There’s a Place
The Scotsman 8 October 2024 In Perth Theatre’s rehearsal room, they have made a display of early-1960s paraphernalia. It is to get the cast in the mood for There’s A…
Thank U, Next
The Scotsman 1 October 2024 If someone talked to you about bubblegum goth, would you know what they were on about? How about dark academia or angel-core? Would they be…
To Save the Sea
The Scotsman 16 September 2024 When you think about musical-theatre writing partnerships, you imagine earnest young people hunched over a piano in the Brill Building, batting musical phrases and lyrical…
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, autumn 2024
The Scotsman 19 August 2024 Last year, when Laila Noble joined the team as a resident director at Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre, A Play, A Pie And A Pint, on a…
Ian Rankin on Rebus: A Game Called Malice
The Scotsman 8 August 2024 Ian Rankin sells novels by the crateload and is riding the wave of television stardom thanks to Gregory Burke’s hard-hitting Rebus adaptation. The Edinburgh author,…
Yurts, a cruise ship, my flat
The Guardian 10 August 2024 Of all the extraordinary things about the Edinburgh fringe, the easiest to take for granted is that performances in the world’s biggest arts festival take…
Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson on Victor and Barry
The List 1 July 2024 Alan Cumming is sitting in his new Highlands home, a little poggled after a transatlantic flight. Boxes have still to be unpacked and the room…
Measure for Measure
The Scotsman 25 June 2024 It has been all steam ahead at Glasgow’s Bard In The Botanics, where director Jennifer Dick was already in rehearsals for Measure For Measure before…
Radiant Vermin
The Scotsman 14 June 2024 A few years ago, Julie Wilson Nimmo upped sticks and moved to Los Angles. She and her family – husband Greg Hemphill and their two…
Hedda Gabler
The Scotsman 1 June 2024 You have to admire Nicole Cooper’s stamina. She has only just finished her globe-conquering turn in Macbeth (An Undoing), Zinnie Harris’s radical rewrite in which…