A Little Night Music continues at the Assembly Rooms – Music Hall (alternating with Fountain of You) until 25 August 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Such a talented cast belies that this is a student production.
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Edges – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Edges continues at the Assembly Rooms – Music Hall until 25 August 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Big Fish – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Big Fish continues at the Assembly Rooms – Music Hall until 27 August 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Little Women – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Little Women continues at the Assembly Rooms – Music Hall, Edinburgh on odd dates until 27 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland resumes its classic Fringe programme, performing two full-scale musicals on alternating days in repertory. Aside from providing valuable training for the students, this […]
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, […]
Legally Blonde – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Rooms Music Hall
Legally Blonde the Musical continues at Assembly Rooms – Music Hall, Edinburgh until 24 August 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ “Before #MeToo there was Legally Blonde, singing out loud and clear that we will not and cannot be ignored” – so says director Alexandra Spencer-Jones who has worked with a […]
City of Dreams – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
City of Dreams continues at the Gilded Balloon Patter House, Edinburgh until 23 August 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is one of three musical theatre pieces by Finn Anderson at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Two in the main programme, this and Islander (Summerhall) and one which will start being written […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Hall
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels continues at the Assembly Hall until the 26 August 2018 (not 13 and 20). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It’s a bold move to present a feature-length musical in amongst the Fringe’s pageant of bite-sized offerings, but the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s MA season kicks off with vigour, rollocking […]
Legacy: The Book of Names – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Rainy Hall
Legacy: The Book of Names continues at Assembly Rainy Hall until 26 August 2018 (not 20). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Born of a remarkable collaboration between the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the American Music Theatre Project in Chicago, the ‘Legacy’ series of new musicals explores heritage, history, and the common […]
Legacy: A Mother’s Song – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Rainy Hall
Legacy: A Mother’s Song continues at Assembly Rainy Hall until 25 August 2018 (not 13). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Born of a remarkable collaboration between the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the American Music Theatre Project in Chicago, the ‘Legacy’ series of new musicals explores heritage, history and the common resounding […]
Into the Woods – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Hall
Into the Woods continues at the Assembly Hall until 28 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is never afraid of tackling the big shows – in musical theatre terms there are few bigger than Into the Woods. Being more widely-known since the film version, you can all […]
Atlantic – America and the Great War – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Mound, Rainy Hall
Atlantic – America and the Great War, performed by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, continues at the Assembly Mound, Rainy Hall until 26 August (even dates only). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ At its heart, this show tells the story of two black American sisters, separated by the Great […]
Atlantic – A Scottish Story – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Mound, Rainy Hall
Atlantic – A Scottish Story, performed by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, continues at the Assembly Mound, Rainy Hall until 27 August (odd dates only). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Playing to a sold-out house, A Scottish Story offers an unusual take on the oft-repeated story of the diaspora of […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – top ten musical theatre tips
Musical Theatre Review contributor Fiona Orr offers her Top Ten Musical Theatre Tips for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe… Tom and Bunny Save the World (Fat Rascal Theatre) A show promising ‘serious political content’ alongside zombies and how pints are cheaper in Yorkshire must be worthy of consideration. ‘Whilst at its heart a comedy, Tom and […]
Naughty Cat and the Cheesy Moon – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Checkpoint
Naughty Cat and the Cheesy Moon at Assembly Checkpoint (Venue 322), until 27 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The pre-theatre that builds energy before the show begins is rather overwhelming for many in the young audience. Of course, the name ‘Naughty Cat’ does tell us a bit about the character – but beyond […]
9 to 5 – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assembly Mound
9 to 5 at the Assembly Mound, until 28 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Dolly Parton would adore this rendition of her bouncy musical that gives a glimpse of what a world run by women could be like. Set in the 1970s, the decade saw women returning to the workplace in a way never […]
Edinburgh Festival 2016 Preview – ten musicals to look out for
So here we are – on the brink of the 2016 Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. A remarkable year for musical theatre as there are productions both in the EIF (Edinburgh International Festival) and of course, the Festival Fringe, writes Fiona Orr. * Wonderman, presented by National Theatre Wales in collaboration with Gaggle Babble, promises a tasty glimpse […]
Alexandra Silber – Crazy Coqs
Alexandra Silber continues in cabaret at Crazy Coqs, London, until 5 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Just now and again someone special comes along who is forever bookmarked in your Favourites and you never let them go. Streisand was like that for me in the 1960s with her first, numbingly wonderful album, Judy Collins opened my […]
Interview – American actress Alexandra Silber back in the UK making her cabaret bow at Crazy Coqs
August has already been a big month for the American (but Scottish-trained) soprano ALEXANDRA SILBER as she’s just landed the part of Tzeitel in the Broadway revival of Fiddler On the Roof which opens on 12 November – eight years after she sang Hodel in the same show in the West End. And it’s going to get even […]
Willy’s Bitches – Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Willy’s Bitches, performed by students from the Royal Conservatoire Scotland, continues at Assembly Checkpoint until 30 August (in repertoire, alternating with Under the Ground). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ A clever idea by Shannon Thurston (an MA student at RCS) creates a series of arias for some of Shakespeare’s female characters. It’s sometimes said […]
Urinetown – Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Urinetown, performed by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, continues at Assembly Hall until 31 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The phenomenon of Urinetown made a bit of splash in London last year and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland production bursts with enthusiasm here at the 2015 Fringe. The piece is very […]
Under the Ground – Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Under the Ground, performed by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, continues at Assembly Checkpoint until 30 August (in repertoire, alternating with Willy’s Bitches). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Primarily set in an underground train, this charming new show by Katie Barnett and Megan Hughes is God’s gift to people-watchers. Who amongst us […]
The Girl Who – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Girl Who continues at the Assembly George Square Gardens (Spiegeltent Palazzo) until 25 August. This show is different: make no mistake about it – in fact, this show can be different every day. The heroine of the piece is Anna, delightfully performed by Neshla Caplan. Anna has choices to make – except she doesn’t […]
