Michael Davies

Cinderella The Panto

Cinderella The Panto

★★★★☆ Melodious

Balerno Theatre Company’s Christmas show at the Church Hill is a treat for all ages. Cinderella The Panto is stuffed full of tunes, features some pleasingly old-school pantomime business and is performed with a great deal of heart.

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The Addams Family

The Addams Family

★★★★★ Spookily entertaining:

Spooky, funny and entertaining, Bare Productions have brought back to life one of the most dysfunctional family’s in the world in the kooky Addams Family musical at this year’s Fringe.

Aug 9 2019 | By | Reply More
The Pride

The Pride

★★★☆☆ Involving:

The Pride, the debut production by Different Works at the Assembly Roxy, is very good at showing how the repressive urge for conformity destroys everyone, not just those who are seen as ‘different’.

Jun 15 2018 | By | Reply More
Little Women

Little Women

★★★★☆ Wholesome entertainment:

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women gets a sensitive and thoroughly entertaining musical theatre adaptation at the Assembly Roxy from new Edinburgh amateur company Shoots Theatre.

Mar 8 2018 | By | Reply More
Aladdin

Aladdin

★★★★☆ Fantastic Family Fun:

The Balerno Theatre Company whisks us away to Agrabah with their magical production of Aladdin at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday.

Dec 7 2017 | By | Reply More
A Few Good Men

A Few Good Men

★★★☆☆ Clever
Tightly paced and with a solidly constructed script from West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin, Beam Theatre’s A Few Good Men has plenty to offer, at the Assembly Roxy to Saturday.

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Musical Chess, mate

Musical Chess, mate

Audition details for double dose of Chess:
Details for the Edinburgh Music Theatre’s March 2015 production of Chess the Musical at the Church Hill Theatre have been announced, with open auditions taking place next week.

Sep 10 2014 | By | Reply More
Review – A Christmas Carol: The Pantomime

Review – A Christmas Carol: The Pantomime

Accomplished and enjoyable, Balerno Theatre Company’s staging of A Christmas Carol – The Pantomime is an entertaining if ultimately somewhat patchy production.

Dec 5 2013 | By | Reply More
Review – Sweeney Todd

Review – Sweeney Todd

★★★☆☆   Groundbreaking

Dark and barbaric in its tone, Edinburgh Music Theatre’s production of Sweeney Todd at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday is also something of a groundbreaking venture for the company in its delivery.

Mar 29 2012 | By | 1 Reply More
Review – The Last Five Years

Review – The Last Five Years

★★★☆☆  Flying start:

The fledgling Green Room production company has got off to a flying start with this elegantly staged production of Jason Robert Brown’s modern musical, The Last Five Years.

Oct 7 2011 | By | Reply More