Lear Ziyu Zhang 11/07/2026Shakespeare’s King Lear becomes a family tragedy first and a political one second in this modern adaptation. Reimagining Lear as...
The Long Drop Ziyu Zhang 14/06/2026Inside the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow returns to its 1950s past in darkness and shadow, while outside the present-day city remains...
Dough Ben Reiss 11/06/20262026 marks the inaugural Jewish Culture Month, a nationwide celebration of almost 1000 years of British-Jewish history. Established by the...
Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil Ben Reiss 15/05/2026The idea of sport – the most important of the unimportant things – as a metaphor for the triumphs and...
Madama Butterfly Ziyu Zhang 05/05/2026Madama Butterfly confronts contemporary audiences with a striking contradiction between critical awareness and musical seduction. From the outset, the vocal...
One Day: The Musical Ben Reiss 13/03/2026The sense of being on the cusp of adulthood, in that liminal space of not-quite child, not-quite adult, excited and...
Tristan und Isolde Ziyu Zhang 09/03/2026Wagner’s epic Tristan und Isolde does more than introduce two lovers in its title; it emphasises the und—the “and”—that binds...
Waiting for Godot Ziyu Zhang 26/02/2026The meanings of Samuel Beckett’s timeless masterpiece Waiting for Godot are never settled. This remains true in Dominic Hill’s revival,...
Cinderella: A Fairytale Ben Reiss 29/11/2025Winter in Scotland can feel like a time when nature shuts up shop, colour leaching from the sky, trees shedding...
La Bohème Ziyu Zhang 25/10/2025Transposed to Paris’s Jazz Age of the 1920s, André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of La Bohème revives Puccini’s theatrical...
