Shows

I am usually suspicious of stage adaptations: if I want to spend more time in middle-earth, I’ll watch the movie or read the trilogy, and if a book is good enough to be worth a stage play, won’t the original be enough? Read more »

Scottish Opera is not just about the blockbusters; the recent revival of La Bohème was a success but for those looking for something more outré here comes a modern classic rarely performed in the UK. Read more »

The Forest Fringe begins to plant the seeds of new theatre, as they move from Edinburgh towards fertile ground on the West Coast Read more »

A marriage in chaos before the best man gets up to toast the couple. Inspector Sands investigates. Read more »

Since my erstwhile colleague and poker partner Charles Montgomery took advantage of my temporary incapacity, caused by a visceral reaction to Cat Aclysmic&rs... Read more »

Regular readers of my ponderous musings will know I’m something of a fixture on the cabaret “scene”.  The beautiful ladies of bur... Read more »