Review

glasgowtheatreblog June 18, 2024

Summer's over and Danny Zuko, a boy "as cute as can be" brags to his gang about a summer fling...

glasgowtheatreblog June 16, 2024

Scottish Opera would appear to do no wrong at the moment. Coming fast on the heels of its five-star full...

glasgowtheatreblog June 4, 2024

It's a dark and stormy night (isn't it always in a classic murder mystery?) in October 1968. Annabel Scarlett (Ellie...

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 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...