MURIEL ANN MACLEOD, the Artistic Director of Theatre Hebrides and Projects Development Co-ordinator for the Highlands and Islands Theatre Network, reflects on IETM in Glasgow in November 2010.

John Burns takes his one man show about Aleister Crowley to the Fringe.

MATTHEW ZAJAC celebrates the return of his Fringe hit and hopes that Dogstar Theatre’s new production will follow suit

EUAN MARTIN and DAVE SMITH recount the chequered emergence of their stage musical Whisky Kisses ahead this month’s inaugural tour

BARRY GORDON recalls the glory days of the early 1980s for Donald Mackenzie and his fellow Caithness breakdancers, and catches up on where the scene is going now.

MARK FISHER sets for the scene for the return of the revived, restored and refreshed version of an irreverent dance take on Scottishness

JOHN CAIRNS replies to Barry Gordon’s observations on Caithness dialect in George Gunn’s Fields of Barley.

MARK MORPURGO looks forward to a big Homecoming celebration in Argyll & Bute

CLAIRE PENÇAK is the artistic director of Tabula Rasa Dance Company. Kenny Mathieson caught up with her ahead of the company’s participation in the Made In Scotland programme at the Edinburgh International Fringe

HELEN SLATER caught up with dancer and choreographer CHRISTINE DEVANAY as she put the finishing touches to Found, a new touring show for her dance company, Curious Seed, created in the course of a two-week residency at Eden Court in June