Theatre
The Skinny theatre guide to plays, musicals, and theatre festivals throughout Scotland. We bring you the latest news in Scottish theatre, with highlights and reviews. Get backstage access with The Skinny's exclusive playwright, director, and festival curator interviews.
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ShowsNixon In China @ Theatre Royal, Glasgow
John Adams' 1987 opera about the US president's state visit to China is given a new lease of life by Scottish Opera Read more »| 20 Feb 2020 -
ShowsPride Plays @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Scotland's first LGBTQI+ playwright festival returns to The Traverse, showcasing some excellent new work Read more »| 19 Feb 2020 -
ShowsTrojan Horse @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
LUNG's award-winning show, adapted from 200 hours of interviews, concentrates on the devastating consequences of a media storm Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
ShowsManipulate 2020: Lamp, Shadowbird and Island Home
We round up our coverage of this year's Manipulate festival with three ambitious shows that strive for thought-provoking visual spectacle, with varying degrees of effect Read more »| 14 Feb 2020 -
ShowsManipulate 2020: Sketches, Canto X and Up
Conceptual dance, object theatre and Dante's Inferno: our coverage of Manipulate continues Read more »| 14 Feb 2020 -
ShowsManipulate 2020: Remember?, Transfigured, and A Brief History of The Male Fragile Ego
Manipulate presents mesmerising and multilayered work from Nunah Theatre, Oceanallover and Jordan & Skinner Read more »| 12 Feb 2020
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ShowsManipulate 2020: Twa Pirate Quines, Dreams of The Small Gods & After Chekov
Puppetry, performance art and pirates: our writers report on three, entirely different stories told at this year's Manipulate Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
InterviewsWorkers Theatre on Something Has to Happen Festival
We catch up with the folk from The Workers Theatre about radical art, how a theatre cooperative works and why their upcoming festival – Something Has To Happen – couldn't be more timely Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
ShowsPride and Prejudice* (*sort of) @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
A memorable and proudly feminist retelling of the novel, with plenty of in-jokes that Jane Austen aficionados will appreciate Read more »| 05 Feb 2020 -
InterviewsScottish Opera's Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol on Nixon in China and their Under 26 offer
Ahead of the Scottish Opera’s premiere of John Adams’ Nixon in China, the production's Assistant Director Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol tells us more about the opera and their Under 26 scheme Read more »| 04 Feb 2020 -
ShowsScottish Theatre Highlights: February 2020
February's full of excellent shows guaranteed to beat the winter blues Read more »| 04 Feb 2020 -
ShowsBARRY @ Summerhall, Edinburgh
A clever and energetic show from Shrinking Violet, Barry is a joy to watch Read more »| 27 Jan 2020 -
ShowsWIG III @ CCA, Glasgow
Multi-disciplinary group ICEBERG's third Weekend Of Improvisation in Glasgow is a varied and dynamic evening of performance Read more »| 24 Jan 2020 -
InterviewsPolmont Youth Theatre: Seeing Beyond the Bars
The Polmont Youth Theatre, established in 2019, was the first Youth Theatre ever set up in a Scottish prison. The Skinny speaks to its co-founder, Jess Thorpe, about drama as healing and why reframing crime as a public health issue has been so important Read more »| 15 Jan 2020 -
ShowsTheatre in Scotland: January 2020 highlights
Your drinks may be dry this month, but your culture doesn't have to be – here's our pick of the month's best theatre Read more »| 07 Jan 2020