Friday, December 5, 2025
Dundee RepThis hazily dramatised show is full of pizzazz and features the voice of Brian Cox but in making Jack as cynical as his mum it loses the story’s heart
Do not be misled by the tit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PMSunday, November 30, 2025
Gaiety theatre, AyrA rosy-cheeks-and-spotty-socks kind of show full of generous laughs, Fraser Boyle’s take on Aladdin also has several original innovations and a subversive streak
Who ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMSunday, November 23, 2025
Tron theatre, Glasgow There are jokes aplenty in Johnny McKnight’s panto update of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland story, played with delirious daftness by an ebullient cast
More than the odd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMThursday, November 20, 2025
Royal Court theatre, LiverpoolPaul Duckworth’s sweary Scrooge has romantic history with Marley’s widow in a pun-heavy festive show
Whether it’s Paul Hilton at London’s Old Vic this w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWednesday, November 19, 2025
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickAll the major characters are present in Sonia Jalaly’s update, but this is also a journey of self-realisation with brisk songs and cartoonish humour
Most peopl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMThursday, November 13, 2025
Live theatre, Newcastle Jamie Eastlake’s play addresses the forces pushing a young man towards the far right – and the school meals supervisor set on saving him
When did society become s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMWednesday, October 29, 2025
Loading Bay, BradfordAdaptation of Fiona Mozley’s novel wisely leaves the looming figure of Daddy unseen in this quasi-mythical tale of an off-grid family’s doomed fight against class an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMSunday, October 26, 2025
Perth theatre This show aims to represent composer Irving Berlin’s much-loved song in human form. But while that idea lacks coherence, the sketches and medleys are buoyantly performed
The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, 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 Eas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMRoyal 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 domina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMThursday, 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. Glidin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMTuesday, 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 in An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMThursday, 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 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMWednesday, 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 unexpec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMWednesday, 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 08:48AMThursday, 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 08:06AMMonday, 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 07:02AMWednesday, 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? For …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, 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 an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMPitlochry 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 tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMTuesday, 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 playwr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMMonday, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMSaturday, 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 06:24AMFriday, 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 06:24AMMonday, 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 03:18PMPleasance 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMSummerhall, EdinburghHannah Maxwell’s delightfully meta hour, namechecking Richard Gadd and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s breakthroughs, is a blueprint for three potential shows – with the au…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMSaturday, 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.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PMSummerhall, 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 audaci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMGilded 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM 
