Month: May 2024

glasgowtheatreblog May 31, 2024

Mournful notes from a cello greet us as we enter the auditorium. Gentle waves slowly build to a storm in...

glasgowtheatreblog May 28, 2024

Patrick Barlow’s Olivier and Tony Award-winning take on John Buchan’s classic tale of derring-do, The 39 Steps, has been doing...

glasgowtheatreblog May 21, 2024

Matthew Bourne’s contemporary ballet of Tim Burton’s much-loved movie Edward Scissorhands has been set very firmly in the 1950’s in...

glasgowtheatreblog May 18, 2024

Dead Girls Rising is a glorious, punk-protest, anger-fuelled, musical examination of women's real experiences of trying to exist in a...

glasgowtheatreblog May 14, 2024

I'm not sure that those involved in the 2011 BBC Three documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16 and indeed its subject Jamie...

glasgowtheatreblog May 11, 2024

It was either sheer genius or complete madness on the part of the person who decided that there was ever...

glasgowtheatreblog May 9, 2024

Sir David McVicar's 2008 traditional staging of Giuseppe Verdi's tragic opera La Traviata is a favourite with Scottish Opera's loyal...

glasgowtheatreblog May 4, 2024

Strutting onstage in what looks a lot like David Bowie's fantastic, red, white and black silk Kansai Yamamoto cape Jack...

glasgowtheatreblog May 1, 2024

It might come as a surprise to some, that in Disney's iteration of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, Ursula...