Tron

A guide to theatre and comedy venues in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Comedian and performer Sian Bevan selects the best places to find the hottest on-stage talent

So you fancy a side-dish of live performance to go with that Jägerbomb? Well, you lucky trickster, Glasgow and Edinburgh are packed with places to go no matter who you’re trying to pull. Let’s start with theatres, shall we? In Glasgow the cool kids…

A guide to bars and pubs of Edinburgh

The best bars in Old Town, Broughton Street, Leith Walk, Tollcross & West End

The best places in the vicinity are either nearest the bottom end around the Palace of Holyroodhouse or on some of the narrow side streets that seep down into the Old Town. Particularly recommended in the former category are the White Horse (266…

Political theatre festival Mayfesto to look at the August 2011 riots and Arab Spring

Programme features Chalk Farm, Springtime and No Time for Art

All the world’s a stage The annual Tron festival Mayfesto engages with political struggle from the Egyptian revolution to the riots in England, as Mark Brown discovers Two years ago the then recently appointed director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow…

Mister Merlin

The Weegie-centric Tron panto continues to entertain despite uncertain future

Renowned for their particularly weegie take on a festive tale, the Tron may sadly be unable to continue their affordable Christmas shows due to the loss of their corporate sponsor. Unless they find another, the theatre will need to raise £20,000 a year…

Tron Legacy

State-of-the-art, but with dialogue that only a motherboard could love

(PG) 125min ‘The game has changed,’ announces the poster for Disney’s blockbuster offering for 2010, but despite 3D and innumerable upgrades, Tron-Legacy remains a very similar proposition to 1982’s super-culty box-office flop. With dialogue that…

Official Tron Legacy trailer, poster triptych and Daft Punk track 'Derezzed'

Compare the original 1982 Tron trailer with the 2010 Tron Legacy version

Tron Legacy is released in the UK on 26 December 2010. That's right, Boxing Day - meaning that the Christmas TV schedules are going to need to pull something pretty special out of the bag to compete with this, as frankly, The Emmerdale Omnibus followed…

Mayfesto: Something Old, Something New

Inspired by the long-gone Glasgow theatre of the same age, the Tron’s Mayfesto season is hoping to capture some of its namesake’s former glory. The brainchild of artistic director, Andy Arnold, it plans to celebrate often politically-charged new plays…

Entries sought for Tron Open.Stage playwriting contest

A new playwriting competition has been launched allowing Scots, or those living in Scotland, the chance to have their theatre show produced at the Tron Theatre. As part of a new initiative applicants can apply online by providing a synopsis of their…

Cooking with Elvis

Lee Hall might be best known for his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Billy Elliot, but long before Jamie Bell’s dancing feet captured the public imagination, Hall scored a hit with the acclaimed comedy Cooking with Elvis. First performed in Newcastle’s…

Tron Stripped: Bliss + Mud

Just a year into his tenure as artistic director, Andy Arnold is already transforming the Tron into one of Scotland’s most innovative producing theatres. His latest outing, Tron Stripped, offers up a double bill of North American plays: Bliss, by…

The Hot 100 2008

It’s been a helluva year. 2008 has been a time of significant global change, socially, politically and culturally, with Scotland no exception. So here, for your delectation, is The List’s pick of the 100 people, places and things that rocked our world…

Gregory Thompson

Blair bitch project

Politics has become the art of the horrible. We might feel, more now than ever, the truth of Paul Valery’s comment that ‘Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs that properly concern them.’ Perhaps because of a growing sense…