1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
The Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh is renowned for its award-winning sets. Thom Dibdin takes a tour around its Roseburn scenery workshop, where
Positive and upbeat, Jane Livingstone and Jonathan Cairney’s clever script for Oran Mor proves a revealing and entertaining view of the life
There is a gloriously meta moment in Graham Eatough’s How to Act, staged by the National Theatre of Scotland, when guest lecturer
The Edinburgh International Festival opened its opera offering in 1947 with Verdi’s magnificent Macbeth, so it is only fitting that Emma Dante’s
Doglife builds on Thomas McCrudden’s brutal and bruising Doubting Thomas, performed in the same space a year ago. The previous show gave
A plot to murder a member of the royal family takes centre stage in the debut run of the tragic comedy Macbeth kills The Duchess.
Judicious and hilarious: There is a great deal that is hugely appealing, both in content and in assured comic performances, in Doig the Musical, With No Singing, No Dancing and Very Little M…
Ambitous with a different accent: Here's something unique at the Assembly Hall, two new musicals by groups in the UK and US, linked across the Atlantic by the theme of posing the same questi…
Singing truth to power: The Fall, the Baxter Theatre centre at The University of Cape Town’s production at the Assembly Hall, is a fascinating and troubling work, made simultaneously j…
Authentic humour: Indie As F*ck, Pinched! Theatre’s comic play with songs about teenage aspirations and disappointments, remains an engaging night out.
Sound premise: Combining wordplay, humour and philosophical musings, A Joke at the Space on Niddry Street is a beautifully presented piece of theatre.
Brazen: Connoisseurs of bad taste comedy will be thoroughly satisfied by Pandorum Theatre Company's F*ckboys For Freedom at Sweet Grassmarket.
Smoothly moving on from their time-travelling schtick, the enthusiastic Rhys Morgan and curmudgeonly Robert West build on their stage personas in this
Zsa Zsa Voom: A shaggy dog story that happens to be true is the focus of Nigel Miles-Thomas's engaging one-man show Zsa Zsa and Me at the Gilded Balloon's Rose Theatre.
Creative: An effective original script carries Vichy Goings-On right the way through, giving it easy entertainment value at the Fringe. There are a few bumps along the way, but on the whole …
Youthful vigour and anger run through Rehanna MacDonald’s exuberant yet thoughtful performance of Jaimini Jethwa’s monologue. It draws on Jethwa’s childhood in …
Gently political and mildly self-deprecating, Michael Daviot’s depiction of the world a century ago in 1917 " A Phantasmagoria is a proper treat. In the black
Thought-provoking: Andy Edwards’ new play Scribble, at the Assembly Roxy, is an innovative and thought-provoking exploration of mental health.
Manipulative: Perfect pacing and authentic actors give Graham Eatough's How To Act for the National Theatre of Scotland at Summerhall a unique shine.
Powerful: Following the success of 2014 and 2015’s Black Is the Color of My Voice, Apphia Campbell returns to Gilded Balloon with another powerful one-woman show.
★★★☆☆ Long time coming:
The official Festival's flagship production of Alan Ayckbourn's The Divide at the King's contains multitudes.
Yesteryear once more: Storyboard Theatre's The Shakespeares – Scenes from a Marriage goes over the well-trodden ground of the private life of that writer from Stratford. Even if nothin…
★★★★☆ Double the Laughs:
Powerhouse double act Andy Gray and Grant Stott bring all their comic knowhow to bear on Double Feature from Gilded Ballo…
Masterful: Vox Motus' Flight is an emotional and powerful work of art - an experience like no other that stays with you long after leaving Edinburgh's Church Hill Theatre.
I'm in heaven: Blessed memories of a Scottish sporting legend are evoked superbly by Grant O'Rourke in the Gilded Balloon's Jocky Wilson Said.
