Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 8

Review: THE OUTRUN, Church Hill Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2024

Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith joins forces with Vicky Featherstone, former Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland, to reimagine Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir. Edinburgh’s producing theatre The Lyceum returns to the International Festival to present this world premiere...

Review: A HISTORY OF PAPER, Traverse Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2024

A musical love story about a man and a woman and the little bits of paper that make up a life....

Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, King's Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 30, 2024

Timothy Sheader (Crazy for You, Into the Woods) directs this mesmerizing new production of the iconic global phenomenon, Jesus Christ Superstar. Originally staged by London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, this reimagined production won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, garnering unp...

Q&A: EDINBURGH 2024: Eleanor Greene on GIRLS REALLY LISTEN TO ME
by Kat Mokrynski - July 23, 2024

BWW caught up with Eleanor Greene about bringing Girls Really Listen To Me to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

Review: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, RSC
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 20, 2024

The theatre’s always there for you. And if everything gets to be too much, you can take that literally. Such is the case with The London Merchant as it’s taken over by interlopers without shame or decorum. Suddenly, this simple tale of star-crossed lovers bursts its banks....

Review: MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 18, 2024

Isabella’s brother has been condemned to death, by force of a harsh law, being used to curb what some see as dangerous levels of depravity in Vienna....

Review: The Merry Wives of Wishaw, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 18, 2024

Rejected by his former companions and hounded out of London, Sir John Falstaff must find fertile new ground for his get-rich-quick schemes....

Review: THE WIZARD OF OZ, King's Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 04, 2024

Direct from The London Palladium, the sensational new production of one of the world’s most beloved musicals comes to Glasgow....

Review: THE SYNDICATE, Theatre Royal
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 03, 2024

Based on her hit BBC TV series that entertained millions of viewers over four series, The Syndicate is the new stage hit comedy drama by the legendary Kay Mellor which is getting five star reviews and standing ovations from audiences around the country....

Review: MUMBELINA, Òran Mór
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 30, 2024

One morning Mumbelina wakes up to discover she’s shrunk to smaller than Glasgow city council arts budget. And to make matters worse she’s been kidnapped by the wicked amphibian dark overlord Froggie Mercury....

Review: RADIANT VERMIN, Tron Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 29, 2024

A wickedly comic satire about a young couple offered a ‘too-good-to-be-true’ way onto the property ladder. Playful, provocative and viciously sharp, this outrageous black comedy is a meditation on how far we will go to satisfy – and justify – materialistic greed....

Review: BUCKET LIST, New Wimbledon Studio
by Aliya Al-Hassan - July 01, 2024

Bucket List is the first play from Show Don’t Tell Productions, a company dedicated to new writing, recently founded by postgraduate creative writing students at Oxford University....

Review: JANE EYRE, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 23, 2024

Jane Eyre, orphaned and unloved, takes charge of her life and finds her way to the position of governess at Achadh Droighinn - or Thornfield, in the lowland tongue. There she meets Edward Rochester, a strange but striking fellow, with whom she begins to forge a bond....

Review: PARTY OF THE CENTURY, Òran Mór
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 23, 2024

After 100 years, Edmund is going to be the first member of the Melville family to switch party allegiances. He isn’t sure who he is going to vote for, but it won’t be ‘them’…at least that’s the plan the night before polling day....

Review: HEDDA GABLER, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 22, 2024

Recently married and just returned from her honeymoon, Hedda ought to be looking forward to a life of security and domestic bliss – but something isn’t right. Happiness seems entirely out of her reach....

Review: HEN NIGHT HORROR, Pavilion Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 21, 2024

Amanda’s dream wedding is only days away but the proverbial has hit the fan. Her bestie bridesmaids have declared war. Can one last hen night in a remote Highland lodge cover up the cracks? Or will Donna and Lydia crack each other's skulls open before the big day?...

Review: LIFE OF PI, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 19, 2024

After conquering the West End and Broadway, the 5 star ‘theatrical phenomenon’ embarks on its biggest adventure yet. Don’t miss the West End and Broadway spectacle on its first ever UK tour....

Review: GREASE, Kings Theatre Glasgow
by Mary Baillie - June 19, 2024

Adopting Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's original stage version, the production deviates from the famous movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Here we see subversive, sex-driven working-class teenagers among industrial Chicago instead of beachy California. Sandy Olsson is now Sandy Dumb...

Review: DRIVE LOUNGE: VOLUME 6, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 15, 2024

Scotland's new musical theatre cabaret returns with Drive Lounge: Volume 6...

Review: MEDEA ON THE MIC, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 11, 2024

Join everyone’s favourite princess-sorceress for one hell of a good time as she shares stories of when she was Scottish and swaggered into the wonderlands of Berlin, Tehran and New York. Other guests on the mic include her bitter ex Jason (of the Argonauts) and old pal the Chariot Queen....

Review: THE FUNERAL CLUB, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 04, 2024

The hilarious and heartfelt journey of a group of friends from a teenage cancer ward who attempt to pull off a diamond heist....

Review: The Way, The Truth and The Life, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 02, 2024

Mary has a job to do and no time for regrets. But Jim wants them both to not look back in anger. As they share sandwiches, old rifts reveal themselves, but can they both really move on and leave the past behind?...

Review: THE 39 STEPS, Theatre Royal
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 30, 2024

Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps, brilliantly and hilariously recreated for the stage as the smash-hit Olivier and Tony Award-Winning Comedy, is back out on a UK tour after nearly 10 years in London’s West End, taking Broadway by storm, playing in 39 different countries across t...

Review: SUNSET SONG, Edinburgh Lyceum
by Mary Baillie - May 31, 2024

Labeled the most important piece of contemporary Scottish literature, Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 novel Sunset Song is an ongoing frontrunner of nationwide school curricula. Now this haunting coming-of-age narrative returns, reimagined beautifully for live theatre....

Review: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 22, 2024

Based on the classic Tim Burton movie and featuring the hauntingly beautiful music of Danny Elfman and Terry Davies, Bourne and his New Adventures Company return to this witty, bittersweet story of an incomplete boy left alone in a strange new world....