Tag: Musical
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Alan Turing – Guilty of Love ★★★
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst.
His work at Bletchley Park during World War Two is credited with having shortened the war by at least two years and saved the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – On Your Bike ★★★★
50-minutes of toe-tapping fun - a modern musical for a modern audience dealing with modern themes
Edinburgh Fringe 2019: Grease***
Grease, the film that we all know and love, the one with John Travolta’s hips and Olivia Newton John’s Bad Sandy trousers, came out in June 1978. It made stars of the lead actors,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Henry Box Brown
Henry Box Brown, the acclaimed musical inspired by the true story of an escaped 1850s slave, is returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Performed by a superb cast of New York Gospel singers and Broadway...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Triplex Adventures
Schoolboy Chao, runs away from the world of junk food and decayed teeth for a new, healthier life. But those villains won’t give up without a fight.
Triplex Adventures is a musical showcase being brought to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 Review: The Drowned Bride***
When Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca was first published in 1938, no less a critic than VS Pritchett said it would be ‘here today, gone tomorrow.’ Which shows just how wrong you can be, as the novel...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Henry Box Brown – A Musical Journey
The cream of New York gospel and R&B singers, plus leading Off Broadway performers, are coming to the Edinburgh Fringe with a new musical telling the true story of an 1850s Virginia slave who...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Forgive Us, Oh Father!
Forgive Us, Oh Father! is a brand new musical comedy about what it really means to be a man of God. Join us at theSpace@venue 45 this Edinburgh Fringe and meet Father Stephen-Peter as...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Prom Kween
From the team who brought you the sell-out hits Dizney Rascal; Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and How to Win Against History; winner of a VAULT Festival Comedy Award and an Underbelly Untapped Award...
Inspired by true...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: No Horizon *****
Before the first reviews are in and the word-of-mouth has started, the buzz for Andy Platt and Max Reid's musical No Horizon has attracted a good little crowd to previews at the Cow Barn...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Paper Hearts ***(*;)
It is a precipitously balanced irony when you sub-title your independent bookshop based show ' A High Street Musical'. Not a setting to initially set the heart racing that is for sure. And most...
Our pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Paper Hearts the Musical
Liam O’Rafferty’s world premier Paper Hearts has the endearing if not daringly kitsch me quick naïf strapline - ‘A High Street Musical’. A giddy musical rom-com set in an independent bookshop (no, forget Notting...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Momentum Venues
Momentum Venues presents such a varied array of shows that one would be hard pressed to find a reason not to venture down Howe Street to their hub at St Stephen’s Centre.
Confronting the task...
Chess at the Church Hill Theatre
Edinburgh Music Theatre took to the stage last night to present the first performance of a week's run of Chess: The Musical.
EMT will be performing the musical theatre classic, best known for the popular...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – The Next Big Thing ****
Helena spends her working day admiring the back of Steve's head. She spends her evenings trying to write a bestseller. Neither is going well. In The Next Big Thing, DK Productions' new musical at...
The Next Big Thing at the Fringe: a musical comedy for all ages
Authors sometimes say that their characters 'take over' - by which they mean that the story moves in directions they hadn't anticipated when they began to write. But what if a novelist's creation really...
New Musical from South Park creators coming to the UK
Book of Mormon: New Musical from the Creators of South Park to Come to the UK
One of the top 5 best-selling shows on Broadway, the Book of Mormon is now bringing its shockingly hilarious...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Improvised the Musical (***)
Improvised musicals are a very difficult genre of theatre especially when the audience give them difficult subjects and titles, however the 'No Shoes Theatre Group' carry it off very well. The quality of the acting...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Batman! Holy Spoof Musical Batstravaganza (**)
This production has a distinctly amateurish corny feel about it with some appallingly over-used puns. The acting at times feels like it needs more depth and the singing needs more polish. The puns...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Fresher the Musical ***
This musical which is being staged at the Pleasance Dome needs just a little more polish to its acting. I will say that this was reviewed on the first day of the preview shows...
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