BWW Review: ALL OR NOTHING, Theatre Royal, GlasgowApril 12, 2017In 1964, a new phenomenon exploded onto the dingy British streets. It was the essence of all that was cool. It was Mod. Mods stuck two fingers up at the class-ridden society and its dull redundant culture. They were working-class free spirits who rode sexy streamlined Italian Vespas or Lambrettas.
Principal casting confirmed for MISS SAIGON at Edinburgh's Festival TheatreApril 11, 2017Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce principal casting and further dates for the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of his acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schonberg's legendary musical MISS SAIGON, opening at Curve Leicester on 1 July 2017, with dates at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh in January 2018.
SHIRLEY VALENTINE comes to Edinburgh's King's TheatreApril 11, 2017Shirley is a Liverpool housewife. Her kids have left home and she makeschips and egg for her husband while talking to the wall. Where has her life disappeared to? Out of the blue, her best friend offers her a trip to Greece for 2 weeks and she secretly packs her bags. She heads for the sun and starts to see the world and herself very differently.
HOW SWEET IT IS comes to the Edinburgh PlayhouseMarch 27, 2017The ultimate celebration of the sweet sound of MOTOWN is now in its 17th successive year. The stunning 100% live show combines first class music together with slick choreography and an amazing band.
BWW Review: LOVE OR MONEY, CCA, GlasgowMarch 21, 2017Part of the Glasgow Live International Comedy Festival, Love or Money is a double bill of two one-act two-hander plays by Karen Barclay and Tom Brogan.
SON OF A PREACHER MAN comes to Edinburgh's Festival TheatreMarch 17, 2017Son of a Preacher Man, a heart-warming new musical featuring the soulful music of Dusty Springfield, with a book by Warner Brown and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, embarks on a national tour starting at Bromley's Churchill Theatre from Monday 4 September 2017, with dates at King's Theatre Edinburgh, 17-21 October.
BWW Review: GOD OF CARNAGE, Tron Theatre, GlasgowMarch 11, 2017When two young boys get into an altercation at a public park, their parents meet to discuss the event in a calm and rational manner…But as the evening progresses (and the rum is drunk), diplomatic civility makes way for all out conflict, leaving liberal principles, expensive flowers and half-digested food in tatters on the floor.
BWW Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Theatre Royal, GlasgowMarch 7, 2017Fawlty Towers meets Noises Off in this multi award-winning West End smash hit comedy. The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are putting on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong… does! As the accident prone thesps battle on against all the odds to reach their final curtain call, hilarious results ensue!
BWW Review: THE RED CHAIR, Tron Theatre, GlasgowMarch 4, 2017The Red Chair sees acclaimed Scottish performer Sarah Cameron steer us through a landscape of twisted reason, extreme compulsion and eye watering complacency, where domestic drudgery happens on an operatic scale and a father's dereliction of duty reaches epic proportions.
BWW Review: NOWHERE, Tron Theatre, GlasgowFebruary 26, 2017In the fading memory of his Arches roots, Andy Arnold and his troupe will take guests on an absurd journey down corridors and up stairwells and into backstage passages to meet strange characters reciting even stranger stories.
Assembly Roxy Theatre Award Winners AnnouncedFebruary 23, 2017Assembly Festival is proud to announce the first winner of the brand-new Assembly Roxy Theatre (ART) Award for developing Scottish performance companies at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
BWW Review: RENT, Festival Theatre, EdinburghFebruary 15, 2017Inspired by Puccini's classic opera La boheme, RENT features unforgettable music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson including the much-loved songs Seasons of Love, Take Me or Leave Me and La Vie Boheme. Winner of four Tony® Awards, six Drama Desk Awards and the hugely prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama, it ran on Broadway for an astonishing 12 years.