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Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

August 1, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

Just shy of its 60th anniversary and the infamous Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical is still delighting. A packed King’s Theatre in Glasgow was on its feet singing and dancing along to the […]

Restless Natives: The Musical

June 25, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

A joke shop is a strange place to plot becoming modern day highwaymen. But then cult Scottish favourite Restless Natives is a bit of an eccentric story which grows on you as the audience at […]

Caleb Roberts as Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and Shannon Hayes as Camae in The Mountaintop

There’s no denying that civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King was an extraordinary man. But he was also human and the very clever play, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall exploits his fears and weaknesses […]

Picture You Dead

June 13, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

An old-fashioned crime thriller with twists and turns at every corner is always a winner with theatre audiences. And crime writer Peter James’s Picture You Dead showing at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow proved to […]

KELI – National Theatre of Scotland

June 12, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

Teenager Keli is like a wounded animal. For her life is one long battle to survive. Music is her lifeline and the one consistent which makes her feel maybe there is hope ahead. Let’s face […]

Ed Thorpe and Anya De Villiers in The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

June 11, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

Lovely to see a lot of excited children on the edge of their seats as they enjoyed CS Lewis’s timeless classic at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow. With all of today’s fabulous fast-moving animation, sparking […]

The Book of Mormon Musical

May 15, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

A musical comedy all about religion is always going to divide people. Risque jokes, costumes, dances are the staple diet of this musical which first hit Broadway in 2011. Times and attitudes have changed, so […]

Through the Shortbread Tin

April 24, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

Sporrans and shortbread are symbols of Scotland. But there is so much more culture buried deep and ready to discover. In 1760, Scottish poet James Macpherson sparked the world’s love of all things thistle and […]

Pride and Prejudice (sort of)

April 23, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

Oh, what fun we had with a real corker of the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. The novelist’s 18th century look at the English landed gentry was swept aside with a frenzy of well, […]

Ghost Stories

April 9, 2025 Our Man On The Ground 0

I have to admit to being surprised at how many people admitted they were followers of the paranormal world when questioned at the beginning of Ghost Stories currently showing at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, […]