⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Macho Macho Man follows Luke Kempner’s personal journey from musical theatre star (he appeared in Les Mis, don’t you know…) to father. It’s 2022 and the typical male role model is due a revamp …
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Review: Paris: From Piaf to Pop!, Edinburgh Fringe, French Institute in Scotland
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a melting pot of culture, song and story. In this year’s instalment of Christine Bovill’s legendary Edinburgh turn, the spotlight is on Paris and its evolution of music from …
Editor’s Pick of the Fringe 2022
Braw Theatre editor Fraser MacDonald outlines his top picks of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Edinburgh Festival is nearly upon us – and that means the Fringe is about to kick off too! With …
News: OCD Me at Edinburgh Fringe
Sure, we all get a bit stressed sometimes. We all feel a bit isolated, ashamed, and terrified; convinced that the minutest of our actions may somehow have catastrophic effects on our loved ones… or is …
Review: The Lion King, Edinburgh Playhouse
It might be decades after its original showing on Broadway but The Lion King opening is legendary – and this particular tour elevates it to regal heights.
Review: Allan Stewart’s Big, Bug Variety Show, King’s Theatre Edinburgh
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In a fitting tribute to the Old Lady of Leven Street before her curtain falls for the final time pre-refurb, Allan Stewart gives the theatre a huge hug with an evening of song and …
Review: Six The Musical, Festival Theatre Edinburgh
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ History is written by the victors – but for one night only it’s Herstory at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre as Six returns to Auld Reekie. Most of us knew them before only as Divorced, Beheaded, …
Review: Sheila’s Island
⭐️⭐️ Tim Firth’s revived comedy might have moments of promise but fails to deliver the laughs it so desperately needs to thrive. They say that hell is other people. When Sheila and her three colleagues …
Review: The Dresser, King’s Theatre Edinburgh
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A bitterly timely play, The Dresser may well be over 40 years old but as this pitch-perfect touring producing makes clear, it’s every bit as pertinent in 2022 as in 1980. The year is …
Review: Bat Out Of Hell, Edinburgh Playhouse
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ For the next fortnight, an extraordinary sexed-up rock show arrives in Edinburgh, blasting off the winter chill with hell-fire and full-blast Fenders. Bat Out Of Hell is Peter Pan meets Meat Loaf set in …