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Keep It Fringe US Fund 2025 Now Open For Applications
by BWW News Desk - April 03, 2025
The five US-based recipients will receive financial assistance, in the form of a $2,500 grant, and a comprehensive support package specifically designed to help US artists thrive at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Review: AN INSPECTOR CALLS, King's Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 02, 2025
JB Priestley's brilliantly constructed masterpiece powerfully dramatises the dangers of casual capitalism's cruelty, complacency and hypocrisy. Stephen Daldry's epic production highlights the play's enduring relevance.
Review: ROSCO MCCLELLAND: Sudden Death, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 02, 2025
Step into the wild world of McClelland’s Sudden Death, where old friendships collide with the unexpected in a comedic whirlwind set in the heart of Scotland.
Michelle Collins Will Star In MOTORHOME MARILYN at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
by BWW News Desk - April 02, 2025
Michelle Collins makes her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill, playing Doonstairs, Gilded Balloon Patter House.
Dates Set For MAKE IT HAPPEN Starring Brian Cox at Dundee Rep Theatre
by BWW News Desk - April 02, 2025
Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre have announced the dates of preview shows for Make It Happen, an epic new production that sees Brian Cox make his return to the stage where he first began his career.  
WORLD'S GREATEST LOVER Comes to the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - April 02, 2025
The world premiere of new pop musical WORLD'S GREATEST LOVER, direct from New York, sees literature's most legendary lovers flirt and fight as they hunt for the truth about love in an Edinburgh Fringe first produced by Broadway International Group.
More Than 1200 Shows Added For Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
by BWW News Desk - April 02, 2025
1236 shows span many genres of the Fringe programme, including cabaret and variety; children's shows; comedy; dance, physical theatre and circus; music; musicals and opera; spoken word; and theatre.
Interview: 'OPERATION MINCEMEAT is a Team Sport': Actor Madeleine Jackson-Smith on Joining the Cast
by Kat Mokrynski - April 01, 2025
Recently, we had the chance to chat with Madeleine Jackson-Smith, who plays Jean Leslie & Others in the current cast of Operation Mincemeat. We discussed how she first got into theatre, what it has been like joining the show and even her recent debut as Ewen Montagu!
Avalon Reveals Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Line-up
by BWW News Desk - April 01, 2025
This year's line-up includes the return of last year's Best Newcomer Joe Kent-Walters as well the latest offerings from musical comedian Katie Norris, Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award winner Kate Dolan and comic and writer Andrew Doherty.
Review: SUSIE MCCABE: BEST BEHAVIOUR, King's Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 31, 2025
The Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow award winner Susie McCabe is back! On the back of her sold out shows Femme Fatality and Merchant of Menace, this year she is on her Best Behaviour.
Review: LIAM FARRELLY: FLIPBOOK, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 31, 2025
After an excellent run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Farrelly brings his show about becoming a father at 21 to Glasgow as he laments about going to baby ballet to the many issues of owning Guinea pigs.
Review: DANCING SHOES, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 29, 2025
From the writers of The Scaff, Dancing Shoes is a life-affirming comedy-drama about isolation, support groups and bedroom dancing that challenges how we treat the most vulnerable people in society.
Review: THE KELTON HILL FAIR, Tron Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 29, 2025
Teenager Flora is on the run. Defiant but desperately alone, until she stumbles upon a mysterious fair run by the legendary Billy Marshall. Everyone says he’s “like 200 years old”. But that’s impossible. Isn’t it?
Review: Darren Connell, King's Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 28, 2025
Expected the unexpected as Darren takes the audience through a journey of his surreal dark madness, with a comical twist about everything in his life and how it’s almost impossible to get a break in the industry. This is Darren Connell’s self-tape.
Review: UP A CLOSE, Pavilion Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 28, 2025
Up A Close is the story of Joanna, looking back on her life in her Partick tenement flat, when her husband doesn't come home one night, she reminisces on her marriage, her children, the wonderful times she had growing up in the mid 70s with her mum, dad and her auntie Sandra.
James Clements And National Trust For Scotland Partner On THE BURNS PROJECT
by BWW News Desk - March 27, 2025
The National Trust for Scotland and theatremaker James Clements are collaborating on the Burns Project, a new theatrical production inspired by the life and works of Robert Burns.
THE FIT PRINCE Comes to Edinburgh Fringe, With Music From Leland
by BWW News Desk - March 27, 2025
Awkward Productions & King's Head Theatre Productions will present new production, 'The Fit Prince (who gets switched on in the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here))' beginning this summer.
Review: WAR HORSE, Theatre Royal
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 26, 2025
War Horse is an unforgettable theatrical experience which takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Based on the beloved novel by Michael Morpurgo, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama, filled with stirring music and songs, is a show of phenomenal inventiveness.
Kai - Evolution Announces Casting
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 26, 2025
Kai Widdrington, renowned professional dancer across the UK and Ireland, is set to launch his highly anticipated dance tour, Kai - Evolution. The tour promises to be a spectacular celebration of dance, artistry, and innovation, with performances across multiple towns and cities.
Outwith It Theatre to Present Reading Of Alasdair Gray Plays
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2025
New Scottish theatre company, Outwith It will make its debut this spring with a concert reading of Alasdair Gray's short plays. Learn more and see how to attend.
Winners Revealed For The 2025 Edinburgh Untapped Award
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2025
This year's winners have been announced for the Edinburgh Untapped Award - designed to support and discover theatre makers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Learn more here!
SUNNY AFTERNOON Returns To Glasgow's King's Theatre
by BWW News Desk - March 25, 2025
The multi Olivier Award-winning hit musical SUNNY AFTERNOON will return for a 2025/2026 UK tour, coming to the King's Theatre, Glasgow for its first Scottish dates.
Discovery Made at the King's Theatre in Scotland
by Emmy Rice - March 23, 2025
A historical discovery was made at a theatre in Scotland, at the Edinburgh's King's Theatre. A bottle was found after 119 years, discovered by Mike Hume. 
Haunted Glasgow Theatre To Host Cult Phenomenom GHOST STORIES
by BWW News Desk - March 20, 2025
Glasgow's oldest theatre, the Theatre Royal, Glasgow is set to host Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman's worldwide cult phenomenon Ghost Stories, which is set to embark on its first full UK national tour from 8 - 12 April 2025.
Review: MARJOLEIN ROBERTSON: O, Òran Mór
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 19, 2025
A show about the body. Marjolein embarks on the second instalment of her standup trilogy by looking at a health condition that, left unspoken about in the past, was almost fatal.

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