Sunday, September 15, 2019
Jubilee Hall, AldeburghEve Austin is vividly volatile as a schoolgirl adrift over summer holidays in Sophie Ellerby's slow-burning drama for HighTide
Year 9 is said to be the toughest for sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The festival is over for another year but plenty of its theatre, comedy and dance hits have announced dates around the UK
CollapsibleBreffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2019
James McNicholas is used to performing comedy sketches. Now he's letting his guard down for the story of middleweight champ turned movie star Terry Downes
They called him the Paddington Expr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
Renowned as the squire and surprise Casanova in Thrones, the star is now wrestling with audiences in Edinburgh. He talks about his meteoric rise to fame and why he won't be going back to sch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2019
Swedish comedian feasts on the acclaim after his food-themed quip tops list of 10 best gags from this year's fringe
The surrealist Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has won the Dave funniest jok…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghKatie Arnstein uses Dorothy's yellow-brick road to map her own struggles and issue a raw reminder of the urgency of #MeToo
'We saw your boobs! We saw your boobs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Performing at the fringe can cost a fortune " little wonder so many comics bunk in together. We drop in on Jon Richardson, Rose Matafeo and Josie Long, among others, to see how they live
It …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2019
Plan your schedule with our roundup of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated daily throughout the festival
BoutSummerhall, 10.20am, until 25 AugustAn exploration of bro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghA trio of siblings make their childhood sparring literal in a mesmerising dance show with heavyweight potential
Edinburgh's Summerhall has a rowdy late-night festival hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghBrigitte Aphrodite and Quiet Boy's colourful show follows a trio of teens in Margate who form a punk band and campaign to save a tree
Planting saplings has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis musical for over-threes adapted from the eponymous picturebooks comes with delightful puppets and lashings of puns
Kids love pirates. Kids also love dinosa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2019
Roy Alexander Weise and Bryony Shanahan unite to 'make work with and for' the city's people
Two acclaimed young directors are to jointly run Manchester's Royal Exchange, one of the UK's most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2019
Sleepovers, bossy monarchs and a desert-island McDonald's … The Orange Tree theatre introduces kids to The Tempest with a hands-on creative extravaganza
'Suspense!" "Romance!" "And a twist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2019
She was ruthless Ellaria in the TV epic. As she appears in a Noël Coward comedy, the actor talks about her dreams of returning to mime " and why sticking with her name may have hurt her c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Brooke Shields, Robert Powell, Jeremy Irons and Fanny Ardant share their memories of working with the virtuoso director
He was very tough but in a loving way. Franco was always wanting and e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2019
Italian equally celebrated as director of films, theatre and opera over 60-year career
Franco Zeffirelli, one of Italy's most revered artistic figures, has died at the age of 96.
In a career…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2019
The actor's one-man show includes a reading from Lord of the Rings, anecdotes about his Shakespeare days and a revival of his panto dame Widow Twankey
A West End run has been announced for I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2019
They have left millions boggled with their graceful card acts, great escapes and audacious stunts. But can The Illusionists make magic's fusty reputation vanish?
Our instinct when watching m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2019
In the run-up to the Edinburgh festival we'll be picking highlights from the programme. Here's a dozen for starters, including Eddie Izzard and a ukulele comedy
Assembly George Square Studio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2019
Iffy insults fly, heads bounce around and the wiper of the king's bottom takes a bow " all in the moat where alligators swam
'I'm Anne Boleyn, yeah, I'm married to this dude," goes the rap. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Opera House, WuppertalPina Bausch merges the domestic and dream worlds in a dark but playful version of Shakespeare's tragedy
In Since She, the first of two new full-length pieces created by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wild parties, stunning performances, silhouette erections and marrying Patrick Stewart twice. As the actor turns 80, friends including Derek Jacobi, Janet Suzman, Michael Sheen, Bill Condon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2019
Time-travel film's co-creator to write dialogue while Olly Dobson takes Marty McFly role
A stage musical based on the blockbuster film Back to the Future will have its world premiere in Manc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Charley Miles's There Are No Beginnings is based on interviews with women who lived through Peter Sutcliffe's reign of terror
A play about the impact on women's lives of the hunt for the Yor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2019
Milton Keynes theatreLiz Pichon brings the young hero of her witty books to life in an adaptation that explodes with animations
There is barely a boring sentence in Liz Pichon's books about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2019
The 600-seat theatre, due to open in Facebook's new offices in 2021, will be an adaptable auditorium in the mould of the Bridge
A new theatre is to open in King's Cross, central London, in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Audiences will choose to be crooked traders or FBI agents in London production of Jordan Belfort's memoir this September
The Wolf of Wall Street, the outrageous memoir of former stockbroker …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2019
The actor-writer will perform her comic monologue, on which the hit TV show was based, for 30 performances this summer
It is the filthy, fiercely funny monologue that received mixed reviews…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Bells and Spells casts the French star as a kleptomaniac in a performance that leaves the audience guessing
In her mystifying shows, Aurélia Thierrée has crossed the stage in an upside-dow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Vaudeville theatre claims to break new ground in London with parent and baby showing of hit play Emilia
Cliche has it that matinee audiences are full of snoring older people. But it was infa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:39PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2019
Ian McKellen throws his wand behind underdog in dramatisation of themed pub's legal threat from Middle-earth Enterprises
It is the nail-biting, crowdpleasing story of a plucky everyday hero …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE] 
