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Scotland News

Aberdeen has entered the raceEleven UK cities bid to be named 2017 City of Culture
Eleven cities have bid to be named City of Culture 2017, the initiative established by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) ...
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Fergus LinehanFergus Linehan appointed as new Edinburgh Festival director
Irishman Fergus Linehan has been appointed as the new director of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), replacing Jonathan Mills wh...
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Starsky's Glaser stars in Fiddler on the Roof tour, helmed by Revel HorwoodStarsky's Glaser stars in Fiddler on the Roof tour, helmed by Revel Horwood
Paul Michael Glaser, still best remembered by TV fans as Starsky in the seminal 1970s American cop series Starsky and Hutch, will star as T...
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My Theatre Matters! campaign launches to support local theatresMy Theatre Matters! campaign launches to support local theatres
A nationwide campaign has been launched to support local theatres across the UK. Backed by Whatsonstage.com, My Theatre Matters! aims to ...
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Scott Shepherd in The Wooster Group's HamletProgramme announced for 2013 Edinburgh International Festival
This year's Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), which runs in the Scottish capital from 9 August to 1 September, will be themed aroun...
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Marti PellowMarti Pellow plays Che in new tour of Evita
Marti Pellow is set to play Che in a major new tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1978 musical Evita. Produced by Bill Kenwr...
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Scotland Reviews

Freya Sutton as Tracy TurnbladHairspray (Tour - Glasgow)
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Hairspray is probably the closest that Broadway has ever come to producing a pantomime. Like Beauty and the Beast, it teaches us that we sh...
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Matthew Bourne's Highland Fling (Tour - Glasgow)Matthew Bourne's Highland Fling (Tour - Glasgow)
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What ever happened to the mythical beasts of Scotland? They seem to have vanished beneath the surface of our imaginative cultural...
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Thriller Live (Tour - Glasgow)Thriller Live (Tour - Glasgow)
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Wouldn't the world be a very different place if little Michael Jackson had not had be plucked from the maternity ward and made to "Ease on ...
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Birds of a Feather (Tour - Glasgow)Birds of a Feather (Tour - Glasgow)
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Remember television in the nineties? Remember when Hyacinth Bucket would put on a floral hat and say “hand-painted periwinkles”...
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Doctor Fautus (Glasgow)Doctor Fautus (Glasgow)
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How many of the thousands of supposedly talented people who line the streets of Britain’s major cities every year for the chance to a...
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Goodnight Mister Tom (Tour - Glasgow)Goodnight Mister Tom (Tour - Glasgow)
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Goodnight Mr Tom is a stage play based on Michelle Magorian’s poignant and popular novel of the same name. Miss Magorian’s nove...
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Scotland Interviews

Mark Benton as Edna TurnbladBrief Encounter with ... Hairspray's Mark Benton
Mark Benton plays Edna Turnblad in the new tour of Hairspray, which kicks off at Manchester's Lowry Theatre tonight (13 February 2013). ...
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Brief Encounter with... Andy Higgins, Sign Language interpreter for theatre.Brief Encounter with... Andy Higgins, Sign Language interpreter for theatre.
Action on Hearing Loss suggests that as many as 800,000 people in the UK are either severely or profoundly deaf. And yet, whilst the statis...
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Orla O'LoughlinBrief Encounter with... Traverse artistic director Orla O'Loughlin
Orla O'Loughlin is the new artistic director of the Traverse Theatre. Prior to joining the Traverse she was artistic director of Pentabus T...
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Miriam Margolyes in Dickens' Women20 Questions with ... Miriam Margolyes
Veteran British actor Miriam Margolyes is known from television, film and stage as diverse as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films,...
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