Review: SUNSET SONG, Edinburgh Lyceum
Labeled the most important piece of contemporary Scottish literature, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 novel Sunset Song is an ongoing frontrunner of nationwide school curricula.
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Review: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Based on the classic Tim Burton movie and featuring the hauntingly beautiful music of Danny Elfman and Terry Davies, Bourne and his New Adventures Company return to this witty, bittersweet story of an incomplete boy left alone in a strange new world.
Review: ROOST, Oran Mor
When social worker Hana has to deliberate upon Bingo’s case for the custody of his daughter, his unusual hobby as a ‘doo-man’ catches her off guard.
Review: MACBETH (AN UNDOING), Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
When her husband returns victorious from the battlefield with a prophecy that he is to become King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth will stop at nothing to make their darkest ambition a reality.
Review: EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, King's Theatre, Glasgow
Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield.
Review: IRVINE WELSH'S PORNO, Kings Theatre Glasgow
Porno lives up to its opening line: sequels are never as good as the original.
Review: MAGGIE & ME, Tron Theatre
Ten years after his award-winning memoir, Damian Barr revisits his past onstage with the National Theatre of Scotland in Maggie & Me.
Book Review: A SENSE OF THEATRE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S NATIONAL THEATRE, by Richard Pilbrow
In the summer of 1962, Sir Laurence Olivier invited lighting designer Richard Pilbrow to 'sort out the bloody awful lighting' at Chichester Theatre two days before it opened.
Review: WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, Perth Theatre
Cross-dressing, guns, psychiatry, politics, incest, adultery and accidental overdoses interlace in Joe Orton's final and most subversive play.
Review: LEWIS CAPALDI GOES TROPICAL, Oran Mor
A surreal chaotic comedy following a misfit family from Glasgow’s fringes as they prepare a party to say farewell to a beloved black-market animal.
Review: UNFORTUNATE: UNTOLD STORY OF URSULA THE SEA WITCH, Pavilion Theatre Glasgow
After spellbinding success in the Edinburgh Fringe, the not-safe-for-work musical parody Unfortunate dives into Glasgow to stage a revolutionary queerification of Disney's 1989 movie The Little Mermaid.
Review: SISTER ACT, Kings Theatre Glasgow
This divine revival of the iconic movie follows nightclub singer Deloris van Cartier (Landi Oshinowo), whose life takes an unlikely turn after she witnesses a mobster murder.
Review: MACBETH IN CINEMAS, Filmed at Dock X
An intense and well filmed release of an atmospheric production of Macbeth.
Review: BRIDEZILLA AND THE ORCHARD OF SIN, Oran Mor
‘Bridezilla’ Amber and her fiancé Gary are desperate to find the perfect venue for her their upcoming wedding when the peculiar Lady V offers up her seemingly ideal estate.
Review: RAGE ROOM, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
In a world where quiet facts are repeatedly drowned out by loud opinions and with calamity around every corner, do we rock paper scissors for not just the right to be heard, but the right to survive?
Review: JAMES V: KATHERINE, Tron Theatre
A Raw Material and Capital Theatres co-production, James V: Katherine continues the theatrical series with the vivid historical storytelling of the previous instalments, set during the reigns of Scotland’s generations of Stewart kings.
Review: WHO PAYS THE PIPER, Oran Mor, Glasgow
Who Pays the Piper is a new tragicomedy exploring what it’s like to fall in love with music and who gets to make their ambitions into reality.
Review: BONNIE AND CLYDE, King's Theatre, Glasgow
Two small-town kids from the middle of nowhere became the biggest folk heroes in all America.
Review: NESS, Oran Mor, Glasgow
Em, a young queer Scot, is on the bonnie banks of Loch Ness when they encounter the fabled monster…only Nessie sincerely wishes that they wouldn’t use the word ‘monster.
Book Review: THE ACTOR AND THE SPACE, Declan Donnellan
His first publication went viral (once again, in a way) when Mr Jeremy Strong of Succession fame featured it in his GQ interview about his essentials, saying he swears by it.
Review: DON'T. MAKE. TEA. Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Another bloody serious comedy from BOP, makers of the hilarious My Left Right Foot – The Musical.
Review: Shō and the Demons of the Deep, Platform
Shō and the Demons of the Deep is a visual adventure story about overcoming fear, climate crisis and how the actions of one generation can affect the next.
Review: THE DRIFTERS GIRL, King's Theatre
Discover the remarkable story of the Drifters and the truth about the woman who made them.
Review: THE KITE RUNNER, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Based on Khaled Hosseini’s international bestselling novel, adapted by Mathew Spangler and directed by Giles Croft, this haunting tale of friendship spans cultures and continents and follows one man’s journey to confront his past and find redemption.
Review: ADAM KAY: UNDOCTORED, Pavilion Theatre Glasgow
Adam Kay is the doctor-turned-comic who secured paramount success with his show and book 'This is Going to Hurt'.
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