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EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MRS PRESIDENT, C Arts

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MRS PRESIDENT, C Arts

by Cindy Marcolina — August 11, 2023
Lily Wolff directs with gorgeous brushstrokes.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: VIOLET AND ME, Pleasance Courtyard

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: VIOLET AND ME, Pleasance Courtyard

by Cindy Marcolina — August 11, 2023
It’s a tale of resilience, resentment, and regret told with instinctive storytelling and a dash of friendly advice.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: BREAKING THE CASTLE, Assembly Rooms

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: BREAKING THE CASTLE, Assembly Rooms

by Cindy Marcolina — August 11, 2023
Captivating writing is matched by a tireless performance that transports you in time with a complex breakdown of drug abuse.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: ANIA MAGLIANO: I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'VE DONE THIS, Pleasance Co

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: ANIA MAGLIANO: I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'VE DONE THIS, Pleasance Courtyard

by Mark Carnochan — August 11, 2023
Ania Magliano solidifies herself as a star of the UK Comedy scene with her latest hour of stand up.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CHRISTOPHER MACARTHUR-BOYD: SCARY TIMES, Monkey Barrel

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CHRISTOPHER MACARTHUR-BOYD: SCARY TIMES, Monkey Barrel

by Natalie O'Donoghue — August 11, 2023
A new hour of stand-up by the wee guy with the glasses from Glasgow.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: DNA, TheSpace On The Mile

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: DNA, TheSpace On The Mile

by Mary Baillie — August 11, 2023
The Parker & Schnell Youth Company showcase the immense talent of young people through their performance of ‘DNA’.
Fishamble: The New Play Company wins Fringe First Award For HEAVEN by Eugene O'Brien

Fishamble: The New Play Company wins Fringe First Award For HEAVEN by Eugene O'Brien

by BWW News Desk — August 11, 2023
It has just been announced that Fishamble: The New Play Company has been awarded a Scotsman's Fringe First Award for Heaven by Eugene O'Brien starring Andrew Bennett and Janet Moran and directed by Jim Culleton.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SIAPA YANG BAWA MELAYU AKU PERGI? (WHO TOOK MY MALAY AWAY?),

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SIAPA YANG BAWA MELAYU AKU PERGI? (WHO TOOK MY MALAY AWAY?), Summerhall

by Mary Baillie — August 11, 2023
Faizal Abdullah launches an engaging, thought-provoking, unique and deeply personal exploration of Malay identity in Singapore through his performative lecture Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?)
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A STUDY IN LIPSTICK, KETCHUP, AND BLOOD Comes to Pitlochry Festival

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A STUDY IN LIPSTICK, KETCHUP, AND BLOOD Comes to Pitlochry Festival Theatre

by BWW News Desk — August 11, 2023
Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 classic Sherlock Holmes adventure A Study in Scarlet is once again set to captivate audiences in late summer when it is brought to life in the theatrical adaptation Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Lipstick, Ketchup and Blood written by acclaimed writer Lesley Hart in Pitl
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: TONES: A HIP-HOP OPERA, Pleasance Courtyard

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: TONES: A HIP-HOP OPERA, Pleasance Courtyard

by Mark Carnochan — August 11, 2023
Tones: A Hip-Hop Opera marks fifty years of Hip Hop wonderfully by sticking to the roots of the music all the while showing just how far it has come.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: AFTER THE ACT, Traverse Theatre

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: AFTER THE ACT, Traverse Theatre

by Natalie O'Donoghue — August 11, 2023
'Queers in classrooms!' 'Perverts panicking parents!' – a new musical about pride, protest… and abseiling lesbians.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SUPER, Pleasance Courtyard

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SUPER, Pleasance Courtyard

by Mark Carnochan — August 11, 2023
Super feels just as artificial and hollow as the characters it is portraying.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: OSCAR AT THE CROWN, Assembly George Square Gardens

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: OSCAR AT THE CROWN, Assembly George Square Gardens

by Mary Baillie — August 11, 2023
A queer immersive nightclub musical based on the life of Oscar Wilde? In theory, this sounds incredible.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: ON YOUR BIKE, Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: ON YOUR BIKE, Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose

by Fiona Scott — August 11, 2023
The Edinburgh Fringe truly demonstrates that anything can be a musical.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: END OF THE WORLD, ZOO Playground

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: END OF THE WORLD, ZOO Playground

by Katie Kirkpatrick — August 10, 2023
Ella Lovelady’s debut play End of the World really does include everything but the kitchen sink.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: GARRETT MILLERICK: NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Monkey Barrel

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: GARRETT MILLERICK: NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Monkey Barrel

by Natalie O'Donoghue — August 10, 2023
I’m sick of everyone moaning all the time, so I’ve written a show about how bloody great everything is.
Caroline Rhea Heads To Gilded Balloon for Edfringe

Caroline Rhea Heads To Gilded Balloon for Edfringe

by Natalie O'Donoghue — August 10, 2023
Aunt Hilda herself is headed to Edinburgh as Canadian actress and stand-up comedian Caroline Rhea announces a brand new Fringe show at Gilded Balloon - 'I Identify As A Witch'.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: TALES OF A JANE AUSTEN SPINSTER, Greenside @ Nicolson Square

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: TALES OF A JANE AUSTEN SPINSTER, Greenside @ Nicolson Square

by Cindy Marcolina — August 10, 2023
With light and breezy writing, Jorgensen delivers an accurate analysis of what it feels like to try to find a partner in the 21st Century in 35 delightful minutes of Regency fun.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MY FATHER'S NOSE, Assembly Rooms

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: MY FATHER'S NOSE, Assembly Rooms

by Cindy Marcolina — August 10, 2023
My Father’s Nose is a surprisingly heartwarming show about death and moving on.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: I LOVE YOU, NOW WHAT?, Pleasance Courtyard

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: I LOVE YOU, NOW WHAT?, Pleasance Courtyard

by Cindy Marcolina — August 10, 2023
All in all, it’s not a great play, but it’s also not a particularly bad one either.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CHATHAM HOUSE RULES, Pleasance Courtyard

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CHATHAM HOUSE RULES, Pleasance Courtyard

by Cindy Marcolina — August 10, 2023
What seems like a silly little comedy about millennial dread at first becomes a pointedly anti-Tory invective in Louis Rembges’s Chatham House Rules.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CASTING THE RUNES, Pleasance Courtyard

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CASTING THE RUNES, Pleasance Courtyard

by Cindy Marcolina — August 10, 2023
Box Tale Soup adapt MR James’s ghost story into a play that has the same dark feel of a Penny Dreadful episode.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE, The Space @ Surgeons' Hall

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE, The Space @ Surgeons' Hall

by Cindy Marcolina — August 10, 2023
Zach Hawkins is incredible with Ryan’s exuberant resignation.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SALOME, Bedlam Theatre

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: SALOME, Bedlam Theatre

by Mary Baillie — August 10, 2023
There is something surreal about watching a play banned for blasphemous biblical portrayal in an old Church.
EDINBURGH 2023: Review: FIONA ALLEN: ON THE RUN, Pleasance Courtyard

EDINBURGH 2023: Review: FIONA ALLEN: ON THE RUN, Pleasance Courtyard

by Natalie O'Donoghue — August 10, 2023
Double Emmy Award winner and star of Smack The Pony is doing her first ever show.

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