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Tramway is a contemporary visual and performing arts venue located in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Based in a former tram depot in the Pollokshields area of the South Side, it consists of two performance spaces and two galleries, as well as offering facilities for community and artistic projects. The Hidden Gardens is situated behind Tramway. [1]
Glasgow Festivals include festivals for art, film, comedy, folk music and jazz. Glasgow also hosts an annual queer arts festival in November.. Unlike the Edinburgh Festival (where the main festival and fringe festivals all occur around about the same time in August), Glasgow's festivals are spread evenly across the year, therefore ensuring a continuous annual programme of events.
The Tron Theatre is located in Glasgow, Scotland.The theatre was formerly known as the Tron Kirk.It began as the Collegiate Church of Our Lady and St. Anne.. The Tron Theatre building is home to the Tron Theatre Company and serves as a producing house for contemporary theatrical work.
TAG's original artistic director was Christine Redington, who was at the helm for three years until 1971. Since then a number of high-profile directors have worked for the company, including Ian Wooldridge (1978–84), Ian Brown (1984–88) now at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Alan Lyddiard who left TAG to become artistic director of Northern Stage Ensemble in Newcastle (1988–92), and Tony ...
Wildcat Stage Productions was an influential left-wing theatre and music production company based in Glasgow. [1] Founded in 1978 as a spin-off from the 7:84 Company, it formed a key part of the Scottish touring theatre network for the next 20 years, creating more than 80 shows and giving many thousands of performances across Scotland, the UK and internationally. [2]
The Citizens' Theatre repertory was founded in 1943 by dramatist and screenwriter James Bridie, [3] [4] author of around forty plays presented in Britain and overseas, art gallery director Tom Honeyman, [5] [6] cinema impresario George Singleton, known by many as "Mr Cosmo", whose headquarter cinema continues today as the Glasgow Film Theatre ...
The Theatre Royal is the oldest theatre in Glasgow and the longest running in Scotland. Located at 282 Hope Street, its front door was originally round the corner in Cowcaddens Street. It currently accommodates 1,541 people and is owned by Scottish Opera. The theatre opened in 1867, adopting the name Theatre Royal two years later.
In the 1980s, the Third Eye Centre played an important role in the rise of the new Glasgow painters Steven Campbell, Ken Currie and Peter Howson. It also hosted shows by Susan Hiller, Sam Ainsley, Damien Hirst and Sophie Calle. The Third Eye Centre was also the home of the National Review of Live Art.