Pleasance Dome, EdinburghRamoso delivers an irresistible show featuring dozens of characters in sketches, improv and a comic play Sketch is usually a team game " and you could believe there'…
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghNoirish onstage scenes between a couple are shown on a live feed which only makes fitful sense in this mysterious production A gun rests on a shiny serving platter at…
Actor and playwright best known for his 1980 stage hit Duet for One, which was later turned into a filmIt is widely accepted that most writers, most playwrights, write about bits of themselv…
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, EdinburghNalini Sharma makes an engaging fringe debut, using clowning skills and audience participation in a show inspired by her hospital stay "What's your favouri…
As the expense of performing and watching shows at the fringe is ever rising, three comedians ask their audiences to reassess what they place value on Money is changing hands during a number…
Bedlam theatre, EdinburghIn this comic two-hander, uptight Terrence is hawking a prehistoric children's show when he's forced into collaborating with upfront Tri-Sarah-Tops Is the Edinburgh …
The festival's Dance Base hosts eclectic performances involving a wondrous paper sculpture, an examination of duality and Bach reimagined There are more shows at the fringe than you could ev…
Summerhall, EdinburghRowland's beautifully crafted show considers his, and our, little lives in the context of the Bard's words Content warning: the next hour, James Rowland tells us, may co…
Queen's Hall, EdinburghThe Mercury-nominated four-piece play every song as if they're fighting with it, gasping for air before verses A menacing rumble fills the Queen's Hall. Four empty cha…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAbdulrashid is emerging as one of comedy's most honest chroniclers of life's complexities and contradictions There are few acts in Edinburgh right now quite lik…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghThe physical assault Deol underwent in the US informs a set that comes alive when the audience join her search for agency Who wouldn't want to hold the fate of those…
Younger audiences may not recognise people comedians are impersonating but some performers say there's still plenty to work with "If I see somebody become famous, and they've got tremendous…
Summerhall, EdinburghThis life-affirming show from the Danish company Himherandit Productions moves from HIIT class to bacchanale We're two minutes in and already those of us sitting down ar…
Usher Hall, EdinburghThe Russian pianist's Chopin lacked its heart-on-sleeve Romanticism but he brought luminosity and lightness to a technically demanding programme Given it was the Polish-…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghMikel Murfi and Finola Cronin have laughs, despair and arresting moments of connection in a dance-theatre show about the realities of ageing The flub, that's what he…
Growing out of the Lionesses' success, the Edinburgh fringe play Pitch uses interviews gathered from LGBTQ+ grassroots football teams across the country With muddy knees and soggy feet, we s…
Lyttelton, London; Finborough, LondonJamie Lloyd galvanises Lucy Prebble's drama about two patients who on a drug trial, while a trilogy of pre-first world war playlets captures a forgotten …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup makes his fringe debut with songs, set-pieces and self-acceptance in a winning show Do we need more gay heroes? Daniel Foxx thinks so. If you are wa…
Zoo Playground, EdinburghUS actor-writer Griffin Kelly proves a performer to her fingertips with this highly physical comedy show For the first few minutes of Griffin Kelly's playful solo sh…
A dazzling drama about women slipping the surly bonds of male-dominated Nasa joins Essex poetry, New York silliness and Lorna Rose Treen's laugh-fest as second-week treats I first encountere…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghMezzo soprano Christine Rice is compelling in the first half while dancers in the dreamlike second part are a revelation in Deborah Warner's simply staged show A terri…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe smoothest of standups offers polished punchlines in a warm and perfectly wrought hour on imminent parenthood No comedy expertise is required to deduce, the …
Assembly, EdinburghErin Armstrong performs well as the 70s Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni but the show's structure distracts from her anguish She had everything: fame, fortune and barrels of …
Summerhall, EdinburghThe conceit that nothing we do can distract from our existential crisis falls flat amid an awkward set of audience participations in this solo show It doesn't bode well …
Summerhall, EdinburghThe three dancers portray arrestingly clear images of women on high alert, but a potent performance is marred at times by scrappiness and muddy rhythms The choreographer…