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Natalie O'Donoghue

Natalie has been covering for BroadwayWorld Scotland since 2013 and heads up the site's Edinburgh Festival Fringe coverage. Based in Glasgow, she covers as much as she can around Scotland and is a member of the judging panel of the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS). When not at the theatre, Natalie loves spending time with her cat Dolly Purrton and is a big fan of country music. She is usually covered in glitter. You can follow Natalie on Twitter at @nataliealana87 




LEARN MORE ABOUT Natalie O'Donoghue

First Show:

Blood Brothers West End/Ghost on Broadway

Favorite Show:

Wicked

Favorite Stories:

  • Rachel Fairburn- Showgirl Interview - I've been following Rachel Fairburn's career for a long time and was thrilled to chat to her about her tour show.
  • Wicked Review- Edinburgh - Wicked is my all time favourite theatre show so it was an honour to be invited to review it.
  • 2023 Year in Review - I enjoy recapping my year in theatre.
  • Battery Park review - Battery Park was a show I really loved in 2023 and I enjoy being able to highlight amazing Scottish theatre.
  • Mark Nelson Interview - I have been a fan of Mark Nelson's work for many years so really enjoyed being able to pick his brain about the Scottish comedy industry.


EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: ARABIAN NIGHTS, Gilded Balloon, August 15 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: ARABIAN NIGHTS, Gilded Balloon, August 15 2014
August 15, 2014

Meet Sheherazade, the greatest storyteller of them all. She has a feast of adventures and fantasies to tell involving genies, villains, heroes and princesses.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: SCOTTISH FALSETTO SOCK PUPPET THEATRE, Gilded Balloon, August 13 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: SCOTTISH FALSETTO SOCK PUPPET THEATRE, Gilded Balloon, August 13 2014
August 14, 2014

Earth's funniest footwear return with a brand new new hour of songs, sketches, socks and violence.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: EDDIE PEPITONE: RIP AMERICA, IT'S BEEN FUN, Pleasance Courtyard, August 13 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: EDDIE PEPITONE: RIP AMERICA, IT'S BEEN FUN, Pleasance Courtyard, August 13 2014
August 14, 2014

American Eddie Pepitone's triumphant Fringe return examines his country's (as well as his own inner) crumbling. Pepitone's darkly hilarious rants and soaring neurotic imaginings paint a man at war with himself and an empire gone mad with cruelty and self-absorption. Fun for the whole family! (Not really.)

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: UCAS, Greenside @ Nicolson, August 13 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: UCAS, Greenside @ Nicolson, August 13 2014
August 14, 2014

Why go to university? Ms Miller has one hour to persuade her inner city school's most difficult students to compose a personal statement. For her, university was a life-changing experience. For them, it's a waste of time. A daring new musical examining the changing value of a university education.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: IAN SMITH- FLAPPABLE, Pleasance Courtyard, August 13 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: IAN SMITH- FLAPPABLE, Pleasance Courtyard, August 13 2014
August 14, 2014

After a successful debut, award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC2's Popatron, BBC3's Sweat the Small Stuff) returns with his new show. It's about silliness and uncertainty … or is it? (It is.) It'll be a lot of fun.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: FUNNY GIRL, Greenside @ Nicolson, August 13 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: FUNNY GIRL, Greenside @ Nicolson, August 13 2014
August 13, 2014

Funny Girl is based on incidents in the life of Fanny Brice before and after World War One. It focuses on Fanny's attempts to become a Broadway star and the consequences this brings. A hilarious and heart-warming musical. Accompanied by a live jazz band it proves to be a musical enjoyable for all.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: TONY LAW: ENTER THE TONEZONE, The Stand, August 13 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: TONY LAW: ENTER THE TONEZONE, The Stand, August 13 2014
August 13, 2014

Dive into the zone of Tone for life affirming, changing comedy of a sort. Art? It's life as we know it.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: I PROMISE YOU SEX AND VIOLENCE, King's Hall, August 10 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: I PROMISE YOU SEX AND VIOLENCE, King's Hall, August 10 2014
August 11, 2014

David Ireland's brutal and hilarious satire of love and hate dives into the darkest heart of the modern love story. Boy meets girl meets boy meets crippling sexual neurosis. It's not easy out there when you have no idea who you are supposed to be, no idea how to behave and everyone else seems to be an asshole.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: DON'T WORRY GUYS, IT'S SARAH CAMPBELL, Cabaret Voltaire, August 10 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: DON'T WORRY GUYS, IT'S SARAH CAMPBELL, Cabaret Voltaire, August 10 2014
August 11, 2014

