The shortlists for the 2026 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland which have been released today, Thursday May 7, see What I’m Here For - Vanishing Point and Teater Katapult’s “enthralling brief tone poem of a theatrical piece” (Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman) - and Windblown - Karine Polwart’s “haunting elegy for a felled 200-year-old natural wonder”(Mark Fisher, The Guardian) - top the list with five nominations each.

Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey, an international collaboration between Glasgow-based Vanishing Pointand Kanagawa Arts Theatre of Yokohama, Japan (in association with Tramway) picked up four awards at the 2025 CATS,

Mother Goose at Gaiety Theatre, Ayr; Peter Pan at Glasgow’s King’s Theatre; A Christmas Carol at Brunton, East Lothian; and Ya Wee Dickie McWittington at King’s Kirkcaldy have been nominated for the first Outstanding Pantomime award it was revealed today as the shortlists for the 2025 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland were announced.

Scotland’s theatre critics are to introduce a new award celebrating the country’s pantomime productions.

The Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland “came of age” today as the 2024 ceremony was held at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow.

A NEW version of a classic play, which responded to the rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe, has topped the CATS 2018.