Scotland Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 64

EDINBURGH 2015 - BWW Reviews: SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL!, Pleasance Courtyard, August 9 2015
by Amy Hanson - August 09, 2015

Improvisation is a tricky thing to get right on stage, but what happens when you also have to improvise full band accompaniments, a cappella harmonies and dance routines? The Showstoppers, a talented troupe of improvisers as heard on BBC Radio Four, manage to do just that in their show at the Pleas...

EDINBURGH 2015 - BWW Reviews: JESS ROBINSON, THE RISE OF MIGHTY VOICE, Pleasance Dome, August 8 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2015

Amazing mimicry, stunning singing, cheeky wit and a different show every night, thanks to the legendary Wheels of Sixty-Four Tunes. Showstopping musical mash-ups, incredible vocal gymnastics and irreverent celebrity impressions make the perfect feel-good show....

EDINBURGH 2015 - BWW Reviews: CHRISTINA BIANCO PARTY OF ONE, Assembly George Sq, August 8 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2015

Broadway performer and YouTube sensation Christina Bianco takes you on a hilarious musical comedy journey, showing you what led her to become a multi-faceted, multi-voiced party of one! Christina performs an eclectic selection of your favourite pop, standard and Broadway tunes in her own voice as we...

EDINBURGH 2015 - BWW Reviews: THE BAKEWELL BAKE OFF, C Venues, August 8 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2015

The small English village of Bakewell, Derbyshire is holding its annual baking competition and the eclectic group of contestants, including a local postman, a German transsexual and a nun, are each hoping that their baking skills will impress the judges....

EDINBURGH 2015 - BWW Reviews: BRUCE, Underbelly Cowgate, August 8 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2015

Keeping you at the edge of your seat, Bruce will sweep you away on an adventure of love and revenge. He may be a yellow block of foam, but Bruce's out to prove he's got a heart of pure gold....

EDINBURGH 2015 - BWW Reviews: LABELS, Pleasance Courtyard, August 8 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 09, 2015

This intimate new show from the award-winning Worklight Theatre draws on writer/performer Joe Sellman-Leava's experiences of mixed heritage and racism. Labels examines the way we use words, the line between curiosity and fear, and the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric....

BWW Reviews: LOVE ME TENDER, King's Theatre, Glasgow, August 3 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - August 04, 2015

In a small town in 1950s America, a guitar-playing, hip-swivelling stranger rides his motorbike into town. Is he The Devil in Disguise or a Hound Dog in his Blue Suede Shoes? The townsfolk are about to be All Shook Up and could be headed for Heartbreak Hotel, but for Natalie, the love-struck, tomboy...

BWW Reviews: TWELVE ANGRY MEN, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, June 22 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 23, 2015

Twelve jurors have murder on their minds and a life in their hands as they decide the fate of a young delinquent accused of killing his father. But what appears to be an open and shut case soon becomes a dilemma for the twelve, as the tables turn every which way until the nail-biting climax......

BWW Reviews: THE PRODUCERS, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, June 15 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 16, 2015

Impoverished by a string of flops, New York producer Max Bialystock recruits timid accountant Leo Bloom to help him pull off Broadway's greatest scam. Together they aim to produce the worst show ever and run away to Rio with millions, but they soon learn that showbusiness can always find a way to ki...

BWW Reviews: PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ, King's Theatre, Glasgow, June 9 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 10, 2015

The most famous songs of the Golden Age of Hollywood are recreated live on stage with our award winning singers and dancers. Special guests are world champion dance professionals Kristina Rihanoff and Robin Windsor from BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, who will wow the audience with their glamorous cost...

BWW Reviews: SPAMALOT, King's Theatre, Glasgow, June 3 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 04, 2015

Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of beautiful show girls, witch burnings (cancelled due to health and safety) not to mention cows, killer rabbits and French people....

BWW Reviews: THE SONGBOOK OF JUDY GARLAND, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, June 2 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - June 03, 2015

A breathtaking show highlighting the legendary life and career of Miss Judy Garland. This show is created in arrangement with the Judy Garland Estate, and is the only officially recognised Judy Garland show in the world today....

BWW Reviews: CRAZY JANE, Tron Theatre, Glasgow, May 29 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 31, 2015

Birds of Paradise Theatre Company present the world premiere of Crazy Jane - the story of Jane Avril, star of the Moulin Rouge and immortalised in Toulouse Lautrec's iconic posters....

BWW Reviews: YER GRANNY, King's Theatre, Glasgow, May 27 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 28, 2015

Yer 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 measur...

BWW Reviews: SHREK, King's Theatre, Glasgow, April 30 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - May 01, 2015

Featuring all new songs as well as cult Shrek anthem I'm a Believer, Shrek the Musical brings all the much-loved DreamWorks characters to life, live on stage, in an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza....

BWW Reviews: TONIGHT FROM THE WEST END, Caird Hall, Dundee, April 24 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 25, 2015

An all singing, all dancing extravaganza featuring stars of the West End and Broadway!...

BWW Reviews: ANYTHING GOES, King's Theatre, Glasgow, April 21 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 22, 2015

Cole Porter's classic, multi-award winning musical-comedy, Anything Goes sails into town in this brand new production!...

BWW Reviews: PETER PAN GOES WRONG, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, April 14 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 15, 2015

The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to present J.M. Barrie's classic tale of Peter Pan, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong…does, as the accident prone thesps embark on a thrilling adventure to Neverland, with hilariously disastrous results....

BWW Reviews: BARNUM, King's Theatre, Glasgow, March 31 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - April 01, 2015

This 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 w...

BWW Reviews: AND THE BEAT GOES ON, Tron Theatre, Glasgow, March 25 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 26, 2015

Peter and Lily have a secret. They love Sonny & Cher, their favourite celebrity couple of all time. With a string of hits in the 1960s and a successful American variety TV show in the 1970s, Sonny and Cher were mismatched, they were camp, they were good honest fun....

BWW Reviews: THE KING'S SPEECH, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, March 16 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 17, 2015

It'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 (...

BWW Reviews: THE BODYGUARD, King's Theatre, Glasgow, March 5 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - March 06, 2015

Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard Frank Farmer is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge - what they don't expect is to fall in love....

BWW Reviews: THE SOUND OF MUSIC, King's Theatre, Glasgow, February 18 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - February 19, 2015

Based 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 pa...

BWW Reviews: RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, King's Theatre, Glasgow, February 9 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - February 10, 2015

The 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 s...

BWW Reviews: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, February 4 2015
by Natalie O'Donoghue - February 04, 2015

Set 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 ...