Latest Features & Reviews
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Review: Boys Don’t Dance
Marc Brew’s Boys Don’t Dance approaches storytelling, movement and a vibrant 80s soundtrack with inclusivity
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Review: Ifrah Qureshi: 48 Flaws of Power
Ifrah Qureshi’s debut Fringe hour engages with one of the manosphere’s canonical texts
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The Very Best of the Edinburgh Festivals (2026)
Our continually updated round-up of all the four and five star shows seen by our writing team
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Review: Amanda Dwyer: Better Than Revenge
Amanda Dwyer’s debut show flips easy survivor narratives on their head for a caustic, complicated hour
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Review: Eva Peroni: Jungled
Potently leftist yet politically incorrect, Eva Peroni’s gleeful bravado glosses over the young comic’s contradictions
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Review: Sophie Duker: Hot Beef Injection
Sophie Duker offers a fresh and charming voice to the discourse on male loneliness
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Review: Jonathan Oldfield: Exquisite Corpse
Jonathan Oldfield’s unpredictable debut show stitches together sketch comedy gold
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Review: UNDERGROUND MONK SHOW
Four monks discover the power of water in this miraculously silly cult favourite sketch show
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Review: Andrew Doherty: Reviewers Welcome… TO DIE!
Andrew Doherty’s camp horror is amusing, but can feel unsophisticated, formulaic and shallow
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Review: Mrs Stern Wanders The Prussian State Library
A tense exploration of anti-Semitism in the totalitarian Nazi state is let down by the toothless characterisation of one of its villains
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Review: Kate Hammer: Government Approved Comedian
Kate Hammer’s frantic Fringe debut is themed around the bureaucratically taxing process of visa applications
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Review: Gareth Mutch Means Well
Even Gareth Mutch’s natural talent and likability can’t save a poorly defined and under-developed show