West End star Sue Kelvin lights up the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe with her fabulous performance as Bette Midler in Chris Burgess’s musical Bette Midler and Me. Inspired by the diva Bette, Sue was a perfect choice as she had followed her icon’s path growing up and adored Bette.…

If you’re a fan of everything 90’s or just fancy a trip down memory lane, then comedian Phil Green has a show just for you, 90’s Boy the Lovegun and Me. Combining his music obsession, bad luck in finding a girlfriend and trying to understand his parents. Laced with one-hit…

Due to a limited schedule during the Edinburgh Fringe, I have taken the time to watch this filmed version of By the Light of the Moon at home. I am extremely pleased that I did, Shea Donovan delivers a powerful performance from inside a lunatic asylum. In 1928 lunatic asylums…

Linus Karp’s deconstruction of the relatively unpopular 2019 film Cats is a one-person cabaret show which combines everything bad and partly good about the star-studded film Cats based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name. Karp has used his unique talents to dissect in depth what it…

Tortive Theatre brings to the Edinburgh Fringe stage this year the superb production Shakespeare’s Fool starring the exceptionally talented Robin Leetham and his trusted companion a hand-held Marrote. Cavaliero Kempe tries very hard not to be bitter towards his ex-friend and colleague William Shakespeare. However, this doesn’t necessarily come across…

Hot off the press is a new Yorkshire musical comedy, There’s no Mystery in Murder. When a small Yorkshire village begins to be plagued by a serial killer after the murder of local Councillor Broadbent whose unpopular decision to bring a supermarket to the area had been passed was “obviously”…

Set in the 1920’s insect enthusiast and budding scholar Marigold Webb (Laura Crow) became deaf at five years old when she was taken seriously ill by meningitis. The long-term condition during the 1920s wasn’t particularly understood or made allowances for, therefore she embarks on a long-term struggle to be “heard”…

Three generations of mother and daughter relationships span throughout the performance in See you later Mum. After making the decision to emigrate to Australia Jennifer starts her new life leaving her Mother, Dotty behind. Making a life-changing decision such as emigration, always means that someone will inevitably get left behind…

Assisted is billed as “new writing/sci-fi”. Jordan and Connie are embarking on a new romance and everything is ” rosey”. Things are becoming serious when Jordan asks her to move in with him. Discussions about children and plans begin quite soon into the relationship. Jordan is desperately striving for perfection…

Suzanne Hawkes has written and directed an interesting insight into what possibly took place in the six weeks that the infamous Mrs Simpson spent in Felixstowe awaiting the divorce from her soon-to-be ex-husband Ernest allowing her to be in a position to be with HRH Edward. Petra Risbridger has an…