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Traverse, EdinburghSet in South Armagh during the Troubles, Meghan Tyler's anarchic and OTT revenge fantasy hits back at the patriarchy and turns into a bloodbath
It turns out Killing Eve wa…
We asked BAME comedians, performers and Guardian readers about their experiences at the Edinburgh fringe
For Scotland's capital August means the rushed arrival of throngs of people in search…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe most physical third of the sketch group Daphne makes his solo standup debut with a considered rumination on class identity and social mobility
George Fourac…
The Studio, Festival theatre, EdinburghTim Crouch plays a messianic cult leader prophesying catastrophe in a formally adventurous show about the dangers of environmental fatalism
And, lo, as…
Roundabout, Summerhall, EdinburghCharley Miles's multifaceted but tightly focused play is about the complex, envy-laced relationship between siblings
The title of Charley Miles's play is som…
Summerhall, EdinburghA trio of siblings make their childhood sparring literal in a mesmerising dance show with heavyweight potential
Edinburgh's Summerhall has a rowdy late-night festival hi…
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonAndrew Lloyd Webber's epic gets a rock-concert revival that features pom-poms and twerking but lacks central chemistry
It is no surprise that Evita is D…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA woman with postnatal depression fixates on a homeless man in this uncomfortable drama in which only one of the characters seems real
Katie Guicciardi's one-wo…
Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh The standup tenderly hymns the joys of new parenthood in this delightful, tightly focused show
Having a baby is about as far from unique an experience as it's po…
Finborough theatre, LondonA grieving father and son lock horns over an alluring visitor in a magnetically acted revival of Philip King's Freudian drama
Philip King is best known for See How …
Summerhall, EdinburghTheir script adapted from interviews with young carers, a young trio trade heartbreaking stories of unpaid and unsupported custody of their parents
Brutal but beautifull…
Summerhall, EdinburghInspirational hashtags, cute dogs and marriage don't cure depression, says Demi Nandhra in her gleefully silly yet deeply important take on mental health
Every year now,…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThere's lots to love about the polished and fizzy scenes of this family drama, but too many themes leave its message unclear
There's lots to love about this sho…
Royal Opera House, London Alexei Ratmansky's choreography " to Shostakovich's score full of melody and gusto " is agile and substantial and, with its cross-dressing sylph and dog on a bicycl…
This queer collective proves there's a place for comedy that isn't straight or male with a heart-rendingly hilarious Edinburgh show
Jodie Mitchell is slowly moving around the stage, blowing …
Assembly Rooms, EdinburghFrances Barber stars as Zelig-like chanteuse Billie Trix, in this one-woman spinoff from the band and Jonathan Harvey's 2001 musical Closer to Heaven
Despite her glo…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghBrigitte Aphrodite and Quiet Boy's colourful show follows a trio of teens in Margate who form a punk band and campaign to save a tree
Planting saplings has …
Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh The unflinching artist skewers prejudice against working-class people as he puts the audience through an uncomfortably abrasive hour of soul-searching
This is a deli…
Minerva, Chichester Based on a true story, a new play tracks a backstage affair with big repercussions for Robeson, played perfectly by Tory Kittles
Nicholas Wright's compelling new play is …
Your home, EdinburghDaniel Bye enlists the help of his five-month-old son in an unpredictable hour-long exploration of nature versus nurture
A show can have the same words, same actors, same…
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Kathy Burke directs Amy Booth-Steel's feelgood, if cliched, chronicle of cancer and PTSD
Five years ago, Amy Booth-Steel was a jobbing actor, when she was diagnosed…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis musical for over-threes adapted from the eponymous picturebooks comes with delightful puppets and lashings of puns
Kids love pirates. Kids also love dinosa…
When Scotland's national poet travelled to Nigeria to ask her birth father if he ever thought of her, he said no. Does it hurt to put this on stage? And should the next 'makar' be on £30,…
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghMore anarchic comedy, sexual frankness and in-yer-face clowning from the director behind Natalie Palamides
Is there a more singular style in comedy than Dr Brown…
Zoo Southside, Edinburgh The pioneering Ontroerend Goed company takes on a conceptually daring view of environmental apocalypse
Three years ago, the pioneering Belgian company Ontroerend Goe…
