Written and Directed by Barrie Hunter Musical Direction by Alan Penman Tickets from £16.00 ★★★★ Not only is there cause to celebrate with the commercial success of Perth Theatre's Aladdin, as it becomes the venue's most popular panto, but Barrie Hunter’s Perthshire high-flung adventure is one of Scotland’s best pantomimes right now – an ecological thriller … Continue reading Aladdin – Perth Theatre
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Book by Winnie Holzman, Based on the Novel by Gregory Maguire Directed by Joe Mantello Tickets from £30.00 ★★★★★ For a show that debuted twenty years ago, the passage of time has been nothing but kind to Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s Wicked. The Ozian prequel forged from Gregory Maguire's novel … Continue reading Wicked – The Edinburgh Playhouse
Written & Directed by Lewis Baird Choreographed by Aidan O'Brien & Amy Campbell Musical Direction & Original Music by Tommie Travers Tickets from £15.50 ★★★ With the Portobello Town Hall once more erupting with a thriving sense of life and community (following the group's critical success with Oliver!) Stage Door Entertainment sets its eyes on casting magic … Continue reading Cinderella – Portobello Town Hall
Written by Terry Pratchett Adapted by Stephen Briggs Directed by Jonathan Whiteside ★★★★ He’s got a list, and he’s been checking it for as long as the Discworld has been adrift on the back of that Great Turtle. If you’re good? Maybe you’ll get some rinds or back-bacon. Bad? A bag of blooded bones. A … Continue reading Terry Pratchett’s The Hogfather – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/13LRgCTASUI Created and Performed by Sarah Rose Graber and Ruxy Cantir Co-produced by Raw Materials and Capital Theatres Tickets from £12.50 ★★★★ Love glitter? Love Christmas? Love Unicorns? Oh, well then, this is the show for you, your little unicorns, and anyone who you can bring into a magical fifty-minute showcase of movement, colour and interactivity thanks to … Continue reading Unicorn Christmas Party – The Studio, Edinburgh
Written by Andrew McHugh With Additional Material by Elaine C Smith & Johnny Mac Directed by Kathryn Rooney Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★ The people of Glaswegia don’t often get the call for a party - tricky to do this when your monarch is the cruel (though stylish) Queen Cranachan, but things are about to change. … Continue reading Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs – King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by Johnny McKnight Directed by Martin McCormick ★★★ It’s hard enough getting one maw a gift for their Christmas, let alone seven. So thank heavens that the Òran Mór's Winter Pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Maws, from Scotland’s panto maestro Johnny McKnight, makes the perfect pre-stocking stuffer for audiences in Glasgow and Scotland. … Continue reading Snow White and the Seven Maws – Oran Mor, Glasgow
Written and Directed by Sheryn Ali Music Arranged by James McCutcheon Tickets: £16.50 ★★★★ Who needs to trek themselves all over the country to catch as many pantomimes as possible when they’re all here, under one banner, in a terrifically smashing and collective production of Alice in Pantoland! From the fairest in the land to the … Continue reading Alice in Pantoland – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
Written by Ed Edwards Directed by Cressida Brown Tickets: £15.00 (Con. available) ★★★★ If it wasn’t for their admission, and the playwright's presence this evening at the Traverse, the idea that this is the first play Mark Thomas has performed that he has not written may have never occurred to audiences. They'd be proven right, … Continue reading Mark Thomas in England & Son – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/-6zzHywYHVs Written by Johnny McKnight Directed by Sally Reid Tickets from £17.50 ★★★★ Thus far we’ve had a look at a stringent one-man telling of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, and a revived juggernaut of a show which captures the survival of theatre within its bones. And if there was ever a question that Panto hero Johnny McKnight’s Aganeza Scrooge was … Continue reading Aganeza Scrooge – Tron Theatre, Glasgow
