Festival Theatre
The Ballad of Johnny and June
★★★☆☆ Heartfelt
The Ballad of Johnny and June at the Festival Theatre is a big-hearted, tuneful musical guaranteed to please country fans.
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
★★★☆☆ Solid
The touring production of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold at the Festival Theatre is taut and stylish, but lacking in real excitement.
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
★★★★☆ Moody and mesmerising
The Red Shoes, Matthew Bourne’s dark and twisted tale of obsession and love, jetés into the Festival Theatre on the coat-tails of 1940s Hollywood glamour and a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.
The High Life
★★★★★ Flying
Reviving a 30-year-old sitcom as a stage musical might seem a safe bet, or an exercise in nostalgia. This is far from the case with The High Life. The touring production is vibrant, joyous and utterly hilarious.
The Constant Wife
★★★★☆ Enormously entertaining
The RSC’ production of The Constant Wife, by Laura Wade based on the comedy by W Somerset Maugham at the Festival Theatre until Saturday as part of a UK tour, establishes its tone immediately.
Death on the Nile
★★★☆☆ Pleasing
Agatha Christie’s legions of fans will surely be content with the touring production of Death on the Nile at the Festival Theatre to Saturday.
The Boy at the Back of the Class
★★★★☆ Vibrant
Full of vitality, humour and compassion, The Boy at the Back of the Class at the Festival Theatre to Saturday is a thoroughly necessary production.
Edinburgh Panto up for awards
“King’s” panto recognised at the UK Pantomime Awards
Jack and the Beanstalk, last Christmas’s King’s Panto (at the Festival Theatre) has received four nominations in the The UK Pantomime Association’s annual awards, in which two Edinburgh brothers are also up for the Best Sisters award.
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts
★★★★☆ Pleasing
The touring production of Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts at the Festival Theatre will certainly please any fans of the grumpy detective, but is also an impressive, intelligent piece of theatre in its own right.
We Will Rock You
★★★★☆ Exuberant
Loud, assertive and extremely accomplished, We Will Rock You, from the Bohemians at the Festival Theatre until Saturday, is thoroughly enjoyable.
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