Chris Turner: “Vegas, Baby!” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
**** (out of 5) Last year, Chris Turner showed off his improvised comedy freestyle rap skills in a critically-acclaimed Fringe run called “Rap God.” He’ll …
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Myq Kaplan: “ImPerfect” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
****1/2 (out of 5) I don’t think of Myq Kaplan as an imp, per se. Nor as an imp, person; nor even imperfect, as he …
Continue ReadingMaggie Crane: “Side By Side” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
***1/2 (out of 5) Maggie Crane is just the type of Masshole to make her older brother’s death all about her. But at least she’s …
Continue ReadingAnge Lavoipierre: “Your Mother Chucks Rocks And Shells” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
**1/2 (out of 5) NOTE: William Friedkin, director of the classic 1973 horror film, The Exorcist, died on Monday in Los Angeles at the age …
Continue Reading“Ted Hill: Tries and Fails to Fix Climate Change” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
**1/2 (out of 5) If you’re expecting a TED Talk here, then I’ve got good news and bad news for you. This is a talk …
Continue Reading“Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
**** (out of 5) Edinburgh Fringe audiences should be more than familiar with Chris Grace by now. The 50-year-old Chinese-American actor has crossed the pond …
Continue ReadingMoses Storm: “Perfect Cult,” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
****1/2 (out of 5) At the end of his first HBO Max special, Trash White, Moses Storm teased a cliffhanger about how he grew up …
Continue ReadingCourtney Pauroso: “Vanessa 5000,” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
***** (out of 5) After a sold-out run of her debut show Gutterplum in 2019, Los Angeles clown Courtney Pauroso returns with an all-new production …
Continue ReadingChloe Radcliffe: “Cheat,” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
***1/2 (out of 5) Chloe Radcliffe describes her Edinburgh Fringe debut as “a one-woman show, but a 29-man show.” Or as she also says (which …
Continue Reading“Amusements by Ikechukwu Ufomadu” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
**** (out of 5) I like Ike. Of course, I never met Dwight D Eisenhower. But any president who not only predicted but warned against …
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