9 to 5 The Musical, Edinburgh University Footlights Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  Before a single coffee was brewed or typewriter clacked, Edinburgh...

Much Ado About Nothing , Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ .5 Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s Much Ado...

The End of the Line , Theatre Paradok Rating: ★ ★ ★. 5 The End of the Line introduces us to six almost-strangers, the last people on the...

The Boys in the Band , Bedlam Theatre What makes a 1960s play about closeted gay men resonate so deeply in 2024? When I heard that Bedlam...

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Conor O’Cuinn’s rendition of Mother Clap’s Molly House by Mark Ravenhill transforms Bedlam Theatre into a raunchy...

Rating: ★★★★ The Paint Job, directed by Alice Humphries, is aptly situated amongst the walls of paintings in ECA’s cafe, The Wee Red Bar,...

Photograph: Andrew Morris Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Edinburgh University Footlights delivered a captivating rendition of the classic musical...

Haider (2014), UTV Motion Pictures Rating: ★★★★ One of the many facets of Hamlet’s brilliance is its everlasting obsession with “energy...

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ The Last Dinner Party is playing on the speakers as you enter, the cast are intermingling on stage with the audience, and...

Thursday 12th October 2023, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Rating: ★ ★ Attending Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre...

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ As the audience takes their seats for Noor Kabbani’s Memento Mori, ‘Little Dark Age’ by MGMT loops moodily round. It...

In September, Kiwi singer-songwriter Lorde’s first album, her enigmatic and now iconic Pure Heroine, turned ten. A venue in Manchester...

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ As 18th century Suffolk awaits Halley’s comet, twelve women hold the fate of Sally Poppy in their hands. Sentenced to...

Albion - ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Haunted by a dead England, a dead friendship, and a dead son; a woman sits in a doomed garden, alone. Bedlam Theatre’s...

Chance, a student production directed by Yolan Noszkay and Niamh Kelliher, follows Aaron, a Year 11 student from a Northern working-class...

Stags’ show, 129.5 Steps to Autistic Success, describes his autism diagnosis as “the best thing that happened [to him]”, and I can...

***** 5 stars A masterfully acted, tragicomic look underneath Hollywood glamour. Written and performed by Nick Cohen, this...

“What it lacks in storyline, it makes up for with cheeky and entertaining characters, brilliant set and costume design, and a bopping...

Rating: **** “The gods have had enough of happy violent men!” cry the chorus of Trojan women, towards the end of the production Hekabe,...

Rating: *** It’s the first day of the Fringe, you’ve barely survived your journey down Lothian Road, attempted to confidently navigate...