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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

The second year BA Acting students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) stage Margaret Atwood's sharp reimagining of Homer's The Odyssey. The Penelopiad plays at the Chandler Studio Theatre at RCS from 3 - 6 March 2026. Read my review below Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad at RCS. Photo: Hope Holmes The Penelopiad (play) by Margaret Atwood ★★★★☆ Review: 5 March 2026 | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad is a play adapted from her novella

Students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s BA Performance for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Actors programme present a retelling of...

Review: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, RCS The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 2025

Into the Woods review, Bare Productions, Paradise Green, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024.

Earthquakes in London review, RCS, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, BA Acting 2024, Joanna Bowman, climate crisis.

Into the Woods ★★★★☆ Cumbernauld Musical Theatre Society, CMTS Review: 26 October 2023 | Cumbernauld Theatre at Lanternhouse Into the Woods is Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical based on a number of Brothers Grimm fairy tales. It's complex, clever and darker than you may expect. But then Grimm's fairy tales are much more frightening than Disney would have you believe! There are important moral lessons and themes at the heart of 'Into the Woods'. Principally, that

A review of the 2023 BA Modern Ballet Graduation Performances at RCS, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, June 2023. (Dance, Theatre)

REVIEW: The Secret Garden (Cumbernauld Musical Theatre Society, CMTS) Cumbernauld Theatre at Lanternhouse