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: June 2026
Scottish theatre in June includes stories that reckon with history and memory, while dance and opera offer several opportunities for escapism Read more »| 01 Jun 2026 -
InterviewsGame On: Joe McCann on his new play The Corinthian
As Scotland prepares for the World Cup, Joe McCann's new play restores Andrew Watson – the world’s first Black international footballer – to Scottish history Read more »| 29 May 2026 -
ShowsBlack Diamonds and the Blue Brazil @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Dawn Steele shines in a warm and winning show in which football becomes a lens through which to explore loss and community Read more »| 25 May 2026 -
ShowsSweat @ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
A blistering new production of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-winning drama Sweat paints a portrait of working-class lives under pressure Read more »| 19 May 2026 -
InterviewsSusannah Wapshott on Scottish Opera's Marriage of Figaro
Scottish Opera’s Susannah Wapshott on accessibility, Mozart’s near-perfect score and why The Marriage of Figaro still resonates now Read more »| 06 May 2026 -
ShowsStand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In @ Tron Theatre, Glasgow
National Theatre of Scotland's new retelling of the Lee Jeans Sit-In of 1981 is a wonderful retelling of workers' strength and solidarity that feels more vital than ever Read more »| 05 May 2026
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ShowsScottish Theatre Highlights: May 2026
Work, class and political memory come into focus this May, with revivals and new writing sweeping Scotland’s stages Read more »| 01 May 2026 -
ShowsWindblown @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Karine Polwart's solo endeavour is a resonant, immersive tale about the life of plants Read more »| 30 Apr 2026 -
InterviewsStaging Solidarity: The Lee Jeans Sit-In of 1981
Playwright Frances Poet, director Jemima Levick and Margaret 'Maggie' Wallace, an original striker, discuss Stand and Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In – the story of a Greenock uprising fit for the stage Read more »| 16 Apr 2026 -
ShowsScottish Theatre Highlights: April 2026
New writing and touring work take centre stage in April, with book and film adaptations, local storytelling and small-scale narratives well worth watching Read more »| 31 Mar 2026 -
ShowsSaint Joan @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
A piece of resistance for our modern times, Stewart Laing’s interpretation of Saint Joan is defiant, hopeful and delivered with clinical precision Read more »| 23 Mar 2026 -
ShowsA Grain of Sand @ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
A lyrical solo performance about a child surviving Gaza’s devastation, A Grain of Sand blends folklore and testimony to insist on bearing conscious witness to genocide Read more »| 16 Mar 2026 -
MusicEdinburgh International Festival announces 2026 programme
Edinburgh International Festival returns with a programme around the theme of All Rise. Highlights include a new version of Angels in America, Missy Mazzoli's opioid opera The Galloping Cure and an intimate gig from corto.alto Read more »| 11 Mar 2026 -
ArtCCA Glasgow: What We've Lost
With the CCA in Glasgow now in liquidation, its staff left jobless, and its windows boarded up, we speak to some of the artists and programmers who use this space and ask what we've lost in the wreckage and what we can salvage if the CCA returns Read more »| 05 Mar 2026 -
InterviewsJoanna Bowman on climate crisis play The Trials
In Dawn King's The Trials, teens hold adults accountable to a catastrophic climate in the near-future. Our writer speaks to director Joanna Bowman about exploring praxis through theatre in times of crisis Read more »| 03 Mar 2026