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Review: Legally Blonde ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Edinburgh Playhouse
“When it’s good it’s great, when it’s poor, it’s painful…”
Oh my God, you guys! This production may not be the best Legally Blonde...
Review: Private Peaceful ⭐️⭐️⭐️
At near 90 minutes with no interval, Simon Reade’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, Private Peaceful, is a mammoth learn for any actor. It’s...
Review: Annie The Musical ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This return of the musical Annie to the Edinburgh Playhouse is a particularly poignant one.
The 2023 production starred Paul O’Grady, back in...
Review: High Society ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Slow Horses star steals show as understudies warm to roles.
GENTLE, if not always genteel, this new production of High Society proves an enjoyable dalliance...
Fringe review 2026 – Police Cops In Space ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sci-fi on the Fringe can be hit or miss – it’s more than three decades since Saucy Jack and his Space Vixens took Edinburgh...
Fringe review 2026 – Behind Closed Doors ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If Jude and Charlie, the couple at the heart of Corey Muizelaar’s brooding new play, Behind Closed Doors, had Facebook profiles, under relationship, at...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Maxwell Caulfield Imperious as Pilate ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Courtroom dramas are always popular, but few carry the sheer weight of history as Michael Punter’s Pilate – The Lost Gospels, which finds Maxwell...
Fringe 2026 review – Nichola McAuliffe revisits Annie Wobbler ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
There’s a mesmerising agelessness about Nichola McAuliffe as she slips from character to character in Annie Wobbler (Revisited), a series of five monologues...
Liam Rudden’s 20 Must See Shows at Edinburgh’s 79th Festival and Fringe
A week later than in recent years, the Edinburgh Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe run from 7-31 August.
This year marks the 79th edition...
Review – Stand & Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-in ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Traverse
“Politically, more Rag Trade than Boys From The Blackstuff…”
There are two witty dissections of working class struggle on stages in Edinburgh right now,...
Review – The Bodyguard The Musical
Opening with a bang and a series of impressive projections, the cinematic nature of Michael Harrison and Crossroads Live’s production of The Bodyguard The...
Review – Black Diamonds and The Blue Brazil ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Heart-wrenchingly honest and darkly funny, Black Diamonds and The Blue Brazil, continues James Brining’s inaugural season as artistic director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum with...
Review – Waitress ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Waitress musical serves up joyous slice of laughter and love.
From the rich red cherry pie with perfectly baked crust that provides a tempting preset...
Review – Sunny Afternoon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Brilliantly staged, Sunny Afternoon charts the early years of Sixties’ chart-toppers The Kinks and proves a rip-roaring, feel-good trip down memory lane to a...
Liam Rudden’s Must See Theatre – May
Football, The Kinks, cakes, ghosts, the Freshwater Five and theatre on the small screen, there's a varied choice in Edinburgh's theatres this month... or...
Liam Rudden’s Must See Theatre for April
Camp cabin crew, a Constant Wife, a cold spy, a brace of drag queens and a Blue Peter legend are all queuing up...
Edinburgh star of New Adventures is recognised in Awards
An Edinburgh star of the renowned choreographer Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures company has been recognised in the 2025 MustSeeTheatre.com Awards.
The 24-year-old dancer and actor,...
Review – One Day The Musical ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The performances of Jamie Muscato and Sharon Rose, the actors firmly at the heart of this charming new musical based on David Nicholls’ 2009...
Review – Matilda The Musical ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Richard Hurst’s monstrous towering Trunchbull is a triumph.
The ‘revolting children’ of Crunchem Hall may well ensure that their nemesis, Miss Agatha Trunchbull, gets her...
Liam Rudden’s Must See Theatre March
Revolting children, Inspector Morse, Hercule Poirot and a brand new musical based on a best-selling novel fill the stages of Edinburgh's theatres this month,...
Liam Rudden’s Must See Theatre for the month ahead
Stop messing about! There's bubble gum pop, a Dickens' classic, the World Premiere of a brand new musical and an audience with a Carry...
A guide to Must See Theatre in Edinburgh this month
A sweet transvestite, a man in search of redemption and everyone's favourite Torquay hotelier, Basil Fawlty, head to Edinburgh this month, while Broadway royalty...
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