She self-eviscerates in the style of tragic Instagram feeds and harvests jokes from unsent tweets. But comedian Phoebe Walsh's twitchy social-media spin is revitalising singleton standup at …
The Edinburgh festival 2017 runs the gamut from immersive political theatre to gender-questioning dance to standup comebacks " here's a selection of shows photographed by Murdo MacLeod Cont…
Dance Base, EdinburghBy breaking Lady Macbeth's psyche down into three roles danced by men, Kally Lloyd-Jones fascinatingly fleshes out Shakespeare's underwritten antiheroineWhat kind of a p…
Readers recall seeing Max Wall and an angry French actor as the eponymous character in Samuel Beckett's one-act-play Krapp's Last TapeCongratulations to Michael Billington for capturing the …
Guardian reviewers should flag up when there are cinema screenings of stage performances for those who cannot get their hands on a ticket, says Jane HarveyLyn Gardner lists the Young Vic's p…
Assembly Rooms; Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHad they not had Welsh's name attached, these tired, clumsy and slackly directed works would surely never have seen the light of dayNot so much …
The most exciting dance is on the fringe this year, dealing with epic themes and a common inspiration of being lost or set adrift in strange placesDance has had an uneven history at the Edin…
Eurovision-winning Austrian drag queen was due to perform at festival but band members, who are from Syria, denied visasEurovision song contest winner Conchita Wurst has cancelled her perfor…
Festival theatre, EdinburghDebuting songs from his forthcoming second album, the formerly homeless Mercury prize winner evokes David Bowie, Radiohead and AnohniWhen Benjamin Clementine event…
Pleasance CourtyardPritchard-McLean's debut about sexism was good. Her new show, Appropriate Adult, which touches on millennial angst and her volunteer work, is even betterEven at a festival…
Ustinov Studio, BathHenry Goodman is utterly convincing in Alan Franks' one-man play about Lucian Freud, with stories of his models, from the Krays to the QueenA solo play about a painter so…
The prankster character comic behind Lee Nelson dishes the dirt on the things that make him laugh the mostJerry Sadowitz. His seething, bile-fuelled, offend-all-and-don't-give-a-fig approach…
A Baltimore girls high-school dance team boost their self-esteem while they're busting moves in this heartfelt, feelgood documentary Stepping is a vivid and passionate style of street dance …
Shakespeare's play gets a Mexican makeover in Matthew Dunster's revival, while Boy Blue Entertainment explores images of freedom in a turbulent world1 Much Ado About NothingShakespeare's pla…
Ben Whishaw stars in a post-truth play at the Almeida in London, the Scottish literary event celebrates 70 years and the US rockers unveil a new albumAgainstPart of the post-truth theatre se…
The Oscar-winning film-maker makes his Broadway debut in an attempt to convert the unconverted, but if he hopes to change hearts and minds perhaps the stage isn't the best place to do itHund…
My friend Beryl King, who has died aged 90, was a theatrical all-rounder who broke into the theatre from secretarial school when, aged 17, she applied for a job at the Central School of Spee…
The Hub, EdinburghThe Australian diva's enjoyable tongue-in-cheek evening uses blow-up dolls and double entendres to deliciously subvert the fairytale of enduring loveUnder Fergus Linehan, t…
Our writers respond to an anarchic show that quotes from the performers' own bad reviews to probe the relationship between artist and criticThree backsides are perched on a trestle table. Th…
Festival theatre, EdinburghFischer is a conductor with great things to say about Mozart but this staged concert performance fails to do justice to the opera's drama, white-painted extras not…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghJohns was ready to quit standup until Ken Loach came calling. His fringe return is full of humility and unpretentious good humourCinderella can't touch this. Two yea…
A new wave of pioneers at the fringe are telling their stories of mental and physical journeys with honesty, passion, wit and a peep-show vaginaBack in the 1970s and 80s, in the early days o…
As a physiotherapist, I know a third of women don't have reliable body control. I wanted to raise awareness of this taboo subject at Edinburgh festivalI'm a physiotherapist, and as a fresh-f…
The star of the 1993 classic movie went to see the Broadway musical version on Tuesday and then returned Wednesday for another showTuesday: Bill Murray, star of Groundhog Day, a film famousl…
Roundhouse, LondonRandom International's installation, Zoological, features a flock of airborne spheres that glide and swoop and dance and swarm above and among us. What a mind-boggling show…