What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? Not a lot, to be honest. Three one-off performances equates to not so much a lull before the storm that is the Edinburgh Fringe, but a full-on becalming. The ...

Half Trick’s Waiting for Wonka at Augustine Church has plenty of ideas, excellent staging and some genuinely terrific performances, but never quite convinces in the way it threatens to.

Dear Evan Hansen ★★★★☆ Impressive Playhouse: Tue 1 – Sat 5 Jul 2025 Review by Hugh Simpson Dear Evan Hansen has become one of the most successful musicals of recent years, and the Nottingham Playhouse ...

Grease is a raucous, riotous classic of 1970s American musical theatre, and this new co-production between Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Blackpool Grand Theatre is packed with heart, soul, and ...

Scottish Opera Double Bill Trial by Jury – ★★★★☆ Absurd A Matter of Misconduct! – ★★★★☆ Shrewd Scottish Opera and the D’Oyly Carte Opera celebrate the 150th anniversary Gilbert & Sullivan’s ...

Users of the Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh are being urged to take part in a survey on the RAAC-hit venue before a consultation on its future comes to a close this Sunday 29 June 2025.

Dundee-born actor Brian Cox is heading out on his first ever solo tour, It’s All About Me, arriving at the Edinburgh ...

David Lyle and Alan Borthwick awarded BEMs by King Alan Borthwick and David Lyle, the Long-time Artistic and Musical Directors of the Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society, have been awarded the ...

★★★★☆ Innovative dynamism Festival Theatre: Tues 10 – Sat 14 Jun 2025 Review by Hugh Simpson Quadrophenia, A Mod Ballet, at the Festival Theatre until Saturday, is no mere exercise in nostalgia, but a ...

★★★☆☆ Mixed bag Leith Theatre: Sat 7 – Sat 21 Jun 2025 Review by Hugh Simpson Perth Theatre’s Restless Natives: The Musical, arriving at Leith Theatre as part of its Scottish tour, is decidedly mixed ...

Trial by Jury – ★★★★☆ Absurd A Matter of Misconduct! – ★★★★☆ Shrewd Festival Theatre: Fri 30 May & Fri 6 June 2025 Review by Rebecca Mahar Scottish Opera and the D’Oyly Carte Opera celebrate the 150th ...

Capture the Flag! ★★★☆☆ Good fun Capture the Flag! follows a group of fast-food workers on a mandatory company retreat where tensions build and relationships are tested. The Napier Drama Society’s ...