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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.
How to Win Against History – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
How to Win Against History continues at the Udderbelly at Underbelly, George Square until 24 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The through-written musical score is magnificent, full of catchy tunes and witty ingenious lyrics.
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.
How to Win Against History – Bristol Old Vic
How to Win Against History continues at Bristol Old Vic until 12 January 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ How to Win Against History is a hilarious ride that culminates in a bittersweet ending that still inspires a hopefulness in the audience.
How to Win Against History – Young Vic, London
How to Win Against History continues at the Young Vic, London until 30 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Anyone expecting a West End style bio of Henry Paget, 5th Marquis of Anglesey may be disappointed. Succumb instead to the piece’s surreal originality, visual gags, musical invention and superlative performances. The […]
How to Win Against History – Ovalhouse
How to Win Against History at the Ovalhouse, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Ovalhouse is renowned for its development of new theatre and has supported Seiriol Davies’ How to Win Against History since its inception as a FiRST BiTE in 2014. The show returned as a full production for a short […]
Costume drama musical How to Win Against History to play Ovalhouse
Seiriol Davies’ How to Win Against History is to be given its first full production at London’s Ovalhouse in July. Backed by the venue since its inception as one of the new works in development featured in the FiRST BiTE programme in 2014, the show is a colourful costume drama musical about the 5th Marquis […]
