St Bride’s Centre
Goldrush!
★★☆☆☆ Bitty:
Strong voices and some great tunes give the premiere run of Anne-Marie Fraser’s new musical Goldrush!, at St Bride’s to Saturday, an invigorating bounce.
Next Stop Broadway
★★★☆☆ Tremendously tuneful:
Next Stop Broadway, the new production from A-Team that is touring to various parts of Edinburgh, features a huge and impressive cast, with inventive and accomplished staging.
Goldrush! auditions
New Celtic Musical seeks singers:
A new Celtic musical, Goldrush!, is set to premiere at St Brides in June and is looking to audition for chorus and lead roles this Sunday 24 January 2016.
Proof
★★★☆☆ Elegant theory:
There’s a marvellous sense of realism to Blackout Production’s first foray into straight theatre, with a short run of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof at St Brides to Friday.
Proof lifts blackout
Blackout back, with Auburn’s Proof:
Amateur company Blackout Productions return to the Edinburgh stage for their second production when they bring Proof to the St Bride’s centre.
VoiceArc’s Edinburgh Figaro
New opera company debuts with Mozart update:
A seedy Edinburgh underworld is the chosen setting for a new production of The Marriage of Figaro, which marks the debut of new professional opera company VoiceArc.
When The War Came Home
✭✭✭✩✩ Local heroism:
Big-hearted but uneven, the panoramic sweep of When The War Came Home never lacks ambition but only intermittently achieves maximum power.
Prophecy
★★☆☆☆ Future potential
Raw around the edges and somewhat uneven in its storytelling, new musical Prophecy which has its world premiere run at St Brides all this week, nevertheless succeeds in bringing its hero, the Brahan Seer, to life.
The Prophecy is Now
New Scottish musical premieres this week:
Prophecy, a brand new Scottish musical by MST Productions, will get its world premiere at the St Bride’s Centre this week, running from Tuesday to Saturday.
Sweeney cutting it fine
The A-Team production of Sweeney Todd, scheduled for a week long run at the St Brides Centre in Dalry from Monday 17 Feb, has had its opening night postponed to Tuesday.
