Review: MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, Theatre RoyalSeptember 18, 2025This major new production from Scottish Ballet’s choreographer-in-residence Sophie Laplane and co-creator, James Bonas (The Crucible), draws on the complex relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England. Laplane’s bold choreography blends classicism with modernity, reshaping a familiar story with powerful originality.
Review: BALLAD LINES IN CONCERT, CottiersSeptember 16, 2025The musical began in 2014, commissioned jointly by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Northwestern’s American Music Theatre Project. An earlier iteration of the musical received its world premiere in 2023 at Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling under its former title A Mother’s Song.
Review: OUR BROTHER, Òran MórSeptember 14, 2025Inspired by a true story, Our Brother is a high-stakes political drama by Jack MacGregor about the language of denial, centring on a fateful interview with one of the bloodiest dictators of the 20th-century.
Review: SMALL ACTS OF LOVE, Citizens TheatreSeptember 13, 2025In the wake of the Pan Am 103 atrocity in December 1988, the people of Lockerbie responded with heartwarming acts of kindness for the relatives of people who died on board. In the face of the most extraordinary adversity, these two distant communities from Southwest Scotland and New York State built a lasting connection through friendship, compassion and humanity.
Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, Festival TheatreSeptember 10, 2025It’s 1905 in the tiny village of Anatevka and Tevye, a Jewish milkman, lives his life by their proud traditions. For his five daughters, that means a visit from the matchmaker. As each daughter challenges his beliefs, against the backdrop of a changing world, can Tevye hold on to his roots, or must he bend to the will of his children and learn to embrace the unfamiliar?
Review: WALLACE, Oran MorSeptember 6, 2025Three performers take the mic to retell the life of William Wallace — from birth to his brutal death and beyond, in this thundering new musical featuring original hip hop music.
Review: 2:22 A GHOST STORY, King's TheatreAugust 26, 2025Following seven West End seasons, a record-breaking UK and Ireland tour and thirty productions across the globe, the stage phenomenon 2:22 A Ghost Story now comes to Glasgow.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THANYIA MOORE: AUGUST, Pleasance CourtyardAugust 25, 2025After 10 years of comedy, Thanyia was finally set to do her long-awaited, anticipated debut hour at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Everything was going to plan. Then August happened. A show about mental strength, the female body and how awesome the NHS is in Scotland.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LAST RITES, Pleasance CourtyardAugust 25, 2025A stunning visual epic of love and loss that transcends language. Multi award-winning collaborators Ad Infinitum (Beautiful Evil Things, Translunar Paradise) and Ramesh Meyyappan (Love Beyond) return to EdFringe. Arjun's father never learnt sign language. Now he's gone, Arjun must find his own way to honour him, but how do you say goodbye when words were never there? Ancient traditions meet modern reality in a journey from the UK to India, with electrifying storytelling, movement and sound
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 24 WEEKS, Gilded BalloonAugust 25, 2025Something's wrong with Becca. Like really wrong. She's left with little choice over what to do. With last night's house party raging outside the door, Faye and Georgie must decide how to care for their friend and how much they're willing to lose.
Review: JACQUELINE WILSON, Edinburgh International Book FestivalAugust 24, 2025an you imagine writing 100 books? Jacqueline Wilson doesn’t have to imagine: she’s done just that! In fact, The Seaside Sleepover is book number one-hundred-and-thirty-something. From Tracey Beaker, Hetty Feather, and now to Daisy, Lily, and Scruff, how does Jacqueline create the characters that fill her many stories? Find out from the beloved author herself as she chats about her remarkable books and life as a writer.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 1,2,3. SHIT THAT'S MY OCD, Gilded BalloonAugust 24, 2025I really need to touch that 3 times. 1, 2, 3. F*ck. Did anyone see that? In a world full of ugliness, desperation and people touching you with dirty hands, a young girl tries to hide her OCD symptoms, but it's in her DNA and the world starts noticing. But relax. It's a comedy. Fine, tragicomedy. A monologue full of 1,2,3's, changing from verse to prose focused on the PTSD of sexual abuse, which worsened the girl's OCD and developed it to a place where she didn't feel 'normal'.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: GOD IS DEAD AND I KILLED HIM, Pleasance CourtyardAugust 23, 2025How do you rebel against parents who are already rebels? Form a band? Cool. Smoke some weed? Whatever. But finding Jesus? Now that's hardcore... Despite the yoga and therapy, Callum's past isn't done with him, and neither are the ghosts he conjured. Through live underscoring, razor-sharp storytelling and a whole lot of holy sh*t, Callum dives into belief, regret – and the things that refuse to stay buried
Review: DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE, Edinburgh International Book FestivalAugust 23, 2025Podcaster, comedian, and bestselling author of The Guilty Feminist, Deborah Frances-White wants to know when we stopped talking and, more importantly, listening to each other. In Six Conversations We're Scared to Have, she considers the art of conversation and suggests it's time we agree to disagree. Join Frances-White for this funny, illuminating event that takes a deep-dive into topics such as freedom of speech, and explores ways to discuss the trickiest matters.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: HOW TO WIN AGAINST HISTORY, UnderbellyAugust 23, 2025Henry Cyril Paget was one of the world's wealthiest men, until he lost it all by being too damn fabulous. This fierce and tragi-gorgeous comedy musical is a true story about expectations, masculinity, privilege and failure on an epic scale. It's about feeling desperately weird and alone but knowing that to fit in would cost you everything.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: OHIO, AssemblyAugust 23, 2025When Shaun turned his back on the church, he found a new home in music. Confronted now with acute degenerative hearing loss, he’s making the choice to live joyfully in the face of life's many unanswerable questions. An exhilarating and celebratory true story about losing faith and finding hope in the darkest of places. The Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer bring you this intimate and rousing new musical experience featuring creative captions. From Obie-winning indie-folk duo The Bengsons.