Playhouse
2:22 A Ghost Story
★★★★☆ Chilling
The Playhouse’s resident theatre spectres take a back seat as the UK tour of 2:22 A Ghost Story grabs the spotlight for the week until Saturday.
The Bodyguard
★★★☆☆ Power packed
The Bodyguard, the power ballad-packed musical based on the smash hit film and flaunting its Whitney Houston hits, launches into the Playhouse this week with, quite literally, a bang.
Waitress
★★★★☆ Big-hearted
The musical Waitress, touring to the Playhouse, is an appealing production that (despite its ostensibly dark subject matter) is resolutely optimistic.
Sunny Afternoon
★★★☆☆ Nostalgic
Sunny Afternoon, the musical about the Kinks and featuring their songs, is a crowd-pleasing affair with high musical standards.
Matilda the Musical
★★★★☆ Huge energy
The return to the Playhouse of the unstoppable juggernaut that is the RSC’s Matilda the Musical after seven years, is certainly a cause for celebration.
Here and Now
★★★★☆ Full-on candyfloss
Here and Now, the Steps jukebox musical, jumps headlong onto the Playhouse stage in a production which is all heart and vitality in its telling of a story that is as substantial as candyfloss on a stick.
FRIENDS! The Musical Parody
★★☆☆☆ Muddled
FRIENDS! The Musical Parody, at the Edinburgh Playhouse through Saturday, is a meta-episode covering the ten-year arc of the iconic 90’s TV show about the lives and loves of six young adults in Manhattan.
Fawlty Towers – The Play
★★★☆☆ Nostalgic
Fawlty Towers – The Play, at the Playhouse until Saturday, is a lovingly assembled recreation of the television programme that is designed to give pleasure to its many fans.
Rocky Horror Show
★★★★☆ Naughty
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show returns in good form to the Playhouse where it is playing all week to Saturday, with Jason Donovan reliving his role as Frank N Furter and Jackie Clune as a particularly pithy Narrator.
Mamma Mia!
★★★★☆ Super Douper
Mamma Mia!, the ABBA jukebox musical, shimmies its way from a small Greek island into the Playhouse where it it will stay over the Christmas season and into the New Year.
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