Created by film classifier and artist Ming Hon, Chase Scenes explores Hollywood action clichesThe drums kick in and a pair of brown Reebok Classics pound the pavement on Princes Street. Ewan…
Traverse at Jeelie Piece Cafe, EdinburghGrappling with both the comfort and toxicity of social media, Chris Goode's show for Dante or Die is a tender, intimate story of love and letting goTu…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghThe debate about what is offensive fuels Vinay Patel's drama in which virtue signalling becomes a tangible actionChoose your words wisely. In this dystopian…
Festival theatre, EdinburghA young ensemble cast fizzes in Laurent Pelly's playful production, with Catherine Trottmann's agile Rosina most memorableThere's not a powdered wig or an 18th-cen…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe self-proclaimed 'riskiest comic in the biz' is playing with our heads again, and this time the stakes are higher and the thrills greater'I'm the riskiest co…
Assembly George Square Theatre, EdinburghThe actor and comedian's lucky dip of a show offers sketches, songs " and a controversial take on #MeToo'Old-fashioned," Maureen Lipman calls herself…
Toilet-paper weaponry, cake-baking, nautical adventure and a drag pop concert … here are some of the festival's most imaginative performances for young peopleSummerhall, 10am, until 26 Aug…
The Hub, EdinburghIn David Greig's delightfully expanded revival of a fringe show from 2008, a couple look back on an eventful night long agoA man stands with a microphone in one hand and a …
Just the Tonic at the Mash House, EdinburghSo long as you can avoid making the inevitable Concords comparison, this peppy musical duo delivers some pleasantly diverting songsJoke that you're…
The character comic switches roles like a regenerating Time Lord in her new Edinburgh show, Faces of Grace " from a wannable Love Island contestant to a cat-loving lonerIt became clear to Em…
Dance Base, EdinburghThe three Fates of Greek mythology preside over human destiny from a cosmic sweatshop in this captivating piece of dance-theatreThe Spinners, a collaboration between Sco…
Dance Base, EdinburghChoreographer Ludovic Ondiviela reworks the 19th-century ballet into a contemporary glide down love's slippery slopePart modern murder mystery, part romantic ballet clas…
Summerhall, EdinburghDublin's Malaprop company get meta-theatrical in an ever-shifting and chaotic three-hander about the unreliability of memory An act of remembrance is inevitably one of d…
Traverse, EdinburghIn David Ireland's brilliantly brutal satire, things get horribly out of hand when two men and a woman meet to discuss putting on a West End playTwo men are debating wheth…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghOrdinary chairs become monsters, vehicles and a perilous walkway in Compagnie Nyash's gently mischievous performance for over-threesFifteen junkshop chairs enter the …
Dorfman; Globe, LondonA 50s-obsessed couple find the veneer on their marriage cracking in Laura Wade's delicious new drama. Plus, André Holland and Mark Rylance as Othello and IagoCan you f…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe playwright directs a terrific revival of his 1978 play centred around a happy couple who want for nothing…Written a decade after Iris Murdoch's novel…
Currently performing in Othello at the Globe, the Krypton star reveals his inspirations on stage and in comics, and a sprinting career thwarted by cakeAaron Pierre was born in 1994 in south …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghTed Heath and Harold Wilson feature in a terrific caricature comedy that traces Britain's EU troubles back to the 70sArguments about Europe, sovereignty, Britai…
Dance Base, EdinburghIma Iduozee slinks and swoops with insouciant ease in this solo piece, but patchy sound design and a ponderous self-indulgence hold the show backFinnish dancer and chore…
Traverse, EdinburghJulie Hesmondhalgh's superb turn as narrator lights up these comic tales about the universal significance of loveIn festivals past, the Traverse has showcased a beguiling …
Mark Thomas takes the pulse of the welfare state, while User Not Found explores our digital lives after death and the immortal musical comedy Midsummer returns as the Edinburgh festival gets…
The singer is to play the suffragette leader at the Old Vic theatre in SeptemberBeverley Knight has hit out at critics of her casting as Emmeline Pankhurst in a new musical by pointing to th…
Traverse, EdinburghA parent-teacher meeting becomes a microcosm for privilege and exclusion in a subtle, well-acted three-handerThe entrance of Sarah Morris's Donna is delayed. "I thought I'…
Traverse, EdinburghPolly Frame's bereaved mother is consumed by thoughts of revenge as MartÃn Zimmerman's mesmerising tale of a school massacre hits homeIn the Alice in Wonderland logic o…