1+ week, 3+ day ago   (160+ words) The Herald Review: Ready Tae Drap, Òran Mór, Glasgow The double-edged sword in the title of Éimi Quinn’s new comedy gradually becomes apparent through the three women at the heart of this opening salvo from A Play, A Pie and…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (718+ words) Garbage singer Shirley Manson is working with the National Theatre of Scotland for the first – as part of a new project bringing stage and screen talent together. Theatre-makers, actors, filmmakers and musicians are collaborating on a series of films set…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (928+ words) A Scottish comedian has slammed the last week of the Edinburgh Fringe and claimed that data calling this year's event record-breaking "does not represent the reality for artists and venues." Susie McCabe has warned that record ticket figures for this…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (268+ words) Jack Docherty: Butterfly, Dining Room at Gilded Ballon Teviot, four stars At the age of 64, Jack Docherty has started to think about his death. The how, where and why of it. When it comes to an ending, the star of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (243+ words) The Herald The drums beat loud in this mighty rendering of a 14th century epic Middle Eastern narrative poem. Passed down the centuries in various guises, it is reimagined here from a Syrian version by the Palestinian writer/director Bashar Murkus…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (521+ words) It’s hard to say at what precise moment I regretted watching the preview tape late at night. Was it when novelist Tom and his son walked into their creepy new home? Or when we saw police sweep woods in search…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (397+ words) The Herald Review: The Silence of the Lambs, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, four stars Darkness becomes Gina Gionfriddo’s new stage version of Thomas’ Harris’ 1988 novel. The second in the author’s Hannibal Lecter quartet saw the most erudite of incarcerated cannibals gnaw…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (803+ words) Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole in Evita Too (Image: Ali Wright) (Image: Ali Wright) This interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest takes absolutely nothing seriously. From the very beginning, things seem to have been going wrong. The…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (255+ words) The Herald Review: Ayo Adenekan, Homeland Insecurity, Monkey Barrel, 4 stars Fringe review: Ayo Adenekan, Homeland Insecurity, four stars Last year Ayo Adenekan’s debut Fringe show, Black Mediocrity, ended very well – he was snapped up as a writer for Saturday Night…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (234+ words) At the start of her latest show Sophie Duker tells us she thinks she is done with men. Has been since 2020 actually and the great “global panacotta”. She still calls herself bisexual, though it is more honoured in the breach…...