Review: Saint Joan at Citizens Theatre – Bold but Flawed
2026GlasgowReviewsTheatre

Review: Saint Joan at Citizens Theatre – Bold but Flawed

18 Feb 2026 12:14 PM
Review: Our Martin in the Background – Queer Love in 1945
2026EdinburghReviewsTheatreTouring

Review: Our Martin in the Background – Queer Love in 1945

16 Feb 2026 4:54 PM

Recent

The Sound of Absence: A One-Take Vision at the Omnibus
2026EdinburghInterviewsMusicPreviewsTheatreTouring
The Sound of Absence: A One-Take Vision at the Omnibus
WJQuinn19 Feb 2026 7:08 AM
Review: Saint Joan at Citizens Theatre – Bold but Flawed
2026GlasgowReviewsTheatre
Review: Saint Joan at Citizens Theatre – Bold but Flawed
WJQuinn18 Feb 2026 12:14 PM
35 years of Yllana. 30 years of the Peacock. Joseph O’Curneen talks Opera Locos!
2026ComedyEdinburghInterviewsOperaPreviews
35 years of Yllana. 30 years of the Peacock. Joseph O’Curneen talks Opera Locos!
WJQuinn17 Feb 2026 12:13 PM
Preview: Edinburgh Science Festival 2026 – Going Global
2026EdinburghPreviewsTalks and lectures
Preview: Edinburgh Science Festival 2026 – Going Global
Guest Contributor17 Feb 2026 11:33 AM
Interview: Inside ‘(We indulge in) a bit of roll play’ at Glasgow’s Tramway
2026GlasgowInterviewsPreviewsTheatreTouring
Interview: Inside ‘(We indulge in) a bit of roll play’ at Glasgow’s Tramway
WJQuinn17 Feb 2026 8:30 AM
Review: In Conversation with Alan Cumming – Winter Words
2026PitlochryReviewsTalks and lectures
Review: In Conversation with Alan Cumming – Winter Words
Sandra MacDonald16 Feb 2026 7:28 PM
Load more

Most popular

What caught your eye — or raised an eyebrow! These are our top three most-read articles this month!
Review: Fawlty Towers – The Play at Edinburgh Playhouse
2026EdinburghMusicalReviewsTouring
Review: Fawlty Towers – The Play at Edinburgh Playhouse
WJQuinn reviews John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers on stage. A lavish, nostalgic production that plays it safe but delivers the classic laughs.
Read more
Review: Varna International Ballet 2026 – Swan Lake
2026DanceGlasgowReviewsTouring
Review: Varna International Ballet 2026 – Swan Lake
Varna International Ballet’s Swan Lake review: A musically rich, sincere production featuring Timofei Fedotov. Insight on the 2026 UK tour and venue challenges.
Read more
Review: Saint Joan at Citizens Theatre – Bold but Flawed
2026GlasgowReviewsTheatre
Review: Saint Joan at Citizens Theatre – Bold but Flawed

A Scots-inflected adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s 1923 play, as seen through an Orson Welles-esque lens, Director Stewart Laing’s ‘reimagined’ Saint Joan makes for a singular…

Read more

Recent favourites

Recent Review Highlights — these are the outstanding shows that have caught our eye lately...
Review: Fawlty Towers – The Play at Edinburgh Playhouse
2026EdinburghMusicalReviewsTouring

Review: Fawlty Towers – The Play at Edinburgh Playhouse

WJQuinn28 Jan 2026 8:00 PM
Review: Varna International Ballet 2026 – Swan Lake
2026DanceGlasgowReviewsTouring

Review: Varna International Ballet 2026 – Swan Lake

Guest Contributor26 Jan 2026 2:52 PM
Review: Saint Joan at Citizens Theatre – Bold but Flawed
2026GlasgowReviewsTheatre

Review: Saint Joan at Citizens Theatre – Bold but Flawed

WJQuinn18 Feb 2026 12:14 PM
Review: Romeo and Juliet – Pleasance Theatre – EUSC
2026EdinburghReviewsTheatre

