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Review – I’ll Be Seeing You – Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Well, I never thought I would say that one of my theatre heroes – Simon Russell Beale – was awful, but he really is in…

‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ Review: Gayle Rankin’s Magnetic Turn

Reviving Muriel Spark’s famous Edinburgh schoolteacher carries the risk of slipping into knowing, witty nostalgia. The new National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum, and Pitlochry…

Review: Hadestown 2026 – Lyric Theatre, London

As the old saying goes, the fact that there’s a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic…

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Sisterhood Under Siege: The Cast of ‘Girls’ at the Young Vic

‘I don’t think many people can pull on their own lived experiences,’ said Tara Tijani. ‘But I think we can use our lived experiences of…

Noga Flaishon on Memoriam and the ethics of VR history

As her sci-fi play Memoriam prepares for its London premiere, playwright Noga Flaishon discusses the ethics of VR, the commercialisation of history, and mining deep…

Canine Logic and Reinvention in Southwark’s ‘Dog Mom’

‘At her core, Dog is a best friend. And the play is a love story.’ So says playwright Tate Elizabeth Hanyok, defining the emotional core…

How ‘Hen Night Horror’ is Turning Highland Dread into Stage Farce

Fraser Boyle and Ali Cleland’s original Scottish musical Hen Night Horror returns to the stage this autumn. Running from 29 September to 31 October, the…

Beyond the Scratch Night: Can Shuffle Festival Secure the Future of Hip-Hop in Scotland?

‘Honestly, expanding Shuffle this year just felt like the natural next step,’ says MC Laffitte, Creative Producer & Three60 Producer, on the eve of Shuffle…

Inside These Are Our Neighbours at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre

On May 13, 2021, on Kenmure Street in Glasgow’s Southside, immigration enforcement officers detained two local residents inside a transport van. Within minutes, their neighbours…

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Welcome to the Fringe Palestine Launches 2027 Open Call

Following a revived iteration in 2025, the Welcome to the Fringe Palestine initiative is set to return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2027. Organisers…

EdFringe Review: Salome – Oscar Wilde’s Tragedy Lost to Fringe Abstraction

Condensing Oscar Wilde’s febrile tragedy Salome into a thirty-minute solo sprint is an ambitious gambit. Staged by international collective Changing Perspectives, this physical theatre adaptation…

EdFringe Review: Desperate Wee Gay Boy

We start with Ollie (Fraser Kelsey, also writer), a bright-faced young lad partying his life away in a London club far from his native Scotland…