Phil Wang: Kinabalu 4****

Already forging a television career for himself (except on the BBC Asian Network) Phil Wang is proving to be a big hit at this year’s Fringe with many of his show’s completely selling out.

Phil has the audience laughing from … Read More

Jarleth Regan Organ Freeman 4****

Jarleth Regan , an amiable Irish comic who has been well respected for years starts off his 2017 show with the inevitable crowd work talking about how long couples have been together and so on before launching into his story. … Read More

Glenn Moore – The Very Best of Belinda Carlisle 4****

No one could ever accuse Glenn Moore of short changing them in this, his difficult second, Edinburgh hour as he packs in soooo much material one probably gets ninety minutes worth of laughs for the price of sixty.

Moore is … Read More

Kid/Dub 5*****

Kid/Dub is the children’s version of the highly successful Hot Dub Time Machine. This version has the same features as the original – DJ, music ranging from the 1950s to present day, large screen, props. The only difference with Kid/Dub … Read More

Lucy Porter: Choose your Battles 4****

Lucy Porter has been appearing at the Fringe for well over a decade and you know you are in safe hands with her, the majority of the audience return year after year to see this popular comedian as she never … Read More

Elsa – Isobel Rogers – 4 ****

Isobel Rogers delivers a witty musical comedy about Elsa, who has ambition of being an artist in London, but has ended up working as a waitress in a cafe to make ends meet. Elsa becomes fascinated by the lives of … Read More

Mother’s Ruin: A Cabaret about Gin – Maeve Marsden and Libby Wood -5*****

This show gets off to a great start as you collect your free gin on arrival. Bribery however is not required as this trio deliver the most informative, witty history of gin through their clever lyrics. Libby Wood and Maeve … Read More

The Lulu Show – Life on the Never-Never – 4****

A cabaret about boring old finance (anything but!) as Hilde Louise, accompanied by her wonderful band, deliver a very entertaining evening covering the excesses of the 80’s and the market crash. Hilde takes us through the pleasures of spending money, … Read More

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Into the Woods, 5 stars *****

Into the Woods is one of Sondheim’s best loved and critically acclaimed masterpieces. It is intricate, detailed, charming and very, very clever. Act one presents us with familiar fairy tale characters and interweaves them on a quest to essentially find … Read More

Pam Ford: Pants and Pantsability 3***

Pam Ford is a quirky Brummie brought up in Australia, now living in the home counties. She’s led a varied life, with plenty of challenges, not least, being brought up full of British inability to ask for help and support.

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