New Oxford Street, LondonIn an elaborate game of hide and seek, you have to avoid the marauding undead " but the fear and the fun soon fizzle out A hand grabs my ankle and a veiny arm slips …
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonTalking over each other, getting the audience to choose the ending: Bert and Nasi's new show may look scrappy but it's highly relevant Maybe it's a state-of-the-…
Crucible, SheffieldTobi Bamtefa gives a swaggering, thundering performance as the dictator Idi Amin, but this adaptation of Giles Foden's novel is stodgy and plodding Swaggering and lumberin…
Wiltons Music Hall, London The affecting tale of Jews escaping persecution to find new beginnings in Canada a century ago is a rollicking piece of folk music theatre Old Stock is a pleasantl…
Dominion theatre, LondonJay McGuiness and Kimberley Walsh have chemistry in the lead roles but this revival is flat and insipid, and the story's sexual politics are still a problem For a sh…
Surrey House, Goldsmiths College, LondonA two-night stay in a simulated care home, recreated with exceptional intricacy, probes the line between care and control I urinate into the cup and …
Minerva theatre, ChichesterA woman's withering agency is examined through nostalgia and regret, in Cordelia Lynn's rewrite of the tragedy Cordelia Lynn's bleak, modern-day rewrite of Hedda G…
When the curtain falls on a marionette's show, they're put out to pasture, given a facelift " or turned into burglar deterrents 'This thing is alive, this thing is alive, this thing is alive…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…