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
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
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
A razzle-dazzle road trip: Priscilla Queen of the Desert comes to Scotland Priscilla Queen of the Desert is packing sequins, sass and a suitcase full of disco classics for a UK and Ireland tour that stops at the Edinburgh Playhouse next April, and the casting announcement has injected the whole enterprise with starry, showbiz bravado. … Continue reading Have a Gander at Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical: Casting for UK Tour
Bare Productions Announces Auditions for Next to Normal – Scottish Premiere Set for Edinburgh Fringe 2026 Bare Productions, one of Edinburgh’s most consistently impressive community theatre companies, has announced auditions for its landmark 2026 production of Brian Yokey's Next to Normal, running in 2026, with auditions set for January 16th – 18th of 2026. The … Continue reading Have a Gander at Next To Normal – Bare Production’s Scottish Premiere 2026
Directed by Dominic Lewis Musical Direction by Finlay Turnbull Review by Dominic Corr Paradise in Augustine : Tickets ★★★★★ Occasionally, the best parts of the story – or, in this case, the review – aren’t reserved for the tale’s ending. So, reversing the traditional happy ending, we’ll begin with a happy beginning: Into The Woods … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Bare Productions: Into The Woods
Book by Allan Knee Music and Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and Jason Howland. Directed by Jo Heinemeier Musical Direction by Hannah Fleming ★★★★ Fresh off the hugely successful run of RENT in the same venue, Bare Productions turn towards a timeless novel turned fan-favourite musical to close out their Festival Fringe run for the year. And what … Continue reading Little Women – Paradise in Augustines
Music, Lyrics and Book by Jonathan Larson Directed by Dominic Lewis ★★★★ Though often unceremoniously relegated to a ‘vintage’ Rock Opera musical, the Pulitzer Prize-winning RENT remains a legacy production, a story of genuine friendship and companionship and the preservation of love and shared experiences in the face of cruelty and disease – both literal … Continue reading RENT – Paradise in Augustines
Directed by Dominic Lewis Musical Direction by Finlay Turnbull ★★★ And like shazam! A fun, feisty feast for the eyes, Bare Production returns to the Fringe for a musical rendition of the well-known story of acceptance, drag and some supremely sexy red boots with Kinky Boots, the 2012 musical based on the original film – … Continue reading Kinky Boots – Paradise in Augustine
