Live entertainment One of the UK’s most successful independent comedy clubs will open its first Scottish venue early next year. Currently under renovation at a site on the city’s Renfrew Street, the 400-seat Glee Club Glasgow will officially open in February. Founded nearly 25 years ago, Glee has hosted top names including Jimmy Carr, Kevin […]
CBFS generates huge investment in culture
Support for the arts A Scottish government funded programme designed to encourage closer collaboration between the arts and heritage sectors and the business community has generated almost £650,000 of investment in cultural projects during its first year. Launched in April 2017, the Culture & Business Fund Scotland (CBFS) is managed by independent charity Arts & […]
Lots of laughs in excellent Oregon adventure
The Trail to Oregon! (rating 5/5) Originally written and performed by American comedy/musical troupe Starkid, and then uploaded to great popularity on youtube, The Trail To Oregon is a unique and interactive take on the old educational computer game The Oregon Trail, widely played in history classrooms. With memorable songs by Jeff Blim, the show […]
Fine start but musical loses its killer touch
Buried: A New Musical (rating 3/5) Promising to be ‘darkly comic’ Buried starts off well with a memorable, nicely sung number in which a female serial killer, Rose, goes through a series of first dates that all end in murder. She then meets Harry and the two realise their similarities when they attempt to kill […]
Creepy tale from the woods is an admirable effort
The Devil You Know: A Horror Play (rating 3/5) Found footage horror has oversaturated the genre in the past decade or so (starting way back in 1980 with Cannibal Holocaust and then popularised by the Blair Witch Project in 1999, leading to more recent and tired productions like the Paranormal Activity franchise) but it it […]