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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.


EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TABARNAK, Underbelly Circus Hub
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TABARNAK, Underbelly Circus Hub
August 14, 2018

A celebration of Heaven and Hell and everything in between! Cirque Alfonse, the creators that brought you the five-star, Fringe 2015 sell-out hit Barbu, return with a brand-new show. Daring, raucous, eccentric and downright fun, Tabarnak combines edge-of-your-seat circus with crazy cabaret acts and a heart-thumping live score.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: PICKLE JAR, Underbelly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: PICKLE JAR, Underbelly
August 13, 2018

It's hard keeping it together when your whole life is falling apart. But the pressures of teaching, Tinder and outrageous Irish best mates are a lot to juggle, especially when you're stumbling through the maze of trying to be a grown-up. Stranger danger, heartbreak and piña coladas are on the syllabus in the hilarious debut play Pickle Jar, written and performed by Maddie Rice, the critically acclaimed star of the smash-hit Fleabag UK and international tour.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: WEIRD, Pleasance Courtyard
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: WEIRD, Pleasance Courtyard
August 13, 2018

Yasmin feels different, she feels weird. She longs to be normal like everyone else but that's proving difficult... Based on the writer's experiences, WEIRD explores the highs and lows of what it is like for a sufferer, and a sufferer's family, to live in the shadows of obsessive compulsive disorder. Moving one-woman play about the effects of one person's mental health on a whole family. Sell-out Arcola show, winner of Slam-Soaps 2018.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANGRY ALAN, Underbelly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANGRY ALAN, Underbelly
August 12, 2018

'Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what's going to become of us. Because this can't be the future, can it? Everyone just... changing the rules?' Roger thinks the world's gone mad. He hates his job, his ex-wife torments him and to top it all, his girlfriend just discovered feminism. Roger's about to lose his shit. Until he discovers Angry Alan: online activist and 'voice of reason'... A darkly comic new play about masculinity in crisis from award-winning Penelope Skinner performed by Donald Sage Mackay.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: BOTTOM, Summerhall
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: BOTTOM, Summerhall
August 12, 2018

Locked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy Hudson asks: are you a top or a bottom? Bottom is about bums, Beyonce and burnt fish fingers. Join Willy for a queer coming-of-age remix, as he questions if 'bottom' in the bedroom means 'bottom' in life - and whether Beyonce can help put his love on top.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: REVELATIONS, Summerhall
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: REVELATIONS, Summerhall
August 12, 2018

My best friends, Sarah and Emma, asked me for my sperm. This is the tale of what happened after I gave it to them. A storytelling show about love, faith and trying to do the right thing. Made with Daniel Goldman and set in the same universe as Team Viking and A Hundred Different Words for Love.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: THIRTEEN, Gilded Balloon
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: THIRTEEN, Gilded Balloon
August 12, 2018

A fast- paced, hilarious coming of age musical by Tony award winning composer Jason Robert Brown with book by Dan Elish and Robert Horne. Evan Goldman's parents have split up and he is forced to leave the buzz of New York for the 'lamest place in the world' in rural Indiana. Will he find his place in the popularity pecking order? With an unforgettable rock score and a young, talented cast this is sure to be a fringe hit.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Q&A- The Worst Little Warehouse In London
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Q&A- The Worst Little Warehouse In London
August 10, 2018

When 12 people live in a converted warehouse in north London, what could possibly go wrong? In this hilarious and off-the-wall cabaret, Lala Barlow and Robbie Smith are two wide-eyed koalas fresh off the boat and looking for the perfect place to call home. Relive their year living at Daisy Mill as they discover high ceilings, bathroom baskets and very thin bedroom walls. Directed by Sarah Redmond and starring every housemate you've ever lived with, it's a celebration of the joys of shared housing.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Interview: Anna Morris
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Interview: Anna Morris
August 11, 2018

BWW catches up with comedian and actress Anna Morris to chat about performing Bombastic at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Interview: Tom Lenk
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Interview: Tom Lenk
August 9, 2018

BWW caught up with Tom Lenk to chat about performing in Tilda Swinton Answers An Ad On Craigslist at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: SONG OF LUNCH, Pleasance
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: SONG OF LUNCH, Pleasance
August 10, 2018

Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet, Downton Abbey, Toast of London) and Rebecca Johnson (The Trip, The Flood) star in this hilarious and poignant drama of a disastrous attempt to rekindle lost love. Set in a Soho Italian restaurant, Costa Award winner Christopher Reid's verse comedy is exquisitely intertwined with glorious animations by Charles Peattie (Alex cartoon, Daily Telegraph) in this bittersweet tragi-comedy of love, loss and Chianti.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TOAST, Traverse Theatre
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TOAST, Traverse Theatre
August 9, 2018

Nigel Slater's Toast is a new play based on his award-winning autobiography. Vividly recreating suburban England in the 1960s, Nigel Slater's childhood is told through the tastes and smells he grew up with. From making the perfect sherry trifle and waging war over cakes through to the playground politics of sweets and the rigid rules of restaurant dining, this is a moving and evocative tale of love, loss and... toast.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANNA MORRIS: BOMBASTIC, Voodoo Rooms
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: ANNA MORRIS: BOMBASTIC, Voodoo Rooms
August 9, 2018

The award-winning character comedian and star of Channel 4's Lee and Dean celebrates four sell-out shows at the Voodoo Rooms with a mash-up of her favourite creations.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Interview: Ian Stroughair and Eliza Jackson
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Interview: Ian Stroughair and Eliza Jackson
August 8, 2018

BWW catches up with real-life besties Ian Stroughair and Eliza Jackson about the shows they've brought to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW Review: MADAGASCAR THE MUSICAL, King's Theatre, Glasgow
BWW Review: MADAGASCAR THE MUSICAL, King's Theatre, Glasgow
August 8, 2018

This smash hit musical features all of your favourite crack-a-lackin' friends as they escape from their home in New York's Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien's Madagascar.

EDINBURGH 2018:BWW Review: ASHLEY STORRIE: ADULTING, Counting House
EDINBURGH 2018:BWW Review: ASHLEY STORRIE: ADULTING, Counting House
August 7, 2018

Scotland's favourite funny girl and viral internet sensation Ashley Storrie returns to Edinburgh with a brand-new show about not growing up. With the world most likely ending quite soon, Ashley believes we should all have a laugh and be a bit more honest particularly about the myth of 'adulthood'... nobody really grows up, we're just great at pretending!

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: CATHERINE BOHART: IMMACULATE, Pleasance
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: CATHERINE BOHART: IMMACULATE, Pleasance
August 7, 2018

Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of an Irish Catholic Deacon and she's got a hell of a lot to say about it. Debut show from a rising comedy star.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TILDA SWINTON ANSWERS AN AD ON CRAIGLIST, Assembly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TILDA SWINTON ANSWERS AN AD ON CRAIGLIST, Assembly
August 6, 2018

With sold-out shows in New York and Los Angeles, a gay man's life implodes when actress Tilda Swinton (Buffy and Instagram star Tom Lenk) insists on studying him for her next big movie role

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF, Traverse
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF, Traverse
August 7, 2018

In 1992 a schoolgirl from Fife was catapulted to a rock star life in an indie band. Touring with Radiohead, partying with Blur, she was living the dream. Until she wasn't. Based on her teenage diaries, this is the true story of Cora Bissett's rollercoaster journey from the girl she was to the woman she wanted to be. Performing with a live band, directed by Orla O'Loughlin, Cora celebrates life's euphoric highs and epic shitstorms, asking what wisdom we should pass to the next generation and which glorious mistakes we should let them make.

EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: SOUTH BEND, Gilded Balloon
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: SOUTH BEND, Gilded Balloon
August 6, 2018

Multi award-winning Grid Iron, in association with Platform, bring you a hilarious road movie for the stage. In 2006 Martin McCormick flies across the Atlantic to be reunited with a woman he has fallen passionately in love with, a Californian girl. But she's changed. Completely. Almost as soon as he's arrived, he's on the road again, penniless and desperate to get home to Scotland in one piece. A tale of hope, of love, of a small country and a vast one, of a good samaritan and a relationship gone bad. With live foley and a brilliant soundtrack.



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