The Uncrackable Case continues at Pleasance Two at Pleasance Courtyard until 25 August 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ A thoroughly enjoyable romp through the fairy story you never knew you wanted.
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Tit Swingers – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Tit Swingers continues at the Pleasance Courtyard – Pleasance Two until 26 August 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Great loud vulgar fun.
Four Felons and a Funeral – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Four Felons and a Funeral continues at the Pleasance Courtyard – Upstairs until 27 August 2023. Star rating: four 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.
GOYA Theatre Company recognised with Special Award by Musical Theatre Review Edinburgh Fringe judging panel
Musical Theatre Review’s judging panel at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 has decided to present GOYA Theatre Company with a Special Award in recognition of the ethos, quality and exceptional creativity this young company has shown. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been a hotbed for discovering new talent since its very beginning and this year has […]
Sex With Friends (and other tiny catastrophes) – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Sex With Friends (and Other Tiny Catastrophes) continues at Pleasance Courtyard – Upstairs, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Let me save you time reading… this is a wonderful wee musical. Sam Woof, the writer and composer, is one to watch. Now, if you want to know more… With […]
Rapsody – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Rapsody continues at Pleasance Courtyard – Pleasance Above, Edinburgh until 29 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Confession… as a middle-aged, white, gay man, I’m about as far away from the target audience for Rapsody as it’s possible to be, but I loved it. It’s dark, it’s in your face, […]
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World continues at the Pleasance Courtyard – The Grand, Edinburgh until 29 August (11-16, 18-23, 25-29) 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ From the producers of Six, this show should be compulsory viewing for every girl from the age of 12. Eleven-year-old Jade Douglas gets […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Musical Theatre Preview – Ten To See!
Edinburgh Editor Fee Orr writes… Oh, it’s so good to be ‘back to normal’ – in fact, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is hosting more pieces of musical theatre in this single year than I can ever recall before! Here at Musical Theatre Review, we will once again set our team the challenge of finding the […]
Islander is named as Musical Theatre Review Best Musical at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 with Armour, Burns and Sold given special awards
Islander: A New Musical at Roundabout @ Summerhall has won Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award, given to recognise excellence in the challenging form of musical theatre and to highlight the best of the genre in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 programme. Directed by Amy Draper, with a book by Stewart Melton and a score by Finn Anderson […]
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé – Pleasance Courtyard
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé continues at Pleasance Courtyard – The Green, Edinburgh until 26 August 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Considering what an awful night it was the evening I saw this show, the cast is amazing. They sang and played their way with verve through an assortment of […]
A Holy Show – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Courtyard
A Holy Show continues at the Pleasance Courtyard – Pleasance Two, Edinburgh until 26 August 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Pleasance Two is our aircraft carrier for today – a minimal set with three aeroplane seats and two informative screens lilts at us to settle back and enjoy. Strap in, […]
Shortlist revealed for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018
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 2018 programme. This is an exceptional year for musical theatre with the themes […]
Songlines – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Courtyard Beneath
Songlines continues at Pleasance Courtyard Beneath until 26 August 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Songlines is a sweet tale, and an archetypal one – two bruised misfits finding sanctuary from their circumstances in each other, whilst also struggling, as teens do, to give one another the security they each crave. It’s a messy […]
The Showstoppers’ Kids Show – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Courtyard
The Showstoppers’ Kids Show continues at the Pleasance Courtyard until 19 August 2018. Star rating: four stars ★★★★✩ Having long admired Showstoppers! The Improvised Musical, it seems only fair to see how the junior version works out… The essential formula remains the same: a team of five multi-skilled performers are supported by keyboards and percussion as they use […]
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) wins Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at Edinburgh Fringe
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) at the Pleasance Courtyard has won Musical Theatre Review’s inaugural Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Edinburgh Editor Fiona Orr, who led the judging panel, said they chose the piece (presented by Silent Uproar in association with LittleMighty) “because of its sensitive yet genuinely funny […]
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Courtyard
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) continues at Pleasance Courtyard until 28 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Walking into the theatre, I wasn’t sure if I was at a kids’ show or not. There were bright shiny things on the stage and the performers were greeting everyone cheerfully […]
The Toxic Avenger – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Courtyard
The Toxic Avenger continues at the Pleasance Courtyard until 28 August, then transfers to London’s Arts Theatre for a 10-week season from 28 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Sitting in amongst the usual Fringe scale shows, The Toxic Avenger stands out before it even begins in the scale and practicality […]
Creatives – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Courtyard
Creatives continues at Pleasance Courtyard until 28 August (not 15, 22). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Transferring from Chicago Theatre Workshop, this self-styled pop opera delivers with panache. The intimacy of the opening number where we see Luis Perez (Omar Baroud) composing with his guitar is immediately contrasted with a full production […]
Eurobeat Moldova – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Pleasance Courtyard
Eurobeat Moldova continues at the Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) until 29 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Camp as a row of flagged tents, Eurobeat has updated itself for this contest in Moldova. Upgrading from the badges depicting countries, we are invited to take a flag to wave (the flag becomes your ‘home country’). […]
Broken Windows – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Broken Windows at the Pleasance Courtyard. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ So here we were – the final day of 2015 Edinburgh Fringe and Piu’s last performance of their show which they were still keen to have reviewed. We were welcomed into the Bunker and invited to join in singing ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ by Caitlin Ince, […]
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical continues at the Pleasance Courtyard until 30 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Putting together a one hour musical in front of your eyes is no mean feat, and Showstopper! manages to do it every night with fantastic results. I can’t help but compare them to Baby Wants Candy, another improvisation musical […]
Interview – Robert J. Sherman reveals new musical Love Birds at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe
ROBERT ‘ROBBIE’ J. SHERMAN is the son of Robert B. Sherman (1925–2012), one half of the Academy-Award-winning songwriting partnership (with brother Richard) responsible for the unforgettable numbers in classic movie musicals such as Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. His grandfather Al Sherman also enjoyed a successful […]
