'One Day' at the Royal Lyceum is a likeable, messy 'Sad-com'. Jamie Muscato and Sharon Rose are excellent, but as a musical, it’s hindered by a bafflingly poor sound mix.
A solid play fighting its own audio.
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#StageReview #EdinburghCulture
"Undeniably thrilling."
The RSC’s Matilda The Musical is a "highly polished, energetic machine" currently storming the Edinburgh Playhouse. From Madison Davis’s "charismatic" lead to the "suitably glorious" set pieces.
Read our review: wp.me/p91wLp-zErvpZN
#MatildaTheMusical #RoaldDahl
Featuring Ncuti Gatwa, Sharon D Clarke, and Hugh Skinner, you can stream the National Theatre production entirely free from 12 March.
Read our preview: wp.me/p91wLp-zErvpXS
#Theatre #Arts #NationalTheatre #TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest
Joz is certainly a comedian who looks upon his art from a different angle (and height) than many of his contemporaries...
The friction of arts funding means schools often miss out on vital cultural experiences. @ntsonline.bsky.social and Imaginate are bypassing that entirely: every 2026-27 Theatre in Schools Scotland performance is free.
Over 100 shows, 10,000 pupils, zero compromise.
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Berwick-upon-Tweed is leaning into the mid-winter gloom, turning the Tweed Estuary into a canvas of the numinous.
Litany for the Border marries choreographed light with Eleanor Cully Boehringer's score. Closes tomorrow—a true egalitarian experience.
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#PublicArt #Berwick
Family theatre rarely tackles mortality with the unflinching grace of Lightning Ridge.
As the show tours Scotland's venues and schools, read how Gill Robertson stripped back this outback tale into a raw, brilliant solo performance: wp.me/p91wLp-zErvpVN
#ScottishTheatre #CatherineWheels
For Conrad Murray, the canon isn't a collection of untouchable monuments - it’s raw material to be sampled. As his "remix mixtape" adaptation of Pied Piper opens tonight at Derby Theatre, we explore why the street’s voice is vital for the modern stage.
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#HipHopTheatre
The "grief play" is familiar territory, but The Sound of Absence strips away the expected nostalgia. This new "conplay" at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social pairs Yanina Hope's raw text with Vladyslav Kuznetsov's live piano as an equal dialogue partner. wp.me/p91wLp-zErvpVp #LondonTheatre #NewWriting
NEWS | @jackhuntercreative.bsky.social takes ‘One of Two’ on tour. 🏴
From Craigmillar to Dunoon, it’s a sharp, funny antidote to "inspiration porn." Catch it across Scotland this Spring.
Our 4-star verdict on why it’s a must-see: theqr.co.uk/2023/09/29/r...
#ScottishTheatre
A "Welles-esque" #SaintJoan that moves from kinetic wit to a Charli XCX-scored Inquisition?
The QR reviews a singular, if uneven, night at Citizens Theatre. "Bold enough... but one where the style occasionally suffocates the saint."
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#TheatreReview
“I think Joey is a 'Bad Gay' because he thinks he has to be.”
We speak to Conor O'Dwyer on weaponising silence and the "noble victim" trope in Homo(sapien) at Capital Theatre's Studio.
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#Theatre #ScottishArts #EdEvents
"It is a rare beast of a play that asks a community to play itself."
We caught up with @wonderfools.org to discuss the high-wire act of touring The Events. From Cumbernauld to the Trav, a new choir joins the cast in each.
Read the full interview here:
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#ScottishArts #Theatre
"Costumed somewhere between A Clockwork Orange and a casual-wear funeral."
We review EUSC's ambitious new Romeo and Juliet at the Pleasance Theatre. Expect "late-night jazz tones" and a Romeo with the cheer of a Joy Division record.
Read the verdict: wp.me/p91wLp-zErvpRj
#Edinburgh #Shakespeare
★★★★ "Modern-day masters of old-school stage comedy."
@mischiefcomedy.bsky.social return. With props trapping actors and lines pasted on wine jugs, Christmas Carol Goes Wrong at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre is "disastrous fun."
