SCOTLAND THEATER REVIEWS

Tanya Ronder’s adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding follows the tragic love triangle between the Bride (Saffron Rae), the Groom (Jude Bain) and Leonarda (Rosie Mackay). When the Bride makes her choice on her wedding night, blood is shed as passion and honour collide in a world ru...

Aaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation with star-studded sell-out seasons on both sides of the Atlantic....

Performed fittingly on Halloween, this stage version of Let the Right One In adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel and film captures the eerie chill of Blackeberg, Sweden. The story follows Oskar, a lonely and bullied boy who befriends a strange young girl named Eli. She smells like a wet d...

Hamilton is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and helped shape the very foundations of the America we know today. The score blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B and ...

When Auntie Sandra catches her niece Lisa’s cheating, abusive husband in the act, she batters him to death with no hesitation. Armed only with knowledge from Channel 5 crime documentaries, the pair decide to hide the murder by chopping the body up and putting it in bags ready for bin day...

Theatre beyond London proves varied and interesting...

Lexie and Effie are best friends, but Lexie has a secret that she won’t share, and Effie is determined to find out what it is....

Bleak, yet hopeful, drama/dance hybrid gives food for thought...

Tom, trapped in a soul-crushing job and burdened with the weight of supporting his overbearing mother, Amanda, and painfully shy sister, Laura, longs for escape. When he invites Jim, a charming but well-meaning acquaintance, to dinner, Amanda seizes the moment to secure Laura’s future happiness....

A new comedy-drama that takes a delicate, humorous and honest look at love, and asks whether it is ever enough....

Bonnie’s life has been defined by wirds; the richt wans, the wrang wans, aun the wans used against her. Now, Bonnie haes a chance to speak aboot it. But the last time she done any public speaking wis a solo talk in Primary School. This time roon she’s no really sure whit she’s gonnae say, or ...

To celebrate this incredible 30th year milestone, Riverdance 30: The New Generation will embark on a special anniversary tour in 2025, bringing its magic to audiences around the world....

Sian Silver has been on stage her whole life, with years in show business and countless seasons under her belt. Now at the end of the pier (and her wits) in a dingy dressing room full of unrealised ambitions, there’s still one dream she just can’t shake....

Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, there is a chilling and unsettled edge to Endgame as the shadow of death haunts the characters. This is cleverly done from the off, as ghostly fabric hides the set pieces and a blank picture frame hangs on the wall. Staging is minimal and effectively chosen overal...

Black Hole Sign presents a compelling premise: an understaffed A&E department in disarray, where Senior Charge Nurse Crea (Helen Logan) struggles to steer a failing ship under the immense pressures facing the NHS. The play offers an interesting insight into the challenges of nursing and raises impor...

From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her triumphant transformation into a multi award-winning global superstar, Tina Turner didn’t just break the rules, she rewrote them, winning 12 Grammy Awards...

The epic adventures of Percy Jackson are coming to the stage in Edinburgh. A thrilling tale for gods and mortals of all ages, this gripping story proves that being ‘normal’ is anything but....

Madeleine Smith, a Glasgow socialite living in Blythswood Square, was accused of a secret affair and poisoning her lover to death....

James Phelan’s latest production, The Man Who Was Magic, arrives at the Adelphi Theatre for one night only after a triumphant Edinburgh run and confirms his reputation as a magician with both flair and heart. The show opens to the smooth sounds of the Rat Pack and swing, the stage bathed in the wa...

A dark comedy about Irish dancing, mothers and their daughters, and the importance of securing a win at any cost....

This major new production from Scottish Ballet’s choreographer-in-residence Sophie Laplane and co-creator, James Bonas (The Crucible), draws on the complex relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England. Laplane’s bold choreography blends classicism with modernity, reshapin...

As part of World Menopause Month 2025, Dr Louise Newson, known across the UK as “the medic who kick-started the menopause revolution” is coming to Glasgow for one night...

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....

Inspired by a true story, Our Brother is a high-stakes political drama by Jack MacGregor about the language of denial, centring on a fateful interview with one of the bloodiest dictators of the 20th-century....

In the wake of the Pan Am 103 atrocity in December 1988, the people of Lockerbie responded with heartwarming acts of kindness for the relatives of people who died on board. In the face of the most extraordinary adversity, these two distant communities from Southwest Scotland and New York State built...