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TheatreEddys Goes to the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh International Arts Festival
For my seventh time and my hubby’s fifth time, we arrive tomorrow in Edinburgh for the 2026 Fringe and the 2026 International Arts Festivals.
Current “Best Bets”
Looking for a show to see soon? Here are Eddie’s recommendations for current must-see shows.
Other recent reviews
Hairspray
What more could one ask from one momentous, good-time evening of live theatre than San Francisco Playhouse’s “Hairspray,” sure to be this summer’s biggest ‘must-see’ in San Francisco.
Ride the Cyclone
Wild, weird, wacky, and most of all, wonderful are just some of the descriptors for City Lights Theatre Company’s summer-time offering of “Ride the Cyclone,” sure to be a sell-out hit for the next several weeks.
La Rondine
With a cast of fabulous actors whose radiant, rich voices elicit our gasps of delight, moments of laughter, and expressions of tears, Pocket Opera in a co-production with Mercury Theatre presents a gripping, gorgeous, and grand “La Rondine” in a chamber setting intimate and immediate between performers and audience.
The Employee Dharma Handbook
With a keen eye for perfectly timed pacing of multiple scenes packed with increasing tensions and conflicts — those of discrimination, class, relationship, family, and personal identity (not to mention also IPO or no-IPO) — Snehal Desai deftly directs Geetha Reddy’s “The Employee Dharma Handbook” as the opening production of TheatreWorks fifty-sixth season.
Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri
W.S. Gilbert (libretto) and Arthur Sullivan’s (music) satire of the English’s male-dominated society and government– the operetta “Iolanthe or The Peer and the Peri” — is now in a fantastically imaginative and altogether hilarious production at the ODC Theatre by the City’s much esteemed for seventy-four years company, Lamplighters Music Theatre.
