Reviews archive
Earlier reviews
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The Diana Mixtape ***
NYDC: Gravity, Boy Blue ***
Pop Off, Michaelangelo ****
Hot Ice *****
To See Ourselves ***
Ivories **
Briefs *****
SHOUT the Mod Musical ****
Quadrophenia *****
Who is Claude Cahun?
The Tiger Lillies, Soho Songs **
Detention ****
SNAP a new musical ***
Faygele ***
Wake ****
Sad Book ***
QUEENZ, Drag me to the Disco *****
The Man in the Mirror ***
The last days of Liz Truss ***
PUNK OFF! ****
WHITE ROSE THE MUSICAL **
TOO MANY BOOKS ****
DEEPSTARIA **
BIRDBOY ****
STALLED ***
855-FOR-TRUTH ***
THE SCREEN TEST ***
PIG HEART BOY **
PLAY ON *****
FIREBIRD ****
A VERY NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS *****
SLEEPING WITH BEAUTY *****
TITLE OF SHOW ****
AMAZE ****
CLASSICALLY BRITISH & CO ***
GAY PRIDE AND NO PREJUDICE **
FRANKIE GOES TO BOLLYWOOD ****
AFRIQUE EN CIRQUE ***
DORIAN THE MUSICAL *****
YOUR LIE IN APRIL ****
HOT ICE – ETERNITY *****
Starlight Express ***
Wet Feet ***
Three Men in a Boat ***
Marie Curie the musical ***
Don’t take the pith *****
Calendar Girls ****
F**king Men ***
Artifically Yours ****
Syncopation *****
London Zoo **
Jerker **
The Turning of the Screw ****
Cowboys and Lesbians ***
Tanztheater Wuppertal PINA BAUSCH – Nelken (Carnations) ****
Chotto Desh ****
Songs for a new world ***
Candace Bushnell: ‘True Tales of Sex, Success and SEX AND THE CITY’ ****
TESS **
TRANSGRESSION **
CRUEL INTENTIONS *****
AFTERGLOW ****
REUBEN KAYE: THE BUTCH IS BACK *****
FAIRYTALE ON CHURCH STREET **
HIGH SOCIETY *****
THE CHOIR OF MAN ***
GARRY STARR PERFORMS EVERYTHING *****
SLEEPING BEAUTY TAKES A PRICK! ****
TINDERELLA *****
BEAUTY & THE BEAST ***
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR *****
THE MONGOL KHAN ***
THE SNOWMAN *****
LA CLIQUE *****
RADIO GAGA *****
PASSING *****
ON RAILTON ROAD **
BALLETBOYZ England on Fire ***
Breaking the Castle ****
Musicals by Candlelight ****
Malevo ***
Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett ****
The Normal Formal ***
The Standard Short Long Drop ***
The Changeling ****
Jock Night ****
Flowers for Mrs Harris *****
An Evening of Burlesque ****
Trevor Ashley – Queen of the Moment ***
Legend – the music of Bob Marley *****
The Little Big Things *****
Drag Becomes Him, Ageing Disgracefully ***
Death Note the concert *****
Candy ***
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ED FRINGE 2023:
Oscar at the Crown ***
Tutu ****
Cam Gavinski ***
IMA ***
Gerard Noir ***
Broadway Diva *****
Elvis Died of Burgers ***
Am I Nuts ****
Alan Turing – the Musical ****
When It Rains **
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Amore, Amor, Amour, HOT ICE *****
Company of Elders ***
Fast Love ***
Sasha Regan’s All Male Mikado ***
Gypsy *****
Giffords Circus ****
A Critical Stage ****
Around the World in 80 Days ***
How to succeed in business without really trying ****
Leaves of Glass ***
MSC Virtuosa ***
Glory Ride ****
F**king Men *****
Animal *****
The Makings of a Murderer ***
Snowflakes ***
Circa: Humans 2.0 *****
Quality Street **
The Dry House *****
Auntie’s House ***
Barb Jungr, Chanson *****
Hay Fever ***
Killing The Cat ****
The Tragedy of Macbeth **
Jarman ****
Jumping the shark *****
Brilliant Jerks ***
Tomorrow may be my last ****
An absolute farce of a murder mystery *****
Flies ***
Merboy ****
Can’t Wait To Leave ****
No limits – a song cycle ***
Con-version *****
You are going to die ****
Acid’s Reign ****
Good Day *****
Fanboy ****
Cirque du Temps ***
She Wolves ****
Buff ****
Katherine and Pierre ****
An Apology to Lady Gaga ****
Wasteman ***
Caceroleo **
