The Stage

Fergus Morgan

Scotland Correspondent

Biography

Fergus Morgan is The Stage’s Scotland Correspondent. He has also written for The Scotsman, The Independent, TimeOut, WhatsOnStage, Exeunt Magazine and Vice, and publishes The Crush Bar on Substack.

Recent Articles

Mason Alexander Park: ‘Oh, Mary! redefined what I thought was possible in the commercial market’

FeaturesDec 11, 2025

As Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! makes its West End transfer, its star, Mason Alexander Park, tells Fergus Morgan about moving to London and working with Jamie Lloyd

Perth Theatre returns to full-scale operation following post-Covid reduction

NewsDec 11, 2025

Perth Theatre will return to ’operating at full scale’ in 2026, staging five new in-house productions for the first time in six years

The BFG at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre – review round-up

Review Round-UpsDec 10, 2025

Fifteen years following Matilda, the RSC premieres a new adaptation of another Roald Dahl classic, but does it captivate the critics? Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews

Council-run venues in Aberdeen face potential move to private operators

NewsDec 11, 2025

His Majesty’s Theatre and the Lemon Tree are among the venues that may be ‘bundled’ up and offered to private operators under the plans

Welsh theatre to be presented at EdFringe as English showcase is ‘paused’

NewsDec 10, 2025

Here & Now – a showcase of work from England – will not be present at the festival, with its organisers revealing they will use the time to ‘take stock’

Dancing Shoes review

ReviewsDec 10, 2025

Joyous three-hander about overcoming addiction

Harry Mould wins 2025 Alfred Fagon Award

NewsDec 8, 2025

The £6,000 prize has been run in memory of playwright Alfred Fagon since 1997, recognising the best new play by a black British writer annually

Jack and the Beanstalk

ReviewsDec 8, 2025

An amusing musical spin on the famous fairytale

Beauty and the Beast review

ReviewsDec 8, 2025

Entertaining but uneven take on the famous fairytale from writer Lewis Hetherington

Traverse added to Creative Scotland’s multi-year funding portfolio

NewsDec 5, 2025

The Edinburgh venue was left out of the three-year portfolio in January and only awarded one-year of funding after being placed in a “development stream” with 13 other organisations