The Public Acts project creates a model mix of high and low for a modern ensemble One of the great wonders of Western literary history is one of the earliest, Homer's The Odyssey, an epic po…
Intrusive thoughts and US abortion policy come under scrutiny in two Fringe shows CHOO CHOO! (Or... Have You Ever Thought About ****** **** *****? (Cos I Have)), Pleasance Dome ★…
Jonny Lee Miller stars in a problematically dystopian story of creativity and censorship This is a play about censorship in a totalitarian state " but, no, I'm not reviewing The Pillowman a…
Government-mandated coupledom and intractable conflicts in two Fringe shows at Summerhall Distant Memories of the Near Future, Summerhall ★★★★
A brutal history of America and an intimate examination of Scottish drug-related deaths in two powerful shows Dark Noon, Pleasance at EICC ★★★★★
Two strong shows in the Fringe's #DANISH strand offer financial temptation and otherworldly interactions The Insider, ZOO Southside ★★★★
Climate change gets an exquisitely beautiful, gently humorous treatment by two Belgian puppetry and mime companies A toy car " in fact, a mobile home with comically enormous antenna on top "…
★★★★ MAKESHIFTS AND REALITIES, FINBOROUGH THEATRE Three one act works revived with a beautiful attention to detail Plays that show that much may have changed for w…
Warm-hearted wisdom from an 80-something plus ambitious circus at House of Oz Maureen, House of Oz ★★★★
Communicating with the far future and dream-like shadows for children in two contrasting shows PLEASE LEAVE (a message), Underbelly, Cowgate ★★★★
Three one-on-one shows offer absolution, advice and a choreographed blind date With its throbbing crowds and its performers baying for attention (and for audiences), the Edinburgh Fringe can…
Feelgood show acquires added poignancy on an emotional night Forty years ago, the world was very different for gay men. AIDS was devastating their communities around the world, especially …
A patchy operatic send-up and an unflinching examination of dirt and degradation in two very different shows The Grand Old Opera House Hotel, Traverse Theatre ★★★
A playwright's guilt, and a playwright's ego Tennessee, Rose Pleasance Dome ★★★ Clare Cockburn's new play posits the notion that all the women in Tennessee Williams' wo…
Illicit gay encounters form the themes of two provocative shows - with contrasting results Adults, Traverse Theatre ★★★
Women in tune, musical improv, and a backstage story Flat & the Curves Pleasance Dome ★★★★ Flat & the Curves " Katy Baker, Charlotte Brooke, Issy Wroe Wri…
★★ THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE Broadway show drowns in an unsympathetic venue, holed beneath the waterline by a lacklustre book and incoherent score Fine performan…
Sinister supernatural forces, a broken Balkan childhood and a scream of fury for prison reform in three varied shows Casting the Runes, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★
Gripping one-man play, and Covid revisited Groomed Pleasance Dome ★★★★ "How can a truth be told? How can a secret be spoken?" Patrick Sandford asks in Groomed, his s…
★★★ MACBETH, SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE Stripped back version has plenty of echoes of today's news, but lacks coherence and spectacle Matti Houghton shines as a grieving, accus…
Overwhelming power in a hybrid of Eastern and Western traditions, though a more modern take on female identity issues struggles to convince Trojan Women, Festival Theatre ★â˜�…
Our compulsion to consume and our acceptance of outsiders investigated in two visually impressive shows FOOD, The Studio ★★★ There's no denying it: Los Angeles-born …
Three outstanding shows at the Traverse Theatre tackle unexplored life choices, uncertain trauma and Section 28 Heaven, Traverse Theatre ★★★★★
Male violence, Greek myths and a modern-day cyclops in three strong shows Stuntman, Summerhall ★★★★★
Three solo shows at Summerhall cover family secrets, untrodden life paths - and poultry celebrity The Death and Life of All of Us, Summerhall ★★★★ Victor Esses…