Have you been mis-sold PPI? Me neither. Feel a bit left out tbh. My friend got seven grand! Anyway: mind-blowing stand-up about nagging anxieties from the Radio 4 and Russell Howard's Good News writer.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: BILL CLINTON: HERCULES, Assembly George Sq, August 10 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: BILL CLINTON: HERCULES, Assembly George Sq, August 10 2014
August 10, 2014

Come and meet the 42nd President as he cuts loose and shoots straight from the hip in his own fantasy TED talk! From the Trojan Wars to the future of democracy, his dreams, regrets, hopes and passions, Occupy, Hillary and Monica…

EDINBURGH 2014- BWW Reviews: BEC HILL IN... ELLIPSIS, Gilded Balloon, August 9 2014
EDINBURGH 2014- BWW Reviews: BEC HILL IN... ELLIPSIS, Gilded Balloon, August 9 2014
August 10, 2014

In October 2013, Bec Hill announced that she was going to write an award-winning comedy show. This is a show for anyone who's ever made a promise they might not be able to keep...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE CLEEK, Mash House, August 9 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE CLEEK, Mash House, August 9 2014
August 9, 2014

Sketch! Improv! In-jokes! You're either in or you're out. Or you're part of The Cleek. The most exciting collaboration to come out of Chicago's Second City Training Center since... well, the last one...

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE 3RD SECTOR, Pleasance Courtyard, August 9 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE 3RD SECTOR, Pleasance Courtyard, August 9 2014
August 9, 2014

When employees Marlin and Josh discover their role in a corrupt corporate charity, can they reconcile their choices? This celebrity-backed charity wants you to 'give a piece of yourself' - literally. But how much is enough? A darkly comic satire examining the ethics of giving when we donate first and ask questions later.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: HARRIET DYER BARKING AT AEROPLANES, Bar 50, August 8 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: HARRIET DYER BARKING AT AEROPLANES, Bar 50, August 8 2014
August 9, 2014

Harriet is sangry (sad and angry) that her oddball escapades often end in folk trying to section her. Join this whimsy beast as she explores the thin line between being eccentric and 'mental'.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: JOJO SUTHERLAND IN CONVERSATION, The Beehive Inn, August 8 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: JOJO SUTHERLAND IN CONVERSATION, The Beehive Inn, August 8 2014
August 9, 2014

This charismatic comic performs in major comedy clubs across the UK and internationally where she is in as much demand for her compere abilities as she is for her comedy routine. Her natural stage presence alongside her healthy neglect attitude to children and life in general proves extremely popular amongst many and varied audiences including the armed forces where she remains as one of the few women to go to military bases to entertain the troops.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE GREAT FIRE OF NOSTRIL, Pleasance Courtyard, August 8 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE GREAT FIRE OF NOSTRIL, Pleasance Courtyard, August 8 2014
August 9, 2014

Award-winning sketch villains 'mix Game of Thrones, the League of Gentlemen and Roald Dahl' (Sunday Times) into a sinister tale of heartbreak, conjoined siblings and probable arson.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE GREATEST LIAR IN ALL THE WORLD, Pleasance Courtyard, August 8 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: THE GREATEST LIAR IN ALL THE WORLD, Pleasance Courtyard, August 8 2014
August 9, 2014

Familia de la Noche return with their five-star, darkly funny sequel to Pinocchio: a rollercoaster ride filled with song, puppetry, physical theatre and clowning. The Greatest Liar in All the World sends the audience careering through the real story behind his infamous origins. But be warned there's a twist and tear in this raucous cautionary tale.

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: NORMAL/MADNESS, Pleasance Courtyard, August 8 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: NORMAL/MADNESS, Pleasance Courtyard, August 8 2014
August 9, 2014

Kirsty's mother is inappropriate, embarrassing and definitely unusual. For 25 years Kirsty accepted crazy as conventional. All mothers are slightly insane, right? But Kirsty's mother isn't like all mothers... If you're raised in madness who tells you what's normal?

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: ELEANOR MORTON: LOLLIPOP, The Stand 4, August 8 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: ELEANOR MORTON: LOLLIPOP, The Stand 4, August 8 2014
August 9, 2014

Bright, young, surprising and surreal; Eleanor Morton presents a debut solo show. Morton explores anxiety, bravery, anthropomorphic alcoholic animals, the magic of motorway service food, good deeds and more. Expect musical comedy, limited free snacks, a fervent dislike of Jessie J and a guide to the birds of Britain which has been certified reliable by the RSPB (it hasn't).

EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: JOSIE LONG: CARA JOSEPHINE, The Stand, August 7 2014
EDINBURGH 2014 - BWW Reviews: JOSIE LONG: CARA JOSEPHINE, The Stand, August 7 2014
August 8, 2014

Triple comedy award nominee and cult optimist is back with a new show about love and being outdoorsy as a bear.



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