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Review: Private Peaceful ⭐️⭐️⭐️
At near 90 minutes with no interval, Simon Reade’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, Private Peaceful, is a mammoth learn for any actor. It’s...
Review: High Society ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Slow Horses star steals show as understudies warm to roles.
GENTLE, if not always genteel, this new production of High Society proves an enjoyable dalliance...
BBC Radio’s The Archers comes to Edinburgh Playhouse to celebrate 75 years on-air
To celebrate 75 years of the world’s longest-running radio drama, The Archers, six of the series’ most popular characters are coming to Scotland, stopping at Glasgow’s...
Edinburgh Fringe Review | Elaine C Smith Glorious In Cathy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Smith transports her audience from hilarity to heartache in the turn of a phrase…”
Elaine C Smith is glorious in Eilidh Loan’s dark new comedy,...
Fringe 2026 – The Dream Machine
The actor and producer of the Dream Machine, a long-form comedy improv show, explains how it all started.
Molly-Rose Treves said: "At first we...
Fringe review 2026 – Clive ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Memories of the isolation of lockdown loom large in this new play from Olivier Award winner Michael Wynne.
A piece that could just as...
Joe Pasquale to make Edinburgh Fringe debut at 65 (with bunions)
Funnyman Joe Pasquale heads north this August to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut, at the age of 65, in 11½ Angry Men, a spoof...
Fringe 2026 – River City’s Claire Dargo and Scott Fletcher to star in Overtone
Acclaimed Scottish actors Claire Dargo and Scott Fletcher, both widely recognised for their roles in River City, will star in the world premiere of Overtone.
This is the powerful new...
Gilmore Girls writer Stan Zimmerman and Mrs Kim head to the Fringe
Actor and writer Stan Zimmerman, the man who put words in the mouths of The Golden Girls, Blanche, Rose, Dorothy and Sophia, as well...
Fringe 2026 – Lil Nas X collaborator Will McDowell debuts Judas Exclusive
Will McDowell, Lil Nas X and Yeah Yeah Yeahs music video director, is set to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut, bringing his new satirical...
Liam Rudden’s Must See Theatre for July
Ahead of the Fringe Robert Burns, Zog the Dragon and Elaine C Smith grace the stages of the capital in July as well as...
Liam Rudden’s Must See Theatre – June
Mr Miyaki, Bluey and The Bard, along with a Pulitzer Prize-winning play and a whole playground of theatrical entertainment for kids is just waiting...
Liam Rudden’s Must See Theatre – May
Football, The Kinks, cakes, ghosts, the Freshwater Five and theatre on the small screen, there's a varied choice in Edinburgh's theatres this month... or...
Review – The Spy Who Came In From the Cold ⭐️⭐️⭐️
In The Circus that is British Intelligence, it’s impossible to distinguish friends from enemies, let alone when you are being played.
John Le Carré's...
Liam Rudden’s Must See Theatre for April
Camp cabin crew, a Constant Wife, a cold spy, a brace of drag queens and a Blue Peter legend are all queuing up...
Review – Death On The Nile ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Abridged Death On The Nile is great fun but will Agatha Christie purists approve?
While the Queen of Crime herself might not recognise this adaptation...
Review – One Day The Musical ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The performances of Jamie Muscato and Sharon Rose, the actors firmly at the heart of this charming new musical based on David Nicholls’ 2009...
Review – Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts ⭐️⭐️
Inspector Morse play proves a brave endeavour that fails to captivate.
There’s a lot of acting going on in House of Ghosts, Alma Cullen’s convoluted...
Review – Here & Now: The Steps Musical ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
When Here & Now played Glasgow last September near the start of its UK tour, it barely scraped a three star review. Yet even...
Review – Christmas Carol Goes Wrong ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Car crash Christmas Carol… comfort, joy and chaos collide.
Just when you thought the festive season was done and dusted another year, along come Cornley...
Review – Friends The Musical Parody ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Edinburgh Playhouse Until Saturday 7 February
Bitty Friends musical is must see for fans but will leave others lost.
Friends The Musical Parody is not so...
Fawlty Towers The Play – Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fawlty Towers adaptation is fun but source material is hard to beat.
It’s now more than 50 years since Fawlty Towers, written by John...
Review Shawshank Redemption is a brutal yet uplifting piece theatre
Based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption, Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns' stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption has come a...
A guide to Must See Theatre in Edinburgh this month
A sweet transvestite, a man in search of redemption and everyone's favourite Torquay hotelier, Basil Fawlty, head to Edinburgh this month, while Broadway royalty...
Review – Jack and the Beanstalk ⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Slick, funny, fast and furious but story free…”
And so, as The King’s panto’s extended sojourn to its temporary home nears an end, this year’s...
Review – Mamma Mia! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Timeless, the songs of ABBA never grow old.
Since the Swedes won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with Waterloo, they have spoken to...
A guide to Must See Theatre in Edinburgh and London
Climb a beanstalk, visit a Greek idyll or rediscover Cinderella - you can do all three this Christmas in Edinburgh's Theatreland.
It’s that time again…...
Review – Tina The Tina Turner Story ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tina, The Tina Turner Musical, is an explosive triumph.
From the moment Tina Turner is revealed at the top of the show, the thumping...
Fringe 2024 – Ariana vs Chomsky ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Which is more important, our principles or our personal relationships? Does it matter if those to whom we are closest don’t share our views?...
Fringe 2024 – Birdwatching ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A man in the queue for Birdwatching addresses one of theSpaceUK’s female staff,
‘Where are the birds around here then?’
Silence.
‘Just a joke!’
And that is why...
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