Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste lead a brilliant staging of Arthur Miller’s tragedy, a Shelagh Delaney deep-cut is released and Black Watch turns 20Ivo van Hove’s staggering West End…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghNorris swaps her larger-than-life Farm Fatale persona for something more autobiographical in this easygoing musical comedyKatie Norris is on a familiar trajecto…
Swinton takes a dead man’s identity, Glasgow’s heir to Billy Connolly heads on tour and Gillian Anderson, Keira Knightley and Natalia Osipova all hit the stage• See all of our unmissab…
Minerva theatre, ChichesterA female secret agent’s extraordinary courage never quite comes to life in a drama that struggles to find tension in her high-stakes storyNoor-un-Nisa Inayat Kha…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Chicken Shop Date co-writer gives a gossipy, erudite account of his relationship with how he looks in this assured debutAt a fringe noticeable for the polis…
Assembly George Square studios, EdinburghWriter and actor Alaa Shehada turns a simple bus trip from the West Bank into a vivid tale of bureaucracy, humiliation and resistanceIt is the simpli…
Edinburgh PlayhouseSan Francisco Ballet brings a spectacular collision of dance, music and digital wizardry to the Edinburgh international festival in this bold reimagining of Pandora’s bo…
Studio theatre, Edinburgh Groupwork’s physical theatre show captures the real story of a midwest mystic from the 50s and the followers she drew, in all their eerie ordinarinessIn the early…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic’s unique tale of assimilation and romance-related limbo has a high joke rate and emotional intelligenceI want to tell Omar Badawy to take a breath. …
Assembly George Square Gardens, EdinburghFour clowns stir up a strange stew of ideas about faith in this playful and highly physical comedy‘Anyone ever been born before?” That’s a rare…
At the newly reopened King’s theatre in Edinburgh, as part of the international festival, Geoff Sobelle’s Clown Show is a dizzying whirl through US historyClown Show review – the Ameri…
The ‘Golden girls of Eastbourne’ first crossed paths more than 50 years ago. They recall flammable feather head-dresses, wardrobe malfunctions and topping the bill over the BeatlesI hear…
Nominated in three previous years, the rambunctious standup – one half of The Delightful Sausage – wins the prize for his show Rewilding while Marty Gleeson is named best newcomerThe ann…
Summerhall, EdinburghAngele and Malcolm Galea’s two-hander cycles through grief and sorrow as a broken-hearted hero is trapped in purgatoryA fairytale plunges the reader into a dilemma the…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghCantrill shares his struggles descending into middle age and his awkward interactions with fellow villagers in a fun showNow a four-time nominee for the Edinbu…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghBehind this grab-bag of papier-mache heads and walkies banter lies a celebration of simply talking to one anotherFirst came Ricky Gervais’s cynical cats; now here …
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Hopping from a PowerPoint on hairlines to songs about favourite motorways, Towelling’s set is fun but drops a stitch or twoThe route from the classroom to th…
King’s theatre, Edinburgh The pranks and pratfalls in Geoff Sobelle’s show mark the US’s 250th anniversary with nihilistic excessThey are a forlorn lot, this bunch who shuffle glumly t…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn his award-nominated show, the standup ruminates on myth and memory with some lovely observations‘There’s a moment when that ends,” muses Li Jin Hao, �…
Edinburgh has given festival audiences a look at two long awaited musicals – Bliss and Disenchanted! – with both aiming to now scale up their spectacleThe Edinburgh fringe is mostly wher…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Even one of her own bugs takes the mic as the wild card comedian delivers these disconnected bitsThere’s an excellent joke about art school in Marty Gleeson�…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWatching a man labouring to strike up conversations in the smoking area of a nightclub proves not just funny but also touching and upliftingEver pretended to us…
Gilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghSongs, physical comedy and clever design come together in Theatr Iolo’s adaptation of Arnold Lobel’s offbeat story, aimed at over-fivesArnold Lobel was a …
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonTwo men shelter from catastrophe in this Beckettian tale of memory, companionship and survival, which is intelligently performed but light on tensionJermyn Stree…
The 80-seat venue at Edinburgh fringe combines sauna rituals with theatre, music, storytelling … and sweatTucked away behind the Summerhall arts centre is the hottest new venue at the Edin…