Jun 4, 2025
Elizabeth Newman, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, has adapted F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, which is now 100 years old, for the stage for the theatre she recently left, Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
It will be co-produced by Derby Theatre, where it will also open that venue’s 50th anniversary...
Jul 28, 2023
Towards the end of its summer season, Pitlochry Festival Theatre will present the world première of a new play by Peter Arnott, Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape, set in a Perthshire country house during the Scottish Independence referendum of 2014, directed by David Greig in a co-production with Edinburgh’s Royal...
May 4, 2023
Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Scotland has announced a repertory season for 2023 featuring a 19-strong ensemble of actors performing in 8 different productions, starting with the musical Gypsy.
While the show was still in rehearsal, BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to the two lead actors: Blythe Jandoo who...
Feb 12, 2021
In January 2020, BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Elizabeth Newman, Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Scotland, about her plans for the coming year. Less than two months later, the country shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The season was cancelled and the future of this theatre, amongst...
Feb 5, 2020
Pitlochry Festival Theatre in Perthshire, Scotland announced its summer rep season for 2020 in December.
In 2018, Elizabeth Newman joined the theatre as Artistic Director from the Octagon Theatre in Bolton.
BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Elizabeth in January about the new season and about how she had developed the...