On Edinburgh fringe stages, pop is eating itself with a series of pastiches and tributes that riff on TV hits and surreal celebrity reimaginings This review goes out in honour of Gerard Slev…
The festival's musicals this year range from theatrical introspection to a rip-roaring improvisation inspired by Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit The world's most popular musicals have often b…
Summerhall, Edinburgh This brainy solo show follows Woof's intuitive thinker, standing in to deliver a lecture for her hyper-rational neuroscientist husband And she starts off chatting to us…
Two inventive productions, Dimanche and Concerned Others, use puppetry and object-theatre to tackle vast environmental and social subjects Such is the enormity of the problems facing humanit…
C Aurora, EdinburghThe long-ago disappearance of a great-aunt is explored in Nishla Smith's captivating performance, enhanced by hand-painted animations For decades, Nishla Smith's family ha…
Attachment: The Leech Show is a merry romp about an influential reviewer and sums up the industry's paradoxical attitude to theatre criticism Advice has been circulating among fringe compani…
Zoo Playground, EdinburghInspired by the work of Nobel-winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, this is a disturbing but blackly funny piece Every performance of The Last of the So…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDevastating testimonies from field hospitals, jungles and mountain outposts are performed verbatim-style in Tiago Rodrigues's disquieting show It feels like an intrusi…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghObehi Janice's one-woman show collects her adventures in the dating game but they don't lead anywhere that interesting Obehi Janice had friends at school who, like her…
Two new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric ways Seeing is believing, right? That is a phrase used repeatedly by Mamoru Iriguchi and co-star …
Imaginary friends, runaway horses and Roger McGough's take on the Wind in the Willows are among the treats for younger audiences at the festival Summerhall, 11.30am, until 20 August Continue…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghUpset by racist attacks in their town, a young couple attempt to get to know the culprits in Eve Leigh's new play Anyone running a far-right festival would …
Traverse theatre, EdinburghA high-school English teacher and his former star pupil meet in a brothel in Kieran Hurley's new play With this uneven three-hander, Kieran Hurley has fielded two …
Zoo Southside, EdinburghPolish company Song of the Goat strip Titus Andronicus back to tell a brutal tale of postwar violence, betrayal and revenge If you are going to tell Shakespeare's tal…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghReflecting on feelings, dating and brotherly love, Nathan Queeley-Dennis's first drama is fun and frothy This one-man show by Nathan Queeley-Dennis is writt…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThree characters take stock of their low-key lives in Angus Harrison's cleverly plotted show If Chekhov were writing today, maybe he would be setting his pl…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghIn Miriam Battye's comedic tour de force, Her and Him go through the motions of getting to know each other Given the survival of the species depends on it, …
Traverse, EdinburghLaurie Motherwell's avoidance of cliche is commendable, but it does leave this tale of a get-rich-quick scheme with little sense of jeopardy Playwright Laurie Motherwell i…
Pleasance @ EICC, EdinburghSouth African actors replay the brutal events of the US's formation as a catalogue of poverty, struggle, violence and pain We know the story. We have heard it told…
Traverse, EdinburghIsobel McArthur's gag-filled farce takes place in a bland modern hotel with a previous life as an opera house Early in Isobel McArthur's head-spinning new comedy, there is…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghPlaywright Ed Edwards frames the story of a juvenile offender through the lens of colonialism In his 2018 play The Political History of Smack and Crack, Ed …
Traverse, Edinburgh A mother is overwhelmed by postnatal depression, just as her musician partner gets a big break, in this heartfelt show drawn from life There is a tremendous amount of hea…
Traverse, Edinburgh A couple gradually face up to the emotional life choices they've made, in this compellingly acted, exquisitely written play by Eugene O'Brien It is a game we all play. …
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh The traumatic secret at the heart of Glenna Morrison's play hits the audience as a shock " but would the drama be greater if we knew all along? Many people hat…
Summerhall, EdinburghWelsh-Iranian musician Roshi Nasehi spins her heritage into standup that is most impressive when she works the stories into sound pieces Having established herself as a…