There is more than one large-scale depiction of World War One on stage in Edinburgh at the moment. While the juggernaut that is War Horse may cause Birdsong to be overshadowed, the returning…
Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre has taken the lion’s share of nominations for this year’s Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, being shortlisted
The nominees for the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland have been announced. Of the 180 new productions produced in Scotland from
As one of Scotland's flagship producing theatres prepares for a change of scene to allow a multimillion-pound redevelopment of its home, its
Strikingly staged and worryingly contemporary, Creditors at the Lyceum is unsettling and difficult to ignore.
Children’s theatre company Catherine Wheels has never shied away from tackling big issues. In this immersive co-production with the National Theatre of
Stewart Laing’s production of David Greig’s punchy 2008 modern language version of Strindberg’s Creditors is raw and often brutal. This dissection of
Though Tchaikovsky confined himself to a series of lyric scenes from Pushkin’s verse novel for his opera of Eugene Onegin, director Oliver Mears elaborates further on
There are moments in Gut " presented by the Traverse in association with the National Theatre of Scotland " where it is difficult to breathe, such is the power of Frances Poet's psychologica…
The fear felt by a parent when their young child disappears from sight is universal. But sometimes that fear can grow out
Fat Friends The Musical might not be the kind of show you see over and over again, but if you're looking for a fun, feel-good night out then you can't go too far wrong with what is an enjoya…
The touring production of War Horse at the Festival Theatre is involving, emotional, visually spectacular and every bit as good as you have probably heard.
It is 21 years since Steven Greenhorn’s road movie for the stage had its debut at the Edinburgh Traverse. And, while it is firmly set
Margaret Saves Scotland, the latest offering in the A Play, A Pie and A Pint season, marks the return of Val McDermid to the stage. Anyone expecting a taut and bloody crime thriller, however…
Amanda Gaughan, who died suddenly at the age of 35, was a talented director who earned many friends in Scotland's theatre community
Scottish Opera celebrates the 10th anniversary of its youth project, the Connect Company, with performances of three short new commissions from the
Antony McDonald has relocated Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s mash-up of operatic genres, to a contemporary Glasgow mansion.
There's a lot to enjoy in this production of Crazy for You which brings a great deal of talent to the stage and shows it off well. It's just that it gets caught up in the fiddly bits of the …
One of the strongest points of Gary McNair's lovable, almost-poetic telling of McGonagall's life is the pathos it evokes when detailing the onstage abuse he received. It also confronts the p…
Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling " his updating of La Sylphide to near contemporary Glasgow " is a joyous romp. He floods the
Love him or loathe him there is no mistaking Justin Fletcher. As one of the BBC's top children's TV presenters Fletcher " aka Mr Tumble " is one of the most recognisable faces in the land.
Reliable performances by a host of crowd-pleasing big TV names cannot quite redeem the disappointing script of The Case of the Frightened Lady.
In a time of Facebook rumour, fake news and false narratives, director Lu Kemp’s Richard III provides a reminder that such lies
A new body aimed at developing theatre directors’ careers in Scotland is being launched. Theatre Directors Scotland will bring together members who
The glorious inventiveness on display in Travels With My Aunt never quite banishes the whiff of cynicism about the subject material. However, worries hardly matter when the exemplary perform…