We Will Hear the Angels continues at Dissection Room at Summerhall until 30 August 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Take a moment to be still and allow yourself to be wrapped in a cool blanket of music and story.
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Boogie on the Bones – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Boogie on the Bones continues at Anatomy Lecture Theatre at Summerhall until 31 August 2026 (except 24). Star rating: three stars Fun, lively and heartfelt with a significant message, this is well worth a watch.
The King of All Birds – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The King of All Birds continues at the Former Gents Locker Room at Summerhall until 31 August 2026 (except 17, 24). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Martha Knight’s quirky storytelling practice creates new musical theatre.
Jonny Woo: Suburbia – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Jonny Woo: Suburbia continues at Main Hall at Summerhall until 25 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s an open-hearted show, not for the faint-hearted, in which he bares all – in more ways than one.
Cheese and Guava or Romeo and Juliet – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Cheese and Guava or Romeo and Juliet continues at Main Hall at Summerhall until 25 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The stagecraft is excellent; the pace is just right; the atmosphere is truly something special.
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 […]
Little Squirt – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Little Squirt continues at Summerhall – Anatomy Lecture Theatre until 26 August 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A beautiful piece of work.
June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me continues at Summerhall – The Dissection Room until 24 August 2024, then touring until 22 September 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a powerhouse of a performance from Charlene Boyd.
I’m Almost There – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
I’m Almost There continues at Summerhall – Main Hall until 26 August 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Oh, the songs! Beautiful, melodic, showcasing an impressive vocal range underpinned with sumptuous arrangements for the three instruments and voices.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 Musical Theatre Preview
Edinburgh Editor Fee Orr writes… There are several standout shows this year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – musical theatre is stretching the boundaries, taking inspiration from the worlds of tech, telly and film hits, a couple of court cases and a strong dash of ‘Scotch’, including a viral failed attempt to re-create one of Roald Dahl’s masterpieces.
The Silent Treatment – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Silent Treatment continues at Summerhall, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Sarah-Louise Young is an enormously talented Fringe stalwart – previous member of Fascinating Aida, appearing nightly in her acclaimed An Evening Without Kate Bush, director and mentor to other cabaret acts. She also wrote and […]
Grandmother’s Closet – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Grandmother’s Closet continues at Summerhall, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In this autobiographical and heartfelt show, queer artist Luke Hereford joins his Nan’s 90th Birthday celebrations at the home she lived in for many years and which became Luke’s safe space. Now suffering from dementia, she is being […]
Lots and Not Lots – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Lots and Not Lots continues at Summerhall – Main Hall, Edinburgh until 21 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This physical musical theatre piece was created by award-winning composer and performance artist Greg Sinclair for the National Theatre of Scotland’s Futureproof festival in 2018, where it was performed by a larger group of […]
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder continues at Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I was promised that I would laugh – and that’s a safe promise in this runaway hit show. A packed audience laughed practically the whole way through. Playing Kathy and Stella […]
Caste-ing – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Caste-ing continues at Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh until 28 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This production is superbly suited to this venue: being in the round, others in the audience become part of the scenes you watch. And what you watch is a no-holds barred enactment of the life of a […]
Edinburgh dates for Luke Hereford’s Grandmother’s Closet
Wales Millennium Centre and Luke Hereford’s acclaimed solo musical Grandmother’s Closet will follow its successful run at home in Cardiff by heading for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The autobiographical play by first-time writer and long-time theatre-maker Hereford will be performed at Summerhall from 3-28 August 2022. Featuring modern arrangements of pop classics by famous […]
Musical Theatre Review Best Musical winner Islander transfers to the Southwark Playhouse
Summerhall sell-out hit Islander, winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, will transfer to London’s Southwark Playhouse from 2 to 26 October 2019 (press night is 4 October). Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award was set up three years ago to highlight the best of the genre in 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 […]
Parakeet – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Roundabout @ Summerhall
Parakeet at Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This is a punk musical play about “finding your flock and ruffling feathers”. As someone who walks pass the glorious parakeets of Stockwell on my way to the tube, I completely got the joy which our storyteller felt when she found there […]
Everything I Do – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Summerhall
Everything I Do continues at Summerhall – Demonstration Room, Edinburgh until 25 August 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Described as an intimate and soulful music-driven theatre show featuring original pop songs, written and performed by Zoe Ní Riordáin with direction by Maud Lee, Everything I Do is so much more than […]
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, […]
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 […]
Valerie – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Summerhall
Valerie continues at Summerhall until 26 August 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Last Tapes Theatre Company does ‘theatre that gives a s**t’ and this piece certainly exemplifies that. It is a personal and intimate work of inter-generational cabaret theatre created by writer, composer and performer Robin Kelly, inspired by his own grandmother’s life […]
Old Stock – A Refugee Love Story – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – CanadaHub @ King’s Hall
Old Stock – A Refugee Love Story continues at CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall until 27 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Playful, mysterious, brave and astonishingly captivating, Old Stock begins with a view of how we move stock across the world nowadays with a giant steel shipping […]
Mairi Campbell – Pulse – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Mairi Campbell – Pulse at Summerhall (Venue 26), until 28 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For those unfamiliar with traditional Scottish music of the people – not the bagpipes and drums on the battlefield or the Royal Mile – but the intimacy of a voice creating amazing sound; this show is an education waiting to be found. What […]
The Great Downhill Journey of Little Tommy – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Great Downhill Journey of Little Tommy at Summerhall. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Supported by vintage drums and bass (Thomas Deckx and Pieter-Jan Janssen) played through equally vintage amp systems, this is a homage to great 20th century rock music. Influences can be heard from Jimi Hendrix to Clapton to BB King and some of the […]
