King’s Theatre

glasgowtheatreblog October 14, 2016

From Muswell Hill to the top of the charts, via endless discord, constant ripping off from their managers, unexpected parenthood,...

glasgowtheatreblog September 22, 2016

Inspired by the sensational crime stories she covered during the Prohibition Era for the Chicago Tribune, and in particular the...

glasgowtheatreblog July 29, 2016

At the height of its powers in the 70s, D.C. Thomson’s beloved teen magazine Jackie, had an enviable circulation of...

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...