Company aims to allow those unable to go to the theatre, including neurodivergent people, the elderly and children, to enjoy its shows A pioneering "virtual stage" launched by Birmingham Roy…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe TikTok star follows an atom through time, via a dinosaur, Julius Caesar's lunch and Van Gogh's ear, in an uncynical show with an excess of scene changes Injury t…
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghAstute, well-built set about suffering and its surprise elimination is charmingly at odds with other festival narratives We've seen shows about trauma, depressio…
As the curtain falls on this year's fringe, we ask performers and producers how it was for them By the end of the Edinburgh fringe, anyone who has been here all month will tell you how tired…
Our series on regional dance scenes continues with a visit to Hebden Bridge, where a range of left-field choreographers have put on work Donna Summer's I Feel Love kicks in and everybody's u…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh The comic pores over the insecurities that attended his twisty journey from Black Country boyhood to TV celebrity This isn't the first of Darren Harriott's sho…
Kate Berlant is turning the rules of what's funny upside down. Now the US standup is bringing her surreal one-woman show to the UK The comedian Kate Berlant doesn't tell jokes. Instead, what…
Director and actor who played Auntie Muriel Weasley in Harry Potter and served as artistic director of the Unicorn theatreFor Matyelok Gibbs, who has died aged 91, 70 years in theatre and fi…
Assembly George Square, Edinburgh Material about Hindu-Muslim relations aside, this award-winning performer's gags covers familiar confessional ground, delivered with engaging skill and grac…
Almeida; Donmar Warehouse, LondonSam Holcroft's unsettling new play about censorship features a menacing performance from Jonny Lee Miller, while a musical drama exploring bipolar disorder i…
Dance Base; Zoo Southside; Playhouse, EdinburghSolène Weinachter's funeral guest is a triumph of sound and vision. Elsewhere, a tragicomic study of ageing, and a thrilling Rite of Spring re…
The Edinburgh comedy award-winning show Ends is a superb set about Shah's grandfather, the standup's imminent wedding and multicultural Britain The cliche about Edinburgh fringe comedy is t…
32-year-old comedian whose set explores race, class and migration becomes first British-Asian to take prize A show about multiculturalism has won best show at the Edinburgh comedy awards. Ah…
Fed up with the white boys' club of British standup, a one-way ticket to LA finally brought fame to the 'comedy Beyoncé'. Now she has written a memoir detailing her rise from bullied teen t…
Edinburgh fringe comics portraying cancelled standups and rightwing politicians talk about the dangers and successes of their satire The US comedian Martin Urbano has always enjoyed mocking …
Monkey Barrel Comedy at The Hive, EdinburghThe Edinburgh comedy award nominee dials up the silly to 11 as he delivers a series of shambolic gags There is no more uproarious opening sequence …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic's material on years lost to drugs, booze and drama school is delivered with energy but this show lacks context and heft You know you're in trouble " o…
When the Ukrainian invasion began, the ballet great left a show at the Bolshoi in protest. Here he reconsiders his past ties with Russia and the silence of the cultural elite in the country …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHer material may be crude but there is no denying the bawdy Brummie comedian's craft, nor her gift for getting the audience onside The defining routine of Linds…
Summerhall, EdinburghLekan Lawal's one-man multimedia performance mashes storytelling, comedy and dance into a richly stimulating hour This knotty and stimulating multimedia show created and…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghIn sync with beatboxer Grace Savage, Jade Anouka performs a fleet-footed and clear-sighted debut play Actor Jade Anouka's debut play, Heart, has been kept t…
Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows, EdinburghThe US company Aloft invite audiences to assist them in an intimate and astonishing acrobatic show You have heard how it takes a village to r…
Monkey Barrel at The Tron, EdinburghIn an act mining similar territory to Rhod Gilbert, Smith flounders in everyday life and revels in being the butt of the joke The little guy floundering a…
Summerhall, EdinburghBritt Plummer is waiting to get married to fellow clown Otto in this playful and wistful comedy Clowns at the Edinburgh fringe are proving that banana gags are far from…
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…