Windfall ****
When Darkness Falls **
We’ll always have Paris ****
and then the rodeo burned down ***
Picasso ***
Allegiance *****
Irrelevant ***
Wreckage ***
Six *****
The Human Voice **
Rumpelstiltskin *****
The Grotto ****
Queenz the show with balls ****
Top Hat *****
We were promised honey ***
Love Goddess the Rita Hayworth Musical **
Ikaria ***
From Here to Eternity *****
South African Road Trip: Good Hope **
The Evolution of Magic ***
House of Flamenka *****
Dmitry *****
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore ***
Ghosts on a wire ***
Help! We Are Still Alive! **
Flashbang *
Rehab the Musical *****
Ride ****
Cock Tales – the antidote to the Vagina monologues **
Sap *****
Boy looking for friends **
Hotel Elsinore ****
Los Guardiola – The Comedy of Tango *****
Runners *****
Aidan Sadler: Tropicana ***
Walk Man (Ed Fringe 2022) ****
Tasting Notes **
Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion Freak Show *****
Hot Ice Rapture ****
Metamorphosis ***
Twelfth Night ***
Lift **
Billy Stritch ***
Lillias White and Billy Stritch *****
Jo and Sam find themselves in Woking ***
Anyone Can Whistle ****
Triffids ***
Jewish Hollywood ****
The Wiz *****
Rumi – the musical **
La Clique *****
Punchy the musical *
Vanara – The Legend ***
Snowflakes ***
Kevan Allen’s Coppelia ***
Paradise Dinner Show 2021 *****
Hot Ice Euphoria *****
Forever Plaid ****
Abba Mania *****
Public Domain *****
Once Upon a Mattress **
Sex/Crime ***
Soho Cinders new Cast ***
42nd Street *****
Soho Cinders ****
Thriller Live ****
Act of God ****
Macbeth ****
Afterglow ***
I do! I do! ****
The House of YES *****
tick, tick…BOOM! *****
Derriere on a G-String ****
Zeus on the Loose *
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Working – a Musical ***
Queen of the Mist ***
Edinburgh Fringe 2019:
(Some)Body **
Super Human ****
For Only An Hour ***
Rouge ****
Spank! *****
Hustlers **
Hotel Paradiso *****
Kombini ***
Backbone *****
Losing My Mindfulness *****
Traumboy *****
Burlesque at Le Monde ***
Romeo and Juliet by Curious Pheasant ****
Bromance ****
Happily Ever Poofter *****
Hot Ice Utopian ****
Dark Sublime *****
Bare: A Pop Opera ****
Riot Act ***
Afterglow ****
The Greatest Love of All ***
The Glass Piano *****
Summer Street **
Little Death Club *****
The Milkman’s On His Way ****
Amour *****
The Marvellous Wonderettes *****
Macbeth ***
Undetectable ****
Strike up the Band **
Circa ****
Call Me Vicky **
Bleach *****
My Dad’s Gap Year *****
Kompromat ****
Violet *****
Dad’s Army Radio Show **
The Dame ***
Briefs: Close Encounters *****
The Distance you have come ****
Going Ape! ****
The Wider Earth *****
Mythic **
Little Fools ***
Play Something ***
Salad Days ****
Just Lose It ****
Skin Deep the Body Image Show *****
Animalphabet ****
Adam Larter: Boogie Knights ***
Marmite *****
Love Song to Lavender Menace ****
Gypsy Queen ****
Bottom ****
Losing my mindfulness ****
Bulgarians, Buggery, Brokeback and Beyond ***
Free and Proud ***
Addiction: the untold story ***
Interview with Daniel Stevens from “Addiction”
Burn the Floor *****
Leviticus ***
Ouroboros *****
Bananaboys ***
Shift *****
Trans Pennine **
Very Blue Peter **
James Dean is Dead *****
Sticks and Stones ****
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives *****
Adam and Eve ***
A Gym Thing ***
Seth Rudetskay’s Broadway with John Barrowman *****
Coconut ****
Sex/Crime ***
The World Goes Around, 4.5 Stars
Trainspotting Live ****
The Mikado *****
Trust *
Foul Pages ****
A Princess Undone **
Harold and Maude ****
Dietrich – Natural Duty ****
Top Hat *****
The Tailor-Made Man *****
Cirque Enchantment *****
