3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (248+ words) festmag.com Review: Burger and a Pint: Treats for the Soul Sketch comedy duo Burger and a Pint explore compromised masculinity with easy chemistry As one of the rare sketch duos still operating at the Fringe, James Trickey (Burger) and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (266+ words) festmag.com Review: Angels in America Internationaal Theater Amsterdam reimagines Tony Kushner’s contemporary classic Angels in America What a sadly but seamlessly relevant play Tony Kushner’s two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Angels in America continues to be, 35 years after it was…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (478+ words) Ahead of her Book Festival event, A. F. Steadman sits down with one ten-year-old reader to talk Skandar, her epic fantasy series It’s safe to say that Skandar has taken pre-teen readers by storm. The five-book fantasy series (now plus a prequel)…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (246+ words) festmag.com A moving piece of musical theatre exploring ableism and inclusivity A short film made by Cora Bissett gets amplified into this moving piece of musical theatre, exploring BSL and modes of listening. Joe (the excellent, expressive Jamie Rea)…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (239+ words) festmag.com Delightfully engineered anarchy continues to hit all the right notes It is probably a good sign that even on a rain-soaked Monday night in the third week of the Fringe, a show makes you start beaming the moment…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (277+ words) festmag.com Hannah Reilly’s show asks whether female sexual empowerment can survive commercialisation With an opening disclaimer that some of what follows is true, some isn’t and “the rest is none of your fucking business”, the sexy, silly, thrilling ROLEPLAY…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (266+ words) Children’s performer Mama G schools us on the power of pantomime and libraries If you like pantomime and you like libraries then, hello, I’m the middle of your Venn diagram! I think they’re two of the most culturally important things…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (628+ words) festmag.com Interview: Sgàire Wood on Jupiter Rising Sgàire Wood, artist and this year’s Jupiter Rising curator, on bringing her “ideal night out” to Jupiter Artland for one evening only Sgàire Wood joins our Zoom call from her cluttered studio,…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (209+ words) Sam Eley’s chaotic alter-ego, 64-year-old oddball Basil Crumbwick, takes us through a day in his perfectly ordinary life 9:05am – Eat large lasagna. 9:10am – I read the newspaper. Front page headline is that the bloke who trained dogs to smell Alzheimer’s has now…...