The idea with Carl Miller and Christopher Ash’s willfully weird show is that the Brontes were like a rock band. The musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMAfter wading through the daft protests outside the Kiln Theatre, the newly refurbished, rechristened building is beautiful. The auditorium feels wider and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMA few years ago twice Pulitzer-finalist Stephen Karam came across a risible self-help book called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40PMTom Wells is master of the adorkable. There’s a lovely, gentle, huggable quality to his plays. And that continues here, although perhaps
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AMFrom humble beginnings, the Pleasance has risen to become one of the biggest venues at the world’s biggest arts event – the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThis isn’t a Jon Bon Jovi jukebox musical. Well it is and it isn’t. It’s definitely a very clever deconstruction and fond
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMAlthough Boxless makes physical theatre, the strongest moments in this piece about the impact of music on different generations come from the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMIt’s apt for a show about fake news and the bombardment of information in the digital age that most of the time
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMWhen it’s good, this is what the fringe excels at: a really tightly written, deftly performed monologue. And this is good. Growing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMIt’s a bit difficult to grasp, this. The idea that nothing has happened until it’s happened. And before that moment, infinite outcomes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMIt takes brass to tackle Mistero Buffo. Dario Fo’s twisted mystery play was a showcase for the late great man himself, as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMA really brief note on the free sheet for this physical show by National Theatre of China says it’s about the life
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMAs Lil points out at the beginning of this startling reinterpretation of Jonathan Swift’s satire, the only bit of Gulliver’s Travels people
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMEarlier this year the BBC announced it was shutting down its Maida Vale studio. It’s a shame considering its incredible history, no
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMIt’s a winner, this combination of Hijinx and Spymonkey. Hijinx works brilliantly with actors who have learning disabilities, while masters of daftness
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMPurportedly a comedy, purportedly a dark one, there’s no evidence of that in Christopher Reid’s verse piece about a middle-aged man meeting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMA lot of the writing in Dangerous Giant Animals is so good because it’s so taut and simple. Christina Murdock picks small
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMJohn Gay’s 1728 opera was so popular in its time because it erased all the class associations of snobbish Italian opera. Gay
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AMThe concept here is strong: to work magic into the narrative of a theatre piece. But this collection of three scenes doesn’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMOne of the startling things that comes out of Danielle Ward’s play is how the comedy industry is stacked against women’s success.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMWhat’s brilliant about this puppet parade of gruesome deaths is the seriousness with which it’s so silly. Our host Nathanial Tweak, also
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMOf all the NHS-themed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, this one shouts the most quietly. There’s none of the in-your-face politicking of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMGbolahan Obisesan’s adaptation of Chigozie Obioma’s novel makes for a supreme piece of theatre. It’s pared to essentials – two actors and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMThe directions Laurent Pelly takes familiar works in, and the designs he gives them, are always pretty revelatory. That’s true of his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:58PMJon is thinking about leaving. What, and to go where, we don’t know. Magne van den Berg’s play doesn’t deal in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMHow does Chris Thorpe make a middle-aged white man with a guitar and a show about being British absolutely the opposite of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMThe trouble with the Homeric epics is that for us today they exist only on paper, as big, impenetrable books in stilted
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMDespite controversially taking over Edinburgh’s Meadows site four years ago, Underbelly’s Circus Hub is now a near sell-out and is taking risks
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:44PMIt’s strange to think that the nature of grief has changed over the years. It seems like one of those permanent emotions,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMFor the past 13 years or so, Nir Paldi and George Mann have taken it in turns to create a show for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMIn Le Gateau Chocolat’s raggedy makeshift world, ugly ducklings don’t turn into beautiful swans. Life isn’t that simple if you’re ‘different’. Instead
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