Stage Archive

Sandy Nelson didn't intend to be a comedian, even if he did spend 14 years on the stand-up circuit.

Like many people, I always had a sneaking respect for Woody Allen's contrary refusal to grace the Oscars with his presence on the basis that the Academy would persist in holding them on the one day in the week when he had a regular gig playing jazz clarinet in a New York bar.

Founded by Stewart Laing in 1998, Untitled Projects aimed to channel Laing's theatrical vision with an assortment of collaborators.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Citizens Theatre artistic director Dominic Hill is taking a breather.

The National Theatre of Scotland is teaming up with the Solas Festival for 99 -100, an interactive game and project which will engage festival-goers in a "participatory fact finding mission".

LAST month, various departments at the Conservatoire – music and technical as well as ballet – joined forces with Glasgow School of Art in a 21st-century hommage to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

This year's James Tait Black Prize, Scotland's veteran literary award that has come to new prominence surfing the wave of prize-frenzy, has a theatrical new addition to its list: the James Tait Black Prize for Drama.

There was a glorious informality to this major restaging of the oldest known play in Scotland's dramatic history, presented as part of a major research project involving the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Edinburgh University and Historic Scotland.

It is almost two months until Scotland's capital city hosts the biggest arts festival on the planet, but here, in the charming city of Varna, on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, the summer theatre festival season has started in earnest.

There's not much about the every day that makes the heart leap or the pulses race.

Street theatre and sport will feature heavily in the 12th Merchant City Festival as Glasgow gears up for the Commonwealth Games.

David Greig's stock couldn't be higher at the moment, what with the multi-million-pound Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical, with a book by Greig and directed by Sam Mendes, currently going through previews at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane before the critics get their say later this month.

Just one small step into the Tramway on Sunday, and you were greeted by giant leaps of the imagination, thought up and delivered by the kind of artists who really understand child's play.

In 2005, accomplished young photo-journalist Robin Taudevin came to Glasgow to create a photographic account of the lives of asylum seekers who were facing a clampdown on refused applicants by the UK authorities.