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Alan Cumming and Sam Heughan in celebrity call to arms for remarkable Glasgow school

Frankie Boyle and Fran Healy are also among the Scottish celebrity royalty who answered an appeal for help to support Garnetbank Primary raise £10,000 for disadvantaged kids in one of the city's most deprived neighbourhoods.

Glasgow Live

Leader of Perthshire Pride to step down after successful five years

Scarlet Skylar Rae will step down at the member’s AGM at the end of the month off the back of organising the hugely successful 2022 Perthshire Pride event

Daily Record

Tam Cowan: Barry Ferguson's Rangers prediction was more off than Rangers' aim

It was such a one-sided affair at Parkhead that supporters who returned to the stadium for the visit of Real Madrid must have experienced a real sense of deja vu…

Daily Record

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Brian Cox and Alan Cumming call for 'vital' theatre to be saved from closure

THE actors Alan Cumming and Brian Cox have issued a plea to save an Edinburgh theatre from closure.

The National (Scotland)

Stars call for extra funding to save King’s Theatre in Edinburgh from closure

The famous venue could close its doors unless additional cash for a vital redevelopment is found.

The Independent UK

What critics and film-goers are saying about Brandon Lee documentary My Old School

The new documentary tells the tale of Brandon Lee, a 30-year-old man who tricked Bearsden Academy into believing he was a fifth-year student - but, what are people saying about it now that the hotly-anticipated film has been released?

Glasgow Live

My Old School review – deft documentary on a notorious schoolboy imposter

Animation, interviews and a lip-syncing Alan Cumming tell the true tale of a grown man who passed himself off as a pupil at a Glasgow high school

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Man, 30, posed as a teen to rejoin old school and went unnoticed for two years

Brian was 30 when he rejoined and 32 when he gained five top marks in his Highers, the equivalent of A-levels.

Irish Mirror

My Old School director Jono McLeod on stranger-than-fiction film's release

We sat down with local director Jono McLeod to discuss the release of his new documentary My Old School, telling the incredible story of Brandon Lee, the 32-year-old man who enrolled at a Glasgow secondary.

Glasgow Live

Perth Theatre welcomes Alan Cumming as the dancing Bard in Burn

Perthshire's Holywood actor Alan Cumming shows his writing and dance talents to a home audience who will learn about Robert Burns from a new perspective

Daily Record

Alan Cumming gives brutal verdict on Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak

SCOTTISH actor Alan Cumming launched a scathing attack on the Tory leadership candidates on the BBC’s The Nine show.

The National (Scotland)

‘A damaged person’: Alan Cumming on playing the schoolboy who was actually 30

In 1993, a 16-year-old pupil at a Glasgow school was unmasked as a fully grown adult. Now his classmates have made a documentary – My Old School – about the astonishing deception

The Guardian - UK

My Old School review – audacious tale of thirtysomething man who posed as a teenage pupil

Jono McLeod directs this intriguing documentary about his former classmate Brian MacKinnon, who at age 30, went back to school as a ‘teenager’

The Guardian - UK

Alan Cumming makes his dance debut

The actor makes his dance debut in a visually stunning yet curiously empty life of the poet. But every move counts in the Freedom Ballet of Ukraine’s glorious dark erotica

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Edinburgh Fringe reviews: I admire Alan Cumming, but Burn is a comprehensive failure

WHERE would the Traverse Theatre’s Edinburgh festivals programme be without Irish writers, actors and companies? The most cursory consideration of…

The Guardian - UK

Burn review – Alan Cumming is extraordinary as Scotland’s rockstar poet

Cumming’s daring evocation in movement of the life of Robert Burns goes way beyond the biscuit-tin

The Independent UK

Edinburgh Fringe 2022: this year’s highlights from comedy, theatre and dance

The Fringe is back, which means an overwhelming choice of thousands of shows. Isobel Lewis and Jessie Thompson bring you their unmissable highlights

The Guardian - UK

Alan Cumming: ‘You’d be shocked by the messages Miriam Margolyes and I leave each other!’

As he brings his one-man show about ‘rockstar’ poet Robert Burns to the Edinburgh festival, the star talks about desire, debauchery and dancing in his 50s

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The Independent UK

Alan Cumming: ‘Men have a difficult time controlling our desire’

Alan Cumming has worked with Stanley Kubrick and the Spice Girls – now he’s starring in a dance show about Scotland’s most famous poet. He talks to Sarah Crompton about male desire, why Marvel films confuse him, and casting for the new James Bond

The Independent UK

Edinburgh Fringe 2022: this year’s highlights from comedy, theatre and dance

The Fringe is back, which means an overwhelming choice of thousands of shows. Isobel Lewis and Jessie Thompson bring you their unmissable highlights

Daily Record

Tam Cowan: Motherwell fan who threw a bottle faces a life ban... now 7,000 of us have admitted it

Our columnist shares his supporter nerves - and his new found love for Scots icon Alan Cumming.

Daily Mirror

Who is the real Brandon Lee from Netflix's My Old School and what is he doing now?

Netflix’s latest documentary, My Old School, charts the bizarre true story of a 30-year-old man disguising himself as a schoolboy. After two years he was exposed, and one of his former classmates is behind the film

Glasgow Live

Incredible story of Glasgow's 30-year-old schoolkid set for New York premiere

My Old School tells the tale of Brandon Lee, a 30-year-old who posed as a high school student in the 90s - and is set to premiere in New York on July 22, with Lee voiced by Hollywood actor Alan Cumming.

The National (Scotland)

Alan Cumming takes on life of Robert Burns in solo dance-theatre performance

ACTOR, dancer, singer, writer, cabaret performer, raconteur, political activist (not least for LGBTQ+ rights and Scottish independence) – the…

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see

Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance

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