Glasgow: What's On Theatre and Comedy
A Play, A Pie and A Pint
Lunchtime Theatre – OranMor, top of Byres Road, G12
All performances run Monday – Saturday at 1pm.
Tickets at ticket web – buy online
Three hunded plays now performed at A Play A Pie and A Pint
Mortal Memories
Written by Liz Lochhead
Directed by Marilyn Imrie
Mon 20th May – Sat 25th May
Buy tickets online
Featuring Dave Anderson, Ann Scott Jones and Robert Pettigrew.
‘Mortal Memories’ is a bittersweet comedy about three quirky old characters with not a lot in common, except that they all live in the same Sheltered Housing Complex — and someone-in-charge is determined they’ve to co-operate in putting on a Burns Supper. They are, all three, supposed to be, in their different ways, Burns Daft, aren’t they? These days, though, Nettie’s memory is proving all too mortal, and recently-widowed John finds he’s flooded with ones that hurt too much…
Summer Panto Announced – A bit of a Dick Whittington
OranMor
Monday 8th – Saturday 27th July (excluding Sundays)
Òran Mór welcomes you to ‘A bit of a Dick Whittington’, our third Summer Panto by Dave Anderson and David MacLennan.
Will Dick go to London and are the streets there paved with gold? Will Dick travel the world to make his fortune, marry the InSultan’ of Taxhaven’s daughter and return filthy rich to unseat Boris, become the Mayor and live happily ever after? Oh, yes he will!
Due to popular demand, we have added in some extra performances for you this year – please see below a full list of dates and timings (please note that days which have 2 performances, timings are different from our usual 1pm show).
A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Spring/Summer Programme 2013
UWS Performance Showcase
22nd May – 7 p.m.
The Arches 30 Midland Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL
Final-year students from the University of the West of Scotland showcase their work created in their final year, ranging from conventional playwriting to experimental devised pieces.
Ticket prices: £7, Concession £5
Angels Among Us
25 May 2013, 7:00 PM
The Arches 30 Midland Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL
Written and directed by Lawrence Crawford Angels Among Us follows the Angels of Glasgow and the effect they have on the city, presented by the Arches Actors Symposium.
Ticket prices: £4
Far Away (Seagulls) Productions
Citizens Theatre
23 May 2013 to 8 Jun 2013
Set in a dystopian society, Far Away is an unsettling and darkly comic play that changed the landscape of contemporary theatre. A decade after its London premiere, it continues to powerfully resonate with world events today. Presented in a double-bill with the rarely performed short play Seagulls, also by Caryl Churchill.
Box Office: 0141 429 0022
Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS
The Arches Presents
Rob Drummond’s Bullet Catch World Tour: London
Tuesday 21 May – Saturday 1 Jun 2013
Rob Drummond Takes The Award-Winning, Critically Acclaimed Bullet Catch To The National Theatre, London As Part Of His 2013 World Tour.
Roll Up, Roll Up… The Arches Is Proud To Present The Return Of The Most Daring, Death Defying Show On Earth, The Edinburgh Fringe Smash Hit Bullet Catch – Written And Performed By Rob Drummond, And Co-Directed By Drummond And David Overend. Following Its Sell-Out Success, The Award Winning And Critically Acclaimed Show Is Currently On A World Tour.
“Drummond’s Conjuring Skills Are Genuine And Very Impressive But His Ability To Make A Profound Philosophical Meditation Into A Hugely Entertaining Magic Show Is Cleverer Still Because It Is So Subtly Done.”
★★★★ The Herald
0141 565 1000
Book Tickets: http://uk.patronbase.com/_Arches
The Arches, 253 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8DL
Special Offer
Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner reconstructed by Untitled Projects
In co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland and Tramway
Friday 14 – Saturday 29 June 2013, 7:30pm
Matinees Tuesday 18 + Sat 22 June, 2:30pm
Tickets: £14 (£10) Previews: £6
Offer to purchase reduced price tickets for Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner. To redeem, quote ‘Confessions offer’ to buy tickets at the reduced rate of £5 on Sat 16 June and £8 on Wed 19 and Thu 20 June. Call 0845 330 3501 to book, or buy your tickets in person at the Tramway Box Office before 24 May.
In 1987 Paul Bright, a radical young Scottish director, set out to stage James Hogg’s Confessions of Justified Sinner in a series of events at unusual locations across Scotland. Untitled Projects (Slope, The Salon Project) have been working with the actor George Anton to assemble an archive of these landmark productions.
They have found amazing original film footage, interviewed those involved in the making and those who saw it, collated together old photographs, some anecdotes and some secrets… Now in June 2013 at Tramway they will share this material in a live performance and exhibition to celebrate the work of an unsung hero of Scottish theatre.
