Reading Time: 2 minutesAn evening of improvisational ritual that caters a bit too attentively to the goofiness of its late-night audience and doesn’t follow through on the poignant interactive experience it promises. I could try to write something poignant about…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I sat listening to the London Philharmonic Orchestra deftly make its way from Judith Weir’s leafy “Forest” (1995) to Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43” (1934), and then finally to the titular event of the evening, I wondered why I continue to be so drawn to this seven-movement orchestral suite about planets.
Reading Time: 3 minutesShortly after leaving The Beautiful Future Is Coming at The Traverse Theatre yesterday, my credit card was declined on the 27 Lothian bus. I tapped my phone again and again, but to no avail.
Reading Time: 2 minutesReturning after an entirely sold-out show last year, Gigglemug Comedy’s A Jaffa Cake Musical remounts the stage at Edinburgh Fringe for another tasty (VAT-less) snack of a run. A few years ago, I was shooting a film…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A cozy, queer little play that shivers happily away in the middle of the bustling summer Fringe.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMake It Happen is James Graham’s latest stab at revitalizing the oft-forgotten zeitgeists that deeply underpin our present sociopolitical moment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Fringe’s home for Scottish-Canadian artistic collaboration, Venue 13 kicked off the first of Climate Change Theatre Action’s 20 days of play readings. This is the Canadian theatre company’s tenth year of commissioning short-form climate theatre. Throughout the festival month, CCTA will present a total of fifty of its commissioned works, including ten new ones specifically written for the festival and in response to this year’s theme: The Time is Now.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf there’s one thing you can count on James Trickey to do, it is to make you laugh up your dinner over probability formulas. For accountant-turned-comedian James Trickey, it’s abundantly clear that the probability of “making” it…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis three-part play encapsulating the events surrounding a one-woman show at a pub theatre is not only self-aware of its setting in the most delightful of ways; it also becomes a sort of love letter to pub theatre generally that speaks directly and intelligently from a heart that both knows and wishes it well.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Arcola’s seventeenth festival of genre-stretching opera kicked off with a delightfully accessible piece that not only took its audience on a four-century journey through the forest but also embodied the best bits of an oft-inaccessible art form