REVIEW: Sleeping Beauty

Reading Time: 2 minutesSparkling costumes, exquisite dancing, and enough fairy dust to enchant an audience of any age.

Reading Time: 2 minutesSparkling costumes, exquisite dancing, and enough fairy dust to enchant an audience of any age.

Reading Time: 3 minutesPhoenix Dance Theatre are simply, technically, one of the best companies working in Britain today

Reading Time: 3 minutesBased loosely on Bizet’s Carmen and hailing from Matthew Bourne’s acclaimed company New Adventures, the 2026 revival of The Car Man has big (dancing) shoes to fill, but this erotic-thriller maintains its legendary status for good reason.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Marquise by Noël Coward has been brought back to treat a new audience. The director Philip Wilson has lovingly crafted a tribute to the style of this piece.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA remarkable celebration of human connection

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is remarkable what Ellen Davies can build from a bowl of fruit, a length of rope and one uninvited guest.

Reading Time: 2 minutesSouthern Light brings the iconic crap game of Guys and Dolls to the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh this week with a high-energy cast, brightly coloured costumes and a guessing-game set that leaves audiences in awe of the company’s talent.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe women's bathroom has always operated as a confessional - secrets exchanged between strangers over shared lipstick, governed by the tacit understanding that whatever happens here stays here. April Hope Miller's FLUSH simply formalises the jurisdiction.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWoke taxi drivers, shocking Christmas Market prices, Elvis impersonators and First Ministers, these Scottish comics were brilliant! A fine selection of talent graced The Beacon Arts Centre as The Scottish Comedians came to give Greenock a hard…
Reading Time: 2 minutesEver wondered what your favourite karaoke classic from the noughties, or latest radio hit would sound like performed as classic show tunes? Or what show-biz icons Liza Minelli and Liberace would sound like in their own vivacious cabaret together?