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Natalie O'Donoghue

Natalie has been covering for BroadwayWorld Scotland since 2013 and heads up the site's Edinburgh Festival Fringe coverage. Based in Glasgow, she covers as much as she can around Scotland and is a member of the judging panel of the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS). When not at the theatre, Natalie loves spending time with her cat Dolly Purrton and is a big fan of country music. She is usually covered in glitter. You can follow Natalie on Twitter at @nataliealana87 




LEARN MORE ABOUT Natalie O'Donoghue

First Show:

Blood Brothers West End/Ghost on Broadway

Favorite Show:

Wicked

Favorite Stories:

  • Rachel Fairburn- Showgirl Interview - I've been following Rachel Fairburn's career for a long time and was thrilled to chat to her about her tour show.
  • Wicked Review- Edinburgh - Wicked is my all time favourite theatre show so it was an honour to be invited to review it.
  • 2023 Year in Review - I enjoy recapping my year in theatre.
  • Battery Park review - Battery Park was a show I really loved in 2023 and I enjoy being able to highlight amazing Scottish theatre.
  • Mark Nelson Interview - I have been a fan of Mark Nelson's work for many years so really enjoyed being able to pick his brain about the Scottish comedy industry.


Pet Shop Boys To Headline Edinburgh's Hogmanay Celebrations
Pet Shop Boys To Headline Edinburgh's Hogmanay Celebrations
December 6, 2022

The duo will welcome the arrival of 2023 with a greatest-hits show, performed to an audience gathered in Edinburgh from around the world

Further Additions To Edinburgh's Hogmanay Celebrations
Further Additions To Edinburgh's Hogmanay Celebrations
December 6, 2022

Further additions to Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Programme including FREE New Year’s Day Sprogmanay and First Footin’ events

Review: THE COMMITMENTS, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Review: THE COMMITMENTS, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
December 6, 2022

The Commitments musical has been adapted from the novel by Booker prize winning author Roddy Doyle himself and is directed by Andrew Linnie.

Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, King's Theatre, Glasgow
Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, King's Theatre, Glasgow
December 2, 2022

Dreaming of a happier life, the beautiful Belle finds herself transported to a cursed castle and held captive by a hideous beast. To her surprise, the castle is full of magical characters placed under a spell by an evil enchantress. Can Belle see beyond the monster and fall in love with her captor before the last petal falls from the enchanted rose? Or will the Beast’s selfishness cost him the world he once knew and the hand of the girl who has melted his heart?

Review: AN EDINBURGH CHRISTMAS CAROL, Lyceum Theatre
Review: AN EDINBURGH CHRISTMAS CAROL, Lyceum Theatre
November 27, 2022

Writer and director Tony Cownie (The Venetian Twins, The Belle’s Stratagem) brings this famous festive story back to the city of its birth with a guest appearance from Edinburgh’s best-loved Victorian – Greyfriars Bobby! Join us on the snowy streets of the Old Town for a festive comedy as we revisit this celebrated Christmas tale of a miser redeemed.

Review: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, Tron Theatre
Review: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, Tron Theatre
November 27, 2022

When a tornado rips through her home, Dorothy Blawna-Gale and her trusty dog Tronto, find themselves landed in the mystical land of Oz. To get back to their beloved home they must embark on a treacherous and lethal journey through all sorts of hilarious bampoterry.

UK Theatres Offering Relaxed Performances Over The Festive Period
UK Theatres Offering Relaxed Performances Over The Festive Period
November 25, 2022

A selection of theatres that are offering relaxed performances of their shows over the festive period.

Interview: KT Tunstall on Touring, Making Unpopular Music and Bringing SAVING GRACE to the Stage
Interview: KT Tunstall on Touring, Making Unpopular Music and Bringing SAVING GRACE to the Stage
November 24, 2022

BroadwayWorld catches up with KT Tunstall to chat about bringing Saving Grace to the stage at Riverside Studios.

Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
November 11, 2022

This outrageous musical comedy from the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Bobby Lopez, the Co-writer of Avenue Q and Frozen, follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get. Now with sold-out productions in London, on Broadway, and in North America, Melbourne and Sydney, The Book of Mormon has become a worldwide sensation.

Review: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (SORT OF), King's Theatre
Review: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (SORT OF), King's Theatre
November 8, 2022

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate adaptation, where the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to romance.

