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Black Beauty, the Traverse's show for all ages this Christmas, co-produced with Red Bridge, is a million miles from a straight adaptation of the children's classic but provides more than eno…
Schools winners will inspire programme cover: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has expanded its annual schools poster competition so that three winning designs will be used to inspire three cov…
Anna Sewell’s much-loved novel gets a brisk trot around the paddock in Andy Manley, Andy Cannon and Shona Reppe’s new take on
Wonderful: While not specifically Christmassy, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland at Edinburgh's Lyceum proves an ideal fit for the festive season. Hugely colourful, funny, and fascinating, it…
Loud, brash and somewhat abrasive, Qdos’s Jack and the Beanstalk gets a slick Edinburgh veneer for the King’s ruling panto triumvirate of dame Allan Stewart (Dame
Anthony Neilson's production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland begins with the Liddell family captured in the flash of a camera, before sending
How can we resist you? The winner takes it all at the Edinburgh Playhouse, as the Mamma Mia! tour arrives for an extended run over the festive season.
Energetic: Boisterous enjoyment and foot-tapping music compensate for outdated attitudes in Underbelly's revival of Five Guys Named Moe, at the Spiegeltent in Edinburgh's Festival Square unt…
Bereft of any real plot, but big on concept, Clarke Peters' popular musical Five Guys Named Moe contains enough attitude and colourful
Joe Douglas’ production of Stuart Paterson’s adaptation of George’s Marvellous Medicine is as gleefully malevolent as Roald Dahl’s original. On the surface i…
Attentive to the smallest details, director Julie Ellen gives Johnny McKnight’s Weans in The Wood a brave and audacious reading in her
Bright but slightly down-tempo, Mark Cox’s Aladdin for the Brunton knows its local geography and has a great driving force in Keith
Big on interaction and led with energy and real command of his art by Ian ‘Sheepie’ Smith as Smee, John F Spillers’ updating of
Vicious, enthralling, politically charged and emotionally engaging, Rambert's revival of Ghost Dances, is still powerful, 35 years after it was created.
Elaine C Smith has a somewhat redoubtable reputation, one she doesn't do anything to dispel in her stand-up comedy gigs, touring Scotland
Nightmarish: Scary and well-thought out, Sophie Good's adaptation of the short Victorian horror story Green Tea finds suitable resonances in contemporary Edinburgh.
While UK theatres spend their Christmas season giving their audiences villains to boo, heroes to cheer and comedians to laugh at, theatres
Split decision: Splendidly sung and with some excellent dancing, this Edinburgh production of Jekyll & Hyde " The Musical is a little deficient in both thrills and laughs.
Unbelievable: Part thriller, part romantic comedy, part Sarah Harding casting error, Ghost: the Musical, now in Edinburgh as part of its ongoing tour, does just about everything expected of …
Scottish Ballet is to stage a full season dedicated entirely to digital work, in what it believes is a first for a ballet company. It
Accomplished and brash ballroom dancing makes the touring Keep Dancing entertaining enough. Publicity for the show concentrates on its (unofficial) links with Strictly Come Dancing, with th…
Intense and mannered, Leitheatre's production of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba at the Festival Theatre Studio strikes a chord with contemporary events.
Human: Not only is Shakespeare, His Wife, and the Dog a treat for all theatre aficionados, it is also clever, emotional and wonderfully acted.
What the Dickens? The adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' most famous works, A Tale of Two Cities, at Edinburgh's King's Theatre this week as part of a national tour, has more than a few m…
Jumpy: Haunting raw material and a fairly straightforward telling from Theatre Paradok give a good account of this pair of classic Victorian ghost stories, at the Banshee Labyrinth until Thu…
