Theatre

Impossible keeps the realm of magic in a land far, far, away, where men are clever, funny and brave, and…
These lunchtime South American plays for this season’s international theme just get better and better. …
The stage set is suitably neat and compact for the extremely neat and compact, clever wee show that is The…
If you were restricted in life to seeing only one piece of musical theatre then choose ‘Les Miserables…
A dark, chilling ambience envelops the fog shrouded set where you can just make out an old Belfast sink, the…
The Weir opens on a driech January Edinburgh night when it’s easy to imagine stepping through the door of…
In this latest in the A Play, A Pie and A Pint series from the Arab world, we have a story from Damascene…
Edinburgh-based Twelve Twelve Theatre is a new company with a big ambition. During 2018, they plan to write,…
In the early 1960s, it was an inspired idea to adapt the stage play, “I am a Camera” based on Goodbye to…
Benjamin Sinclair (Daniel O’Keefe) has a problem in ‘Martyr’; the word he lives in isn’t biblical enough for…
It can be a terribly difficult thing not to fall into clichés when writing a piece such as this.
'Knowing is what we do to other people when they're not there', Adam Phillips reminds us. This statement hits
Eddie & The Slumber Sisters is another cracking production from Scotland’s superlative producer of…
In 2002, aged 18, Joe from Stockport took a six week trip to Uganda during his gap-year.
The sight of the Inverbeg Recycling Unit and its hard-hatted and fluorescent-jacketed workers roaming the…
There is a modern beatitude that says “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures”.
‘Malt Disnae’ a line delivered with comic timing about a proposed distillery theme park raised the loudest…
Janet Smith is soon moving on from her position as Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT), to…
Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, based on John Gay’s 18th century The Beggar’s Opera, opened in Berlin…
I am deeply ashamed to admit this, but I have never seen anything at the Leith Festival before in all of my…