This offer is subject to availability and limited to 4 tickets per person. It is only valid until Friday 24 May. It is available for counter and telephone sales only and is not available online.
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Music By Andrew Lloyd Webber
Featuring some of the most famous and inspiring stage music ever written, including the classic songs Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, On This Night of a Thousand Stars, Oh What a Circus, You Must Love Me and Another Suitcase in Another Hall, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s extraordinary musical Evita embarks on a spectacular national tour.
Bringing to life the dynamic, larger-than-life persona of Eva Peron, wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Peron, Evita tells the story from her young and ambitious beginnings to the enormous wealth and power she gained and her ultimate rise to sainthood.
This production of the smash hit show truly promises to be the theatrical event of the year!
Tickets £10 – £35
‘There has never been a musical as dramatically exciting as Evita’
Time Out
The Drowsy Chaperone
Visiting Company
The annual offering from Musical Theatre students at the Dance School of Scotland
The Citz
15 June 2013 to 19 June 2013
Students of the Musical Theatre Course at the Dance School of Scotland make their annual return to the Citizens with a five time Tony Award-winning musical.
A modern day musical theatre addict known simply as the ‘Man in Chair’ drops the needle on his favourite LP and from the crackle of his hi-fi, the uproariously funny 1928 musical magically bursts to life on stage. The “show within a show” tells the tale of a Broadway starlet’s wedding day and how it is complicated by a motley crew of zany guests, including a gin soaked chaperone assigned to keep a watchful eye over the bride.
Winner of Five Tony Awards including Best Book and Best Original Score.
Music, Lyrics and Book by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, Bob Martin and Don McKellarson.
Box Office: 0141 429 0022
Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Kings Theatre Bath Street
17th – 29th June
Direct from the West End and starring Jason Donovan comes the feel-good international hit sensation Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical!
Winner of 4 WhatsOnStage.com awards, including Best New Musical, and based on the smash-hit movie, Priscilla is the heartwarming, uplifting adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship and end up finding more than they had ever dreamed of. Jason Donovan stars as Tick, the role he originated in the West End.
With a dazzling array of outrageous Olivier and Tony award-winning costumes and a hit parade of dancefloor favourites including It’s Raining Men, I Will Survive, Hot Stuff, Finally, Boogie Wonderland, Go West, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and I Love The Nightlife, this wildly fresh and funny musical is a journey to the heart of fabulous!
‘Hugely entertaining… insanely glitzy’
Daily Telegraph
Due to occasional coarse language, parental guidance is recommended for children 15 years and under.
Please note Jason Donovan will not be appearing on Monday 24 June
Further details and book tickets
The Kings Theatre
16th – 28th September, 2013
Don’t miss CATS, Andrew Lloyd-Webber‘s extraordinary record-breaking, smash-hit musical!
Adapted from TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, this wonderful blend of fantasy, drama and romance is set on the night that the Jellicle Cats meet for the Jellicle Ball in a sparkling fusion of music, dance and verse.
With an amazing musical score that includes the timeless Memory, spectacular set designs, stunning costumes and breathtaking choreography, CATS is a magical musical like no other.
One of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, CATS has enchanted audiences in over 300 cities around the world – now you too have the chance to experience this legendary musical phenomenon.
£15 – £39.50
A Play, A Pie and A Pint
Lunchtime Theatre - OranMor, top of Byres Road, G12
All performances run Monday - Saturday at 1pm.
Tickets at ticket web - buy online
A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity
Written by Douglas Maxwell
Mon 18th Feb Sat 23rd Feb
This is a co-production with the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.
Featuring Scott Fletcher and Joanna Tope.
Annabelle strikes up an unlikely relationship with her dead husband's potty-mouthed employee, Jim. She begins to enter into Jim's un-finishing school, liberating her own voice through vulgarity, Annabelle gets herself heard.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Spring/Summer Programme 2013
Cain's Book
The Arches
Mon 25 - Wed 27 Feb 2013 | 25th & 26th: 7.30pm | 27th: 7.45pm
£9/£7
By Alexander Trocchi
Adapted and directed by Alan McKendrick
Cast: Ross Mann, Lou Prendergast, Graham Valentine
Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats these are the facts.
Acclaimed worldwide as a high watermark for Scottish literature and lauded by talents as various as William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith and Leonard Cohen, since its original 1960 publication Alexander Trocchis notorious Cains Book has earned itself a formidable reputation as the cult novel to end them all.
Cains Book depicts protagonist Joe Necchis experiences from a Glasgow childhood through to adult life in 1950s New York as a scow captain and unrepentant heroin addict. A tour-de-force of poetic writing simultaneously occupying the modes of drug literature confessional, bleak comedy and philosophical tract, the bold and still thoroughly contemporary Cain has lost none of its vivid force and power to astonish.
