Tuesday, January 19, 2021
The actor, who has died aged 61, had hangdog charm, a cheery twinkle and the sense of danger that sparks chaotic comedy
It was 2010 and the world of Scottish theatre was reeling from the sud…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:18AMSunday, January 17, 2021
Available online Theodora van der Beek’s film about a lactose-fuelled religion is the highlight of an online compilation that finds British theatre-makers in morose mood
What if online th…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:33AMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Available onlineNational Theatre of Scotland retell the famous panto in a series of madcap monologues
The top theatre shows to watch online this Christmas
Did Brian Friel ever write a Christ…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:18PMTuesday, December 15, 2020
Available onlineCovid quips abound – and the Prince keeps his distance from Cinders – in Nottingham Playhouse’s colourful show
“Recently I’ve lost my sense of taste and smell,” s…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:06PMAvailable onlineDame and director Barrie Hunter’s tremendous live show, with characters confined in their Covid-era dressing rooms, is a richly ribald delight
At this time of year, we shou…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:48AMMonday, December 14, 2020
Available onlineAn ordinary hotel room becomes a place of upended perspective and magic in Thaddeus Philips’ connection-themed play
The adventure is over, the wizard has been exposed and D…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:32PMFriday, December 11, 2020
Available onlineThis belter of a production is larger than life, with cartoon accents, embellished dialogue and eye-popping outfits
King Shirley XII has an awful lot of clothes. His dressing…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:03PMThursday, December 10, 2020
Available online Filmed at Pitlochry when a live show was prevented, Elizabeth Newman’s charming adventure channels star power to rescue festive spirit
Elizabeth Newman is the director wh…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:18PMWednesday, December 9, 2020
Available onlineA melancholic fairytale, African shadow puppetry and a haunted proscenium are among the first five offerings from the Lyceum’s series of Christmas plays
How many ways are t…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:32PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Available onlineIn this exquisite film we go backstage at Glasgow’s Tron to hear and see the poet’s work performed with beguiling theatricality
It’s been a long time since we saw the b…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, November 20, 2020
Available onlineHannah Lavery’s play about the death of a man in police custody in 2015 is both impassioned and poetic
‘It’s not Black Lives Matter,” says one of the characters in Ha…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:03PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Available onlinePlaying to a live online audience, mind-reader Scott Silven appears to know our thoughts before we do
The joy of a magic trick is in the moment. The magician defies the rule…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:24PMMonday, November 16, 2020
You are the solo performer and audience in this quietly transformative piece whose script is delivered to your door
One of the things they teach playwrights is character development. If your…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:12AMSunday, November 15, 2020
Online via Gaiety, AyrThickSkin’s intense, flickering two-hander about automatons in a totalitarian regime makes gripping, immersive VR viewing
As if 2020 were not dystopian enough, ThickS…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMMonday, November 2, 2020
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh/onlineThe comedian – on a solo tour of UK theatres – finds warm and funny layers of humanity in the small details of everyday lives
Daniel Kitson doesn’t strike…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:48PMThursday, October 15, 2020
Available onlineUntimely deaths, ritual sacrifice, the supernatural ... steel yourself for a 90-minute immersive quest that’s an escape room for the age of social distancing
It’s bad for…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, October 8, 2020
Available onlineThe imperilled astronauts’ story is retold with a topical slant and a mastery of slow-burn tension
What makes this play by Torben Betts gripping is the thrill of a life-and…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:03PMMonday, October 5, 2020
Available onlineLive Theatre’s series of short plays range from the joys and perils of gardening to a howl of rage against a cruel stepmother
Anyone remember the olden days? They used to h…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:12PMMonday, August 31, 2020
Available onlineThe sacred salmon is the star of Pitlochry Festival theatre’s series of poems and plays inspired by the mysterious River Tay
You can’t fault Pitlochry Festival theatre f…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Available onlineTraverse flies the Edinburgh festival flag with audio plays tackling ‘what happens after an earth-shattering event’, doomsday cults and slippery politics
This is the tim…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, August 10, 2020
Edinburgh University’s ImprovBot uses data from eight years of past productions to invent tantalising no-shows
You can see how it happens. The company has yet to start devising the show, b…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:32PMSaturday, August 8, 2020
Available onlineHope Dickson Leach’s magical, flickering film of past and postponed works is a dazzling theatrical relay race
The test of a good production of Peter Pan is the scene where…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:36PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
Available onlineCumming, Val McDermid and others explore pandemic life in this series from National Theatre of Scotland and the BBC
During the Covid crisis, the Victoria and Albert Museum in…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:24AMFriday, July 31, 2020
Available onlineThere are a string of cartoonish events and a jangly slice of chart-topping indie pop in this play about missed opportunities
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and d…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:48PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
Available onlineJack Nurse and Robbie Gordon debate the problems and prudishness surrounding pornography in a lively audio play adapted from the stage
Stories to Connect Us is the name given…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:12PMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Available onlineDarkfield’s eerie two-person sound experience is a gothic horror that ingeniously overcomes the usual pitfalls of online theatre
‘This is supposed to be a controlled spac…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:32PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Available onlinePerformed live on YouTube and Instagram, this play’s study of bling, hedonism and vacuous consumption stands in starker relief than ever
WhatsApp pings with a message from …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:32AMFriday, June 26, 2020
Available onlineMixing existential soul-searching with wry comedy, this is an adventurous production starring its viewers
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance online
The stor…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMSaturday, June 13, 2020
Available onlineWinsome Pinnock’s play, responding to JMW Turner’s Slave Ship painting, is a timely contribution to the Black Lives Matter campaign
Hottest front-room seats: the best the…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:18PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
The playwright and the director Elizabeth Newman on how they reimagined their new theatre production for radio in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak
‘We never ask the right question of t…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:03AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Available onlineIan Rankin’s stalwart detective struggles with self-isolation in one of six quarantine-themed short films from the National Theatre of Scotland
Hottest front-room seats: th…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:48PM 
