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- Loosely based on Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, this dance duet represents an older man's infatuation with a younger man, their concern for beauty and youth, and the young man's spiralling ...
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- This is an astonishing and eclectic music odyssey by the Bostonian jazz musician, Stan Strickland. Strickland takes the audience on an imaginative and intense journey through his past memories. His st...
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- Harry! is based on Hamlet in much the same way that West Side Story is based on Romeo and Juliet. When Harry, an art-loving dreamer, hears about his father's death he finds himself drawn back into the...
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- Company, one of Stephen Sondheim's best loved and most successful musicals, is both musically and stylistically very hard to pull off. The songs are technically difficult as well as being nuanced and ...
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- Big Brother is an obvious and easy target for all satirists and because of this any show professing to tackle the issues of this phenomenon is going to have to go beyond the jokes that audiences have ...
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- An elemental static surrounds Mortal Engine. It is a visually stunning symphony of light and noise, sucking us into a world of pulsating energy, lighting storms and ominous drones.
In the beginnin...
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- In a mesmerizing show that movingly traces African influences in Brazil, the stage covered with downright radiant dancers announce to the room that "This is our Brazil." The next hour is chock full of...
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- Musicals, like enthusiastic little weeds, seem to be sprouting up from every unimaginable crack at the Fringe. No subject seems too bizarre to touch on, be it cannibalism or in this case an historical...
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- Based on a true story, Cannibal! The Musical tells of the only reported incident of cannibalism in the history of the United States. Yes, one of those musicals. Alfered ‘Alfred' Packer sets out ...
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- This racy romp of a musical takes us from Adam's realisation that blissful fornication with Eve is going to produce a lot of brats he's not sure he wants, right through the dating game, marriage, pare...
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- Given the prevailance of vaudeville, circus and some distinctly old style stand-up, one can only assume this years festival is thronging with people wishing they were born in another era. Further evid...
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- Broadly speaking banning smoking in public bars was a good idea; I no longer come out of the local tavern smelling like an ash tray, and my eyes are no longer filled with soot. Yet cabaret may never b...
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- Club Noir claims to be the world's biggest burlesque club, and whether or not that is true, there is no doubt that it presented one of the Fringe's most tedious and uninspiring events - thoroughly dev...
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- As beer began to flow in the Cabaret Bar, the audience was greeted with a host of eccentrically dressed gentlemen clutching their instruments and grinning from the stage. The Bastard Children of Austr...
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- Even before The Great American Trailer Park Musical begins the audience are in no doubt as to where they are. A banner proudly declaring ‘Welcome to Florida' hangs as a backdrop to pastel mobile...
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- The ingredients: Two massive egos, an uncanny bird impression, an upside-down bicycle, a virtual world and a tank of water mixed with a lot of loud music and flashing lights. The result: one awesome s...
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- Soweto Gospel Choir have already toured in five different countries this year and performed forty two concerts, and yet they are still the highest energy production I have probably ever seen on stage....
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- “We don't need help from humans. Let typhoons do what they can. For though they may cause their share of pains, the greatest of terrors is man.”
Kurt Weill and Bertol Brecht's stridentl...
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- Fast becoming a fixture at festivals all over the U.K. Silent Disco makes for a very enjoyable and unusual (if rather overpriced) Fringe night out. The music is all pumped through the headphones provi...
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- There were no major trials and tribulations either in or about this Czech opera, written by Smetana and playing at the Festival Theatre. A show in two acts, the story revolves around two widows living...
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- Judgement of Paris is an interesting attempt at combining Homer's Iliad with nineteenth century Parisian burlesque, Can-Can included. We are initially presented with a sensually stimulating display of...
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- Little more than a tiring mix of bland observations about modern youth culture and schmaltzy light-weight ballads about friendship, love and being true to yourself, Departure Lounge nonetheless kept a...
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- The romantic, classical ballet of Giselle closed with a standing applause Saturday evening in appreciation for the production's ethereal quality evident in both movement and in the interpretation of t...
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- Although dramatically cut and altered from Shakespeare's original, this version of Pericles is as unique as it is entertaining. The company have used dance and movement to convey a story that is often...
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- It's mid-August and the festival is already a bit exhaustive for us reviewers. Some of what I've seen, I've yawned through, watched the clock through or spent the entire time trying to make sense of t...
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- Sa-Choom is a Korean dance musical with a big cast of young people. The performance has the potential to be a five star show as each performer has skill and energy bursting from every pore. They are l...
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- Taking their inspiration from the much celebrated movie Grease, Drags Aloud offers us a hilarious and racy parody on American teen life. The ensemble cast mime along to the musical hits and selected c...
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- Tea Dance is a unique opportunity for the ticket holder to BE the show rather than just an attendee. Smack bang in the middle of the open-air patio inside the Pleasance Dome, my dance partner and I ar...
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- At the start of Feasting on Flesh the cast parade onto the stage to a song. The chorus asks ‘what do you want from us?' The crowd collected in the Assembly Music Hall at 10:30 are, it appears, n...
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There are no surprises with the Edinburgh Tattoo's 59th season other than that it continues to be a simply unmissable spectacle. With an awe-inspiring staging (in the form of the Edinburgh Castle es...
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- A jazzy medley of political fun-poking, this was a toe-tapping treat that made me laugh out loud. After the success of last year’s Tony! The Blair Musical, the melodious MPs are back but this time Ton...
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- In the final hours of the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, an endearing homage is paid to a late great virtuoso in the Stephane Grappelli Centenary Concert. A mature crowd of jazz afficionados are entranced w...
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- The story of an all-American girl who breaks away from her traditional upbringing in a well respected Wyoming family and finds herself falling off the rails, Maggie Simpson's script for her one-woman ...
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