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
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghIn a thrilling piece of theatre, a grieving woman immerses herself in quotidian distractions oblivious to three dancers who invade her space
Complex, raw and ins…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghBert and Nasi's ramshackle duet explores the end of the world and of their relationship in tender, silly, heart-rending style
As doomsday draws near, this impossibly bea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2019
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghTeddy Lamb untangles the difficulties of relationships in a bold monologue that is bursting with love
The ache of lost time is contained in this delicate monologue gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Summerhall, EdinburghEmma Frankland plays a winged guide to a burning world in this charged and vulnerable piece about fighting for one's survival
This is a play of knives and fireballs. Mar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghJulia Croft's performance art piece takes you from the edge of a black hole to the eye of the hurricane in The Wizard of Oz. It's all very confusing
The stars lie by our…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM[SHARE]Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole's latest show started off exploring Brexit, then turned darker. No wonder they hand beer to the audience and down shots on stage
To try and win the lott…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2019
A trio of performers " Harry Clayton-Wright, Louise Orwin and Rachel Mars " grapple with sexuality in disarming ways
Edinburgh's collective pulse has been raised over the course of the fring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36PM[SHARE]Roundabout, Summerhall, EdinburghDaniel Ward's bold autobiographical show for Middle Child Theatre describes life for a working-class black kid at an otherwise posh white grammar school
Dani…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2019
Zoo Southside, EdinburghUsing music, Greek myth and family history to explore dementia, this rousing gig/show is intimate and epic
This storytelling concert is a tribute to the power of mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[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]Summerhall, EdinburghBritish sign language interpretation adds energy to a dreary show in which doppelganger radio hosts mock an echo chamber of debate
Grey suits, grey hair, grey static. In…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWarping the conventions of theatre, this exhilarating play lays waste to the sky-high expense of the festival of which it is a part
At once a love letter and a massi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2019
Underbelly, Cowgate, EdinburghThe National Youth Theatre's dynamic and maximalist meditation on social media puts the Facebook CEO on trial " and makes him tap dance
In a recent New Yorker c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Assembly George Square Gardens, EdinburghIn this intimate show backed by a live harp, the effortlessly charming comedian expounds on platonic, brotherly and romantic love
At one end of St P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Leith theatre, EdinburghThe performance poet absorbs all of the uncertainty and anger of our times, and pours it into ferocious, apocalyptic music that both wounds and heals
Rarely can a roo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghTheir script adapted from interviews with young carers, a young trio trade heartbreaking stories of unpaid and unsupported custody of their parents
Brutal but beautifull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh The unflinching artist skewers prejudice against working-class people as he puts the audience through an uncomfortably abrasive hour of soul-searching
This is a deli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghDespite a solid solo performance from McLean Peterson, there's little funny about the president's refusal to act on gun control
Is Trump not yet beyond satire? T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghLucy McCormick rips up the rulebook with Post Popular, a hedonistic history lesson that is trashy, volatile ... and honest
Utterly indelicate and completely unp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2019
Underbelly, EdinburghBarrel Organ are on the trail of something in this bewildering piece of devised theatre, but something's not right
My notes are full of question marks. In a retreat from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 3, 2019
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghOn display like a bust in a museum, Breffni Holahan is superb in this Beckettian monologue by Margaret Perry
Breffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2019
King's Head, LondonA tentative tale of lesbian love is unengaging, but the fraught story of a cross-dressing queen and a sailor is shattering and compelling★★☆☆â˜�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2019
Secret location, LondonBest experienced in a group, this immersive dining experience is exquisitely designed - if the food seems an afterthought
As a hairy monster swells towards me in its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2019
She unleashed Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the Edinburgh fringe. The former actor with the Midas touch tells us her recipe for a hit show
'We had wine. It was late." Producer Francesca Moody shru…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2019
The sun shines on the revels at Shakespeare's Globe, while cruelty and creepiness rule at Regent's Park Open Air theatre
The modern-dress mechanicals look ready to rave in Sean Holmes' over-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2019
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon A melancholic exploration of music and love changes key to explore astrology and the occult
The first half of Robin French's Crooked Dances is a love let…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2019
Various venues, LondonRobotic alien puppets ran riot in south London to open a festival that tackled issues of gender, disability, race and Brexit
Stories are scattered like confetti across …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Roundhouse, LondonThis festival gives voice to up-and-coming performers, from poetry slam winner Rakaya Esime Fetuga to the painfully funny Jack Rooke
The Last Word festival is a celebration…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2019
London PalladiumThe exhilarating comedian known for her hit Netflix series puts on an addictive night of comedy and song
American comedian Rachel Bloom gets musical theatre tropes drunk and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2019
Shakespeare's Globe, London Jealousy and lechery divert the idle rich in Elle While's production of the Shakespeare romcom, but well-dressed schemings lack chemistry
Director Elle While plac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE] 
