Author: Ellen Leslie

  • Cast Announced For Perth Theatre’s Sunset Boulevard: The Backstage Cut

    Cast Announced For Perth Theatre’s Sunset Boulevard: The Backstage Cut

    Perth Theatre have announced the cast for Sunset Boulevard: The Backstage Cut. The show will star Juliet Cadzow (Balamory) as Hollywood star Norma Desmond, and John Kielty (The Belle Stratagem) as screenwriter Joe Gills. Frances Thorburn (River City) will play Betty Schaefer, and Mark McDonnell (Good Omens) will play Max and Billy Wilder. It is…

  • Innovative and Moving: What I’m Here For Review

    Innovative and Moving: What I’m Here For Review

    What I’m Here For is an international collaboration between Vanishing Point and Teater Katapult that explores the conflict between hospital bureaucracy and human choices. After cancelling her plans to work another nightshift on a severely understaffed ward, nurse Flora (Lærke Schjærff Engelbrecht) volunteers to look after the patient in room 33, despite repeated warnings from…

  • theSpaceUK Adds More Edinburgh Fringe Shows

    theSpaceUK Adds More Edinburgh Fringe Shows

    theSpaceUK have announced more shows in their Edinburgh Fringe programme. Fringe First winners Mulberry Theatre (The Unravelling) will return with two shows. O Brave New World, That Has Such People In’t! follows a young girl who handles her isolation through imagination, while One House on Brick Lane uses oral histories and lived experiences to tell…

  • Summerhall Arts Announces More Shows for Edinburgh Fringe 2026

    Summerhall Arts Announces More Shows for Edinburgh Fringe 2026

    Summerhall Arts have announced 36 new shows as part of their 2026 Edinburgh Fringe programme. Triple Fringe First winners Xhloe and Natasha (What If They Ate The Baby?, And Then The Rodeo Burned Down) will premiere their newest show Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It in the Main Hall. It will explore…

  • Legally Blonde The Musical Releases First Look Footage

    Legally Blonde The Musical Releases First Look Footage

    A new EPK for the UK tour of Legally Blonde The Musical has been released. Legally Blonde The Musical, based on the film of the same name, follows sorority girl Elle Woods, who embarks on a quest to win her boyfriend Warner back after he breaks up with her for not being “serious” enough. She…

  • Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story To Tour

    Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story To Tour

    Tom Foreman Productions’ Boiler Room Six: A Titanic Story will embark on a tour in April. Boiler Room Six follows the true story of Frederick Barrett, one of the lead stokers working on the Titanic. Against the odds, Barrett escaped death three times and his story remains one of the most devastating accounts from the disaster. The show…

  • The Black Blues Brothers Will Have You On the Edge of Your Seat: Review

    The Black Blues Brothers Will Have You On the Edge of Your Seat: Review

    ★★★★ Marking their final year performing at Edinburgh Fringe following three successful prior runs, The Black Blues Brothers is a thrilling tribute to John Landis’ cult movie The Blues Brothers. Acrobats Bilal Musa Huka, Rashid Amini Kulembwa, Seif Mohamed Mlevi, Peter Mnyamosi Obunde and Mohamed Salim Mwakidudu take us through an exhilarating performance, starting in an elegant lounge bar,…