Beauty and the Beast
The Guardian 8 December 2025 It is rare for a family show to be both funny and spine-tinglingly creepy, but an achievement playwright Lewis Hetherington pulls off in his imaginative…
The Glass Menagerie
The Guardian 9 October 2025 Christopher Jordan-Marshall breathes the evening into life. Gliding into the auditorium with the house lights up, he appears as Tom Wingfield, the narrator of Tennessee…
Small Acts of Love
The Guardian 15 September 2025 What a joy to hear applause again in the Citz. The theatre’s seven-year renovation has been hard. In that time, many have been lost, including…
Reopening of the Citizens Theatre
The List 5 July 2025 Where were we? Oh, yes. It was April 2018 and the Citizens Theatre was rounding off its in-house spring season with Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s…
So Young
The Guardian 8 August 2024 Instead of Chekhov’s gun, we have Maxwell’s whisky. The bottle of Japanese spirits shows up early in Douglas Maxwell’s comedy of social awkwardness and at…
Moonset review
The Guardian 8 February 2023 When you see the gang of teenagers who form a midnight coven in Maryam Hamidi’s punchy and poetic new play, you think of Shakespeare’s Macbeth,…
The Comedy of Errors
The Guardian 28 August 2022 Ephesus is quite the place. It has its name in stage lights and you only have to open a door to hear the sound of…
Dominic Hill on The Comedy of Errors
The Scotsman 5 August 2022 You can’t fault Dominic Hill for perseverance. Last summer, the artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre staged The Comedy Of Errors as part of Scottish…