmatic answer to that problem. Designed as a responsive, … Continue reading Have a Gander at Summerhall Arts Announces In Vitro Residency
Teatro la Plaza's resiliant take on Hamlet brings world-class, joyous talent to Aberdeen Returning to Scotland after a stupendously successful run at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2024 International Festival, Teatro La Plaza’s take on Hamlet arrives at His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen from Thursday 6 to Saturday 8 November 2025, presented in Spanish … Continue reading Have a Gander at Teatro La Plaza’s Hamlet at His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen
Artistic Director, Alan Cumming, invites audiences to a celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ to look at this world, and one another, in a new light from the hills of Pitlochry. Turning eyes since their announcement as Artistic Director, Alan Cumming and the Pitlochry Festival Theatre make their first significant move; turning a corner of the … Continue reading Have a Gander at Out In The Hills, Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Celebratory LGBTQIA+ Festival
