Theatre

It’s what we all yearn for – to be given some love. But it’s often when we need it most that we shut the…
Is love the drug or is the drug love?
Tightlaced steps loosely round a pivotal piece of history. Susanna Mulvihill has again undertaken an…
Having made the somewhat foolish decision to confront Edinburgh winter’s wrath head on, it was with, not so…
Shrek The Musical ticks all the obvious boxes for family-cum-light entertainment but ultimately lacks soul.
If you were restricted in life to seeing only one piece of musical theatre then choose ā€˜Les Miserables…
Dark Vanilla Jungle is an hour and twenty minute monologue. Detailing the journey of an underprivileged…
Owen and Olly are back, bringing their Christmas Swingalong to Edinburgh’s Usher Hall.
Stella Feehily’s ā€˜This May Hurt A Bit’ is, in some ways, a play about nostalgia, and is none the worse for…
Punk Rock ā€˜American Idiot’ is like Trainspotting USA - without the wit and local ā€˜charm’.
Polish writer Lidia Amejko’s The Lives of the High-Rise Saints (an intriguing take on Butler’s classic 18th…
ā€œChance rules my lifeā€ comments Amanda to Victor, on the first night of their honeymoon. ā€œIt was chance…
The fear of technology slowly taking over our lives seems to be an ever-growing theme in recent new writing.
Following a performance at the 2018 manipulate Festival at the Traverse Theatre, Egg is back for
Charlotte Brontë’s mid Victorian Gothic novel set in her native Yorkshire created a storm in its time.
The story I remember from my childhood was that of Mary: sullen, surly and rude, who meets bed-ridden, ā€˜ā€¦
Forget an elfin boy in green tights, forget a babysitting dog, forget Tinkerbell as a darting light and add…
There are positive signs that ā€˜Sweeney Todd -The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ will be another stunning…
Peter Brook, often referred to as ā€˜our greatest living theatre director’, has a formidable reputation.
With the shadowy shape of the brick red. iron giant of the Forth Bridge centre stage, a lithe, elfish figure…