Review by Dominic Corr The Palais du Variete ★★★★ Ben Hart’s latest Fringe offering, The Remarkable Ben Hart, is a masterclass in minimalism and misdirection. With no grand set pieces, no pyrotechnics, and no glittering distractions, Hart relies solely on the strength of his illusions, his charisma, and a deep-rooted love for the craft of … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 – The Remarkable Ben Hart
Written by Sophie Swithinbank Directed by Nancy Medina Review by Jack Quinn Summerhall: Tickets ★★★★ Onstage stands an empty chair as the audience takes their seats in the Tech Cube, awaiting playwright Sophie Swithinbank’s return to Summerhall after the soaring success of last year’s sell-out sensation and collaboration with HFH Productions, Bacon. Behind the chair … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Surrender
Musical Direction by Ed Zander Review by Jack Quinn Pleasance Dome: Tickets ★★★★ Sitting in Pleasance’s Queen Dome, aptly the fringe home of a queen of the West End, the audience titters excitedly for Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret, which promises to be an afternoon of song, dance, and a response to the ongoing climate … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Janie Dee’s Beautiful World Cabaret
Produced by Sweet Beef and Pleasance Review by Jack Quinn Pleasance Dome: Tickets ★★★★★ Welcome, Wilkommen, Bienvenue, one and all to the Cabaret Fragile! Bring your friends, bring your family, bring your…lonely self. Crying Shame is a spectacle of cabaret, camp, clowning, and, most importantly, serving a whole evening’s worth of another c-word *censored*. Come … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Crying Shame
Written & Directed by Lewis Baird Choreographed by Aidan O'Brien & Amy Campbell Musical Direction & Original Music by Tommie Travers Tickets from £15.50 ★★★ With the Portobello Town Hall once more erupting with a thriving sense of life and community (following the group's critical success with Oliver!) Stage Door Entertainment sets its eyes on casting magic … Continue reading Cinderella – Portobello Town Hall
https://youtu.be/13LRgCTASUI Created and Performed by Sarah Rose Graber and Ruxy Cantir Co-produced by Raw Materials and Capital Theatres Tickets from £12.50 ★★★★ Love glitter? Love Christmas? Love Unicorns? Oh, well then, this is the show for you, your little unicorns, and anyone who you can bring into a magical fifty-minute showcase of movement, colour and interactivity thanks to … Continue reading Unicorn Christmas Party – The Studio, Edinburgh
Written by Andrew McHugh With Additional Material by Elaine C Smith & Johnny Mac Directed by Kathryn Rooney Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★ The people of Glaswegia don’t often get the call for a party - tricky to do this when your monarch is the cruel (though stylish) Queen Cranachan, but things are about to change. … Continue reading Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs – King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by Johnny McKnight Directed by Martin McCormick ★★★ It’s hard enough getting one maw a gift for their Christmas, let alone seven. So thank heavens that the Òran Mór's Winter Pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Maws, from Scotland’s panto maestro Johnny McKnight, makes the perfect pre-stocking stuffer for audiences in Glasgow and Scotland. … Continue reading Snow White and the Seven Maws – Oran Mor, Glasgow
Written and Directed by Sheryn Ali Music Arranged by James McCutcheon Tickets: £16.50 ★★★★ Who needs to trek themselves all over the country to catch as many pantomimes as possible when they’re all here, under one banner, in a terrifically smashing and collective production of Alice in Pantoland! From the fairest in the land to the … Continue reading Alice in Pantoland – Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/-6zzHywYHVs Written by Johnny McKnight Directed by Sally Reid Tickets from £17.50 ★★★★ Thus far we’ve had a look at a stringent one-man telling of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, and a revived juggernaut of a show which captures the survival of theatre within its bones. And if there was ever a question that Panto hero Johnny McKnight’s Aganeza Scrooge was … Continue reading Aganeza Scrooge – Tron Theatre, Glasgow
