Reviews

In July this year the Department of the Environment stated that 'Nature is dying'. But mention 'climate change' and, sadly, many people don't want…

Life isn't just glitz and glamour for those who dedicate their lives to entertaining us. In fact, it rarely is. Even big stars suffer…

I'm the wrong person to review a stage play about Sir Ian Rankin's famous detective John Rebus. Because, having read all 25 of his…

Janie Dee excels at everything she does. Whether she's starring in London's West End or at the National Theatre, Broadway or the Hollywood Bowl,…

Harry Potter fans know her as Professor Sprout, and television viewers know her as a chat show regular famous for shocking stories and bodily…

I never thought I'd fall in love with an acorn! But it is an oak seedling which takes centre stage in this exquisitely presented…

I left Gyles Brandreth's talk about happiness feeling sad. Sad that he couldn't have gone on for so much longer. And sad that, this…

This is going to be a short review! Not because I don't have anything to say about the performer in question but because I…

Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning epic adventure of endurance and hope is so beautifully written that it must have provided the best material on…

Doing a solo show is a marathon for any actor, and when it's a full-length play and you're delivering in a Scouse accent instead…

Damian Barr's turbulent story of growing up in 1980's Lanarkshire was named Sunday Times Memoir of the Year and is now a Scottish classic.…

This latest adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish novel is...extraordinary! In just a few sentences I learned more about the First World War…

As a woman travelling home alone from this show I should have been afraid, very afraid. For this powerful play is fizzing with anger…

Since it premiered at the Lyceum in February last year, Zinnie Harris's groundbreaking adaptation of 'the Scottish play' has won over audiences in both…

I always look forward to Matthew Bourne's productions. He never fails to impress, inspire and entertain us with his boundless imagination and stellar choreography.…

The characters of five girls who live in a London boarding house immediately after the war in 1945 are beautifully drawn in Gabriel Quigley's…

There's nothing better than seeing children engaging in the theatre from an early age. They are not only our future audiences but our future…

Emma Rice is a force to be reckoned with. A groundbreaking writer and director, her reworkings of traditional texts are sometimes controversial and attract…

Having tried to watch the filmed version on two occasions, and failing, I wasn't convinced that Hamilton would be for me. How wrong I…

Although, like most children of my generation, I wanted to be a ballet dancer, lack of money and an even greater lack of talent…

The Lyceum's artistic director David Greig is always pushing the boundaries in (mostly) exciting new productions. And so it is with the theatre's latest…

This is an experience not to be missed! From the war zone you have to walk through, with bombs exploding and the sound of…

The award-winning Gary McNair has already proved himself to be an exciting and innovative playwright with The National Theatre of Scotland's Dear Billy. Forbes…

This is Peter Pan as you've never seen it before! The boy who never grew up (played by local lad Kieran Lynch) makes little…