Samuel Holmes
Calamity Jane
★★★★☆ Wholesome fun
Musical comedy classic Calamity Jane rolls into the Festival Theatre this week all the way from the Black Hills of Deadwood, Dakota. With it’s gun slingin’, high tales and hoedowns – it’s a real fun ride through the Wild West.
Shrek the Musical
★★★★☆ Fully rounded
Shrek the Musical’s return in a new production, with a new director and choreographer, is a case of more of the same in terms of plot and songs, but with vibrant new details and framing to their presentation.
The Dresser
★★★☆☆ Sterling performances
That The Dresser, a play dealing with that old cliché that ‘the show must go on’ should lose one of its two stars on opening night in Edinburgh is oddly fitting, if unfortunate.
Club Tropicana
★★★★☆ Camp and colourful:
Passports at the ready! It’s time to jet off to the Club Tropicana Hotel in this brand new jukebox musical which is touring to the Playhouse until Saturday.
Shrek The Musical
★★★☆☆ Breezy:
Big, bright and brash, there are plenty of laughs in the new touring production of Shrek the Musical, which is debuting at the Playhouse until the first week of the new year.
Laura Main for Playhouse Shrek
Casting for Shrek’s Xmas Playhouse stay announced:
Laura Main is to join the cast of the new production of Shrek the Musical, which opens at the Edinburgh Playhouse for the Christmas Season 2017, before touring the UK and Ireland.
