Megasquirt: Fully Loaded continues at Jelly Belly at Underbelly, Cowgate until 30 August 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A little weird and a lot of fun for night owls looking for a romp, Megasquirt: Fully Loaded is a show not to be missed.
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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.
MUSE: The Shakespeare Mayhem Musical – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
MUSE: The Shakespeare Mayhem Musical continues at the Cowbarn at Underbelly, Bristo Square until 30 August 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Good fun and a chorus line!
Goodbye Dandelion – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Goodbye Dandelion continues at Belly Dancer at Underbelly, Cowgate until 30 August 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Forego the clamour and chaos of Edinburgh in August and spend a splendid hour with these sagacious siblings.
Liberace and Liza – A Tribute – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Liberace and Liza – A Tribute continues at Ermintrude at Underbelly, Bristo Square until 30 August 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Serves as a reminder that the Fringe at its best can make an apparently absurd idea feel like something that absolutely had to exist.
Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorised Musical Parody — Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorised Musical Parody continues at Udderbelly at Underbelly, George Square until 30 August 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s a broad, knowingly silly hour sung well enough that the silliness earns its keep.
Apparently Ugly: A Stepsister Story – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Apparently Ugly: A Stepsister Story continues at Ermintrude at Underbelly, Bristo Square until 31 August 2026 (except 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The songs are great, the staging and choreography tight and the singing a joy.
Legendary – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Legendary continues at Friesian at Underbelly, Bristo Square until 31 August 2026 (except 17). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cheeyang Ng, sharing their life story with wit and grace and truth and heart, most certainly is… legendary.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Preview 2026 – Top Ten Musicals To See
This is a record-breaking year for new musical theatre work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Our small army of reviewers are all set to tackle the offerings for 2026.
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.
JEEZUS! – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
JEEZUS! continues at Belly Button at Underbelly, Cowgate until 24 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It takes a little while to get going, but once it does, the audience is with this show all the way.
Nerds: The Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs Comedy Musical – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Nerds: The Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs Comedy Musical continues at Cowbarn at Underbelly, Bristo Square until 25 August 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Everything about this show just zings quality.
Alex Prescot: Cosy – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Alex Prescot: Cosy continues at Dexter at Underbelly, Bristo Square until 25 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Great comedy and great fun. Expect to want to see him again!
Miss Brexit – Edinburgh festival Fringe
Miss Brexit continues at Ermintrude at Underbelly, Bristo Square until 24 August 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
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.
Mary, Queen of Rock! – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Mary, Queen of Rock! continues at the Cow Barn at Underbelly, Bristo Square until 24 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A guaranteed good evening out.
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.
I Wish You Well – The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
I Wish You Well – The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski- Trial Musical continues at Underbelly, George Square – Udderbelly until 26 August 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s a bundle of parody shows playing at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, but this must be one of the best on offer.
Come Dine With Me: The Musical – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Come Dine With Me: The Musical continues at the Underbelly, Bristo Square – Cowbarn until 25 August 2024, then Turbine Theatre, London until 2-29 September 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★
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.
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder continues at Underbelly, George Square – Udderbelly until 27 August 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Daniel Cainer’s Jewish Chronicles – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Daniel Cainer’s Jewish Chronicles at Underbelly, George Square – The Wee Coo. 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.
Edinburgh encore plus Bristol and Manchester dates for MTR Award-winner Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
A new expanded version of Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! will return to Edinburgh this summer before playing dates in Bristol and Manchester.
Underbelly announces 47 more Edinburgh Fringe shows and London summer festival programme
Live entertainment company Underbelly has unveiled a further 47 shows set to feature in the 2022 Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe line-up along with a summer programme in London which includes Fat Rascal Theatre’s Little Mermaid parody musical Unfortunate. Running from 3-29 August across four sites – George Square, Circus Hub on the Meadows, Cowgate […]
La Clique – Leicester Square Spiegeltent
La Clique continues at Leicester Square Spiegeltent, London until 8 January 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s nothing like the whiff of warm mulled wine in the air to tell you that the festive season has truly arrived and with La Clique, making its return to the West End at […]
The Choir of Man – London Wonderground
The Choir of Man continues at Underbelly’s London Wonderground until 5 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ We’re in a pub called The Jungle where eight cheerful chaps are singing, joshing, laughing, jigging about and passing pints drawn onstage into the audience – while catchy trad tunes are belted out […]
Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley to star in new production of Cabaret
Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley will star in an innovative new production of Cabaret in the heart of the West End later this year. Multi-award-winning movie star Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Red, West End and Broadway) will play The Emcee opposite BAFTA nominee and British Independent Film Award-winner Buckley (A Little Night Music, West […]
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, […]
On Reflection: The Cast of Follies in Cabaret – Underbelly Festival
On Reflection: The Cast of Follies in Cabaret at the Underbelly Festival, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Janie Dee, who played Phyllis in the National Theatre’s stunning revival of Follies, keeps the musical theatre magic alive with her On Reflection cabaret. In this intimate hour-long cabaret in the Underbelly spiegeltent on the […]
Gobsmacked! – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Gobsmacked! continues at Underbelly until 31 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Created by the team behind the uber-successful The Magnets, this international cast of attractive young singers takes the audience through an hour of a cappella contemporary music. Open auditions attracted more than 600 applicants and the seven performers (five boys and two […]
