King’s Theatre

glasgowtheatreblog June 4, 2016

Producing a concept album in 2004 was a brave move for US pseudo-punks Green Day. It isn’t hyperbole to describe...

glasgowtheatreblog April 21, 2016

Neither shoe-horning the hits of Michael Jackson around a flimsy storyline, nor taking his life story as narrative thread (it...

glasgowtheatreblog February 16, 2016

As a populist piece of entertainment Annie, Thomas Meehan, Martin Charnin and Charles Strouse’s 1977 musical has always appealed to...

glasgowtheatreblog November 22, 2015

Hoping that this was the start of it beginning to look a lot like Christmas, expectations were high for the...

glasgowtheatreblog November 5, 2015

Theatre company Kneehigh breathe new life into Daphne du Maurier's much-loved novel, Rebecca, managing to capture the chills of the...

glasgowtheatreblog October 7, 2015

It doesn't seem like overstatement to say that Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's ground-breaking 1971 work, Jesus Christ Superstar...

glasgowtheatreblog August 21, 2015

There’s little more one can say about a story once deemed unstageable by its author, which when adapted for the...

glasgowtheatreblog August 8, 2015

Before Joe DiPietro wrote the multi-award-winning Memphis, he made his Broadway debut with the show All Shook Up, ten years...

glasgowtheatreblog July 23, 2015

This seemingly ‘new’ musical is actually a decade old, starting life on Broadway in 2005 as All Shook Up, it...

glasgowtheatreblog June 26, 2015

Another production fresh from a run in the West End and now hoofing it up and down the UK is...