Archive for March, 2026
The Importance of Being Earnest
★★★★☆ Ambitious
The EUTC’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Bedlam is careful and intelligent. It may ultimately lack a little sparkle, but makes up for it in many other ways.
One Day: The Musical
★★★★☆ Accomplished
One Day: The Musical, from the Royal Lyceum and Melting Pot, is a hugely ambitious production that has a correspondingly large impact, even with the odd problem in execution.
EIF Listings 2026
Theatre, dance & opera at the EIF 2026
It’s a big political slice of theatre at this year’s EIF, with plenty to chew over in the opera and dance programmes too
All Rise for a little bit of politics
Political edge to EIF 2026 theatre programme
Under the festival theme of All Rise, the Edinburgh International Festival’s theatre programme challenges the myths and stories that the ruling class in the United States of America would like to tell for the country’s 250th anniversary of independence.
PPP: The Legend of Davie McKenzie
★★★☆☆ Ebullient
The Legend of Davie McKenzie, the latest A Pie and A Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse, is an energetic and emotional piece.
Summer lunching at Roxy
PPP to stage four productions at Assembly Roxy
Assembly Roxy is to host four productions from Glasgow’s famed lunchtime theatre producers, A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) in April, May and June 2026.
Medea
★★★★☆ Furious
A millennia-old depiction of revenge is given contemporary urgency in the Bard in the Botanics’ Medea. The award-winning 2022 production is at the Traverse for two performances only, as part of a tour in association with Raw Material, supported by Macrobert Arts Centre.
SM call out
Professional role for Easter Play
Cutting Edge Theatre has put a call out for a Stage Manager with experience of working in the open air for their 2026 Easter Play, to staged in Princes Street Gardens (West) on Saturday 4 April.
Matilda the Musical
★★★★☆ Huge energy
The return to the Playhouse of the unstoppable juggernaut that is the RSC’s Matilda the Musical after seven years, is certainly a cause for celebration.
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