Here's what The Herald's critics have been looking at over the last week or so.

Neil Cooper visited Cumbernauld Theatre for a revival of David Greig’s play The Events, about the aftermath of a school shooting, and he checked out Ramesh Meyyappan’s Love Beyond at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre. At the same venue he also took in Annie Lowry Thomas’s solo show After Party, a sort of state-of-the nation address merged with personal reflections on life in the 21st century UK – and delivered mostly from a sofa. “Frank and disarmingly funny,” is his verdict.

Read Neil's theatre reviews now

Annie Lowry Thomas in After Party (Image: free) Music critic Keith Bruce has been cocking a well attuned ear to the national orchestras. First up, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Sondergard for a performance of Mahler at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Second, an evening of Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at City Halls.

Read Keith's classical reviews

Finally, book reviewer Alastair Mabbott gives his verdict on new novels by Edinburgh-based American Angie Spotto, and Glasgow-based Francophone Graeme Macrae Burnet. Following last year’s Gothic debut The Grief Nurse, Spotto has just published folk fantasy Bone Diver. Macrae Burnet, Booker Prize shortlisted for His Bloody Project, has given us A Case Of Matricide, the final instalment in his Georges Gorski trilogy of crime novels set in the town of Saint-Louis on the French-Swiss border.

Here you can read those reviews, as well as Barry Didcock's interview with Macrae Burnet.

And finally, on the small screen, here's Alison Rowat's verdict on the telly box.