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An updated version of Arthur Hull's musical cabaret FLOP! The Best Songs from the Worst Musicals, plays at Gilded Balloon Teviot at Edinburgh Festival Fringe through August 2026. Read my review here. FLOP! The Best Songs from the Worst Musicals ★★★★☆ Review: 11 August 2026 | Edinburgh Fringe, Gilded Balloon Teviot This is such a brilliant idea for a show! Even the worst, most unsuccessful financial and critical failures on Broadway and in the West End all have at least one re

Tom Neenan brings his new hour of comedy Portrait of a Tom as Young Neenan to Underbelly George Square, at Edinburgh Festival Fringe through August 2026. Read my review here. Tom Neenan. Photo: Matt Stronge Tom Neenan: Portrait of a Tom as a Young Neenan ★★★☆☆ Review: 11 August 2026 | Edinburgh Fringe, Underbelly George Square Writer of The Mash Report and numerous other BBC radio and TV comedies, Tom Neenan returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with his new come

Bryony Kimmings brings her latest show Bog Witch to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it plays at the Traverse Theatre until Sunday 30th August as part of TravFest26. Read my review below. Bryony Kimmings Bog Witch. Photo: Rosie Powell Bryony Kimmings: Bog Witch ★★★★★ Review: 9 August 2026 | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Bog Witch is the real-life story of how performance artist Bryony Kimmings, at forty-something, moved herself and her family out of the city and into a remot

Òran Mór's summer panto, Big Bad Riding Hood, is now playing lunchtimes in Glasgow until 19th July. Read my review below. Big Bad Riding Hood ★★★☆☆ Review: 03 July 2026 | Òran Mór, Glasgow The annual Òran Mór, adults-only, summer panto is back. Produced by the team behind A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Big Bad Riding Hood brings all the traditional Scottish Christmas panto shenanigans to Glasgow lunchtimes this July. Written and directed by award-winning writer Gary McNair, with m

"There's so much great art outside of London, and people really love it." says Les Dennis, who is currently playing 'Old Joe' on tour opposite Carrie Hope Fletcher in Waitress the musical. Read the full interview with Les Dennis below. Les Dennis as Old Joe in Waitress the musical. Photo: Matt Crockett Waitress UK tour cast interview: Les Dennis Screen and stage star Les Dennis plays Old Joe, the owner of the diner and pie shop where Jenna (Carrie Hope Fletcher) works, in th

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

The National Theatre of Scotland will present an evening of Scottish artistic talent in Edinburgh on 1st May. Aptly titled Mayday, this event, curated and directed by Cora Bissett and Hannah Lavery, will bring together performances of theatre, music, poetry, comedy and dance, with audiences invited to pay what they can. Find out more below. Hanna Lavery and Cora Bissett. Photo: Peter Dibdin NTS announces Mayday Two of Scotland’s leading artists and theatre-makers, Hannah Lav

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