Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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TheatreBuild a Rocket @ Traverse, Edinburgh
Serena Manteghi shines in the funny and moving one-woman show Build a Rocket Read more »| 23 Oct 2019 -
TheatreFrankenstein @ King's Theatre, Edinburgh
A tonally messy production of Mary Shelley’s gothic classic unsuccessfully pulls in two different directions at once Read more »| 22 Oct 2019 -
MusicSaint Etienne @ The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 19 Oct
Saint Etienne deliver a faithful rendition of 1994's Tiger Bay as well as all the hits, making for a somewhat fractured show but one that's been plenty earned by this wonderful band Read more »| 22 Oct 2019 -
BooksCar Park Life by Gareth E. Rees
Gareth E. Rees' study of the car park is part psychogeographical study, part autobiography, and part satire of contemporary Britain Read more »| 22 Oct 2019 -
MusicHot Chip @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 19 Oct
Hot Chip bring a greatest hits show to Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom Read more »| 22 Oct 2019 -
TheatreLove Song to Lavender Menace @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Watching Love Song to Lavender Menace is a joyous and celebratory experience Read more »| 22 Oct 2019
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MusicSlime City to release Glasgow is a Shitehole
Available to buy for one evening only, art-rock trio Slime City's new single will only be available to people with a Glasgow postcode Read more »| 22 Oct 2019 -
BooksDear Girls by Ali Wong
Dating, family, marriage, sex, food, pregnancy – stand-up comedian Ali Wong goes on a frank journey through the messiness of life in her new memoir Read more »| 22 Oct 2019 -
TheatreDance International Glasgow: Crowd @ Tramway
Gisèle Vienne's dance piece is meticulously crafted, but the concept is tired Read more »| 21 Oct 2019 -
TheatreThe Panopticon @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
The National Theatre of Scotland's adaptation of Jenni Fagan's novel creates an angry, defiant, magical and symbolic world Read more »| 21 Oct 2019 -
MusicThe Murder Capital @ Mash House, Edinburgh, 15 Oct
Tonight, The Murder Capital play their debut album more or less in full, but radically reordered to split the gig into a show of two halves Read more »| 21 Oct 2019 -
FilmA Good Woman is Hard to Find
Social realism and B-movie exploitation combine in this drum-tight horror from Northern Ireland Read more »| 21 Oct 2019 -
TheatreScottish Opera's Roxana Haines on Tosca and accessible opera
Scottish Opera's Staff Director, Roxana Haines, tells us about the company's current production of Tosca and how they're trying to make opera accessible to a wider audience Read more »| 21 Oct 2019 -
Tv RadioEl Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Vince Gilligan returns to the world of Breaking Bad to give us the closure none of us knew we needed Read more »| 18 Oct 2019 -
MusicFoals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2
Six months on from the first instalment, Oxford's finest hold up a cracked black mirror to Part 1 – and make a stirring argument for the double album in the process Read more »| 18 Oct 2019