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A round-up of the week's news and features and a chance to win.

Happy Friday, everyone.

It’s nearly the weekend, hope you’ve all had a good week.

This week’s Must See Theatre newsletter brings you an update on all the additional content posted over the last seven days on MustSeeTheatre.com.

Review-wise it’s been a quiet week, but do watch out for my thoughts on The Girls of Slender Means at the Lyceum. It should drop into your emails tomorrow. Great cast, beautiful staging, but...!

As ever, the arrival of the website doesn’t affect your subscription to my Substack, you will continue to receive all my reviews free to your inbox as they go live.

This week’s newsletter includes a chance to win tickets to see The Drifters Girl at the Edinburgh Playhouse, a look a bit of Edinburgh theatre-land history with a trip to the Lyceum’s ghost gallery and memories of catching up with Star Trek’s George Takei last year.

Also, Ambassadors Theatre Group rebrands, Moffie, a one man play about toxic masculinity that caught my eye, then there’s Mary Queen of Rock!, worth looking out for at Fringe time, and the brilliant news that Sir Ian Rankin’s new Rebus play, which I was a lucky to catch the world premiere of in Hornchurch last year, is coming to the Festival Theatre. Hopefully, something for everyone.

Here are this week’s stories on MustSeeTheatre.com

Feature | Secret seats: Have you ever visited Edinburgh Royal Lyceum’s forgotten ghost gallery? Read here.

Features | Monday memories: Reunited with George Takei of Star Trek fame, 35 years later. Read here.

News | Rebrand ushers in ATG Entertainment as Ambassador Theatre Group bows out. Read here.

News | Toxic masculinity and trauma of life as a South African army conscript exposed in searing new play, Moffie. Read here.

Competition | Win tickets for press night of smash hit musical The Drifters Girl at Edinburgh Playhouse. Read here.

EdFringe | Roll over Six there’s a new Queen on the block as Pretty Knickers return to Edinburgh Fringe with Mary, Queen of Rock! Read here.

Breaking | Sir Ian Rankin’s new Rebus play is ‘Must See Theatre’ pick of Edinburgh Capital Theatres’ forthcoming season. Read here.

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Thanks again for being here, have a great weekend,

Regards

Líam

Newsletter Friday 19 April