There will be a post show discussion following the performance on Wednesday 27th Feb.
The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, G2 8DL
Chris Addison Events
The Citz
Visiting Company 27 Mar 2013
Chris Addison, the star of The Thick of It and Mock The Week, returns to the Citizens Theatre with his twice extended critically acclaimed show THE TIME IS NOW, AGAIN. Part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
Top class stand-up from one of the classiest, toppiest stand-ups around. You should come and see him.
Exquisite, super-smart solo show gloriously funny
Time Out
Tickets: £20
Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS
Box Office: 0141 429 0022
Glasgow International Comedy Festival
14th - 31st March, 2013
Jimmy Carr, Daniel Sloss, Craig Hill, Harry Hill, Jenny Eclair, Ardal O'Hanlon, Chris Addison and many more funny folk at venues throughout Glasgow.
What's On at GICF
www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com/
Spirit Aid Comedy Gala
Thursday, February 21, 2013
OranMor
7:00pm
Spirit Aid Presents...
- Janey Godley
- Des Mclean
- Gary Little
- John Gillick
- Rev Obadiah Steppenwolfe Iii
- Patrick Rolink
- Jojo Sutherland
- John Ross
- Susie Mccabe
- Raymond Mearns
All Under One Roof
Bringing You A Night Full Of Laughter
@ Oran Mor
Thursday 21st Feb Doors 7pm
Tickets Only £10
All Ticket Proceeds Go To Helping The Children Of Our World
Oran Mor, Byres Road, G12 8QX
'FAME - The Musical'
by The Lyric Club
5th - 9th March, 2013
Kings Theatre
From the hit motion pictures, television series, and international stage success, 'FAME' is nothing short of a global phenomenon. Set during the last years of New York City's celebrated High School for the Performing Arts on 46th Street (1980-1984), FAME - The Musical is the bittersweet but ultimately inspiring story of a diverse group of students as they commit to four years of gruelling artistic and academic work. With candour, humour and insight, the show explores the issues that confront many young people today and is both a high energy and entertaining show with a contemporary pop score, including the title hit song - 'Fame'!
So grab your legwarmers, Lycra and some friends and come along and join us for a great night out!
Tickets range from £14 -22. Children's tickets (up to 16 years) are also available for £0 in the Front Stalls only on Wed 6th, Thurs 7th & Sat 9th Matinee.
For more info please contact the Lyric Club Ticket Convenor on 0141 889 0177 (no booking fee) or Kings Theatre 0844 871 7648 (booking fee applies)
Kings Theatre, Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JN.
Would You Let Your Daughter Marry A Ned
Britannia Panopticon
With Robin Cairns as Kelvinside Malcolm
part of Glasgow Comedy Festival
"an absolute wee gem of a show" -fringe review.com
March 22, 23, 29 and 30 at 6.30 p.m.
Matinees March 23, 24, 30 and 31 at 3 p.m.
£4 - with Malcolm Bag - to be picked up at theatre.
Book ticket at ticketsoup 0844 395 4005 or email
Britannia Panopticon, 113-117 Trongate, G1 5ND
The Salon Project
Citizens Theatre
15 Marth - 23 March 2013
The event will last 180 mins including time to get dressed. Prices
£25 (no concessions)
Advance booking only. Book online
Box Office 0141 429 0022
Putting the audience centre stage, Untitled Projects bring their exquisitely constructed re-imagining of a 19th century salon to the Citizens Theatre. In doing so, the company creates a beautiful and thought provoking night of fashion and conversation.
Your evening begins with a transformation into full period costume by a coterie of dressers and make-up artists, before you emerge into a mirrored impression of a Parisian salon. As you mingle with guests, pioneers in their fields will provoke discussion, speaking on subjects at the vanguard of 21st-century thought on science, politics, technology and the arts.
The Salon Project recreates the exclusive meetings at the heart of what was salon societys golden age an era of change, excess and inquiry. Relive its splendour, contrast it with the present and imagine what the future will hold.
Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS
The Sting
Presented by Sweet for Addicts
Cottiers Theatre
Thursday 4th and 5th April, 2013
Tickets £10
Box Office 0141 357 4000
Cottiers, 93 Hyndland Street, Glasgow Gll 5 PX
Arsenic and Old Lace
Eastwood Park Theatre
By Joseph Kesselring, Directed by Mark Coleman
Wednesday 24th Saturday 27th April 2013
Evenings 7:30pm, Saturday 2:30pm & 7:30pm
Tickets £10 & £8.
Tickets: 0141 876 1296
Written in 1939 by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, it has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra.
This is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family, which includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and just a pinch of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home; and the re appearance of a long lost murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein.
www.giffnocktheatreplayers.com
Eastwood Park Theatre, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, G46 6UG.
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