Review: Romeo and Juliet – Pleasance Theatre – EUSC

WJQuinn12 Feb 2026 11:04 AM
Load more

Interviews

Find out more from the talented people making the work you love...
The Sound of Absence: A One-Take Vision at the Omnibus
2026EdinburghInterviewsMusicPreviewsTheatreTouring
The Sound of Absence: A One-Take Vision at the Omnibus
Quokka Films brings 'The Sound of Absence' to London's Omnibus Theatre. Discover how Yanina Hope and Vladyslav Kuznetsov turn raw grief into a live conplay.
Read more
35 years of Yllana. 30 years of the Peacock. Joseph O’Curneen talks Opera Locos!
2026ComedyEdinburghInterviewsOperaPreviews
35 years of Yllana. 30 years of the Peacock. Joseph O’Curneen talks Opera Locos!
"Opera without the boring bits." Yllana returns to The Peacock with The Opera Locos. Joseph O'Curneen discusses high art, slapstick, and La Movida.
Read more
Preview: Edinburgh Science Festival 2026 – Going Global
2026EdinburghPreviewsTalks and lectures
Preview: Edinburgh Science Festival 2026 – Going Global
Art and science collide this April. Catherine Coutts previews the highlights of the 2026 Edinburgh Science Festival, from AI theatre to ocean dance.
Read more
Interview: Inside ‘(We indulge in) a bit of roll play’ at Glasgow’s Tramway
2026GlasgowInterviewsPreviewsTheatreTouring
Interview: Inside ‘(We indulge in) a bit of roll play’ at Glasgow’s Tramway
Director Robert Softley Gale and the creative team reveal why their new comedy shifts from domestic laughs to raw, unapologetic truth. Opening Feb 2026.
Read more
Shenoah Allen at Soho Theatre: Walking Into the Fire Pit
2026InterviewsLondonPreviewsTheatre
Shenoah Allen at Soho Theatre: Walking Into the Fire Pit
Cult comedian Shenoah Allen discusses his new solo show, Bloodlust Summertime at Soho Theatre, leaving The Pajama Men behind to confront his chaotic youth.
Read more
Susan Aldworth: Turning Chemistry into Art in Edinburgh
2026ArtEdinburghInterviewsPreviews
Susan Aldworth: Turning Chemistry into Art in Edinburgh
From a grandmother's suitcase to brain scans: Susan Aldworth reveals the inspiration behind her dual exhibitions opening at Edinburgh Printmakers.
Read more

#FringeQuickies

The Quinntessential Review’s original bite-sized interview series with EdFringe performers. This year, over 10% of shows took part!

Check them out in the doomscroll — it’s fast, funny, and scrollable in seconds. Fringe 2025 may be finished, but their words live on!
#FringeQuickies
doomscroll

Or check out these boosted picks — a handful of Quickies from performers who’ve helped support our Fringe coverage ❤️

A Fringe Quickie (#148) with ‘Sharon Em: I Know a Guy’
A Fringe Quickie (#249) with ‘SUGAR’
A Fringe Quickie (#80) with ‘The Boy from Bantay’
Load More

Foodie guides

Check out our guides to the best eating and street food spots in Edinburgh.
The Basement brunch giveaway – WIN a boozy brunch for four!
2024EdinburghFoodGiveawaysNews

The Basement brunch giveaway – WIN a boozy brunch for four!

WJQuinn24 Jul 2024 10:59 AM
Win a Meal for 2 at the Haggis Box
2024EdinburghFoodGiveawaysNews

Win a Meal for 2 at the Haggis Box

WJQuinn29 Jul 2024 3:00 PM
5 MORE of the best pre-theatre restaurants in Edinburgh
2024EdinburghEditor's CommentFoodFoodie guidesNews

5 MORE of the best pre-theatre restaurants in Edinburgh

WJQuinn17 Dec 2024 12:00 PM
Local’s street food guide to Edinburgh’s Christmas Market (Princes St) – 2024
2024ChristmasEdinburghEdinburgh's ChristmasFoodFoodie guidesNewsReviews

Local’s street food guide to Edinburgh’s Christmas Market (Princes St) – 2024

WJQuinn16 Nov 2024 9:03 AM
Load more

#EdFringe - relive highlights of the Fringe 2025

EdFringe Review: Baby Lasagna
#EdFringe2025EdinburghEdinburgh in AugustMusicReviews
EdFringe Review: Baby Lasagna

Baby Lasagna, aka Croatian singer Marko Purišic, was to be my last review of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025. Unfortunately, Baby Lasagna didn’t get the…

Read more
EdFringe Review: Sam Williams: Touch Me Not
#EdFringe2025ComedyEdinburghEdinburgh in AugustReviews
EdFringe Review: Sam Williams: Touch Me Not

Sam Williams’ debut hour, Touch Me Not, sets itself the ambitious task of unpicking the apparent contradictions of being both Christian and bisexual. It is…

Read more
EdFringe Review: I Was Almost Killed By an Angry Mob at the Edinburgh Fringe
#EdFringe2025ComedyEdinburghEdinburgh in AugustReviewsStorytelling and spoken word
EdFringe Review: I Was Almost Killed By an Angry Mob at the Edinburgh Fringe

“In 2015, Matty Grey, kids’ comedian, accidentally insulted a child in passing at the Edinburgh Fringe. What happened next would see the brief interaction go…

Read more

The Quinntessential Review