Theatre
The Skinny theatre guide to plays, musicals, and theatre festivals throughout Scotland. We bring you the latest news in Scottish theatre, with highlights and reviews. Get backstage access with The Skinny's exclusive playwright, director, and festival curator interviews.
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ShowsScottish Theatre Highlights: October 2025
This month, Scotland is host to a wide array of ambitious festivals Read more »| 29 Sep 2025 -
ShowsFiddler on the Roof @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
This new touring production of Fiddler on the Roof is an emotionally resonant revival of a classic Read more »| 26 Sep 2025 -
ShowsScottish Theatre Highlights: September 2025
While Edinburgh recovers from the festivals, Citizens Theatre brings new theatre to Glasgow, while a trio of exciting productions tour the country Read more »| 02 Sep 2025 -
OpinionPuttin' on the Citz: Citizens Theatre reopens
After seven long years Glasgow's Citizens Theatre has finally reopened its doors. We take a look at what's been happening, and what's coming up Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
FestivalsPickled Republic @ Summerhall
Ruxandra Cantir's solo show is a charming, weird, and timely reflection on society, via some truly unique characters Read more »| 27 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsEIF: Figures in Extinction @ Festival Theatre
Nederlands Dans Theater's EIF co-production with Complicité examines how artists, and by extension people, can meaningfully exist in the face of extinction and mortality. Read more »| 25 Aug 2025
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FestivalsClub NVRLND @ Assembly Checkpoint
In its perhaps overly successful attempt to replicate a club environment, elements of the immersive Club NVRLND get lost in the fray Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsBalfour Reparations @ Summerhall
Farah Saleh's genre-bending piece is timely, memorable and innovative Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsVENUS 2.0 @ ZOO Southside
An ever-changing cabaret of dance, theatre and puppetry retells the life of suffragette-turned-fascist Mary Richardson Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsLost Lear @ Traverse Theatre
Venetia Bowe shines in this intensely moving and astonishingly clever production about an actress lost in her memories Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsConsumed @ Traverse Theatre
Karis Kelly's Consumed is a fantastically paced and multi-layered tale of intergenerational trauma in one Northern Irish family Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsThis Sh*t Happens All The Time @ Assembly George Square
Amanda Verlaque's true story about queer love calls up powerful queer narratives that remain pressing today Read more »| 21 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsDeliverance @ Traverse Theatre
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir's innovative at-home experience is an innovative exercise in reflection Read more »| 21 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsEIF: Cutting the Tightrope @ Church Hill Theatre
Cutting the Tightrope confronts political censorship in art through a range of new short plays Read more »| 19 Aug 2025 -
FestivalsTriptych Redux @ ZOO Southside
Triptych Redux is a visceral dance performance characterised by a hypnotic blend of light, sound, and precision Read more »| 18 Aug 2025