WICKED, “one of the most successful musicals of all time” (BBC News), today (Friday 18 November 2022) announces a major 10-city 2023-2025 UK & Ireland Tour, opening in Edinburgh for its only Scottish dates. The spectacular, multi-record-breaking, and …
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Review: Sister Act, King’s Theatre Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Praise the Lord! Glasgow’s prayers have been answered as Sister Act descended from on high for a feel-good evening that’s sure to lift the winter blues. Deloris Van Cartier, a lounge singer, is placed into hiding …
Review: Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of), King’s Theatre Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ After whirlwind success resulting in a stint in London’s West End, Isobel McArthur’s riotous take on the Jane Austen classic makes its way back home to Glasgow in an evening guaranteed to have you …
Review: The Cher Show, Festival Theatre Edinburgh
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Staging the story of a global music icon – especially one with such a towering back catalogue – is no easy feat. Cher is a pop icon undoubtedly more than the sum of her …
Review: Girl from the North Country, Theatre Royal Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Under the cloud of the impending Depression in 1930s America, Girl from the North Country opens the doors on a dysfunctional B&B and its larger-than-life inhabitants. As a lifetime of financial woes catch up …
Review: Beautiful, King’s Theatre Glasgow
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ She penned some of the most iconic songs of the 60s and 70s – but her personal rise to stardom was far from a fairytale. In this revival of XX’s Beautiful, the story of …
Review: Rob Madge: My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?), Edinburgh Fringe, Underbelly
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The theatre is a place where performers become anyone they want to be. But My Son’s A Queer shows the most moving pieces of theatre take place the person on stage is exactly themselves. …
Review: Luke Kempner: Macho Macho Man, Edinburgh Fringe, Pleasance Courtyard
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Macho Macho Man follows Luke Kempner’s personal journey from musical theatre star (he appeared in Les Mis, don’t you know…) to father. It’s 2022 and the typical male role model is due a revamp …
Editor’s Pick of the Fringe 2022
Braw Theatre editor Fraser MacDonald outlines his top picks of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Edinburgh Festival is nearly upon us – and that means the Fringe is about to kick off too! With …
Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Leave all preconceptions of previous existences of this show at the door. This production of the musical inspired by the Book of Genesis is a hit of Biblical proportions that elevates the show to …