REVIEW: Lianna Holston: Haha, Oh God 2.0 @ Gilded Balloon
Reading Time: 2 minutesLianna Holston is back with her sophomore Fringe show, Haha, Oh God 2.0, and she is ready to make everything about your non-existent sex life okay.
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REVIEW: The Singer @ The Traverse
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten and directed by Cora Bissett, with music and lyrics by beloved Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, The Singer is an hour and a half of not only great music but also top-notch storytelling.
REVIEW: This Shining Night
Reading Time: 3 minutes'Singing a lot of African American choral music with an almost-exclusively white choir probably warrants mentioning the word “slavery” at least once.'
REVIEW: After Party
Reading Time: 2 minutesMorna Young’s newest play about assisted dying dives headfirst into a sticky spider web of a topic but doesn’t get far with its surface-level characters. Vivienne Blackwood decides to die on the night of her 80th birthday…
REVIEW: Sauna Theatre: Aufguss x Nils Frahm
Reading Time: 2 minutesTheatre at its best. For one, I’ve now had the immense privilege of seeing, within the span of just a few days, the work of several Aufguss masters in the Sauna Theatre at Summerhall Arts. As such,…
REVIEW: Sami Abu Wardeh Hates You
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile Sami is understandably not out here to make you laugh at every joke, his up-close-and-personal hour of stand-up admittedly made me want a bit more of a bellyache and a bit more of his signature, spectacular…
REVIEW: Thermodrama @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 2 minutesSauna culture is on full display at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, and Summerhall Arts seems to be its major programmer.
REVIEW: Jazz at Lincoln Center Plays Duke Ellington
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s (JLCO’s) residency at Usher Hall, Artistic Director and world-renowned jazz trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis decided it was time Duke Ellington’s epic suite Black, Brown, and Beige was performed as a whole again.
REVIEW: BOG WITCH @ Traverse
Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to the BBC and the National Drought Group, more than seventy percent of England is now officially in drought, with no forecast of sufficient rain in sight. Fresh off of a run in London, where record high temperatures turned the majority of the city’s prized green spaces yellow (and, in some cases, saw them catch fire), Bog Witch smartly tackles the question on most people’s minds: How do we city folk live responsibly in a climate emergency?
REVIEW: Chad Goes Deep: Chill Towards Enlightenment @ Assembly George Square – The Crate
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe more I think about this show, the more I find myself utterly confounded. Why am I so fascinated with it? What about this chill, ADHD-scrambled surfer dude Chad (pronounced with a long “ah” / rhymes with “rod”) is so endearing? Why am I so tickled by his dumb mis-pronunciation and simplification of words, let alone his shameless creation of inanely stupid new ones?