Reading Time: 2 minutesAnd therein lies the main issue with Ghost Grandma. Marketed as a comedy, it struggles to maintain any consistent comedic impact. Despite the cast’s evident commitment, the script and direction leave many jokes falling flat, and the actors’ often overstated delivery of punchlines makes the tonal shifts that come later in the play all the more jarring and uneven.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBIG Gospel Choir at Christmas promises to be heart-warming, with stunning vocals.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA tower in Greenwich overlooking the Thames sits at the centre of Timelapse Company’s debut musical Precipice.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStaging a dance tribute to this controversial festival, as Armin Hokmi has done, is in itself a bold gesture deserving of praise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSunshine, sweat and sound. When Harry Wayne Casey, a record shop staff in Hialeah with an obsession for rhythm, he didn't know Miami would become the centre of disco and dance music because of him.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFlailing and unsure, a bloated exploration of cosmic awkwardness with fleeting and infrequent moments of excellence. The very first impression is strong, a shining silver paneled wall, an actor already on stage quietly reading a book, and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesMiranda Lapworth’s Storms, Maybe Snow is built on familiar but time-tested foundations.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll bark and no bite, risky but predicatable A musical spiral into madness as an PhD student makes a deal with the devil for ground academic success, sounds like a chaotic, exciting and horrifying examination of academic…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen we hear murder mystery, a very specific image springs to mind. Between The Mousetrap, Poirot, Knives Out, The Play That Goes Wrong, and even Cluedo, the genre has carved out a well-loved and recognisable formula– one that artists continue to lean into simply because it works.
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.