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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OpinionRefugee Crisis: On the front lines in Kos
Poet Louise Wallwein recalls volunteering with Kos Solidarity in Greece, providing food, water and support for refugees – experiences which have informed a new dramatic work exploring the urgency of this global crisis Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
ShowsPUSH Festival 2017: Top five picks
The five theatre shows at PUSH 2017 we're most looking forward to Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
InterviewsTheatre at Storyhouse: from Shakespeare to Alice
Chester's major new arts venue Storyhouse brings a theatre back to the city for the first time in a decade, and will present a mixture of home-produced summe... Read more »| 20 Dec 2016 -
Books
Introducing Storyhouse, Chester's new arts centre
Chester's brand-new arts centre, Storyhouse, opens in May 2017. A major renovation and extension of the city's old Odeon building, it houses two state-of-the... Read more »| 20 Dec 2016 -
ShowsScottish Ballet: Hansel & Gretel
Magic, humour, a frisson of scariness, a celebration of food and a happy ending: Hansel & Gretel, choreographed by Christopher Hampson, is perfect for a ... Read more »| 13 Dec 2016 -
OpinionAsk Auntie Trash: Fuck Christmas
In her Christmas column, Auntie Trash consoles a reader who hates the festive season, and reveals a secret of her own Read more »| 07 Dec 2016
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Shows
Black Beauty @ Traverse
Though Anna Sewell’s bestselling novel Black Beauty teaches moral lessons about empathy, compassion and respect and finishes on a positive note, much o... Read more »| 06 Dec 2016 -
Interviews
Scottish Panto Season: Battle of the Dames
Trapped in some kind of pre-Christmas Hell, our grumpy theatre editor attempts to find some semblance of festive cheer by chatting to not one, not two, but three Panto dames and trying to turn them against each other. It didn’t work Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Shows
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A treat. What better way to celebrate the festive season than this rambunctious, zany version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland written and directed ... Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Shows
Cultural Highlights: Strictly Ballroom in Leeds
Strictly Ballroom: The Musical With all the glistening lametta, prawn cocktail starters and Only Fools and Horses re-runs of Christmas, there’s arguab... Read more »| 29 Nov 2016 -
Shows
Rambert – Ghost Dances, Frames and Tomorrow
The iconic Ghost Dances, [★★★★★] visceral, sinister and melancholic, with its meld of skeletal Ghosts and folk dancing Dead, still in its 36th year, holds it... Read more »| 26 Nov 2016 -
Opinion
Roald Dahl: Conservative or Progressive?
This December, the West Yorkshire Playhouse stages an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved novel about witchcraft and the awkward journey to adulthood, T... Read more »| 10 Nov 2016 -
Shows
A Brief History of Evil
We all tell lies. If not to others, then occasionally to ourselves. And while some of these lies are for our own good, some prove to be more sinister. A Comp... Read more »| 09 Nov 2016 -
Opinion
Ask Auntie Trash: Consent in Theatre
Dearest Trash, In the wake of Donald Trump's comments about women, I was wondering how important consent is to actors on the stage? As an aspiring actor, ca... Read more »| 08 Nov 2016 -
Shows
The Rebirth of Chrysalis Festival
Scotland's forward-thinking youth theatre festival returns, bigger and better, for a second year Read more »| 03 Nov 2016