Read the review from The QR ⬇️
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#EdinburghTheatre
The Nutcracker comes with a contract: snow, parlours, and sugar plums. But in Havana, that contract is getting shredded. 🇨🇺
Acosta Danza Principal Paul Brando on bringing mambo, jazz, and "Havana heat" to the Festival Theatre Edinburgh tomorrow.
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#NutcrackerInHavana #Ballet
“It’s a testament to their talent for freewheeling, rather absurd yet gag-laden comedy that it’s never clear where the line between script and improvisation may lie.”
Siblings Maddy & Marina Bye bring their surreal 'Dreamweavers' to the stage. ★★★★
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#Comedy #Edinburgh
"Bridgerton for the doom-scrolling generation."
Rosalie Minnitt’s Clementine isn't just a Regency romp—it’s an anarchic seance for the burned-out.
We sat down with the comic turning 19th-century malaise into a cult hit on the realities of touring and the fight for funding.
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★★★★★ A cinematic, dystopian triumph.
Gecko Theatre's ‘The Wedding’ at Sadler's Wells East is a masterclass in physical storytelling. Amit Lahav’s vision of state-contracted souls is haunting and essential viewing.
Full review: theqr.co.uk/2026/01/29/r...
#TheWedding #MimeLondon #PhysicalTheatre
REVIEW: ‘Daughters of Persia’ at Kings Place. 🇮🇷
An evening of "astoundingly beautiful" music led by Farhad Poupel, celebrating the women of Iran. Yet, a cast including Tamsin Greig couldn't disguise the "stale staging".
Full verdict ⬇️
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#KingsPlace #LondonArts
Ah and I knew that too, oh for an editor - oh wait, I am the editor!
John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers is a comedy monolith, and its stage adaptation is a high-stakes archaeological dig into British sitcom history.
The QR visits the Edinburgh Playhouse for a masterclass in sitcom engineering.
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#Theatre #EdinburghEvents #FawltyTowers
"When I got my vasectomy, it wasn’t to stop myself having kids; it was to give myself time to do all of this work."
@stuartlawscomedy.bsky.social on his tactical invasion of every screen—from directing James Acaster to starring in @channel4.bsky.social's Patience.
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★★★★★ "I have never felt Burns more alive."
We review The Burns Project—a sold-out collaboration between James Clements, Cora Bissett, and the National Trust for Scotland. Set inside The Georgian House, this is immersive theatre at its most potent.
Read the full review: [Link] #Edinburgh #Arts
"I wanted to create an experience from birth to death."
As the visceral folk tragedy Salt arrives at Riverside Studios, we revisit our interview with playwright Beau Hopkins on 'ritual theatre' and the power of stripping back the stage.
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#LondonTheatre #OffWestEnd
"I put Auntie’s costume on and teeth in and she takes control."
Disaster Plan (Julia Taudevin & Kieran Hurley) return with a visceral, rigorous & very silly satire on the death of Empire.
We interview the duo ahead of the premiere.
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#ManipulateFestival #Summerhall
"One should develop the ability to be passionate about something... and still find the absurdity of it."
We trace the 50-year evolution of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo—from post-Stonewall to family-friendly faves.
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#Ballet #QueerHistory #Dance
"There is a distinct difference between poverty and misery."
Citadel Arts Group return to the Scottish Storytelling Centre this Sunday with In a Class of Their Own, a play finding the joy in wartime #Leith.
Read our preview: wp.me/p91wLp-zErvpHH
#ScottishArts #EdinburghTheatre #WhatsonEdinburgh
Two words: Culture clash! 🌍
In his new show A STAN IS BORN!, Alexis Sakellaris explores how a move from NYC to rural Germany led him to find salvation in American pop divas.
His musical comedy opens @theotherpalace.bsky.social tomorrow! Will you Stan it?
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#ASTANISBORN
Michael Keegan-Dolan brings MÁM from West Kerry to the Scottish Highlands: "There is an ancient connection between the Scottish and the Irish... If you say Scotland, I will smile and step in."
Full interview ⬇️ wp.me/p91wLp-zErvpHa
#Dance #ScottishArts #IrishArts #TheQR
