 | Blood Brothers (Tour- Glasgow)    5 July 2012 After Willy Russell wrote Blood Brothers in 1983, a critic remarked that although he hadn't written the best musical in history, he had written the best finale. The sight of Mrs. Johnstone, standing b.... More... |
 | 42nd Street (Tour- Glasgow)    27 June 2012 “Who writes the words and music for all the girly shows?”, the white-toothed, white-suited Billy Lawlor asks at the opening of one of 42nd Street’s razzamatazz ensemble numbers. He s.... More... |
 | Macbeth (Glasgow)      21 June 2012 It has become rather a familiar sight in the ever-reddening seas of contemporary politics. The people revolt, as they have always done, against one man's cruelties and oust him from the sadistic sover.... More... |
 | Beckett Double Bill: Krapp's Last Tape & Footfalls    1 June 2012 There is always a special kind of silence in the auditorium as a curtain rises on a Samuel Beckett play. The smoke clears, the lights brighten with an authoritarian prescriptiveness and a meandering f.... More... |
 | Educating Rita (Tour - Glasgow)    1 June 2012 The Menier Chocolate Factory's revival of Willy Russell’s Educating Rita couldn't be more timely. With English universities hiking their course fees to three times their previous rates, the fina.... More... |
 | Avenue Q (Tour - Glasgow)      15 May 2012 More educationally focused on STDs than ABCs, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez's brilliant Avenue Q is a jaw-achingly funny pastiche of children's television and the twenty-something rom-com. With songs l.... More... |
 | Wonderful Town (Tour- Glasgow)     10 May 2012 Time and time again, New York City has proven itself to be the most knee-slapping town on the landscape of American musical theatre. Bobbing her hair and heading East, Millie Dillmount took Manhattan .... More... |
 | Anne Boleyn (Tour - Edinburgh)     9 May 2012 In the programme, the Globe's artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole, notes the lack of good quality touring drama for bigger venues. It is indeed a rare treat to see a company of 22 fi.... More... |
 | The Steamie (Tour - Glasgow)     2 May 2012 The Steamie should be venerated in the People's Palace as one of the greatest works of Scottish comedy. A social document of an era gone-by, the wummin of the Carneggie Street wash house fight class w.... More... |
 | King Lear (Glasgow)      29 April 2012 King Lear has been summoning his insincere daughters to his chamber for over four hundred years, trading his kingdom for their sycophancies and empty promises of love and devotion. And yet, whilst the.... More... |