1,004 stories by "Chris Wiegand"
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 sc…
James 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 Expr…
Renowned 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 sch…
Swedish 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 jok…
Pleasance 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 boobs…
Performing 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
It …
Summerhall, 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 hi…
Roundabout @ 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 has …
Pleasance 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…
Roy 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 UK's most…
Sleepovers, 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!" "And a twist…
She 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…
Brooke 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…
Italian 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 career…
The 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 I…
They 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 m…
In 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 Studio…
Iffy 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," goes the rap. …
Opera 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 by…
Time-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 Manc…
Charley 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 the Yor…
Milton 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 about …
The 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, in a…
Audiences 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 stockbroker …
The 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…
