Wild Rose: film about Glaswegian country singer to be turned into stage musical
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline to become ‘dark, spangly’ stage musical
April 2024
The Girls of Slender Means review – Muriel Spark’s postwar tale told with zingy wit
Expertly adapted novel about young women beginning adult life in the wake of the second world war is shadowed by trauma but full of life and merriment
February 2024
Two Sisters review – a wry look at the perils of nostalgia
David Greig’s entertaining and immaculately performed new play is about adults seduced by memories of their own emotionally heightened teenage pasts
December 2023
From exhilarating Oliver! to a mardy Beast in the east – three of the best Christmas family shows
Lionel Bart’s classic musical is all light and shade in James Brining’s in-the-round revival; actors and audience ad-lib with aplomb in a seaside Beauty and the Beast; plus, a camp and catchy Snow Queen
October 2023
Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape review – Chekhovian take on the Scottish referendum
An impressive ensemble makes the most of Peter Arnott’s new country house play, set during Scotland’s 2014 independence vote
August 2023
Phaedra/Minotaur review – gripping double bill scales the heights of emotion
As Far as Impossible review – humanitarian aid staff share their extraordinary stories
Nova review – female Casanova’s very ordinary escapades
Dusk review – powerful exploration of Lars von Trier’s Dogville
May 2023
Anna Karenina review – sparky feminist reading of Tolstoy
Lesley Hart’s adaptation of the classic novel is driven with tremendous energy following its tragic heroine as she discards bourgeois convention
February 2023
Macbeth (An Undoing) review – sound and fury signifying nothing
Macbeth (An Undoing) review – Lady M does what Shakespeare didn’t dare
August 2022
This Is Memorial Device review – memories of fictional indie heroes burn brightly
An adaptation of David Keenan’s novel about a Scottish band who nearly supported Sonic Youth is lovingly detailed
Tim Crouch: Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel review – virtual King Lear
Using a VR headset and an empty stage, Tim Crouch puts his audience at one remove from the Shakespeare play to comment on the world and theatre itself
Counting and Cracking review – an absorbing Sri Lankan family odyssey
Thisepic drama charts characters from Colombo in the 50s, through the civil war, before settling in Sydney
June 2022
Laurel and Hardy review – a dream of slapstick and sadness
Stephen McNicoll and Barnaby Power make a consummate team as the comedy legends, delivering knockabout hilarity with a melancholy undertow
April 2022
Keli review – music, mining and a maelstrom of emotions in brass band drama
Working-class history and a young woman’s story combine in this audio drama from the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
March 2022
The Scent of Roses review – a squirming study of truth and lies
Zinnie Harris’s bold drama is a funny, frequently disorienting look at the evasion and deceits that corrode relationships
January 2022
Bill Bryden: supremely gifted director who harnessed the ensemble’s power
The Scottish theatre-maker, who has died aged 79, brought us an epic 12-hour production of the Mysteries and the world premiere of Glengarry Glen Ross
