BWW Reviews: YER GRANNY, King's Theatre, Glasgow, May 27 2015May 28, 2015Yer Granny is a riotous new comedy about a diabolical 100-year-old granny who's literally eating her family out of house and home. She's already eaten their fish and chip shop into bankruptcy and now she's working her way through their kitchen cupboards, pushing the Russo family to desperate measures just to survive beyond 1977.
BWW Reviews: BARNUM, King's Theatre, Glasgow, March 31 2015April 1, 2015This exhilarating musical follows the irrepressible imagination and dreams of Phineas T Barnum, America's Greatest Showman. The story of his life and his marriage to Chairy reveals a couple who looked at the world from opposite sides of the spectrum, and also reveals that she was the practical one who made his dreams come true.
BWW Reviews: THE KING'S SPEECH, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, March 16 2015March 17, 2015It's 1936. As the world stands on the brink of war, King Edward VIII has abdicated for the love of Wallis Simpson. Bertie, his brother who has previously shied away from the public eye because of a terrible stammer, is to be crowned King George VI of England. With the support of his wife Elizabeth (the future much-loved Queen Mother), Bertie meets Maverick Australian speech therapist and failed actor, Lionel Logue, at an office in Harley Street.
BWW Reviews: THE SOUND OF MUSIC, King's Theatre, Glasgow, February 18 2015February 19, 2015Based on Baroness Maria von Trapp's 1949 autobiography, this wonderfully lavish new staging of The Sound of Music tells the true story of the world-famous singing family, from their romantic beginnings and search for happiness, to their thrilling escape to freedom as their beloved Austria becomes part of the Third Reich at the start of WWII.
BWW Reviews: RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, King's Theatre, Glasgow, February 9 2015February 10, 2015The adored & critically acclaimed Olivier Award winning rock spectacular is returning on a much anticipated 25th anniversary UK tour. Inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest and packed with rock 'n' roll classics such as Heard It Through the Grapevine, Young Girl, Great Balls of Fire and Gloria with stunning special effects and a brilliant cast of actor musicians this is the great night out to remember!
BWW Reviews: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, February 4 2015February 4, 2015Set in the Deep South, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel sees racial injustice envelop a small-town community. Through courage and compassion, lawyer Atticus Finch seeks the truth, and his feisty daughter, Scout - a young girl on the cusp of adulthood - brings new hope to a neighbourhood in turmoil.
BWW Reviews: PARK, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, January 28 2015January 29, 2015Park is an urban oasis, a place of refuge from ordinary life where eight characters play, fight, fall in love and learn to survive. In this playground of relationships, young lovers wrestle in a historic fountain, a graffiti artist sprays his story, a busker finds his only appreciative audience in a bag lady and a flag-waving bully rants worn out political beliefs. Their stories intertwine creating a modern day fairytale that is alternately sharp, funny and cruel.