Scotland

After Party

Ben Reiss 11/08/2026 161

Family matriarch Vivienne Blackwood (Alison Peebles) – an octogenarian former actress affectionately known as ‘Glam-Ma’ for her fabulous outfits and...

Celtic Collective

Ben Reiss 11/08/2026 163

Celtic Collective at Dance Base is a vibrant presentation of dance from the youth companies of Wales and Scotland. It...

The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey

Ben Reiss 11/08/2026 227

The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey opens as a children’s fairytale, recited with a singsong rhythm and gentle, hypnotic rhymes. Becky...

I Can Die Too

Ziyu Zhang 18/07/2026 456

I Can Die Too is a play within a play: a technical rehearsal of Jean Cocteau’s La Voix humaine (The...

Lear

Ziyu Zhang 11/07/2026 410

Shakespeare’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 14/06/2026 504

Inside the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow returns to its 1950s past in darkness and shadow, while outside the present-day city remains...

Dough

Ben Reiss 11/06/2026 1009

2026 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 15/05/2026 579

The idea of sport – the most important of the unimportant things – as a metaphor for the triumphs and...

Madama Butterfly

Ziyu Zhang 05/05/2026 700

Madama 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 13/03/2026 1282

The sense of being on the cusp of adulthood, in that liminal space of not-quite child, not-quite adult, excited and...