Good stuff from my ol’ west Euston mucker Will 👇

Know the feeling

What a treat to meet Rab C 👇

Can you still take pride in your children’s achievements when they surpass your own? Join us this week for Death of an Influencer, as Gerry, an aging actor with unfulfilled ambitions, is forced to confront the reality that his son’s sudden social media success is outshining his lifelong career...

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Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

I mean, why wouldn’t you? 👇

Hard recommend 👇

Going to be a belter 👇

☘️ FEIS on stage! ☘️ Join us this week for FEIS, a dark comedy about the fierce competition of Irish dancing, and a mother who tries to secure a win at any cost. Featuring also live Irish music played by Brian James O'Sullivan. Don't miss out - On at Òran Mór until Sat 20 Sep. 📷 Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Striking piece, essential read 👇

Review: Play, Pie, and a Pint: Wallace – Traverse Theatre Book by Rob Drummond Music and Lyrics by Dave Hook Directed by Orla O’Loughlin Review by Orly Benn Traverse Theatre ★★★★ This week’s A Play, A Pie, A Pint, written by Rob Drummond and Dave Hook, brings us a slick and thought-provoking…

"Breathtaking in its plausibility... as gripping as it is horrifying. You could hear a pin drop in the dark, red-light-bathed basement auditorium... Jack MacGregor’s Our Brother is an unforgettable play." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for Our Brother. Wow. www.lisainthetheatre.com/post/review-...

“It’s 1978 and Cambodia is ruled by the ruthless Khmer Rouge. An…academic from Stirling is…given a rare audience with the secretive leader…, a man they call ‘Brother’.” Brutal geopolitical reality as that dictatorship ended, this is nailbiting, brave and all too real. playpiepint.com/our-brother/

Edinburgh comedy award winner Sam Nicoresti: ‘Actually, this whole show is a monumental failure!’

📣 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 We're delighted to reveal Tom McGovern (The Signalman) and Michael Guest as our final cast of the season, starring in The Inquisitor by Peter Arnott. Directed by Liz Carruthers, don't miss this cerebral theatrical conflict between the power of speech versus silence!

📣 CAST ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Mary Gapinski, Sarah McCardie and Manasa Tagica will be starring in new gothic comic thriller The Haunting of Agnes Gilfrey by Amy Conway. Inspired by Scottish folklore and holiday horror stories, don't miss this theatrical treat this June!

Sneak peek into Meme Girls🔥 🎵 Join us next week for this funny and fresh new musical, as Jade and Clare chase their almost impossible dream of becoming musicians with a wee help of social media magic, until one of them is caught being a daftie on camera... 📱 On at Òran Mór from Mon 2- Sat 7 Jun

Search Party’s John Early: ‘You can only take a narcissistic monster for so long – it grates after 10 years’

⭐⭐⭐⭐ for this week's show Jocasta from @mindtheblog.bsky.social! "An intense 50-minute re-telling of the Oedipus myth – Zoë Hunter embodies Jocasta, heart & soul." Performing until this Saturday at Oran Mor.

T-minus 1 hour until this week's @playpiepint.bsky.social, Dancing Shoes, takes to the stage 🕺 Tickets for Saturday's performance are already sold out, so make sure to get booking before the other performances follow suit! We look forward to seeing you for a boogie 💥

“A rare and inspired display of small-scale theatrical brilliance, packed with humour, pathos and the kind of quickfire street banter that has audiences shouting with laughter…” 😊 www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Obviously *I* like it. But I’m pretty confident you will too…

Helluva essay by Sally Rooney @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Absolutely mouthwatering play that I can’t wait to see…

A great (and relatable!) listen… 👇

Exciting times…!

@playpiepint.bsky.social caught up with audience members after the opening of Wasps at the Òran Mór. Here's what they had to say... Coming to the Traverse from Tuesday 25th March. 🐝

A sneak peek of 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙚𝙨 🩰 Join us next week for this hilarious and thoughtful comedy-drama, as three men in recovery from addiction form an unlikely friendship, and one of whom has a secret love of dancing... 🎫 bit.ly/PPPDancingShoes Co-presented with Traverse Theatre.

Such a terrific show

👀 Take a look at 𝙒𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙨 on stage! Don't miss this blisteringly funny and emotional drama featuring a tour de force performance from Yolanda Mitchell as a teenager in crisis. Performing until this Sat 22 March at Òran Mór.

“Storytelling… pulls stories out of the silence that threatens all life. And fixes them in a place where, if the storyteller is a good one, they will never age and never die.” www.thetimes.com/article/fina... What a privilege to go stay with Athol Fugard, way back when, for this piece. RIP.

Can you help? There's no centralised script archive of Scotland's stage translators' staged works 1974-now, but support from SSP & @edmorgantrust.bsky.social is helping me change that. Any detail might be useful! 🙏 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Will. Be. Fun.

This is gonnae be a treat 😀

This is going to be So. Much. Fun 🤩

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Janette Foggo, Kyle Gardiner and Helen McAlpine to star in Eimi Quinn's Dookin' Out, the first @playpiepint.bsky.social show of 2025. Opens at Oran Mor on Feb 24, then tours to @traversetheatre.bsky.social, Paisley Town Hall, Johnstone Town Hall, and The Lemon Tree in Aberdeen.

Beautiful stuff

Yikes. Couldn’t be more excited to be working with this bunch!