Jazz and blues

Any show that starts with being offered a custard cream is off to a good start.
Some of the pieces in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival create a mirror-like effect, with each…
There are any number of earnest and passionate performers offering an hour of the best of themselves.
Many many moons ago I had the pleasure of occasionally frequenting Lizzard Lounge, a club night at Café…
A heavily pregnant Ali McGregor is wowing the kids every weekend in the Famous Spiegeltent.
ā€œIt’s a kind of furtiveness, a weariness with all the conventions of the world so I guess you might say we’re…
Most people will remember the Blues Brothers from the eponymous 1980 film and fans will have longed to do two…
At  9.50pm on a Sunday night, I join the queue snaking from the archway of the Assembly Hall, round the…
This is New York based The TEAM's (the acronym stands for "Theatre of Emerging American Moment") fourth visit…
Barb Jungr was ranked No 1 for The Best Cabaret 2008 by Time Out, New York, No 2, The Best Cabaret 2009 for ā€˜ā€¦
The Hub – home of the Edinburgh International Festival – is hosting a variety of eclectic CafĆ© Concerts in…
Cheeky chappies Steven Worbey and Kevin Farrell whisked us on a rapid rollercoaster-ride of pianistic…
Timing, in improvised music, is all-important.
Frank Sinatra reigns supreme in this new musical from Kingdom Theatre.
Brought to Edinburgh by members of North Carolina theatre and performance troupe Concrete Generation, this…
Spectacular singing and an upbeat comedic narrative make for a high-energy, uplifting theatrical experience.
It's late and the lighting in The Hub theatre is so dim that it becomes impossible to read the free…
Statuesque and splendidly coiffed, clad in elegant ball gown and dazzling killer heels, the nightclub diva…
Daffodils (a Play with Songs), by Rochelle Bright, is inspired by the true life love story of her parents and…
As if Backstreet Boys fronted for Glenn Miller, The FlyBoys, are a boy band, ehhem, ā€œman collectiveā€,…