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Omigod you guys! Elle Woods and Bruiser Woods are on tour. The brand new 'Made at Curve' production of Legally Blonde the musical is at The King's Theatre, Glasgow until Saturday 11th April, before continuing on tour across the UK and Ireland through 2026. Read my review of this very fun - very pink! - new musical below. Sprout as Bruiser Woods & Amber Davies as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde the musical. Photo: Matt Crockett Legally Blonde the musical ★★★★☆ Review: 7 April 20

Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson's cult 90's sitcom The High Life makes the leap from TV screen to stage in a brand-new comedy musical. The show tours to theatres across Scotland this Spring following a dazzling world premiere Dundee Rep. Read my review from the opening night of The High Life the musical below. Forbes Masson & Alan Cumming in The High Life the musical. Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan The High Life the musical ★★★★★ Review: 2 April 2026 | Dundee Rep Theatre Please ensur

Bethany Tennick's Outskirts premiers at A Play, A Pie and A Pint this week. The new musical comedy, co-presented with Aberdeen Performing Arts and OneRen, is at Òran Mór, Glasgow until Saturday 4 April. Read my review below. Rosie Graham, Shona White and Jake Stephen in Outskirts. Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Outskirts ★★★☆☆ Review: 1 April 2026 | Òran Mór, Glasgow Another week another show bursting with outstanding Scottish talent at A Play, A Pie and A Pint. The little lunchtim

TV star Tom Chambers plays another TV national treasure: Detective Inspector Morse in the first ever stage version of the iconic character. The UK tour of Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts is at Glasgow Theatre Royal from 31 March to 4 April 2026. Read my review below. Tachia Newall as Detective Sergeant Lewis and Tom Chambers as Detective Inspector Morse in Inspector Morse House of Ghosts (c) Johan Perrson Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts ★★★☆☆ Review: 31 March 2026 | Theatr

Flora is a new musical from Genesis Theatre Productions that brings the life story of Flora MacDonald to the stage. Best known for helping Bonnie Prince Charlie escape capture after the Battle of Culloden, the new musical written by Belle Jones , with music from AJ Robertson and John Kielty , presents the mostly unknown story of the Scottish Jacobite heroine to audiences who may be curious about what happened to Flora after she smuggled the bonnie prince 'Over the sea to

Olivier-nominated musical JUST FOR ONE DAY: THE LIVE AID MUSICAL will come to the King's Theatre, Glasgow from 27th to 31st July 2027 as part of a major new UK tour. Find out more below. Just For One Day: The Live Aid musical UK tour announcement Glasgow Producers Jamie Wilson Productions (The Devil Wears Prada, Two Strangers Carry A Cake Across New York, Mrs Doubtfire) are thrilled to announce further tour dates for Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical , in association w

The stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption plays at Glasgow Theatre Royal until Saturday 28th March before continuing on UK tour through 2026. Read my review below. Ben Onwukwe and Joe McFadden in The Shawshank Redemption. Photo: Jack Merriman The Shawshank Redemption (UK tour) ★★★★☆ Review: 24 March 2026 | Theatre Royal, Glasgow The Shawshank Redemption is a play based on Stephen King’s 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption . The work has been adapted f

This week's 'A Play, A Pie and a Pint' at Òran Mór, Glasgow, is James Reilly's Miss Lockwood Isn't Well. The superb new comedy drama plays in Glasgow until Saturday 28th March before transferring to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh the following week. Read my review below. Mark Cox, Karen Young and Jane McCarry in Miss Lockwood Isn't Well. Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Miss Lockwood Isn't Well ★★★★☆ Review: 25 March 2026 | Òran Mór, Glasgow The pupils at Miss Lockwood's school have

The third year BA Musical Theatre students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) bring the magic of Paris to Glasgow with their take on quirky romantic musical Amélie. Amélie plays at the New Athenaeum Theatre at RCS from 17 to 20 March 2026. Read my review below. Amélie at RCS. Photo: Hope Holmes Amélie ★★★★☆ Review: 17 March 2026 | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Amélie the musical is based on the 2001 French-language film of the same name by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Ador