Thursday, October 16, 2025
From musical versions of Pinocchio, Treasure Island and Sherlock Holmes to a comedy about banana-loving beach-dwellers … dive into our selection box of festive theatre
Sadler's Wells East,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Royal Lyceum, EdinburghJames Brining's first production as Lyceum artistic director finds humour and humanity in a finely etched ensemble
It is quite something when Caroline Quentin dominate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
Dundee RepAndrew Panton's production of the memory play gains in quiet domestic realism what it loses in unhinged vitriol
Christopher Jordan-Marshall breathes the evening into life. Gliding …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Òran Mór, GlasgowIn this new musical, a bitter performer is visited by her sparkling younger self and confronts her disappointments
Imagine spending a career wanting to play the lead …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2025
Traverse, Edinburgh The 2011 book about a mother's struggle to pursue a career while looking after her children becomes a very routine drama
Novelist Sarah Moss has expressed surprise at the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Òran Mór, GlasgowKaty Nixon's unsettling play explores the shadowy rules adolescents live by as friends navigate manipulation, secrets and the pressures of conforming
There is an unex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Tron theatre, Glasgow Uma Nada-Rajah writes with polemical force from firsthand experience of a health system on its knees
A black hole sign is the dark area of a CT …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough In our polarised times, this is a generous look at a friendship between an enigmatic young man and a grieving widower
Adrian Prosper is a no-nonsense kind…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2025
Citizens theatre, GlasgowThe people of a small Scottish town offer hope to bereaved families in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing in a moving music-theatre show
What a joy to hear applause a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Òran Mór, GlasgowA naive Scottish academic is granted an audience with the genocidal Cambodian dictator in Jack MacGregor's play
If you met a genocidal dictator how would you react? F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 31, 2025
Pitlochry Festival theatre Oraine Johnson's emotionally available take on Jay Gatsby adds more energy to a dance-filled show but Fitzgerald's lesson risks getting lost amid the frocks and fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Pitlochry Festival theatre An unplanned meeting between Burns's mother, wife and lover prompts an unsentimental reckoning for the flawed poet, enlivened with a dose of song
Safe to say that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Beats, rhymes and Bannockburn? The creators of Wallace explain why they used hip-hop to tell the story of Scotland's national hero
If you were to come up with a list of the Scottish playwrig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2025
Gilded Balloon Patter House, EdinburghThe onstage ranting of a comedian is interrupted by impassioned accounts of violence against women in Sadie Pearson's drama
Full Frontal Theatre is a fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAnnie Lareau lost 35 of her fellow students on the downed Pan Am flight, but her focus on the personal in this three-hander leaves a gaping hole
At the start of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghFaustus is not damned alone in a parable about western hubris leading to war, colonialism and environmental exploitation
As told by Goethe and Marlowe, the story of Fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
Zoo Playground, EdinburghBelgian actors Verona Verbakel and Anemone Valcke share anecdotes about their industry in a knotty show about ambition and failure
When we arrive, the screen behind …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghEmily Woof draws a connection between the female adulation around the Fab Four and radical artist Valerie Solanas's 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol
A revolver is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghHannah Maxwell's delightfully meta hour, namechecking Richard Gadd and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's breakthroughs, is a blueprint for three potential shows " with the audience…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2025
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghIndra Wilson's imaginative monologue is a touching exploration of grief and hope through space travel
If you ever need an extended metaphor, just ask Indra Wilson. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
Banshee Labyrinth, EdinburghTheodora van der Beek's inventive and quirky show about a slimy bloke targets the male gaze
The clue is in the fingers. Rubbery, bulbous things, they look as if t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghTrumpeter Jay Phelps plays a devotee of Benjamin Akintuyosi's Miles Davis in this reverential tribute
Celebrity biographical dramas are ten a penny but it takes audacity…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PM[SHARE]Gilded Balloon, EdinburghAn authoritarian patrols the auditorium barking contradictory commands at a wannabe star in Blind Faith's uncomfortable show
The male gaze is often talked of as a pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Love is in the air on the fringe as romantic partners put their private lives in the spotlight through daft sketches, acrobatics, folk songs " and a real wedding
Some people blow their weddi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Zoo Southside, EdinburghEverything depends on the audience, so no performance is ever the same in a celebration of shared experience that's perfect for the fringe
Fringe favourite Ontroerend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Zoo Southside, EdinburghSophie Anna Veelenturf takes a nuanced personal look at how apps can prevent us falling for those whose politics we deplore
If the Guardian's Dining Across the Divid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThis mix of acrobatics, feverish monologues, high-altitude accidents and apocalyptic physical comedy doesn't need to have a rationale " does it?
It is probably b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe cast are formidable in this defiant if sometimes clunky show about the ups and downs of running a community treasure
This story of a pirate radio station is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghA woman pieces together her memories of a family tragedy in Ellie Keel's atmospheric two-hander set on Skye
It starts with a shriek. A deliberate false alarm, this sets …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh The performers of Emergency Chorus play comic scenes, do a long syncopated dance and throw shapes in an odd two-hander
Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit giv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, EdinburghHeadlines punctuate Henry Naylor's play about the newspaper's campaign against Elton John and the multiple lawsuits launched by the singer
Henry Naylor started out i…
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