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Lyceum wins gender equality award
50/50 applause playwright award for Lyceum:
The Royal Lyceum is one of only two UK theatres to win the International Centre for Women Playwrights 50/50 Applause award for gender parity in its playwrights.
2018 CATS in Full
Full details of the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland:
The CATS moved up to the newly refurbished Perth Theatre for its ceremony this year, presenting awards across ten categories of theatre.
Edinburgh cream of CATS
Eight out of Ten CATS prefer Edinburgh:
Eight out of the ten awards handed out at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland have been won by productions made or commissioned in Edinburgh.
Some Enchanted Evening
Rodgers & Hammerstein focus for Ed’s G&S outfit:
The Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society is focussing on a different pairing than usual for its summer concert outing at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church on George Street this Saturday 9 June 2018.
Cutting Edge Downs
Downs With Love for Assembly Roxy:
A young woman who has Down’s Syndrome is the star of a hard hitting new play from Edinburgh-based Cutting Edge Theatre which tours to the Assembly Roxy for one night only this Wednesday.
Matt Terry for Madagascar’s Lion
Terry to play Alex in Selladoor tour:
Matt Terry, the winner of X-factor in 2016, will be roaring into Edinburgh as Alex the Lion in the major UK tour of Madagascar – The Musical, coming to the Playhouse in October.
Theatre Uncut goes Traverse
Power Plays for Traverse & Tron:
Theatre Uncut’s 2018 free-to-perform scripts, the Power Plays, are to get script-in-hand performances at the Traverse theatre next week, on Thursday 7 June 2018 from the Braw Fox theatre company.
Spark play for Book Fest
Staged reading of Doctors of Philosophy:
The Lyceum is to stage Muriel Spark’s only work for the stage, Doctors of Philosophy, as a full rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Book Festival this August 2018.
Rain Man Casting
Casting Announced for Rain Man Tour:
Matthew Horne – Gavin from Gavin & Stacey – and Downton Abbey’s Ed Speleers are to play brothers Raymond and Charlie Babbit in the tour of Rain Man coming to the King’s in October.
Fame Stars Announced
Keith Jack joins cast of Fame the Musical:
Keith Jack is to fly, high, as Nick Piazza in the 30th anniversary tour of Fame the Musical, coming to the Edinburgh King’s in October 2018 after opening in Manchester in June.
