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What caught your eye — or raised an eyebrow! These are our top three most-read articles this month!
Review: Jack and the Beanstalk — Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
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The last edition of the King’s Panto in exile at Edinburgh’s glorious Festival Theatre before it returns home next year...it’s going out in style.
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Review: Christmas Carol Goes Wrong – Apollo Theatre, London
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Mischief Theatre's Christmas Carol Goes Wrong is a wonderfully fun show that will easily entertain even if it doesn’t quite stick some landings.
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The Long Haul to Transylvania: Ryan Carter-Wilson on Rocky Horror’s Enduring Message
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Ryan Carter-Wilson talks playing Riff Raff in the Rocky Horror 50th Anniversary tour, Jason Donovan’s chaos, and a January return to the Edinburgh Playhouse.
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Writer-performer Ollie Maddigan on the bittersweet success of The Olive Boy and turning his mother’s death into an Offie-winning study of adolescent chaos.
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Alexander Arnold on David Ireland’s Most Favoured, faith and KFC at Soho Theatre
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Alexander Arnold discusses David Ireland’s Most Favoured at Soho Theatre. The Skins star talks faith, KFC, and the unique pressure of a 45-minute one-act.
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Inside the chaos of The Fit Prince. Awkward Productions talk puppets, pop icons, and queer romance as their festive parody hits the King's Head Theatre.
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Interview: Karim Khan talks Before the Millennium at Oxford's Old Fire Station. We discuss Y2K, Woolworths nostalgia, and the migrant experience.
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We preview 4PLAY at the Traverse. From 90s heists to AI survivalism, this year's new writing showcase isn't just a collection of plays—it's a manifesto.
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#FringeQuickies

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Check them out in the doomscroll — it’s fast, funny, and scrollable in seconds. Fringe 2025 may be finished, but their words live on!
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Or check out these boosted picks — a handful of Quickies from performers who’ve helped support our Fringe coverage ❤️

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#EdFringe - relive highlights of the Fringe 2025

EdFringe Review: Baby Lasagna
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Baby Lasagna, aka Croatian singer Marko Purišic, was to be my last review of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025. Unfortunately, Baby Lasagna didn’t get the…

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EdFringe Review: Sam Williams: Touch Me Not
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Sam Williams’ debut hour, Touch Me Not, sets itself the ambitious task of unpicking the apparent contradictions of being both Christian and bisexual. It is…

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EdFringe Review: I Was Almost Killed By an Angry Mob at the Edinburgh Fringe
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“In 2015, Matty Grey, kids’ comedian, accidentally insulted a child in passing at the Edinburgh Fringe. What happened next would see the brief interaction go…

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