Tron, Glasgow Love-struck pop hits punctuate the regency matchmaking in this raucous, yet surprisingly faithful, all-female adaptationIt's not Jane Austen's fault. When the author published …
Pitlochry Festival theatreLiz Carruthers directs a sprightly, good-looking revival of Barrie's romantic 1902 hitValentine Brown is trying to persuade Phoebe Throssel that age is no barrier t…
Octagon, BoltonThe audience enjoy a Cliff singalong on the top deck as they soak up the feelgood hit of the summerSometimes the stars align and fate smiles on a production. When Elizabeth Ne…
State cinema, Leith In an atmospheric derelict venue, the Golden Trailer Collective explore anti-terror detentions in a play that could commit more to its eccentricitiesA cuckoo festival wit…
Theatres in Scotland played host to the dazzling stagecraft of Robert Lepage, a striking Titus Andronicus and raucous but close-harmonising schoolgirls This summer, I was lucky to get two bi…
Traverse, Edinburgh, and North Edinburgh Arts CentreBaba Yaga, a delirious take on Slavic folklore, and the masterful one-man show Stick By Me offer joyful explorations of rules and how to b…
He has blazed his way through theatre and opera. Now, the great director Calixto Bieito is reflecting on his fears in a highly personal concertThe scene is northern Spain, some time in the e…
Corn Exchange, HaddingtonCharlie's Angels meet the Andrews Sisters in this entertaining and melodic meditation on griefYes, it is aimed at the over-eights, but Eddie and the Slumber Sisters …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghStewart Laing directs August Strindberg's drama about a man wheedling his way into his ex-wife's marriageIf the men's rights movement is looking for a spokesman, it co…
Traverse, EdinburghA mother's fear that her toddler has been abused sends her into a nightmarish state of anxiety in Frances Poet's playWhen Iago causes Othello to doubt himself, it only tak…
Citizens, GlasgowGeorge Costigan is magnificent as the patriarch of the fraught Tyrone family, imprisoned in a jail of their own making The Connecticut summer house of the Tyrone family in E…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghTony Cownie roughs up and relocates Hannah Cowley's 18th-century play, adding vulgar jokes and rebellious energyImagine an inverted version of Cinderella, in which the…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghThe West Bank's nightly curfews, checkpoints and pipe bombs make for gallows humour in this defiant comedy that gives a voice to the voicelessYour average Mark Tho…
Northern Stage, NewcastleLaura Lindow's adaptation of the sci-fi classic is a thrilling parable of complacency that allows a brilliant cast to shineHG Wells wrote The War of the Worlds at th…
Citizens, GlasgowThe tale of four Belfast women during the Troubles becomes an unflinching study of the effects of male violenceOn the face of it, Bold Girls is not a violent play. In form, …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThis adaptation of Marguerite Duras' tale turns the audience into voyeurs looking in on the recollection of an intense affairThere's a theme in Marguerite Duras' semi-…
Octagon, BoltonJessica Baglow captures the plain-speaking pragmatism of Charlotte Brontë's heroine in a light and lucid adaptation directed by Elizabeth NewmanThe first thing that anyone …
In a festive sofa advertising campaign, the actor claims the bard once exclaimed: 'People usually are the happiest at home.' One problem " the oft-cited line is pure bunkumWhat was Shakespea…
Traverse, EdinburghMorna Pearson's hopeful social satire about a struggling family in troubled times takes an unexpected turn into a parallel universeImagine the dysfunctional world of Burie…
King's, Edinburgh; King's, Glasgow; Perth theatre; Macrobert, StirlingScottish audiences are flocking, as ever, to this year's pantomimes because the stars are great, dedicated dames, fairie…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe heroine's life isn't at stake in this family-friendly production, but it's a dizzying compendium that gets to the emotional heart of why we tell talesThese days no…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghA great cast and plentiful carol-singing make this staging of the Dickens classic as rich as a plum pudding " and sometimes as sickly sweetWith its hardworking cast, o…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe Communards punctuate the soundtrack to James Ley's funny new play celebrating the Edinburgh bookshop that was a lifeline for the gay communityWhat 84, Charing Cros…
Bridget Boland's long-lost drama about a refugee centre was ahead of its time in the way it blurred the lines between actor and audience. Now, Wils Wilson's revival makes its depiction of et…
Citizens, GlasgowFrances Poet and Dominic Hill turn the tragedy into a relentlessly intense two-hander starring Keith Fleming and Charlene BoydThe bed could have been designed by Tracey Emin…