Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Choreographer Drew McOnie’s version of the festive sweet-treat ballet will have a male hero and aims to ‘represent those who felt it wasn’t for them’
It is a sweet treat of a ballet …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PMFriday, August 25, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghLekan Lawal’s one-man multimedia performance mashes storytelling, comedy and dance into a richly stimulating hour
This knotty and stimulating multimedia show created a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghIn sync with beatboxer Grace Savage, Jade Anouka performs a fleet-footed and clear-sighted debut play
Actor Jade Anouka’s debut play, Heart, has been kept…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMUnderbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, EdinburghThe US company Aloft invite audiences to assist them in an intimate and astonishing acrobatic show
You have heard how it takes a village to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13AMThursday, August 24, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghBritt Plummer is waiting to get married to fellow clown Otto in this playful and wistful comedy
Clowns at the Edinburgh fringe are proving that banana gags are far from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMWednesday, August 23, 2023
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows, EdinburghThe enthralling Canadian company offer up a fast-paced but often jarring show that treats Shakespeare like the Super Bowl
Here is a twist o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVoloz Collective’s satirical thriller set during the subprime mortgage crisis is staged with style but has little emotional impact
Who needs a load of props w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43AMTuesday, August 22, 2023
Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh The real beasts – not the internet kind – have come to teach us their ways, learn human stuff and dish the dirt on billy goats
It’s not easy being green. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMMonday, August 21, 2023
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghNoirish onstage scenes between a couple are shown on a live feed which only makes fitful sense in this mysterious production
A gun rests on a shiny serving platter at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMtheSpace @ Surgeons Hall, EdinburghNalini Sharma makes an engaging fringe debut, using clowning skills and audience participation in a show inspired by her hospital stay
“What’s your fav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMBedlam theatre, EdinburghIn this comic two-hander, uptight Terrence is hawking a prehistoric children’s show when he’s forced into collaborating with upfront Tri-Sarah-Tops
Is the Edinbu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMSummerhall, EdinburghRowland’s beautifully crafted show considers his, and our, little lives in the context of the Bard’s words
Content warning: the next hour, James Rowland tells us, ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMSaturday, August 19, 2023
Zoo Playground, EdinburghUS actor-writer Griffin Kelly proves a performer to her fingertips with this highly physical comedy show
For the first few minutes of Griffin Kelly’s playful solo …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04PMMonday, August 14, 2023
The Scissor Sisters singer will play the Emcee while Self Esteem will make her theatrical debut as Sally Bowles in Rebecca Frecknall’s Olivier-winning musical
The musicians Jake Shears and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
Ncuti Gatwa stars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Zadie Smith relocates Chaucer to Kilburn, plus dance, storytelling and fringe drama
It’s seven years since Emma Rice swung into Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
The I Should Be So Lucky singer will play a ‘specially created character’ in the touring show which will feature a string of pop hits by the songwriting trio
Kylie Minogue is to step ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMSatire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming
Patrick Marber is to direct a new play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMTuesday, July 4, 2023
A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Benedick’s romcom gets a feminist framing and Lear faces dystopia as the revered rep company returns in full force
Drive west of Toronto for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMTom Patterson theatre, Stratford, OntarioAntoni Cimolino directs a sophisticated and stimulating production of Eduardo De Filippo’s funny yet poignant play
It starts with a carefree round …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMSaturday, July 1, 2023
Our roundup of the drama to enjoy at home in July includes a glorious adaptation of the Laura Esquivel novel and Saoirse Ronan in The Tragedy of Macbeth
Food and forbidden love are at the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49AMMonday, June 12, 2023
The West End actor says the Shakespearean role has ‘the disastrous consequences of ambition’ in common with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical
“They think me Macbeth,” sings Reuben Josep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37PMWith dozens of installations from around the world, the quadrennial returns to bring the Czech capital an extravaganza of performance design
‘Hello stranger.” This cheery neon greeting, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMThursday, June 8, 2023
The pair will star in a revival of Neil Simon’s marriage comedy Plaza Suite, which transfers from a hugely successful Broadway run
Sarah Jessica Parker is to make her West End stage debut …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
The great American playwright, who made her Broadway debut last year aged 91, recounts what happened when she adapted a John Lennon book for Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre
In the mid-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMMonday, June 5, 2023
Unicorn theatre, LondonConstantly surprising, this fresh take on the ‘it’s behind you!’ routine leaves its young audience asking ‘how did they do that?’
Suppose you put on a play a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, June 1, 2023
Our roundup of drama to enjoy at home includes the National Theatre’s Pearl Cleage revival and David Tennant taking on the Scottish king for the first time
Lynette Linton’s consummate Na…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMTuesday, May 30, 2023
The stage version of the much-loved sitcom, which finished on TV 25 years ago, will be written by the duo behind the original series and feature several members of the original cast
Snooty n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMMonday, May 29, 2023
In the run-up to the festival, our writers will choose new productions that have caught their eye – but here’s a selection of those we’ve already reviewed
Richard Marsh has clearly see…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMTuesday, May 23, 2023
The singing, dancing and acting superstar originated some of the best roles in musicals – yet none of it would have happened had she not fallen through a table at the age of nine
The one a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMFriday, May 19, 2023
Conceived by the artistic director of Birmingham Rep, Sean Foley, the award will be open to all with the winner receiving £25,000
A new playwriting prize dedicated to comedy has been launch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMFinborough theatre, LondonFrom childhood pets to octogenarian friends, playwright Jacob Marx Rice addresses mortality in a warm and thoughtful play
RIP Buster. He’s in a better place where…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM 
