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A personal thank you, from Liam for all your support in 2024

Flashback | Recalling Killers, Glenn Chandler’s chilling play adapted from the handwritten letters of serial killers Ian Brady, Dennis Nilsen and Peter Sutcliffe

Doctor Who, Midnight Cowboy, Firebird, Ghost Stories, Hamilton, Lion King, Steps musical and Restless Natives all coming to the stage in 2025

Review | Donny Osmond’s Pharaoh, resplendent in dazzling gold tartan kilt, leaves the audience screaming for more

Review | Shrek parody is ‘ogre-the-top’ stag and hen heaven full of tease, cheese and just a little bit of wheeze

Join me to chat all things Cinderella at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre tomorrow.

Review | Graham Crammond is a glorious dame Scrooge but panto Christmas Carol fails to dispel feeling of ‘bah humbug’

Review | A mesmerising hour in the company of two of Scotland’s finest actors

Review | Kings 60th Anniversary panto is huge heart-felt hug for Glasgow, packed with tradition and community spirit

Review | 2024’s King’s panto at the Festival Theatre is a magical, dazzling Cinderella just for Edinburgh

Review | Understudy Cruella De Vil shines as Steps star goes off ahead of 101 Dalmatians press night

Edinburgh pantomime memories of Dorothy Paul… Aladdin at The Palladium in 1957

Review | & Juliet is a joyous reminder that, above all else, ‘love is love’ – were Shakespeare alive today, he’d surely be chuckling his approval

Here are the on sale dates for Cameron Mackintosh and Michael Harrison's 'reborn' production of legendary musical Miss Saigon coming to Newcastle, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Oxford

Review | Knees up Mother Brown, Del Boy and Rodders are in town… but all is not cushty in Trotter Towers

Review | Basil, Sybil and Manuel serve up laughs a plenty as Faulty Towers The Dining Experience takes Scotland by storm

Review | Subversive is best! With a jump to the left and a step in right direction, new cast bring fresh life to iconic cult musical, The Rocky Horror Show

Review | With David Tennant as Macbeth, Max Webster regenerates Shakespeare’s Scottish play into an ingenious audible feast - but is it worth £800 a ticket?

Review | It’s full steam ahead for Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express, an old potboiler that’s still playing to roars of approval

Review | Absorbing and heart-wrenching, Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati are perfect in beautifully staged production of Waiting For Godot

Review | Devilishly good and outrageously funny, Book of Mormon may not be for the easily offended but is all the better for that

New reads on Must See Theatre: Bat Out of Hell, Adult Panto, New Lyceum AD, £15 tickets, Felicity Kendall, Matthew Kelly, Matilda, Watch Sir Cameron Mackintosh, and Wild Rose

Review | With a huge heart, Hairspray is a timely high energy, all singing, all dancing celebration of integration and acceptance

Review | A feast for all the senses, Les Miserables Arena Spectacular is a magical night of landmark musical theatre

New reads on Must See Theatre right now | Mary Poppins, Hackney Empire, The Lion King at 25, ITV The Level's Cian Binchy and Hairspray

Review | Despite misgivings about some performances, Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers remains as angry and spell-binding as ever

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Win | You could attend the Opening Night of Blood Brothers at Edinburgh Playhouse as guests of Must See Theatre. Here’s how…

New reads for this week on Must See Theatre | Faulty Towers Dining comes to Scotland, Tattooer, star cast for Chicago, new Rolling Stones play, Redlands.

Review | Rebus: A Game of Malice ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

New reads on Must See Theatre this week - Dear Evan Hansen, Hammersmith Aladdin, The Whistling World Premiere, Faulty Towers Dining Experience Scottish Tour and Magic Mike extends

As David Greig steps down, could Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre Company be about to appoint their first female Artistic Director?

Review | Webb and Paoluccio ensure Dolly Parton ‘pocket’ musical is gloriously life-affirming affair

West Lothian actor hopes crowd funding will provide a lifeline to stage his writing debut, a queer tale of male mental health, sexual identity and addiction

Doctor Who and Eastenders' legend Bonnie Langford joins West End and Arena Spectacular casts of Les Miserable as the Mistress of the House

Hit songwriter to pay personal tribute to Pogues’ legend, Shane MacGowan, at Edinburgh Fringe

Breaking News | Original Veruca Salt and Mike Teevee from iconic Gene Wilder Willy Wonka movie to narrate Willy’s Candy Spectacular at Edinburgh Fringe

Review | Life, death, dominance and class collide in a darkly comic tale of sex, manipulation and… trifle

Inspired by his ‘cancer diaries’, Chemo Savvy set to be emotional Edinburgh Fringe tribute to city’s much loved panto star, Andy Gray

The new stars of I Ran With The Gang, the story of Bay City Rollers founding father Alan Longmuir, are revealed… look who’s going to be running with the gang

Casting | Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey to play Richard II on London stage at Bridge Theatre – here’s when to get tickets

Review | Pet Shop Boys’ musical Closer To Heaven returns to London, but is it a nine out of ten or has it fallen down a K-hole?

Review | Sally Reid’s Shirley Valentine is simply mesmeric; thought-provoking, bittersweet and deeply moving

Review | Not the most pretty Chitty and certainly not a shi**y Chitty, just a bitty Chitty… but Elaine C Smith is magnificent

Review | Songs to 'smile along to' make The Drifters Girl a glorious slice of nostalgia and a fun night out

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A thank you and an update from Liam

Review | Munro places queer love story at heart of religious turmoil in the Court of King James V

Did you see Geraldine McNulty in the play that changed Craig Hill’s life?

Review | Melancholic musings from a mid-life crisis are utterly relatable in This Is Memorial Device

Review | Raunchy, rocking and laugh out loud funny, Pretty Woman is pretty perfect in every way

Review | Murder In The Dark is a fun evening of modern Grand Guignol, full of B-movie hokum and jump scares

Review: Irish Annie's

Review: Blue Beard

Interview: Tali Pelman, producer of Tina - The Tina Turner Musical, recalls the global superstar she was 'blessed' to call a friend

Review: Tina - The Tina Turner Musical

Review: Peak Stuff

Review: Hamilton

Review: Cyprus Avenue

Review: Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Review: A Play A Pie & A Pint - Jack

Review: Hadestown

Review: Two Sisters

Review: The Wizard of Oz

Review: Jesus Christ Superstar

Review: Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show

Review: Rehab The Musical starring Keith Allen and Mica Paris

Review: Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker

Review: Shrek The Musical

Review: Macbeth starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma

Review: Jekyll & Hyde

NEWS | Curtain up on Must See Theatre's 2024 expansion