https://youtu.be/T8GQUmNvdgA Directed by Jonathan O'Boyle Music and Lyrics by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★★ Calendar Girls The Musical somehow still feels like a breath of fresh air in 2024, over twenty years since the real-life women of the Women’s Institute posed for their calendar in aid of charity. The Bill Kenwright LTD … Continue reading Review: Calendar Girls The Musical – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by David Greig Directed by Wils Wilson Tickets from £16.00 ★★ Nostalgia is a notoriously dangerous drug: addictive, encompassing, distracting, but oh-so nourishing. It clouds judgements and fractures our ability to move from the past and adapt - entirely apparent in David Greig’s new play Two Sisters, in a co-production with Malmö Stadsteater and the Royal Lyceum, … Continue reading Review: Two Sisters – The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows Directed by Phee Simpson Musical Direction by Emily Phillips Tickets from £11.oo ★★★★ It would seem as though 1950s New York is too tantalising a decade for Edinburgh University’s theatre scene: stepping into the same realm as last year’s Shakespeare Company’s production of Julius Ceasar, Phee Simpson’s … Continue reading Review: Guys and Dolls: The Musical – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Music by Harold Arlen Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Adapted by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Sams Directed by Nikolai Foster Tickets from £20.00 ★★★★ For those who thought the Edinburgh Playhouse’s fascination with the colour green had left with the departing for the smash-hit Wicked, … Continue reading Review: The Wizard of Oz – The Playhouse, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/hHL0cTv_kus Music by Jonathan Dove Libretto by Charles Hart based on an original scenario by Jurgen R. Weber Conducted by David Parry Directed by Stephen Barlow Tickets from £22.50 ★★★★ Don’t tell the Nixon (in China) fans, but the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, bushes Red for the UK premiere of Jonathan Dove’s rambunctious farce Marx in London! Which runs at the venue … Continue reading Review: Scottish Opera – Marx in London! at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/c_SyDYUZmow Directed by Sean Mathias Produced by Bill Kenwright, David Gilbery and Naomi George UK/2023/117mins Hamlet will be available on DVD, Blu-ray & Digital Download from 8th April ★★★★ Theatre sustained, perhaps, the worst damage of the art and entertainment mediums throughout the sustained days of COVID lockdowns. Production tours were cut short, their rehearsal spaces restricted, funding decimated, and their physical venues … Continue reading Review: Hamlet (2024)
https://youtu.be/2RrQ2h-ME_c Written by Bradley Fowler and Cady Lanigan Directed by Matthew Goodhue US and Serbia/2023/15/93mins ★★★ Sharks, drug-addicted bears, flocks of birds and enough dogs to fill a shelter or three, but when thinking of terrifying, monstrous, and quick-natured killers – one animal makes it to the very bottom of the list: Sloths. Or so … Continue reading Review: Slotherhouse
https://youtu.be/6SRD5tAFIWA Written by Tom Powell Directed by Elle While and Rachel Lambert UK/2023/60mins ★★★★ In 2021, the UK’s largest playwrighting prize allocated space for three winners in the industry's toughest times. One of these (very) deserving three was Tom Powell’s The Silence and the Noise, a drama of two teenagers on the very edge of life. … Continue reading The Silence and the Noise
https://youtu.be/sq7UwUtfCTY Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Elle While ★★★ The bard’s only comedy set in England The Merry Wives of Windsor serves to demonstrate the futility in revenge, jealousy, and shares in delight for sarcasm, farcical humour, and a scandal. Falstaff, the same but considerably different Falstaff of Henry IV fame now finds himself lusting for Margaret Page … Continue reading The Merry Wives of Windsor – The Globe Theatre
