David McFarlane
Showcase 2016
★★★☆☆ Energetic variety:
Well staged, beautifully sung and dazzlingly eclectic, Showcase 2016 is not always consistent but certainly has something for everyone.
SLO Stage Titanic
Southern Light announce team for 2017 production:
Edinburgh’s oldest theatre company has announced that its 120th production will be Titanic The Musical, playing the King’s in February 2017.
Showcase 2015
★★★☆☆ On song:
Returning to the Church Hill Theatre for their 25th annual production, Showcase provide a fitting tribute for the theatre’s own fiftieth anniversary on 25 September 2015.
Showcase 2015
★★★★☆ Showstoppers:
Working the surprise factor to great effect, Showcase rises to the challenges of staging a big choral show on the King’s stage with significant success.
It’s Showcase Time!
Quarter Century Celebrations:
After 25 years, Showcase is moving down the hill from the Church Hill Theatre for a couple of nights on the big stage of the Kings.
Oliver!
★★★☆☆ Less is more:
Big and bold, Southern Light Opera’s production of Oliver! is consistently entertaining but does not always convince.
Love in a box
Discover 21 premieres new work
Cameron Forbes new play Something Resembling Love is to receive its premiere at Discover 21 on Friday night as Edinburgh’s smallest theatre continues its mission to promote new talent.
Miss Julie
✭✭✭✭✩ Enticing scandal
In a new adaptation of August Strindberg by Jen McGregor, Black Dingo Productions return to the late 19th Century with a story about class, longing and scandal.
Review – 1933: Eine Nacht Im Kabarett
✭✭✩✩✩ Musically sound
Dress up, take part and join in at Anke’s, the Berlin night-club created in Summerhall, for this politically-charged production set on 30 January 1933, the night Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
New theatre is Discover 21
Discover 21, a new 35 seat studio theatre run by local shoestring companies Tightlaced Theatre and Black Dingo Productions has opened at the Art’s Complex in Edinburgh.