The Mysterious Gentleman *
Metropolis ****
Brothers Karamazov *****
Hair ****
As a Tiger in the Jungle ****
The Simon and Garfunkel Story ***
Bascule Chambers Concerts ****
The People vs Donald Trump **
Romantic Revolution **
Footloose ****
Eyes Closed, Ears Covered! ****
Ishq ***
Royal Vauxhall **
Gypsy Queen *****
Bite Your Tongue ****
Talk Radio ***
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017
Aaron Twitchen: Curtain Twitchen *****
Play Something ****
Gayshit *
Big Fat Gay ***
Leeds Tealights: Fix Us ***
Rob Cawsey – Just Cruising *****
Ordinary Days *****
Secret Life of Humans ****
Teddy Bear’s Picnic ***
The Odyssey ****
Pageant ****
Hot Ice Show *****
Misanthrope **
Kiss Me ****
Punts *****
This Is Not Culturally Significant *****
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Brighton Fringe 2017: Lulu *****
Brighton Fringe 2017: Owen Roberts: The Man Who Ate Too Many Raisins **
Brighton Fringe 2017: Darkroom Diaries ***
Brighton Fringe 2017: Jon and Nath Like To Party ****
Brighton Fringe 2017: Circus’Sission: Those That Made The Cut! *****
Brighton Fringe 2017: AGM: Unfinished Business ****
Brighton Fringe 2017: The Great Train Robbery ***
Brighton Fringe 2017: Mozzz! *****
Care *
Becoming Mohammed ****
The Pulverised **
Pete ‘n’ Keely ****
Miss Nightingale – the Musical ***
Custody ***
Chinglish ****
Big Guns ****
An American in Paris *****
One Last Thing (For Now) ****
Bunny **
Wisdom of a Fool *****
Lizzie ****
The Understudy ****
The Wild Party ****
Will Power *
This is Not Culturally Significant *****
Beau Brummell – an Elegant Madness ****
Frankenstein *
That’s Jewish Entertainment *****
Drag On ***
The HIV Monologues
The Doppel Gang *****
Abigail ****
Brains *
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus ***
Sweet Charity *****
The Crumple Zone, 4 and *****
Anything Goes ****
Christmas ***
The Snow Queen **
The Nutcracker on Ice – Dubai and On Tour *****
Scrooge and the Seven Dwarves ***
The Nutcracker on Ice *****
Boys ****
Princess **
Trumpageddon ***
Where Do Little Birds Go? *****
Dare Devil Rides to Jarama ****
Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair ***
The Giant’s Loo Roll ***
A Guide to Second Date Sex
The Right Ballerina *****
Skin A Cat *****
Straight to the Heart ****
Danger Memory ***
Sid **
punkplay ***
Vanities the musical *
Sister ****
The MGM Story *****
Crime and Punishment ***
The Wawel Dragon *****
Erik’s Satie-Faction, Pleaseance Courtyard, Edinburgh, 27th August 2016 ****
The Past is a Tattooed Sailor, Old Red Lion, 13th August 2016 ***
Exposure the Musical, St James, 5th August ***
Cargo, Arcola Theatre, 9th July 2016 **
“Obsession” Hot Ice Show, Blackpool Ice Arena, 8th July 2016 *****
Savage, Above the Arts, 2nd July 2016 ****
Norma Jeane – the musical, Lost Theatre, 3rd June 2016 **
A Subject of Scandal and Concern, Finborough, 23rd May 2016 ***
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, Kings Head, 29th April, *****
Blind Man’s Song, Pleasance Theatre, 29th April 2016 (4.5 Stars)
Comeback Special, Shoreditch Town Hall, 24th March 2016
Twelfth Night by Scena Mundi, The French Protestant Church, Soho Square, 23rd March 2016
Torsten the Beautiful Libertine, Above the Stag, 20th March 2016
The Eulogy of Toby Peach, The Vaults, 19th Feb 2016
In The Night Time (Before the Sun Rises), Gate Theatre, 14th Feb, 2015
Mrs Henderson Presents, Noel Coward Theatre, 17th Feb 2016
The Kissing Dance, Ye Old Rose and Crown, 16th Feb 2016
Seasons of Larson at the Lyric Theatre, London, 25th Jan 2016
Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games, Playhouse Theatre, London, 19th Jan 2016