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Broadway Baby is an established theatre review site that has been covering the largest arts festival in the world, the Edinburgh Fringe, for the last five years.
The site has now grown to cover the Brighton Fringe Festival and also general fringe theatre in the UK.
The Durham Revue's 33rd Annual Surprise Party!
The best thing that can probably be said of the Durham Revue is that it’s uninspired.
Aside from Harry Breslaw, who gives a solid performance throughout, the cast are largely inconsistent in filling their roles....
Posted on 10 October 2011 | 10:09 am
Evelyn Evelyn
Evelyn Evelyn are two musically talented yet utterly quirky conjoined twins hailing from Walla Walla, Washington. The two girls are played by Amanda Palmer and (bearded) Jason Webley playing a plethora of instruments using just their two arms bet...
Posted on 6 September 2011 | 12:01 pm
EastEnd Cabaret: The Revolution Will Be Sexual
With Bernadette Berne on vocals and Victor Victoria, her 'own personal freak of nature' (a creature quite literally straddling the line between man and woman) on piano and accordion, EastEnd Cabaret offers an even...
Posted on 6 September 2011 | 12:00 pm
The Damsel in Shining Armour
The show opens with a young woman centre stage, gagged and blindfolded, her feet tied together and her hands handcuffed above her head. But don’t get too excited; the rather racy mood is instantly broken by the muffled strains of...
Posted on 6 September 2011 | 11:59 am
All the Fun of the Unfair
‘You’ve come on a weird night. This isn’t the actual show.’ This warning, as soon as I entered the pub’s back-room, was a fair one. While the real total was somewhat below the ‘thousand acts’ I had prepared for, nine com...
Posted on 2 September 2011 | 11:30 am
A Man's a Man
What a bizarre hour of my life was spent watching this musical - bizarre, but not wholly unpleasant. This piece of new writing is at its core a light-hearted and old-fashioned romantic comedy, but the inconsistency of performances and a bit of a ...
Posted on 2 September 2011 | 11:29 am
Susan Murray's Photo Booth
Susan Murray's Photo Booth has a promising concept: comedy spun around her collection of passport photos – her own, her friends', her family's and those of complete strangers that she has stolen from booths up and down the country....
Posted on 2 September 2011 | 11:27 am
Hit Comet
It’s surprising to find Hit Comet in the Comedy section of the Fringe Guide as the heartfelt friendship at the core of the piece is far more successful than some of the comic elements. Exploring the choice in life between selling out and artistic i...
Posted on 2 September 2011 | 11:26 am
Patrick Monahan: Hug Me I Feel Good
Having just won ITV’s Show Me the Funny the previous night, Patrick Monahan’s mood was one of pure ecstasy as he was pushed past a queuing audience into the venue two minutes before the opening of his stand-up set. This ...
Posted on 2 September 2011 | 11:25 am
Seann Walsh: Ying and Young
Seann Walsh is young, attractive and blonde. His persona is completely likable and his material is amusing. But his observational style, the subject and delivery of his material is just too safe. His material covers everyday annoyan...
Posted on 2 September 2011 | 11:23 am