In his ambitious Edinburgh show The Believers Are But Brothers, Alipoor invites audiences to experience the world of young disaffected men onlineJavaad Alipoor is interweaving a series of st…
Haymarket, London, 1988-89In 1989 I saw Vanessa Redgrave in Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending, directed by Peter Hall. I vaguely knew Vanessa as mother to Natasha and Joely. But I had …
Actor, playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who took the part of the tyrannical comedian King Kaiser in the 1982 film comedy My Favourite YearTough cookies with soft centres were the…
A hard-hitting new dance show uses the stories of Syrians to capture the horrors of Aleppo " and the hope that will not dieLast summer, David Cazalet was busy running the cybersecurity firm …
Summerhall, Edinburgh The political comic mixes debate about Britain's future with confessional memoir in an odd hybrid that solicits contributions from the crowdMark Thomas has called this …
After the recent fringe hits Every Brilliant Thing and Fake It 'Til You Make It, a new crop of theatre productions are taking startling approaches to exploring mental illnessAt the 2014 Edin…
Royal Albert Hall, London The John Wilson Orchestra on their annual Proms visit did not disappoint with an impeccable performance of every last quaver of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical …
Scott Gibson returns to the fringe after winning the best newcomer award in 2016. Can Scotland's comedians triumph again this time?Fringe history was made last year when, for the first time,…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe trio play depressed, maladroit losers with absolutely straight faces, and give an object lesson in offbeat humourMaking a virtue out of necessity, I'd call …
PsycheDelight, a social theatre company made up of people who met in the Calais refugee camp known as the 'Jungle', have devised a tragicomedy play, Borderline, about their experiences which…
Modern singers depend for power and vocal strength on technology as well as their own skills, says Ian Flintoff; and Sara Neil on the 'belting' vocal techniqueBernhard Warner (Why do stars l…
Assembly Rooms, EdinburghThe former first minister of Scotland and ex-MP has been promising a political kiss and tell, but he fails to deliver the goodsWhen the former first minister of Scot…
Heroes @ The Hive, EdinburghRunning against the prevailing trend for sincerity in comedy, Mat Ewins' Indiana Jones-inspired show is a paean to daftness, fabrication and windups, with a terri…
French stage and screen actor whose 1963 role in the comedy-thriller Les Tontons Flingueurs made him a starClaude Rich, who has died aged 88, was a familiar face in French cinema and theatre…
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghNot every audience member press-ganged into taking part in the Australian's sketches has the confidence to keep up with a stellar performerTricky business, this …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghDespite past form in translating complex emotion into dance, 201 Dance Company's attempt to navigate gender-reassignment intricacies feels too tidyThere was a t…
Trafalgar Studios, LondonA caustic Channing battles gamely to save Alexi Kaye Campbell's cliched family bust-upStockard Channing gives a good withering. It's hard to tell whether her physica…
The winning personalities of a school troupe from inner-city Baltimore shine through some overly polished stylingsThe life-affirming story of a group of young African American female high-sc…
The standup, writer and co-founder of Touretteshero on taking Samuel Beckett's notoriously challenging monologue, Not I, to the Edinburgh fringeJess Thom, 37, is a performer and the co-found…
From Palestine to Aberfan, identity and belonging dominate " alongside Fritz Lang at the circus, existential football and a song for beached whales"That's not right…" The taxi driver and I…
Reginald D Hunter spurns good taste, Sara Pascoe goes solo, and Jan Ravens is everyone elseTop calls in this year's fringe comedy bingo " where punters make a mental tick each time jokes on …
Royal Opera House, LondonEven when ballet gets silly, the Mariinsky's dancers are in a class of their ownThere are two processions in La Bayadère. The most famous is in the scene known as t…
From Trumpageddon to Brexit: The Musical, many would-be topical crowdpleasers at this year's fringe can't match the manic pace of real-life news eventsThis would be a bad time to try to hire…
King's theatre, EdinburghAlan Ayckbourn's Handmaid's Tale-esque projection of a plague-ravaged future contains many nice ironies and performances, but strains patience over its six hours Ala…
Veteran director claims financiers think he's crazy for attempting Shakespeare adaptationHe directed Merchant-Ivory classics such as The Remains of the Day, Howards End and A Room with a Vie…