Ashton Hall, St Stephens, EdinburghMcKellen is the only speaker in Peter Schaufuss's eccentric but witless adaptation of Hamlet as narrative ballet Might we be missing some of Hamlet's advic…
Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, EdinburghThe US comic plays a fast-talking agent, a straight-talking sex therapist and a six-year-old divorcee in this high-energy hour Linda Hollywood is an old…
Assembly George Square, The Box, EdinburghIn her show Is It a Bird? the comic has the audience on their feet with a nuanced and deeply funny hour of music and jokes 'This is going to be bril…
Summerhall, EdinburghTwo caretakers at an abandoned Soviet research base in the Arctic debate their unease at the country's present and what became of the USSR Who exactly is the enemy curre…
Dorfman theatre, LondonPersonal, political and polemical, this intensely moving play about disability and austerity challenges preconceptions As Francesca Martinez's urgent, funny and intens…
Comics say they are being priced out, with venue directors warning that future of the event is under threat Tony Law has been coming to the Edinburgh fringe to perform for 20 years, but he's…
As the 75th Edinburgh festival gets started, Guardian photographer Murdo MacLeod takes a first look at some of the shows on offer " from political drama to acrobatics and romance Continue re…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh In an atmospheric staging, with poetic dialogue, Jason Brownlee sketches the cruel twists of a violent and abusive London childhood According to the villain pl…
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Summerhall, EdinburghAudio drama follows the grim decline of an incel, drawing lines between everyday aggression and appalling hate crime We're standing with our thoughts on Edinburgh's Mead…
Dawn King's new play at the Donmar imagines a reckoning for environmental chaos, presided over by the kids who inherit the mess. We join the writer and cast, including stars of Heartstopper,…
Everyman theatre, CheltenhamThe TV show invites a large helping of satire but Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary serve up a sugary plot with over-egged characters The exquisite joy of Bake Off on…
My uncle, Donald Sartain, who has died aged 92, was the first administrative director of the Young Vic, one of a remarkable team that Frank Dunlop gathered around him when he started the com…
Nottingham PlayhouseThis earnest musical, which features three sets of real twins across its cast, has a deeply moving pay-off This is an implausible musical, and you may spend the overlong …
As he brings his one-man show about 'rockstar' poet Robert Burns to the Edinburgh festival, the star talks about desire, debauchery and dancing in his 50s There can't be many people having m…
He blazed through the 90s, an explosive mix of hellraising laddishness and sheer comic talent. As the 68-year-old resurfaces in Rehab, a musical about a drug-addicted pop star, he hits the G…
The British actor has died at the age of 80. His long career spanned Shakespeare on stage to Star Trek on screen " here we look back at the highlights Continue reading...
Haley McGee is returning to the festival with a new show, Age Is a Feeling. Her rehearsal diary recounts nerve-jangling weeks of learning lines " and finding just the right lifeguard chair "…
Record number of NI performers at this year's festival, with C4 comedy hailed for raising awareness of nation's comic gifts The biggest ever cohort of playwrights, comedians and artists from…
The writer-director's new Edinburgh fringe show switches between the 18th-century Haitian revolution and a haunted modern London If a zombie uprising were to take place tomorrow, Emily Aboud…
The standup on writing material about two strokes, his comedy bugbears and how the Edinburgh fringe has changed How did you get into comedy?By mistake really. My girlfriend's friend thought …
Goodness Gracious Me made him a household name. Now The Sandman could bring international stardom. He talks about the bullies who tried to keep him down " and life as a reluctant role model …
Watermill theatre, NewburyNew production reshapes the 1996 original set in rural Louisiana as a taut fable of faith and fear Andrew Lloyd Webber's most recent musical, Cinderella, morphed in…
The actor pays tribute to his illustrious colleague, who died last week, and recalls the lessons he learned as a young First Player opposite him in Shakespeare's tragedy David Warner: A life…
Comedians such as Omid Djalili and Rachel Parris are back after festival's tough two years due to Covid When Omid Djalili first performed at the Edinburgh festival fringe in 1993, it was to …