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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMThe 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 01:54AMJames 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 Ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMRenowned 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 s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSwedish 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 j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMPleasance 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 b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMPerforming 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 I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMPlan 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 03:12PMSummerhall, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMRoundabout @ 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 ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMPleasance 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 03:32PMRoy 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 U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSleepovers, 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!” �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMShe 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 01:12PMBrooke 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 05:36AMItalian 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 care…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMThe 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMThey 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMIn 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 St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMIffy 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,” go…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMOpera 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMWild 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 03:18PMTime-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 Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMCharley 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 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMMilton 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 abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThe 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, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMAudiences 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 stockbroke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThe 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 12:12PMBells 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 08:18AMVaudeville 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 01:39PMIan 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 her…
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