Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFans have flocked to hear him spill the beans on the islanders, but instead we get some sharply expressed though extremely familiar standup materialEdinburgh na…
Photographer Murdo MacLeod meets fire jugglers, clowns and mimes as they prepare to entertain the crowds during the Edinburgh festival fringeThe Edinburgh festival fringe is the largest even…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghEthnicity and empire are tricky subjects, but not for someone living the immigrant dream and riffing on race with a childlike glee'I finally became a man this y…
Comedian, actor and film-maker who rose to fame in partnership with Dean MartinIn 1946, a young comedian, Jerry Lewis, met a struggling singer, Dean Martin. They decided to form a team, Mart…
Writer Julian Mitchell and actor Kenneth Branagh remember the struggle to mount a risky anti-establishment play, and how Rupert Everett did his best to spice it upIn 1979, when Mrs Thatcher …
Minerva, ChichesterInjustice, inequality, power and passion drive the plot of this remarkable play which still rings horribly true a century after it was writtenGitha Sowerby's remarkable 19…
Festival theatre, EdinburghThis new production from Teatro Regio Torino has a solid cast and striking imagery backed by a richly nuanced account of Verdi's score Verdi's take on the Scottish…
Gregory used his humour to break racial barriers in the 1960s and even ran for president in 1968Dick Gregory, the black comedian who broke down racial barriers in the 1960s and used humour t…
Whishaw is quietly charismatic in this play with lofty philosophical ambitions but which ignores the social and political history behind today's violenceBen Whishaw is a highly sympathetic a…
The former Downton Abbey star declares her love for Indian food, Andrew Scott's Hamlet and RuPaul's inspiring podcastTwo years after graduating from the Bristol Old Vic theatre school in 200…
King's theatre; Church Hill theatre; Traverse, EdinburghA six-hour Alan Ayckbourn epic is outdone by some tiny model figures, a true-life transgender tale and two marooned women with a secre…
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathHenry Goodman's powerful performance fills out a sometimes superficial portrait of Lucian Freud as an older manWe are looking at the older Lucian Freud (192…
Whether or not you agreed with his routines on race and gender politics, Patrice O'Neal was an incredibly funny and fearless standupPatrice O'Neal presents a challenge to the liberal comedy …
The British-Malaysian comic on why conversations about race in the UK have become absurd, his favourite standups and how to outdo a rival's nipple tassels You talk a lot in your show about h…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA Tinder date with the grandson of 70s TV scientist Jacob Bronowski prompts a thrilling mystery that asks almost too many big questionsThe mathematician and sci…
One woman interrogates her personal assistant in Siri, The Believers Are But Brothers brings the war on terror to your mobile, and Frogman conducts an underwater murder investigation via VR …
The Edinburgh festival 2017 is still going strong with unlikely film stars, black-history monologues and toddler comedy sidekicks " here's a selection of the latest shows photographed by Mur…
Summerhall, EdinburghStructured like a church service, Rachel Mars' exploration of humanity's competitive spirit has an added piquancy on the Edinburgh fringeIt is the sticky and spiky hidde…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghComedy proves inadequate consolation for battling the patriarchy in the Tasmanian standup's uncomfortable but indelible swansong Hannah Gadsby's extraordinar…
Coliseum, LondonStrictly Come Dancing is a huge TV hit, and a stage spin-off sounds like a good idea: the performers and the dance styles have a high recognition factor, and a live show can …
The star of Marvel's blockbuster is the subject of his father's comedy show at the Edinburgh fringe. They discuss the art of getting laughs, sending Spidey back to school and finding the old…
When Felicia Yap first danced with Alex, it was not a match made in heaven. But over time she came to appreciate his patience and gritty determination and when an injury struck, it was Alex …
Performed by people dressed as bananas, Break Up is a marathon improv show about a relationship in crisis. Our writer sits down to watch " and wishes she'd brought along a bottle of whiskyIt…
Actistic director Michelle Terry says it 'will be gender blind, race blind, disability blind', with 50-50 split between men and womenThe new artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe theatre …
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, EdinburghA new setting of Robert Burns' The Slave's Lament by Sally Beamish and Adrian Sherwood was the centrepiece of a concert of stark beauty and dark …