Review of Dunedin Consort: Bach and Handel, Perth Concert Hall

EMERGING from Perth Concert Hall, the audience felt buoyed and sure the performances they had just heard could not be bettered.Read

New musical theatre’s touring debut in Birnam

GREEN Room is a new, Edinburgh-based touring musical theatre company which is poised to open with a production of The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown.Read

Review of A National Treasure V – a celebration of the musical spirit of Gordon Duncan

IN this fifth celebration of the musical spirit of the late Pitlochry piper Gordon Duncan, the organisers came up with an absolute cracker of a programme which read as a veritable Who’s Who of the broad playingfield of today’s traditional music scene.Read

Roll Wyn James to play live in Perth

BLUES band Roll Wyn James are certain to get a huge cheer when they make one of their rare live appearances next month, and no one will be more proud than frontman and keyboard player Alwyn James.Read

Sir Toby Belch actor Steve McNicoll talks to PA Arts about Twelfth Night at Perth Theatre

THESE can be hard times for actors. Producing theatre are cutting down on productions, plays are staged with ever-decreasing cast numbers, and reality shows dominate our TV screen ahead of home-made dramas.Read

Review of Alison Balsom and the Scottish Ensemble in Perth Concert Hall

THURSDAY evening’s concert in Perth Concert Hall was along all dimensions a hugely successful start to the season. Appearing with Perth favourites the Scottish Ensemble, with artistic director Jonathan Morton as leader, was the triple Classic BRIT award winning trumpeter Alison Balsom. Such had been the demand for tickets that the apron stage was removed to give extra seating.Read

Colin unearths real gems of theatre history

PITLOCHRY Festival Theatre’s 60th anniversary will be celebrated with an intriguing presentation by local historian Colin Liddell, the third member of his family to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Theatre in the Hills.Read

The cream of traditional musicians gather for A National Treasure V concert in Perth Concert Hall

AT the time when the career of Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis was launching itself into the stratosphere, so the world of traditional music lost the immense talent of Gordon Duncan, who was just 40 when he died in 2005.Read

Top names gather for annual Gordon Duncan celebration, A National Treasure V

Top names from the world of traditional music will gather in Perth Concert Hall next Saturday for A National Treasure V, the fifth annual concert in celebration of the late Perthshire piper Gordon Duncan.Read

Scottish Opera showcase

THE Perthshire Friends of Scottish Opera group is holding a concert at Strathallan School to showcase up and coming talent.Read

Review of Jason Byrne’s Cirque Du Byrne at Perth Theatre

I FIRST came across Irish funnyman Jason Byrne at the Edinburgh Fringe some years ago and just loved his energetic and spontaneous wall-to-wall humour in which front seat audience members were willingly and unwillingly woven into his mirth-making.Read

‘Wha’s like us?’ asks Matthew Rooke’s Flyting

FOR one night only, a remarkable music project which crosses and blends five centuries, countries and cultures, musical forms and modern media will be performed in Perth Concert Hall.Read

Seventh Perthshire Amber goes outdoor green

SINGER-songwriter Dougie MacLean’s successful music festival, Perthshire Amber, adds a flavour of the outdoors to the line-up this autumn.Read

Review of The Absence of Women at Perth Theatre

FOR three nights this week, Perth Theatre audiences had the opportunity to sample the work of its new creative director for theatre, Rachel O’Riordan, before her debut-proper with Twelfth Night (September 30-October 15).Read

Perth Theatre searches for panto kids

PERTH Theatre is searching the land for talented local youngsters to perform in this year’s pantomime.Read

Review of Carousel by Perth City Operatic Group

BILLY Bigelow is the type that would have enjoyed a riotous time in London or wherever. He is a fairground barker, the archetypal ‘bit of rough’.Read

Perth Amateur Operatic Society seeks new members

PERTH Amateur Operatic Society is holding an open night at The Royal George Hotel on Monday, September 19, at 7.30pm when anyone interested in taking part in their forthcoming production of Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim will be welcomed.Read

Review of Futureproof at Dundee Rep

EXCITING times are on cue at Dundee Rep. The multi-award winning ensemble has forged a collaboration with Edinburgh’s go-ahead Traverse Theatre, and together they have just completed a highly-acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe with Futureproof – a new play by Lynda Radley.Read

Exhibition Coup for Perth

PERTH Museum and Art Gallery has been picked as one of only three Scottish venues for an exhibition of the work of renowned photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe.Read

A Scottish flavour for Twelfth Night at Perth Theatre

PERTH Theatre’s new creative director for theatre Rachel O’Riordan has chosen 1920’s Scotland as the setting for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the first full-scale production she has directed since taking up the post earlier this year.Read

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