Heated Rivalry: The Musical Parody! continues at the Other Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House until 30 August 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A fast-paced hour of punchy, raunchy, unpredictable comedy.
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Camelton – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Camelton continues at Wine Bar at Gilded Balloon Teviot until 31 August 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ If you enjoy listening to catchy new musical songs from a brilliant singer this may be a show for you.
Nominees are announced for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026
The eight shortlisted Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 shows contending for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award have been announced.
FLOP! The Best Songs From The Worst Musicals – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
FLOP! The Best Songs From The Worst Musicals continues at Wine Bar at Gilded Balloon Teviot until 30 August 2026 (except 26). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Arthur Hull is the reason the production works so well.
Unheard Voices, Unbroken Spirits – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Unheard Voices, Unbroken Spirits continues at Big Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House until 31 August 2026 (except 17, 18). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ These are voices that absolutely must be heard, and I for one, am glad I heard them.
Crocodile Rock – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Crocodile Rock continues at the Dining Room at Gilded Balloon Teviot until 31 August (not 18, 25). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I’d be very surprised if you’ll find a better performance on this year’s Fringe.
GIRLZ – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
GIRLZ continues at Doonstairs at Gilded Balloon Patter House until 30 August 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s a welcome back to the GIRLZ in this new treatment of their highly-rated show from last year – more polished, more songs and killer choreography.
Nominees are announced for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
The 10 shortlisted Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 shows contending for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award have been announced.
Douglas Widick: Paperclip – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Douglas Widick: Paperclip continues at The Penny at Gilded Balloon Patter House until 25 August 2025. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ This show would be ideal for a group of friends to go to for some late night laughs and to enjoy Clippy’s charm.
Driving in Circles – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Driving in Circles continues at McIntosh at Gilded Balloon at Appleton Tower until 24 August 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Get in and ride where it may lead you.
Midnight at the Palace – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Midnight at the Palace continues at Big Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House until 24 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There is a lot to love here, lots of fun and the sense of ‘going on a trip’.
Tilly No-Body – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Tilly No-Body continues at Bramley at Gilded Balloon at Appleton Tower until 24 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ A confident, well-informed hour.
A Stan is Born! – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A Stan is Born! continues at Blether at Gilded Balloon Patter House until 25 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ In all his long-haired glory, Alexis Sakellaris is out-STAN-ding.
Vagabond Skies: The Van Gogh Musical – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Vagabond Skies: The Van Gogh Musical continues at Auditorium at Gilded Balloon at the Museum until 21 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s a stunning production. Pathos, shock, comedy and by the end gut-wrenching.
Arthur Hull’s FLOP – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Arthur Hull’s FLOP continues at Braeburn at Gilded Balloon at Appleton Tower until 24 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ If Bialystock was the king of Broadway, then Hull is the king of the Fringe.
Jackie!!! – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Jackie!!! continues at the Big Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House until 25 August 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ There’s a lot to like here. Give it a few days to settle and sharpen, then it’ll be ‘Go Jackie Go!’
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Musical Theatre Preview
There are several standout shows this year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – musical theatre continues to stretch the boundaries, taking inspiration from classic literature, faith, history, art and the environment.
Nominees are announced for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024
The eight shortlisted Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 shows contending for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award have been announced and they reflect what an outstanding year it has been for musical theatre. Since day one the Musical Theatre Review team, led by Edinburgh Editor Fiona Orr, has been on the lookout for contenders. The award was […]
Grown Up Orphan Annie – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Grown Up Orphan Annie continues at Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose – Coorie until 27 August 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Pick of the Fringe replaces MTR’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe Best Musical Award for one year
This month Musical Theatre Review’s Edinburgh team have chosen their ‘Pick of the Fringe’ to highlight some of the outstanding musical theatre productions of 2023. In a one-off departure, the popular Edinburgh Festival Fringe Best Musical Award is being postponed, owing to the unexpected illness of Edinburgh editor, lead reviewer and award organiser Fiona Orr.
A Mountain for Elodie – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Benjamin Scheuer: A Mountain for Elodie continues at the Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose – Big Yin until 27 August 2023. Star rating. five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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.
Edinburgh encore for I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical
Four West End favourites will help composer Alexander S. Bermange to take his award-winning musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical back to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. Carl Douglas (Jersey Boys, Trafalgar Theatre) will feature alongside Grace Farrell (Les Misérables, Sondheim Theatre), Hannah Taylor (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, […]
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, […]
Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard continues at the Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre – Basement, Edinburgh until 24 August 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Armour focuses on Sarah Burns, Robert and Jean Burns’ granddaughter and her journey as a young girl from her native India to stay with her […]
Alaska – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Summerhall
Alaska continues at Summerhall – Former Womens Locker Room, Edinburgh – until 25 August 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The sun’s low in the sky as we take our places in the circle. Cheryl Martin greets us with warmth – quietly pottering around her dominion, setting up the space for us. Through […]
Burns: A Lost Legacy – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Gilded Balloon
Burns: A Lost Legacy continues at the Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre – Basement, Edinburgh until 25 August 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Making their return to the Fringe and the Scottish Bard, Fearless Players continue their theme honouring the women surrounding Robert Burns. Moving a couple of generations along, Burns’ […]
