Nicole Cooper

Cinderella: A Fairytale

Cinderella: A Fairytale

★★★★☆ Magical

Cinderella: A Fairytale, this year’s Lyceum Christmas play, is a sparkling, visually wonderful and consistently entertaining piece of family entertainment.

Dec 1 2025 | By More
Polwart blows into Lyceum

Polwart blows into Lyceum

Windblown announces 2026 Lyceum dates

Karine Polwart to bring Windblown, her five-star EdFringe hit, to the Lyceum in April 2026, as preview briefs for the Lyceum’s Xmas show go on sale.

Sep 29 2025 | By More
PPP: Our Brother

PPP: Our Brother

★★★☆☆ Serious

Our Brother by Jack MacGregor, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse, is a tense political drama that is well acted but whose structure occasionally lets it down.

Sep 16 2025 | By More
Lear

Lear

★★★★★ Magnificent

Lear by Ramesh Meyyappan at the Traverse is a stunning piece of work – raw and delicate, disciplined and chaotic, frightening and beautiful.

Jun 6 2025 | By More
Macbeth (an undoing)

Macbeth (an undoing)

★★★★☆ Compelling

Zinnie Harris’s much-garlanded adaptation of Shakespeare, Macbeth (an undoing), returns to the Lyceum subtly tweaked and all the better for it.

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Drama Desk nods for Harris’ Macbeth update

Drama Desk nods for Harris’ Macbeth update

Four Drama Desk Award noms for Macbeth (an undoing)

Macbeth (an undoing) returns to the Lyceum on Tuesday 14 May 2024 after a successful international tour in which it picked up four nominations from the prestigious Drama Desk Awards from the New York critics.

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PPP: The Spark

PPP: The Spark

★★★★☆ Fiery

The Spark by Kathy McKean, the final offering in the current Traverse run of Oran Mor’s Play, Pie and a Pint, is a clever and compelling piece of theatre.

Apr 5 2023 | By | Reply More
Macbeth (an undoing)

Macbeth (an undoing)

★★★☆☆ Intriguing

Macbeth (an undoing), by Zinnie Harris after William Shakespeare at the Lyceum, is the latest in a long line of rewritings of Macbeth. While it is undoubtedly thought-provoking, it ends up more perplexing than engrossing.

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PPP: Pleading

PPP: Pleading

★★★★☆  Tensely human:

Rob Drummond’s Pleading gets the latest series of A Play, A Pie and A Pint at the Traverse off to a particularly strong start.

Oct 3 2017 | By | Reply More
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