Tuesday, June 14, 2022
It’s heartening to see the fine folk of Capital Theatres involved in such a confident show, it’s just a shame this Sunshine on Leith is more concert than theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, June 10, 2022
There is a deeply felt element to Laurel & Hardy at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, that enhances the hilarity on display in note-perfect re-creations of classic comedy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, May 16, 2022
The touring Cluedo at the King’s is billed as a ‘brand new play’ and ‘an exciting comedy thriller’. It is certainly possible to quibble with those descriptions as there is little e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, May 13, 2022
The West End hits central Edinburgh this week, as Cole Porter’s seaborne musical Anything Goes sails into the Festival Theatre for a very limited run until this Sunday.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, May 10, 2022
Red Ellen, at the Lyceum, co-produced with the Nottingham Playhouse and Northern Stage, suffers from many of the faults that affect biographical drama, and is far too long for its own good. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, May 5, 2022
With a title like Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, it’s unsurprising that the first night King’s audience for this touring production was mainly female.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 7, 2021
A New Life (A Mini Musical) at the Traverse every lunchtime this week is certainly not ‘mini’ in its emotional scope or its ambition.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 5, 2021
Chicago’s tale of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery whispers back into the Edinburgh Playhouse with a thrum of double bass, a twitching off-beat on …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, August 22, 2021
Packed with expletives and off-colour observations, Afterparty from New Celts Productions and F-Bomb Theatre at theSpace’s Triplex theatre pulls no punches in its humorous but bitter-sweet…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, August 19, 2021
Fear of Roses, by Black Bat Productions at Assembly Roxy, is a crisp, intelligent and thoroughly rewarding three-hander.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Saving Mr Ultimate, a tale of superheroes, grief and letting go, mixes the serious and the humorous effectively in creating a world that is both believable and ever-so-slightly superhuman.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, August 16, 2021
Wish List is an urgently contemporary piece from New Celts and Bone Struck Theatre, dealing with young carers, mental health and the gig economy in a way that never preaches and is always be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, August 15, 2021
Medicine, Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival’s production for the International Festival at the Traverse, is a troubling, funny, emotionally devastating and brilli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, August 13, 2021
Still at the Traverse is in many ways a tough watch, with themes of death and loss offset by excellent performances and perceptive writing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, August 11, 2021
A Grand Night For Singing as part of the Edinburgh International Festival is done with such grace and skill that it is difficult to feel much but warmth towards it.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
History, emotion and righteous anger combine tunefully and humorously in Sweet F.A., This Is My Story Productions’ thoroughly welcome return to Tynecastle Park.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, June 27, 2021
The Macbeths, the Citizens’ concentrated revision of Macbeth, supplies a charge that is so often missing in versions of the play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, June 14, 2021
David Greig’s Adventures with the Painted People is a clever and evocative piece of theatre which is only enhanced both by being the first full theatre production in Scotland since lockdow…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, May 29, 2021
Hindu Times – the latest audio offering from the Lyceum and Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Sound Stage – is a wildly original piece. Although cumbersome at times, it has a raucous energy…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, May 2, 2021
There is little doubt that a tightened-up version of Tennis Elbow would be better, but the sheer pleasure in language displayed here already goes a very long way.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, April 23, 2021
A Space to Bless, a series of meditations from Queen Jesus Productions filmed in St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, provides much-needed balm for the soul.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, April 18, 2021
Smile, Dundee Rep’s football-themed online offering, transfers to the screen to provide a satisfactory record of 2020’s successful play about the legendary Jim McLean.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, April 7, 2021
Doppler: The Story So Far, a portrait of Grid Iron’s 2020 production of Doppler that never was, is an edifying, surprising and deeply human film.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 26, 2021
A touching and utterly personal piece of drama, Angela by Mark Ravenhill is a fitting first offering in the Lyceum and Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Sound Stage project in association with …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, December 22, 2020
While a live audience is oxygen to panto performers, recorded Rapunzel at the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh is a triumph, and placing the trials of 2020 the heart of this retelling of this we…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, December 19, 2020
Lyceum Christmas Tales may have been born out of necessity, but the whole enterprise has taken on a beauty and importance of its own.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, November 28, 2020
Fibres, the online filmed version of the 2019 Citizens and Stellar Quines co-production, offers humour, emotion and political impact.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, November 21, 2020
There is a timeliness and emotional truth to Shrapnel, Production Lines’online play by CMFWood, that is enhanced by being presented live.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, October 8, 2020
Someone Else’s Shoes, the Traverse’s immersive online presentation conceived and directed by Hannah Price, is a thought-provoking and wistful evocation of Edinburgh without its festivals.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, August 30, 2020
There is some very promising writing talent on show in the Traverse Festival, and it is done justice both by the standard of performance and production from the venue.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, August 19, 2020
Fragments of Home works both as a theatrical performance and as a film, with Annie George’s performance striking a delicate balance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM 
