EDINBURGH 2025 Review: JOZ NORRIS: YOU WAIT. TIME PASSES. The Pleasance Dome
Joz Norris is an enthusiastic lover of fun, concerned with elevating joy and embracing his inner weird.
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Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, King's Theatre
The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide and has become one of the world’s most beloved family musicals.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: STUART MCPHERSON: CRISPS AND A LIE DOWN, Monkey Barrel
Following his sell-out 2023/24 runs, Stu returns to the Fringe with his highly anticipated new show about settling down, growing up and how he’s being controlled by his step-dog.
Edinburgh 2025 Review: JESS ROBINSON: YOUR SONG, Piccolo Tent, Assembly George Square Gardens
Jess Robinson, Your Song: Elton Reimagined is an uproarious triumph which cements Jess Robinson as the reigning diva of comedic musical impressions.
Review: MORNING STAR, Theatre 118
On the eve of a High Court appeal, a desperate reporter is offered an exclusive in the top-floor flat of a Springburn tower block - one that could revive his career, but set a guilty man free.
Review: SUICIDE, AND OTHER ACTS OF SELFISHNESS, Theatre 118
Edge-of-nowhere, Glasgow, Central Belt.
Review: THE LAST LAUGH, Theatre Royal
The Last Laugh is written and directed by the award-winning Paul Hendy, and stars “a trio of sublime performances” (WhatsOnStage) by Bob Golding as Morecambe, Simon Cartwright as Monkhouse and Damian Williams as Cooper.
Review: THE GREAT GATSBY, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Set in the summer of 1922, this gripping story unfolds in the West Egg district of Long Island.
Review: CALAMITY JANE, King's Theatre
Based on the much-loved Doris Day movie, this plumb fancy new production stars the multi-award-winning West End actress and singer Carrie Hope Fletcher.
Review: MAN'S BEST FRIEND at Tron Theatre
Celebrated Scottish writer Douglas Maxwell returns to the Tron Theatre, more than two decades after his debut with Our Bad Magnet in 2000.
Review: RESTLESS NATIVES, King's Theatre
The Clown and the Wolfman ride again as the classic Scottish movie starts a new adventure as a stage musical! Forty years after Restless Natives hit the big screen, it has been staged as a musical with songs from Big Country.
Review: THE HAUNTING OF AGNES GILFREY, Oran Mor
A gothic comedy thriller set in a remote stately house in the Highlands, drawing on Scottish folklore and holiday horror stories.
Review: YOU WON'T BREAK MY SOUL, Oran Mor
After a very average hook-up, Jordan realises this particular ‘gentleman caller’ has stolen his irreplaceable Beyoncé concert tickets for her Murrayfield show the next day.
Review: THE NAKED NEDS, Cottiers
Paul’s about to be a dad, but doubt clouds his excitement.
Review: KELI, Tramway
KELI tells the story of a fiery, sharp witted seventeen year-old in a former mining town.
Review: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE at Kings Theatre Glasgow
Few stories capture the wonder of childhood and the weight of war as gracefully as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Review: THE MOUNTAINTOP, Edinburgh Lyceum
Katori Hall’s Olivier-winning play follows Martin Luther King Jr.
Review: THE SUNSHINE SPA, Oran Mor
A heartwarming comedy with unexpected connections across cultures.
Review: GOODBYE DREAMLAND BOWLARAMA, Oran Mor
Charlie Braid loves her life working at the Inverness Dreamland Bowlarama.
Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON, King's Theatre
The New York Times calls it ‘The best musical of this century.
Review: ...EARNEST?, Kings Theatre
Theatre company Say It Again, Sorry? brought their smash Fringe hit Earnest? to the King's last week, turning Oscar Wilde’s classic of mistaken identity on its head in a brilliantly chaotic, genre-bending take that joyfully challenges theatrical convention.
Review: SPRING AWAKENING, Tron Theatre
Students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland upload Anya Reiss’s unique adaptation of Spring Awakening to the Tron this week.
Review: DOON THE WATTER, Paisley Centre
Join two sisters as they set off and go on an exciting trip ‘doon the watter’ to their favourite island! With the salty sea breeze in their hair and the gentle waves carrying them along, they fill the journey with stories of magical mermaids, soaring seabirds, and mischievous seal pups who love
Review: MISTERO BUFFO, Òran Mór
An actor bursts into the theatre, pursued by the authorities.
Review: KIM'S CONVENIENCE, Pavilion Theatre
Now a global smash hit, this hilarious and heartwarming drama about a family-run Korean store that inspired the Netflix phenomenon, is written by Ins Choi, who calls the play his 'love letter to his parents and to all first-generation immigrants who now call Canada their home.
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