Joyce McMillan

The Pitlochry Festival Theatre ensemble provide rebellious energy by the truckload in their new production of Grease, writes Joyce McMillan

Michael MacIntyre’s novel offers a sense of total immersion in a mainly Gaelic-speaking island community, writes Joyce McMillan

Jordan Young shows himself to be a fine tragi-comic actor as grieving dog-walker Ronnie in a new production of Douglas Maxwell’s 2022 play Man’s Best Friend, writes Joyce McMillan

Shakespeare and Marlowe benefit from a spot of theatrical magic, writes Joyce McMillan​

Dear Evan Hansen is an operatic tale of fate, yearning, class and deception let down by underwhelming music, writes Joyce McMillan

Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s centenary stage version of The Great Gatsby does justice to F Scott Fizgerald’s mighty​ novel, writes Joyce McMillan

Neoliberal thinking, adopted by the Conservatives and then embraced by Labour, has been holding the UK back for decades