⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Scotland might be a-buzz this week as tickets for pop superstar Taylor Swift go on sale, but at Glasgow’s King’s Theatre this week it’s another American sensation bringing audiences to their feet. Buddy: The …
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Review: Beauty and the Beast, King’s Theatre Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Glasgow panto stalwarts Elaine C Smith and Johnny Mac reunite to deliver their best panto yet in this dazzling retelling of a tale as old as time. Alan McHugh’s refreshed telling of the fairytale …
Review: Shirley Valentine, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Weariness to the humdrum of domestic life is depressingly relatable for audiences who have spent the last two years locked indoors. So Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s decision to revive Willy Russell iconic play about a …
Review: Rob Madge: My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?), Edinburgh Fringe, Underbelly
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The theatre is a place where performers become anyone they want to be. But My Son’s A Queer shows the most moving pieces of theatre take place the person on stage is exactly themselves. …
Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Leave all preconceptions of previous existences of this show at the door. This production of the musical inspired by the Book of Genesis is a hit of Biblical proportions that elevates the show to …
Review: Waitress, King’s Theatre Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This joyful recipe of sugar, butter and flour is combined with a perfectly baked score and a cast that raises the roof without the need for any baking powder. When waitress Jenna (Chelsea Halfpenny) …
Review: Six The Musical, Festival Theatre Edinburgh
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ History is written by the victors – but for one night only it’s Herstory at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre as Six returns to Auld Reekie. Most of us knew them before only as Divorced, Beheaded, …
Review: Moorcroft, Tron Theatre Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s rare for a piece of theatre to come along that feels genuinely game-changing. Where a story, a theatre and a production team together under the right circumstances to create something truly exceptional. That’s …
Review: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Festival Theatre Edinburgh
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ There’s magic in the air at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre this week, where Bedknobs and Broomsticks flies in in a flurry of wonder and excitement. Taking its lead from the popular Disney film, Candice Edmunds …
Review: The Dresser, King’s Theatre Edinburgh
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A bitterly timely play, The Dresser may well be over 40 years old but as this pitch-perfect touring producing makes clear, it’s every bit as pertinent in 2022 as in 1980. The year is …