Archive for May, 2020
Tell-Tale Heart a flutter
Horror Fest’s Poe perf gets limited stream:
Tegan Gourlay’s performance of Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic masterpiece, The Tell-Tale Heart, is to get a limited streaming on YouTube for 48 hours from Friday 15 may 2020 at 8pm.
Book of Mormon On Sale
Book of Mormon Playhouse date on public sale:
Tickets are now on public sale for the smash hit musical The Book of Mormon’s rescheduled dates at Edinburgh Playhouse, running from Wednesday 9 to Saturday 26 June 2021.
Home Made with MGA
Wonder Fools lead Academy’s Zoom production:
Edinburgh’s MGA Academy has teamed up with Wonder Fools to create Home Made, a new online Zoom production with their 3rd year acting students, streaming live this Friday 15 May 2020.
Complicite’s Encounter goes online
2015 EdIntFest hit to get free YouTube streaming:
Simon McBurney’s hit show The Encounter for Complicité theatre company, which premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, is to get a free online streaming from this Friday, 15 May 2020. It will remain online for a week.
Dogstar Online
Taylor of Inverness first up for Vimeo On Demand:
Dogstar Theatre, the Highlands-based company with a European outlook, is to stream a filmed version of its international hit The Taylor of Inverness as the first show in a new paid-for online presence.
Playhouse dark to July
ATG Venues now closed to June 28 2020:
Venue operator ATG has announced that all its UK venues, including the Playhouse in Edinburgh and the King’s and Theatre Royal in Glasgow will be closed at least until 28 June 2020 due to Covid-19.
Mormon reschedules
Book of Mormon moves Playhouse dates to 2021:
Smash hit musical The Book of Mormon has announced new dates for Edinburgh Playhouse and will now run for a long fortnight from Wednesday 9 to Saturday 26 June 2021.
May the Fourth be with Will
Star Wars Shakespeare parody to get live reading:
The people behind the weekly Shakespeare live reading are stepping up to the plate today, May the Fourth, to give a live reading of Ian Doescher’s Star Wars.
Hot streaming lunchtime theatre
PPP to stream mini season From The Archives:
Glasgow’s A Play, Pie and a Pint lunchtime theatre is to stream a mini season of its existing hit shows on YouTube, one a week, initially over the next three weeks.
Online theatre criticism workshops
Edin Theatre Crit starts online workshops:
The Guardian’s Edinburgh-based theatre critic Mark Fisher is taking his 2015 book How To Write About Theatre online, in a series of paid-for Zoom workshops.
