https://youtu.be/WzKsgMc03oo Written and Produced by Alan Janes Directed by Matt Salisbury ★★★★ The one thing many of us long for is to leave an impact. So, to have the titular role in a smash-hit musical concert experience which has, for over thirty years, entertained over twenty-two million people might speak to the volume of support, … Continue reading Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/dpVWO2druNk Directed and Co-Adapted by Matthew Xia Co-Adapted and Musical Supervisor & Arrangement by Vikki Stone ★★★★ Dig out your top hat and stick cane folks, we’re puttin’ on a show. Transitioning a six-time BAFTA-winning animated children’s show Hey Duggee to the stage isn’t an easy feat, with legions of Hey Duggee fans present – who wouldn’t settle for a strict … Continue reading Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show – Festival Theatre
Written by Harry Michaels and Allan Stewart With Additional Material by Grant Stott and Jordan Young Directed by Ed Curtis ★★★★ Hiya pals, now - the first thing you might have noticed is that we seem to be in a new home. While the Lady of Leven Street has a slumber, her younger sibling is … Continue reading Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/tT4wiCasRBk Created and Choreographed by Natasha Gilmore ★★★★★ In a time of instant gratification and over-stimulation, we overlook the humble pleasantries of receiving nothing - nothing except the finest gift of all; an opportunity to use our imagination. There are few excitements which re-ignite the imagination than those blurred festive bulbs twinkling on that morning … Continue reading The Gift – The Studio, Potterrow
https://youtu.be/R-SFzgHlMSs Choreography by Christopher Hampson Composition by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ★★★★ In the intrusive darkness, something magical glitters in the Festival Theatre stage light. Amidst the protrusions of silhouetted ice, a familiar being stirs triumphantly again after a three-year slumber away from the stage. Scottish Ballet makes a grand return to the Christmas season, with an … Continue reading The Snow Queen – Festival Theatre
Artistic Direction by Tory Dobrin Executive Direction by Liz Harler ★★★★ What is it they say: there’s method in the madness? For The Trocks – there’s method in the laughter. For just shy of fifty years, though not looking a day over forty-nine, the all-male comedy ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has … Continue reading The Trocks: Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/exivtEPXh0M Music as performed by Cher Book by Rick Elise Directed by Arlene Phillips ★★★★ Hooooooo boy, here we go. It should come as no surprise that in the pantheon of Jukebox musicals, some industry giants have carved their names onto the stage once more. But there was one notable absence. The tale of a … Continue reading The Cher Show – Festival Theatre
https://youtu.be/dNdrPA6gqGU Written by Rona Munro Directed by Laurie Sansom ★★★★ Ambition. It can be a King’s folly, a Queen’s sentence, and the Rabble’s making. But it extends, not only in character, but with the playwright, and the decision to move beyond the initial triptych James plays is a bold one. Celebrated Scottish writer Rona Munro … Continue reading James IV – Festival Theatre
Written by Rona Munro Directed by Michael Duke ★★★★ From Cumbernauld to the Lothians to the borough of Camden – Scottish playwright Rona Munro’s exceptional talents are spreading across the country as James IV has its world-premiere this week in Edinburgh at the Festival Theatre, with Mary set to open towards the end of October at Hampstead Theatre. But … Continue reading Bold Girls – Cumbernauld Lanternhouse
https://youtu.be/ZcOt0O6pPTo Story by Jay Osmond Book by Julian Bigg & Shaun Kerrison Music by The Osmond Family ★★★ One hundred million records, twenty-eight albums, television icons, and a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. One entertainment family empire. But how much do we genuinely know about the Osmonds? Hell, how many of us even … Continue reading The Osmonds: A Musical – Festival Theatre
