Review: BALLAD LINES IN CONCERT, Cottiers
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Sep 16, 2025
The 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.
BALLAD LINES Will Release 18-Track Concept Album
by Stephi Wild - Jul 18, 2025
The music from major new Scottish folk musical Ballad Lines will be released as an ambitious 18 track concept album on 12th September, bringing together leading female folk and theatre artists from both sides of the Atlantic.
Major New Scottish Folk Musical Ballad Lines To Release All-Star Album
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Jul 18, 2025
The brand new recordings feature an all-star cast of guest artists including Gaelic Singer of the Year Kim Carnie, JUNO Award-winning banjo player Kaia Kater and four-time BBC Alba Scots Singer of the Year Siobhan Miller alongside top musical theatre talent including Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Trehearn and CATS Award-winner Kirsty Findlay.
Photos: HADESTOWN London New Cast in Rehearsal
by Stephi Wild - Feb 27, 2025
Brand new rehearsal photos have been released of the new cast of the critically acclaimed West End production of Hadestown, who will begin performances at the Lyric Theatre, London from 11 March 2025.
Review: ALADDIN, Macrobert Arts Centre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Dec 3, 2023
Get ready for a disco inferno, as we join the McTwank family in the town that Stirling Stella almost forgot- Discotopia. Here lives widow Marge O'Reen McTwank, owner of the last laundrette in town. Her oldest daughter, Aladdin, is wildly in love with Prince Jasper but can love survive the grease stains and smell of fabric conditioner?
MOORCROFT Will Embark on Tour in Scotland
by Stephi Wild - Sep 19, 2023
The Tron Theatre Company's acclaimed production Moorcroft by Eilidh Loan is touring to venues across Scotland in Autumn 2023. Find out how to get tickets here!
Cast Revealed For Tron Theatre's Production of MOORCROFT
by Stephi Wild - Jun 7, 2023
In February 2022, Tron Theatre Company staged a production of Moorcroft by Eilidh Loan, an actor and writer who’d come onto Artistic Director Andy Arnold’s radar during lockdown when she auditioned as part of an open call for actors using an excerpt from the play.
Review: MEET ME AT THE KNOB, Oran Mor, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Jun 6, 2023
1920s Broomielaw in Glasgow was ruled by a little-remembered and little spoke about gang called the White Hats. This wasn’t your usual bunch of butch macho razor-boys, no, the White Hat Boys did it differently. They stole, sold their bodies, bribed government officials and wealthy clients with the threat of turning them in to the police for acts of homosexuality. And they did it whilst in drag.
BWW Review: ORPHANS, Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Apr 9, 2022
Glasgow, 1998, one hell of a storm is ripping through the city. The Flynn siblings just need to survive the night and make it to their mother's funeral in the morning. Read our BWW critic's review.