This is a record-breaking year for new musical theatre work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Our small army of reviewers are all set to tackle the offerings for 2026.
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INVASION! An Alien Musical – Camden People’s Theatre
INVASION! An Alien Musical at Camden People’s Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A thoroughly joyful piece of theatre with excellent music and performances that you could and should see multiple times for the same price as sitting in the worst seat in a West End house.
Top 10 musicals to look out for at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023
It’s great to see that there is a bumper number of musical theatre shows to savour this year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Below, Musical Theatre Review’s Edinburgh Editor Fiona Orr offers her Top Ten Tips. Follow Musical Theatre Review to keep up with the latest reviews, news and, of course, the nominees for our Best Musical Award on 19 August 2023.
Living with Sin – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Living With Sin continues at theSpace @ Niddry Street until 20 August 2022 and theSpace @ Surgeon’s Hall from 22-27 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The show opens to a solitary girl onstage, holding an urn, and she speaks about her relationship with her grandmother. This is Cece (Lauren […]
Live and online musicals On Your Bike & Belfast win Musical Theatre Review’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 Awards
In considering the outstanding work presented both in person and online at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021, the Musical Theatre Review panel has decided to make two separate awards this year. The first is for the best show presented in live performance. The recipient of the award for Best Musical comes from a ‘stable’ of […]
Shortlist revealed for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019
As part of Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe, Musical Theatre Review will once again be making an award for the Best Musical. This is to recognise excellence in the challenging form of musical theatre and to highlight the best of the genre in the 2019 programme. In the following week, the nominated shows will be assessed by the voting panel, […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 Preview: 10 musicals that have grabbed our attention
With only a matter of days before the Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, we’re keen to share the Top 10 shows that have piqued our curiosity, writes Edinburgh Editor Fiona Orr. There will be, once again, a winner selected from the huge range of musical theatre pieces staged at the Fringe for Musical Theatre Review’s Best […]
