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Review: The Silence of the Lambs ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Corrie’s Mollie Gallagher Shines On Stage In Silence of the Lambs.
“Uncannily like Jodie Foster, Mollie Gallagher leads the company with confidence…”
At two hours 15...
Fringe review 2026 – Vittorio Angelone: you can’t Say Nothing any more ⭐️ ⭐️...
At one point during his sold-out Edinburgh Fringe show “You can’t Say Nothing anymore”, Irish comic Vittorio Angelone says he recently took a trip...
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...
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...
Review – Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts ⭐️⭐️
Inspector Morse play proves a brave endeavour that fails to captivate.
There’s a lot of acting going on in House of Ghosts, Alma Cullen’s convoluted...
Review – “Wuthering Heights” ⭐️⭐️
‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same’
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” has already earned the quotations marks around its title...
Review – Christmas Carol Goes Wrong ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Car crash Christmas Carol… comfort, joy and chaos collide.
Just when you thought the festive season was done and dusted another year, along come Cornley...
Review Shawshank Redemption is a brutal yet uplifting piece theatre
Based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption, Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns' stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption has come a...
Review: Planetarium Lates: Dark Side of the Moon ★★★★★
On the day that Virgin Galactic successfully flew tourists to space for first time, I also took to the skies but for a fraction...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – REVIEW – Viv Groskop: Vivalicious ***
In Vivalicious writer, broadcaster and comedian Viv Groskop’s attempts to become her best self through the gospel of Oprah Winfrey.
Groskop grew up in a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW – One Woman Sex and the City ****
In the year Sex and the City celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first airing, writer and performer Kerry Ipema takes us on a hilarious...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 Review – About Lady White Fox with Nine Tales ***
YVUA Arts present their award-winning About Lady White Fox with the Nine Tales, a retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth based on the mysterious and exotic...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review – Ideal Home ***
Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as Erasmus and Paul, long-term lovers who live a carefree life in Sante Fe, where Erasmus is a...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review: Hearts Beat Loud ****
In the hip Brooklyn neighbourhood of Red Hook, widowed dad and record store owner Frank (Nick Offerman) is preparing to send his daughter Sam...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review: Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis *****
Two years ago, Travis frontman Fran Healy had an idea to direct a music documentary with a difference. “I wanted to create a picture...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 – Closing Gala – Swimming With Men ****
A bittersweet British comedy packed with delightful performances, Swimming with Men – hailed ‘The Full Monty in speedos’ – is a winning comedy drama,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 – Review: In Darkness ***
Natalie Dormer stars as Sofia in a psychological revenge thriller which sadly does not live up to its initial promise. Blind pianist Sofia overhears...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Review: RBG ****
In the documentary RBG, directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen seek to discover how softly spoken 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review : Whitney ****
In the six years since Whitney Houston’s death so much has been written about her life you’d be forgiven for thinking you already know...
Theatre REVIEW — Once Upon a Time in Wigan ***
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company's Once Upon a Time in Wigan has a lot going for it. An enthusiastic young cast, an audience of...
Theatre REVIEW – Crude *****
There's a moment during Grid Iron's production of Crude when the multi-award-winning Edinburgh-based theatre company takes full advantage of the cavernous, industrial performance space...
Theatre REVIEW – The Broons: Maggie’s Wedding *****
As we wait for Scotland's favourite family to take the stage, it seems an incongruous setting. Perth's sleek twenty-first century concert hall is filled by...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: People of the Eye *****
As the Fringe draws gradually to its close, it seems apt to reflect on the highs and lows of this unique month. Those of us...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: BLUSH****
At Underbelly's Cowgate venue, BLUSH is another play on this year's Fringe that incorporates glitchy sound design, a stripped-down setting, actors taking on multiple...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : Mr Incredible*****
Who wouldn't want to spend time with someone awarded the sobriquet "Mr Incredible" by his creator? Admittedly, when the audience at Underbelly Cowgate first...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: A Tale of Two Cities – Blood for Blood...
Red Shift Productions (in association with Chung Ying Theatre Company and Seabright Productions) brings award-winning writer-director Jonathan Holloway's adaptation of Dickens' classic to an...
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Poena 5X1 ****
As Poena 5X1 (or How I Came to Agree With Right-Wing Thinking) begins, the scientist Bryony Adams launches into a horrifying story about the...
REVIEW – PINS at Sneaky Pete’s
Sneaky Pete's is a confined venue – there's no disputing that. But when you have to try to take off your coat, you know that...
REVIEW – The Coronas at Liquid Room
The Coronas' UK tour is a mere footnote compared to the massive shows they have previous played in their native Ireland. The band have...
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