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Perth and Kinross locals are being encouraged to share their creative skills in October as part of this year’s Fun Palaces event.

After a 17-month closure, Perth Theatre and Concert Hall will welcome back performers and spectators alike with a new programme.

MORE than £400,000 has been awarded to a "vital" Storyhouse Chester initiative that provides "life-changing" support for young people. The Westminster Foundation is providing the funding for Storyhouse’s award-winning Young Leaders Programme in a commitment that will span five years. The initiative provides young people, including those who conventionally face barriers to employment, with work experience and a range of employability skills in the creative industries. Former participants of the course have included young people at risk of homelessness, disabled young people and youn...

Antigone with fish fingers. Oedipus as a corkscrew. And a Greek tragedy that becomes a Greek salad. Every tragedy needs its satyr play. After drama welcome relief is needed. After a hard day watching humans wrestle with the gods of Olympus, what the good people of ancient Greece needed was massive phalluses, the clangour of drums and horns, and actors in ridiculous goatish masks to ease the holy terror they had experienced over a whole day (usually three plays’ worth) of drama. Fast forward two thousand years. When Peter Hall and John Barton brought their nine-hour Trojan War epic Tantalus...

He was in the spotlight for more than 40 years, a legend of Scottish stage and screen.  Andy Gray, hailed as an "exceptional" actor and entertainer, has died at the age of 61 - leaving the Scottish entertainment industry devastated. The Perth-born performer had previously been diagnosed with blood cancer in 2018, but returned to the stage to appear in the King's panto the following year.  "National treasure" Gray, well known for his role as Chancer in the 1980s comedy City Lights, also starred in Naked Video, River City and was a beloved regular at the Edinburgh Festival - not to me...