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
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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.
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.
The hit West End comedy is now on tour, starring James Lance (Teachers, The Book Group, I'm Alan Partridge) as charmingly incompetent aristocrat Bertie Wooster and John Gordon Sinclair (Gregory's Girl, The Producers, The Ladykillers - West End) as his unflappable and ever well-informed valet Jeeves.
Marking a hundred years since the start of the First World War, Sell a Door Theatre Company and the Beacon Arts Centre revive Alastair Cording's faithful adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Sunset Song, recently voted Scotland's most popular novel of all time.
In May 2013 Kerry Ellis performed a one-woman show at the London Palladium, a year later and with a new solo album behind her, she embarks on a intimate tour to recreate that concert.
Whingeing Women is a no-holds-barred expose of the modern British woman - with frank, funny, moving and risque commentaries on their trials, tribulations and taboos about life, love, death and even sex.
In 1997, a British film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose, took the world by storm! Now, they're back and this time they really have to go The Full Monty…live on stage.
The Mousetrap is famous around the world as being the longest running show of any kind in the history of theatre and now it's back by popular demand following a record breaking sell out week in 2012.
When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show comes to town, it only takes one glance for sharp-shooting country girl Annie Oakley to fall head over heels for its star marksman, Frank Butler.
Seen by millions across the globe this worldwide smash-hit tells the classic story of Baby and Johnny, two fiercely independent young spirits from different worlds, who come together in what will be the most challenging and triumphant summer of their lives.
In a world where pop stars think nothing of singing in their underwear, The Nualas buck the trend by sporting shiny yet surprisingly affordable frocks.