WHEN we talk of the great classical art of northern Europe, we tend to give precedence to the paintings of artists like Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Rembrandt van Rijn. Less is said, however, about the drawings committed to paper (whether in ink or chalk) by these same masters.
READERS of a certain vintage might remember a 1990s TV advert for DIY products that, the commercial boasted, did “exactly what it says on the tin” ...
ON Saturday of last weekend, I: watched Glasgow hairdresser Dotto Nalukala spend three hours braiding the hair of young model Luwam Khasay; followed young midwife Coco Bentgens’s demonstration of the ways in which babies exit the birth canal ...
THE first-ever Scottish Ethnic Minority Talent Summit and Festival opens its doors eight days from now...
FRECKLE Productions are the masters when it comes to adapting the beloved children’s books of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler for the stage ...
WILLY Russell’s 1983 hit musical Blood Brothers is a heartfelt morality tale that has lost none of its power or currency.
THE Findhorn Bay Festival – which ends its fifth edition today – has become an annual highlight in the calendar
AS Show And Tell, the 90th play by the prolific English playwright Alan Ayckbourn (who is now aged 85) opens in his adopted hometown of Scarborough, Dundee Rep offers a new production of his 2002 drama Snake In The Grass ...
IAN Rankin’s iconic literary detective John Rebus is one of Scotland’s most successful cultural franchises. Not only has the author penned an extraordinary 25 Rebus novels, but his brilliant and weatherworn protagonist has made numerous forays into other media, including radio, television and theatre.
‘SUMMER’S almost gone”, as Jim Morrison of The Doors sang. However, thanks to the lovely Lammermuir Festival of classical music, the summer festival season hasn’t yet concluded...