Review: THE PROGNOSTICATIONS OF MIKEY NOYCE, Oran Mor
Review: THE PROGNOSTICATIONS OF MIKEY NOYCE, Oran Mor
November 7, 2022

A big-hearted new comedy about a man who has constant predictions and is now attempting to stop Britain’s bleak future from happening.

Review: THE TIME MACHINE, Tron Theatre
Review: THE TIME MACHINE, Tron Theatre
October 29, 2022

In a secret bunker, a group of feminists are taking matters into their own hands as they contemplate impending doom and ask if it is all too late to turns things around. Meanwhile, a traveler lands in the year 802,701 to discover the fate of future humans and tries to unravel how it all came down to this. Join this fiery and furious company of extremists for a tale of time travel, survival and human evolution in a bold and irreverent re-imagining of H. G. Wells science fiction classic.

New Glasgow Show Added to Stage Star Carrie Hope Fletcher's Debut Tour
New Glasgow Show Added to Stage Star Carrie Hope Fletcher's Debut Tour
October 31, 2022

Award-winning stage sensation Carrie Hope Fletcher will be bringing her new debut solo tour to Glasgow due to phenomenal demand.

Review: CROCODILE ROCK, Traverse Theatre
Review: CROCODILE ROCK, Traverse Theatre
October 26, 2022

It’s 1997, it’s Millport and Steven McPhail is bored. He’s 17 and it’s now time to work out what to do with the rest of his life. The problem is, there’s only so many options when you find yourself stuck on a Scottish island.

Review: SHIRLEY VALENTINE, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Review: SHIRLEY VALENTINE, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
October 23, 2022

Shirley Valentine is a celebration of women, freedom and what it means to find yourself again. We meet Shirley, a bored, middle-aged wife and mother, when she’s contemplating what has happened to her youth, feeling stagnant and in a rut. Her children are all grown up and she frequently talks to the wall in her kitchen while preparing her husband’s regular evening meal of egg and chips. When her best friend offers to pay for a trip for two to Greece, she packs her bags, leaves a note on the cupboard door in the kitchen, and heads off for a fortnight of rest and relaxation. In Greece, she meets Costas, rediscovers herself, finds happiness, and everything she has been missing. She realises that there is more to life than the dull, mundane existence she leads back home. So now, Shirley has a big decision to make.

Review: ENOUGH OF HIM, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Review: ENOUGH OF HIM, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
October 22, 2022

Based on a true story, Enough of Him explores the life of Joseph Knight, an African man enslaved by plantation owner Sir John Wedderburn and brought to Scotland to serve in his Perthshire mansion.

Review: SISTER RADIO, Tron Theatre
Review: SISTER RADIO, Tron Theatre
October 22, 2022

Sisters Fatemeh and Shirin have been living together, in the same flat in Edinburgh, for forty three years. In this flat they cook, they read their coffee grains, they think about the fading memories of their childhood in Tehran and they listen to the radio. Although they live side by side, they never talk to one another. When a global pandemic hits and the sisters are locked in their flat, they are forced to reckon with their memories of a betrayal that changed the course of their relationship.

Review: THE GOLDEN RAGE, Oran Mor, Glasgow
Review: THE GOLDEN RAGE, Oran Mor, Glasgow
October 17, 2022

Gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons had a readership of 75 million during the Golden Age of Hollywood. They wielded power over the careers of Grace Kelly, Orson Welles, and Charlie Chaplin. Though they could create stars, they were never afraid to break them…

Review: LA PERFORMANCE, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Review: LA PERFORMANCE, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
October 15, 2022

Two actors, Her (Emmanuelle Laborit) and Him (Ramesh Meyyappan) rehearse backstage for a performance. When the curtain goes up, a clown and the woman the clown adores perform the rehearsed routines. But things go wrong. They argue. Who is it arguing though? Her and Him or their characters?

Review: THE CHER SHOW, Festival Theatre Edinburgh
Review: THE CHER SHOW, Festival Theatre Edinburgh
October 12, 2022

Music icon turned Hollywood royalty, the Grammy®, Oscar®, Emmy® and Golden Globe® award-winning Queen of re-invention has conquered it all. It’s now time to turn back time with this fiercely fabulous kick-ass new musical, from the writer of Jersey Boys.



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