⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What could’ve remained a simple sight gag has evolved into a powerful, personal and punchy clown musical. What a pleasant surprise! What genius choices Maya Ricote has made, turning this caricature into a …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐ Sometimes a basement show feels like a basement show. You need to be sitting up front to get up close and personal with character-based performance art like this. Immersion is critical to your enjoyment. Especially since so muc…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Best Newcomer nominee in 2024, Li Jin Hao just released a version of that show (“Swimming in a Submarine”) on YouTube earlier this summer. During this hour, he jokes about how Show Business only rewards pi…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐½ This is one of those 3½-star shows that’ll earn more stars as Torres gets deeper into Fringe. It’s not not a dead parents show. But Torres, a stand-up whose TV credits include performances on both Conan and The Lat…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐½ Lads of a certain age know who Keeley Hazell is. As her show’s title (based on her 2025 memoir) lays out, Keeley was a topless Page 3 model for The Sun tabloid in the late 2000s, and a cover model several times over for …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Egyptian-born, Cambridge-raised, Omar Badawy is a writer for SNL UK who’s full of LOLs such as this zinger: “Bringing an Arab Christian to your parents is like bringing Prince Andrew a 12-year-old … whiskey….
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐½ As half of the sketch-duo Lazy Susan, Freya Parker received a Best Newcomer nomination at the Fringe in 2014. Since then, Parker has popped up all over BBC Radio, as well as onscreen in big movies such as Jurassic World: Domin…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐½ A three-ring circus confined to one ring and no rules makes Stamptown one of those unique spectacles that’ll either make you shake with laughter or merely shake your head. Sometimes both in the course of the same set pie…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐½ “Beautiful things don’t come out of my mouth. They come into it.” That’s how Guy Branum cheekily explains why he doesn’t sing, despite being a gay man over 40. And yet, if he’s not going to…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Do you suffer from low self-esteem? “Not after tonight! We’re fixing it!” Frankie McNair is a star! Or she’s living proof of the success of following her own mindset, living life as if she has a huge ass. The Aus…
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