Review: PLAYTHROUGH, Oran Mor, GlasgowNovember 4, 2023Playthrough is a new spooky interactive play that explores the darkness and addiction that lurks at the heart of our seemingly innocent playthings.
Review: DISNEY'S ALADDIN, Edinburgh PlayhouseNovember 3, 2023One lamp, three wishes and infinite possibilities… Disney's Aladdin features iconic music by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Tim Rice. This exuberant production is filled with unforgettable magic, comedy and breath-taking spectacle, making it a perfect show for all.
Review: TREASON THE MUSICAL, Festival Theatre, EdinburghOctober 29, 2023Treason is the new musical drama about the notorious gunpowder plot of 1605, set to completely blow you away with stunning original folk and pop songs, this one-of-a-kind show tells one of the most intriguing tales in Britain’s history as it’s never been seen before.
Review: MY DORIC DIARY, Tron TheatreOctober 27, 2023A Doric jukebox musical from Katie Barnett and James Siggens of AyeTunes!, My Doric Diary is a heart-warming story about what it means to love and what it takes to let go.
Review: NAE EXPECTATIONS, Tron TheatreOctober 25, 2023Nae Expectations is Gary McNair’s fresh look at the Dickens classic, with a Glasgow tongue and a gallus spirit. Young Pip battles with monstrous adults, the class system and most of all his inner demons as he tries to work out who he is, what he wants to be and how to find his own way in the world.
Review: DISFUNCTION, Òran Mór, GlasgowOctober 21, 2023Two sisters have been playing and perfecting their secret sibling game for decades. Now in their sixties, and about to lose their home, it’s time to unleash the family fun on the world.
Review: BATTERY PARK, The Gaiety, AyrOctober 8, 2023It's 1992 and Tommy McIntosh is the next big thing in Britpop Britain. His band Battery Park, a raucous female-fronted 4-piece from Greenock are recording their debut album and preparing to tour the country supporting Oasis. But then, out of the blue, they disappear from the scene and are never heard of again.
Review: RACHEL FAIRBURN: SHOWGIRL, The Stand, EdinburghSeptember 25, 2023Rachel (“Very much the rock’n’roll star of British comedy”- Rolling Stone) - (“Fairburn delivers…with sadistic glee” – Guardian) - (“Mouth Almighty” – Her Friends) is back with a brand-new tour for 2023. She’ll be casting her acerbic eye over everything from your children to her pretentious new alcohol-free life (accurate at time of writing). She’s worried though. Has she mellowed a bit? She carries a lucky crystal now. Catch her before she disappears to the countryside with only joss sticks and taxidermy for company.
Review: COAST, Oran MorSeptember 24, 2023Half-siblings, Jay and Kay, are on a road trip travelling overnight from Glasgow.
After growing up apart, the recently united pair are heading for the coast down south, to go camping for a few nights and get to know each other better.
Review: LEAR'S FOOL, Bard in the BotanicsSeptember 20, 2023Bard in the Botanics is proud to present the Scottish premiere of David Henry Wilson’s beautiful, funny and tender drama, imagining what becomes of King Lear’s Fool, after the character disappears from Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
Review: SHIP RATS, Oran MorSeptember 16, 2023It’s 1880, and being the only woman on a cargo ship in the South China Sea isn’t the safest place for Jessie. Especially when there’s a dead body on board and she’s feeling queasy.
Review: ENGLAND AND SON, Tron TheatreSeptember 16, 2023Set when The Great Devouring comes home, England & Son is a one-man play written specifically for the award-winning political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack) and the first play that Mark has ever performed in that he has not also written.
Review: DRACULA: MINA'S RECKONING, Theatre Royal, GlasgowSeptember 14, 2023Under the buzzing lights of a psychiatric hospital in Aberdeenshire in 1897, Mina Murray recounts her encounters with the most terrifying of beasts: Dracula. A throng of patients listen with bated breath as they are transported to a world where immortality and ultimate power is possible, even for women - but with terrible consequences...
Review: FOREVER HOME, Oran Mor, GlasgowSeptember 10, 2023Growing up is never simple but for Caitlin, there are extra complications: Caitlin was in care, then adopted, now her birth family want her in their lives. Things are spiralling out of control…..