Review: EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, King's Theatre, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 14, 2024
Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn’t quite fit in. Jamie is terrified about the future. Jamie is going to be a sensation. Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the d...
Review: IRVINE WELSH'S PORNO, Kings Theatre Glasgow
by Mary Baillie - May 13, 2024
Porno lives up to its opening line: sequels are never as good as the original. Edinburgh's infamous pack of misfits (Renton, Bigbie, Sick Boy and Spud) reunite ten years after their appearances in the award-winning Trainspotting. They're all grown up, and surpisingly still alive....
Review: MAGGIE & ME, Tron Theatre
by Mary Baillie - May 13, 2024
Ten years after his award-winning memoir, Damian Barr revisits his past onstage with the National Theatre of Scotland in Maggie & Me. This brave piece recounts growing up gay in the straight world of Margaret Thatcher's working class Britain... among the Ravenscraig steelworks of Motherwell. Barr ex...
Review: WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, Perth Theatre
by Mary Baillie - May 07, 2024
Cross-dressing, guns, psychiatry, politics, incest, adultery and accidental overdoses interlace in Joe Orton's final and most subversive play. Unfortunately to a modern audience it feels dated....
Review: LEWIS CAPALDI GOES TROPICAL, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 04, 2024
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: SISTER ACT, Kings Theatre Glasgow
by Mary Baillie - May 01, 2024
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. Seeking refuge in a holy convent, she poses as a nun revamping the sisters' struggling choir... despite protests from the aus...
Review: BRIDEZILLA AND THE ORCHARD OF SIN, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 27, 2024
‘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....