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Royal Scottish Orchestra Announces Summer Calendar

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s summer calendar sees the musicians embark on a six city tour of Spain, present an eclectic three-concert festival in Glasgow.

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Royal Scottish Orchestra Collaborates With Turntables, Costello, Computer

In June the Royal Scottish National Orchestra will collaborate with artists as eclectic as Elvis Costello, hip-hop DJ Beni G and the leading video games composers in orchestra+, a three-concert series at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

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Shine – Brand New Theatre Festival Launched

This June, the Citizens' Theatre is proud to present its very first mini festival celebrating the best in homegrown and international work for children and young people. Encompassing four specially selected shows from the BANK OF SCOTLAND IMAGINATE FESTIVAL as well as the Citizens' own production LIAR, the festival is set to become a regular feature in the Glasgow venue's programme, attracting families and children of all ages.

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Free Drama For Young Stammerers At Citizens’ Theatre

A search is on for 20 young Scots who stammer to take part in a life-changing theatre project which aims to help them follow in the footsteps of famous actors such as Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Willis, Rowan Atkinson & Julia Roberts, who overcame the barriers associated with stammering to achieve success.

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Glasgow's Museums Remain Scotland's Premier Attractions

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum remains Scotland's most visited attraction, after new figures revealed Glasgow's museums and art galleries remain extremely popular with citizens and tourists alike.

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Thousands attend anti-war protests in London and Glasgow

Yesterday, thousands of people attended anti-war protests in London and Glasgow organised by the Stop the War Coalition. The event marks nearly five years since the 2003 invasion of Iraq which begun the Iraq War. The main themes were "Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan", "Don’t attack Iran", and "End the siege of Gaza".

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Pyramid Architect's Final Resting Place?

The Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project may be on the verge of discovering the remains of Imhotep, the architect of the Step Pyramid.

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Glasgow Museum Presents Open Community Exhibition

Two community groups have been selected from entries to GoMA's 4th Open Community Exhibition, with the exhibitions being on show in Balcony 3 until 27 April.

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Glasgow School Installs Bloxx Web Filtering To Combat Anonymous Proxies

The High School of Glasgow Selects Bloxx to Protect Staff and Students Online

Bloxx, the enterprise web filtering specialist, today announced that The High School of Glasgow has deployed Bloxx web filtering technology to monitor pupil and staff online activity and to provide enhanced security for its IT network.

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Citizens' Theatre Presents Waiting For GODOT

A work in which questions are posed but never answered, this February we present Samuel Beckett's masterpiece tragicomedy WAITING FOR GODOT, on Friday 15 February, 7.30pm. Theories and hypothesis about the meaning of this great work abound, the great irony being that audiences and academics alike insist on interpreting in allegorical terms a play which was striving all the time to avoid definition.

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Yellow Moon Hits Citizens' Theatre

TAG's smash hit show Yellow Moon by David Greig is jetting off to New York this spring to be part of the 'Brits off Broadway' festival at 59E59 Theatre in Manhattan. Following a staggering sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and two successful runs at the Citizens' Theatre (including 2 extensive school tours), the show about two Fife teenagers on the run also picked up the TMA award for Best Show for Children and Young People in October.

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra Announces First Foreign Tour

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra will embark on its first foreign tour with Music Director Stéphane Denève in January 2008. The Orchestra will perform six concerts in three European countries: Germany, Austria and Croatia. They will be joined on tour by Grammy-winning American violinist Hilary Hahn who will be performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major.

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