Comedy duo Chris Curran and Noah Matthews founding members of The Manchester Revue return to the Edinburgh Fringe for 2023 with their comedy show BISHOPS at the Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose. Curran and Matthews have a seemingly effortless rapport on stage, where they’ve perfected all the cues and the delivery…

Up and coming ventriloquist LGBTQ performer Lachlan Werner brings Voices of Evil to the Edinburgh Fringe. After watching his taster performance in the 2022 LGBTQ Comedian of the Year competition I have been keen to catch a full performance. I certainly wasn’t disappointed. Werner’s performance offers a fun and energetic…

Finley Whitmore (Milo Mooney) appears to just be a bit clumsy as he trips onto the stage sending the contents of the black sack he is carrying flying across the stage. How can something so simple as “taking the bins out” be such a task? Diagnosed at an early age…

Wêla Kapela Productions bring two productions to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Vincent, his quest to love and be loved and A Star is Born The Rise and Fall of Judy Garland. Daniel Anderson in the main role of Vincent Van Gogh plays all the other characters in the story…

Linus Karp brings a touch of his unique queer style to the Edinburgh Fringe, in the Pleasance Dome. Recreating the “untold” and “untrue” life of Diana Princess of Wales. Although some of the life events performed had taken place it’s unlikely that the dialogue during those events was even close…

Set in early 1990s New York at the height of the AIDS pandemic RENT the musical brings friends and lovers together as they navigate their way through a horrendous terminal disease which saw many innocent young men die before their time. Left to fight it alone as many outside the…

The Shape of Things by Neil Labute tells the dark comedy romance between Adam (Luke Newton) and Eve (Amber Johnson) an ambitious art student with a manipulative and calculated ulterior motive. Adam is “stuck in a rut” wearing an old jacket and comfortable in his “geeky” image. Along comes Eve,…

Katherine Bourne Taylor brings Grown Up Orphan Annie to the Edinburgh Fringe 2023. Complete with iconic red hair and a bright red dress worn by the child star of the 1982 hit film Annie starring Aileen Quinn there’s no mistaking the “grown-up Annie” as she bursts onto the stage. Bourne…

Ahead of his journey to the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe this year. I caught Phil Greens’ new comedy production at Aces and Eights part of the 2023 Camden Fringe. Four Weddings and a Breakdown which does exactly what it says in the title. The comedian takes you through the four weddings…

As the team prepare to take IMAGINARY NATURAL BEINGS to the stage this August at the Camden Fringe writer Mojola Akinyemi takes time to share her thoughts and hopes about the play. I feel that plays are about authenticity. Writing a play is perhaps one of the most vulnerable things…