Lyttelton theatre, LondonA love affair between participants in a drug trial is staged by Jamie Lloyd with a stellar cast including Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell Senses are sharpened in Ja…
Summerhall, EdinburghMatt Woodhead's urgent drama focuses on the deaths of three real prisoners with mental health issues " and their families' fight for justice Campaigning theatre is reima…
Assembly @ Dance Base, EdinburghScotland's leading company for older dancers offers statuesque personality and sprightly disco in a show that defies sentimentality My neighbour at this show…
Actor says high prices are strangling next generation of theatregoers, as cheapest seats rise 13% in a year The price of West End theatre tickets can be ludicrous and risks strangling the ne…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghJenny Sealey, the artistic director of disabled-led theatre company Graeae, becomes playwright and performer in this engaging autobiographical tale Jenny Sealey tell…
theSpace, EdinburghAndrew O'Hagan's script has some witty lines but this drama about the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood lacks narrative focus This monologue opens in a st…
Summerhall, EdinburghThe comic relives being a carer for a lovably eccentric adopted uncle in a heartfelt show that demonstrates caring's reciprocal flow The "dead dad show" is a fringe come…
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 …
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…
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 …
Monkey Barrel at the Tron, EdinburghThis part-improvised, largely mimed and entirely chaotic comic play about guinea pigs and bank robbery is ramshackle fun Edinburgh comedy award-nominated …
Assembly Hall, EdinburghThe company is understandably seeking 'good stories with happy endings' but the best results come in a brief folk-dance Perhaps it isn't surprising that there's a ret…
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, EdinburghAlexa Davies' performance as Charly, a rhyming drug dealer who is falling apart, is the gleaming heart of this production 'I am a trailblazer," declares Cha…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe polarising comic overthinks relationships and family ties before leading his audience into territory where he's not after laughs Drew Michael's first televised s…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghNational stereotypes aside, the cordial TikTok star delivers lively cross-Channel observations and adds a soupçon of substance Social media rewards high con…
With audience attendance still down, many theatres across the US are struggling to adjust to a post-pandemic landscape In his four years as US president, Abraham Lincoln was said to have at…
In her Edinburgh festival show, LA comic and clown Courtney Pauroso plays a latex-clad humanoid pleasure device. But are fringegoers ready to restart her? The last time I saw Courtney Pauros…
Summerhall, EdinburghJamie Armitage's police procedural seems straightforward but the live-stream cameras give eerie clues to a story that is not as it seems This mini police procedural uses…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis fantastically silly show by writer-actors Valen Shore and Alison Zatta reflects on the adrenalised rise to fame for young pop stars On the face of it, a mu…
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, …
Summerhall, EdinburghEloina Haines' performance considers her own " and other women's " labia and the obscene pressure to make this body part conform If the Edinburgh fringe has never really…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis relentlessly upbeat call to relish life's little boons was an awardwinner at Melbourne's comedy festival and is a fun hour Misery loves comedy, they say. B…
Traverse theatre, EdinburghNat McCleary's play brings five women together through a Highland Games that does not always make them welcome Backhold wrestling, a folk sport that thrives in Sco…