FringeReview is a British online and paper-based theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 review

Review

A review is an evaluation of a publication, a product or a service, such as a movie , video game, musical composition , book ; a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer; or an event or performance, such as a live music concert, a play, musical theater show or dance show...

s publication. It was founded by writer Paul Levy in 2006. This web-based publication reviews in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, Brighton

Brighton

Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...

, Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

, Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

 and Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

, covering fringe theatre

Fringe theatre

Fringe theatre is theatre that is not of the mainstream. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which name comes from Robert Kemp, who described the unofficial companies performing at the same time as the second Edinburgh International Festival as a ‘fringe’, writing: ‘Round the fringe...

. Reviewers are theatre practioners and experts. In 2010, FringeReview reviewed over 700 theatre productions in the UK. The paper versions of FringeReview takes the form of digests although the publication has attempted to pioneer high-quality theatre reviewing, not as "web content" but as a sustainable virtual publication in its own right. FringeReview's vetted reviews process was recently quoted in The Scotsman

The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....

, and in The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

theatre blog. FringeReview is a member of the Festival Media Network, a trade organisation aimed at upholding online review and media standards. FringeReview is listed as a media partner of Amsterdam Fringe, and is also featured for its prestigious awards on the Edinburgh Fringe web site. Reviewers for FringeReview include the best-selling author Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser is a best-selling novelist, American-born but British-based. His most well-known novel, "The Quincunx", has sold over a million copies internationally. He is the elder brother of the late author and freelance journalist Marcus Palliser.-Life and career:Born in New England he is...

, actor and director, Richard Franklin

Richard Franklin

Richard Franklin is a British actor.He has had various roles in different television programmes including Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm...

, and theatre director, Benet Caty.

FringeReview recently launched its coverage of Oxford Fringe.