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…
Assembly @ Dance Base, EdinburghMushroom coffins, organic wool shrouds and funeral re-enactments pepper Solène Weinachter's light touch but poignant show Sinatra, T Rex, pan pipe muzak: wha…
Jude McGowan on being a lifelong theatregoer on a modest budget. Plus letters from Rory Murphy and Ian Wells Re your article on theatre prices (Price of West End theatre tickets can be ludic…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghPauroso is an astonishing performer who teases the crowd but her show raises more questions than there's time to fully explore Vanessa 5000, the creation of sea…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghSome gags are queasy and others are thrillingly bleak from the Mancunian comic whose outbursts are often directed at himself This cramped space at the back of …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom a nine-year-old misfit to Sally Rooney writing a children's book, Treen's characters are pitched at a sharp angle to the real world Funny Women winner 2022…
Comedians at the festival are enlisting volunteers to join in their acts, creating a warm, inclusive and fun space As I cross the threshold of US comedian Moses Storm's Edinburgh fringe show…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAssuming the guise of 'an old-school entertainment type', this fringe debutant is hypnotically unusual The fashion is for fringe newcomers to deliver solo shows…
Makeshift outdoor show held after two venues cancel booking of comedian known for his gender-critical beliefs A comedy event featuring Father Ted creator Graham Linehan was staged in the ope…
As a retrospective of her work opens in London, Rainer looks back at her journey from experimental choreographer to anarchic film-maker and back again Yvonne Rainer is the iconoclastic chore…
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh In an affecting set, the comic reflects on his younger brother's death and the importance of holding loved ones close It is said that comedy is tragedy plus time " …
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…
Summerhall, EdinburghGig-theatre blends beguiling music with warm storytelling to retell the story of Phaeton's theft from the sun god In an airless basement room, Wright and Grainger weave …
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…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIdentity politics are deftly and hilariously tackled, with the help of a diamante-studded sporran, in a compelling show Jodie Mitchell's debut hour in some ways…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghBelgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed create a sombre, dreamlike atmosphere in this piece about funeral rites and mourning We queue up to give the names of our dead…
Having built his reputation as a comic and podcaster on his candour about anxiety and addiction, Robins is facing a new comedy challenge " happiness 'There is no greater sorrow," as Dante ha…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup delivers an energetic set about trying to live up to his parents' expectations and the ethics of his corporate day job "I am unhinged!" There's nerv…
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…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghHenry Naylor's well-intentioned drama about deaths in care homes lets anger cloud its judgment Hyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie's 78-year-old mum ha…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe nerdy comic takes his standup in a new direction with this partly participatory show but it doesn't exploit his strengths He may be making his 10th Edinburg…
They might be 'edgy, queer' comics by night " but by day Shelf are children's entertainers, and they're not the only fringe act with a sideline in making kids laugh When the comedy duo Shelf…
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…
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonBrad Birch's drama aims to explain how it felt to be the centre of the world's attention in the war but being narrated at becomes tiring When the RSC invited…