The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Scotland.
Rosalie Minnitt’s much anticipated return as Clementine begins at full throttle, with a high energy visual montage of screen images accompanied by a strikingly conflicting collection of messages about feminism, piousness, illiteracy and diary entries.
Primary Times Children's Choice Award winner! A five-star, musical comedy version of Shakespeare's greatest work, Brave Macbeth is back with a brand-new score! A hugely entertaining, fast, smart adaptation that brilliantly weaves the Bard's words with wickedly witty songs and fast-paced storytelling
From the director of Jersey Boys, this exhilarating production charts the highs and lows of Johnny and June’s extraordinary relationship.
Rosco is back at the Fringe following two smash hit shows in 2024 and 2025.
Two puppeteers cast giant shadows to conjure a hilarious occult mystery.
Trapped on the sleepy Scottish island of Cumbrae, seventeen-year-old Steven McPhail feels like an outsider dreading a dead-end future.
Ten years after premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe, Team Viking returns for another send-off.
Cinderella's gone – the lucky brat's living it up while her stunning stepsisters are left wondering why they don't get their happily ever after.
A Kate in the Hand is Worth Two in the Butch, a riotous, wonderfully hilarious and surprisingly incisive hour which combines sharp stand up with an abundance of sequins, foliage and northern wit.
Alex Franklin delivers a gloriously funny, musically accomplished and unexpectedly moving hour in Kiss Me x, which celebrates trans joy, self acceptance and the simple, beautiful pleasure of a good kiss.
Theatre is often at its most meaningful when it comes from a place of truth.
The 1990 ultimate Christmas film Home Alone has been reimagined by the team at Recent Cutbacks via puppetry.
Amanda Dwyer delivers one of the most confident, dark hours of stand-up at this year's Fringe.
It’s a noble undertaking, but the idea remains just out of reach of everyone’s best efforts.
f you’re after an exciting piece of original writing that feels as addictive, intense, and gripping as the latest bingeable Netflix docu-thriller, this is the play for you.
Kitty Falcon’s debut is just like many other opere prime: relatively unoriginal and with very little to add to the conversation.
Munro’s clever exploitation of his own case study is the byproduct of his overexposure to an audience.
What did our critic think of THE TRIALS OF MAGNUS COFFINKEY at Summerhall?
Kiera Moran writes an emotionally mature piece of theatre.
This show gently reminds us that the ones we love are never fully gone.
This is one for the funny, angry women who are tired of seeing men get away with being awful.
Vigna has an explosive personality.
At this stage there’s really nothing to celebrate in this show.
Charlie Kilgore was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when he was a baby.
Their mise-en-scène looks more like child’s play, entirely removed from reality, than any kind of traditional performing art.
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Mark Thomas: 40 In Stand Up Years Traverse Theatre (12/11-12/11) |
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This City Summerhall (12/04-12/06) |
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Ed Byrne: No Dramas Music Hall (2/10-2/10) |
