The actor best known as Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty is bringing Homer and Heaney to County Donegal. Our writer joins him for oysters as he takes his dogs for a windswept walk…
Theatre 503 Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's comedy raises a few laughs and some interesting points about scientific evidence and how not to plan for the end of the worldIf someone was offering "sex t…
The up-and-coming standup whiz spills the beans about the things that make him laugh the most, from Lucky Jim to A Fish Called WandaHenry Paker at Edinburgh in 2010. Him, the surrealist mave…
Fleabag director Vicky Jones's filthily enjoyable play enters its last week at Soho theatre, while Iceland Dance Company takes over Royal Festival Hall1 TouchVicky Jones's filthily enjoyable…
Heroes @ Monkey BarrelThe comedian's inspired mashup of Evil Dead 2 and Elvis songs is much juicier than an ironic stunt'This was only ever supposed to amuse me and my mates," says Rob Kemp …
Shakespeare's Globe, London On a stripped-back stage, Nancy Meckler's production locates Lear in a world of deprivation, broken family relationships and bubbling anger'No disco-dancing yet,"…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Pointing's egocentric creep Cayden Hunter and his spoof acting masterclass is mesmerisingly ghastly and deliciously daft Towards the end of last summer's Edinb…
Trygve Wakenshaw has brought his one-year-old son as a sidekick, Flo and Joan search for love and Giants present the old disintegrating duo routineFor as long as there's been comedy, there's…
Nearly a quarter of the performers have had their visas denied more than once and one show has been cancelled completelyThe first showcase of Arab arts at the Edinburgh Fringe has been force…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghTaking Tony Blair's mantra as a starting point and using a Spice Girls and Oasis soundtrack, Wardrobe Ensemble's farce tells us much about the state of teachingIt's …
CanadaHub at King's Hall, Edinburgh Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava play one woman, sometimes at war with each other and sometimes in harmony, in a beautifully performed showA woman struggle…
Lucy Porter caused a break-up. Romesh Ranganathan did a diabetes panel show. And Clive Anderson was attacked with scissors. Comics relive their worst moments on stageA guy in the crowd had b…
She may be one of the favourites for this year's Edinburgh Comedy awards, but Hannah Gadsby is about to call time on her career. Here, Gadsby, Patrick Marber, Natalie Haynes and Simon Fansha…
Bec Hill's Sudoku joke wins competition to mark WaterAid's World Toilet Day, beating gags by John Cooper Clarke, Lucy Porter and Tim Key' Brian Logan on comedy snobs' Adrienne Truscott: the …
It was once almost a taboo at the festival, but just about every performer this year, from the SNP's Alex Salmond to an Irish wizard creating a kids' utopia, wants to talk politics. But when…
In 1967 Sam Shepard entrusted his Melodrama Play, starting in New York and touring Europe, to the La MaMa theatre company and the director Tom O'Horgan " and no wonder. Apart from his writin…
My friend Frances Colquhoun, who has died aged 79, was a singer, actor, theatre director, artist and friend of Soviet dissidents. One of the high points of her career was the creation in 198…
Performance artists Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit are known for their political shows but their latest was designed to be 'pure fun'The theatrical double-act Sh!t Theatre got their n…
From infidelity to insomnia and taxidermy … the funniest gags we have heard so far from this year's standup showsRobert Garnham: Insomnia is awful. But on the plus side " only three more s…
Dorfman, London Rob Drummond presents us with questions such as whether violence is a legitimate weapon of political protest but there's not enough room for real debateVoting is becoming the…
The Canadian comic may look like she needs ID to get into her own shows, but her Fringe show is her frankest (and funniest) yet'I love being gut-wrenchingly honest," says elfin comic Mae Mar…
Summerhall, EdinburghThe duo who created Eurohouse shift from comic to tragic in a brilliant piece that reflects on Syria and the breakdown of relationshipsThe woman beside me in the audienc…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup provides near-constant laughs in a startlingly honest, high-powered show that spares no one " least of all himselfCan things get any worse for John …
Six of the best from Edinburgh including Mat Ewins' barrage of one-liners, a German teacher placement at a secondary school and a transgender journey Pleasance Courtyard Building on the succ…
After writing gigs on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the American standup is heading for the big time via a show at the Edinburgh festival fringeLosing control of your bladder in a grocery st…