4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (627+ words) West End Best Friend Review: THE MOUSETRAP, The Alexandra - Tour Everybody loves a good whodunnit, and it doesn’t get much more classic than Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. First opening in the West End in 1952, it has been keeping audiences guessing…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (253+ words) The UK premiere of the dynamic new musical CEILIDH, directed by Tony Award-winning Sam Pinkleton, arrives in the UK following a critically acclaimed North American season, with casting now revealed. Following its beloved run in Baltimore, CEILIDH premieres in the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (434+ words) West End Best Friend Fringe Review: YOU AND ME (AND WHOEVER COMES NEXT), Old Lab at Summerhall Uplifting and funny, You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next) is a show about care and how humans rely on one another. The…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (161+ words) It's the simplicity of Little Animals that allows these ideas the space to breathe. The lights are up, all is laid out bare, only Ready is on the stage. It is this space that becomes cavernous or shrinks to nothing,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (409+ words) West End Best Friend Fringe Review: BUGGERS, Upstairs at Pleasance Courtyard Buggers is a soaring, volatile piece of theatre. Charting the troubled relationship of artist Francis Bacon (Alistair Hall) and his lover and muse George Dyer (Peter Clements) in the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (400+ words) West End Best Friend Fringe Review: A FOOT IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE PRIZE FOR A TOMBOLA, Attic at Pleasance Courtyard Lydia (Daniel McVey) clutches her clipboard - the cornerstone of civilised society - and ushers us into the Attic at the Pleasance…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (268+ words) There are (at least) two drag-king boyband shows at the Fringe this year, so we wanted to make sure we caught at least one. We headed to Pleasance Courtyard to see MAN!FEST and we're very glad we did. The story…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (317+ words) Besties, in the last year we have become big fans of Recent Cutbacks and their brilliantly ridiculous way of turning some of cinema's biggest films into tiny pieces of live theatre. Their formula is simple but incredibly clever: take a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (396+ words) There are certain shows at the Fringe that go beyond your standard musicals and plays and draw you in simply because they sound so completely outlandish. The Meeples: XXX was that show for us this year, Besties. Now, we should…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (411+ words) Possibly the world’s favourite nanny - although Mary Poppins may have something to say about that - Mrs. Doubtfire has begun its first UK and Ireland tour at Birmingham Hippodrome and, boy, has she arrived! As in the film, the musical is…...