Scottish Theatre Highlights: April 2025
April offers a wide variety of new work from Stellar Quines, Scottish Opera, Dundee Rep and more – here's our pick of what's in store this month
This month begins with National Theatre of Scotland's Through the Shortbread Tin (1 Apr-2 May), a new play performed in Scots with songs in Gaelic. The production will visit 12 locations throughout Scotland, exploring folklore and tall tales.
Edinburgh-based group The Crunch Collective will stage Ben Ramsay's new play, The Stag and the Hound, at Saint Augustine's on 8 April. The dark comedy follows a groom-to-be after a stag do gone awry.
Stellar Quines will bring their largest ever cast to the Lochgelly Centre with Frankie Stein (18-19 Apr), a feminist exploration of the rise of AI and gender equity inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The cast is joined by the Young Quines, Stellar Quines' feminist youth company, and by a local Community Company. Frankie Stein is the first show created in the company's new home in Kirkcaldy.
Dundee Rep will open a new adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: A Parable. Directed by Joanna Bowman, the production will be the first professional adaptation in Scotland for nearly 15 years, and runs 19 April to 10 May.
At the end of the month, Scottish Opera will open The Merry Widow, Franz Lehár's operetta. The piece gets a new spin with an English translation and mid-century New York setting. The Merry Widow will open at Theatre Royal, Glasgow, before touring to Inverness, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and London from 30 April to 28 June.