The singer-songwriter will intersperse songs from his career with readings from his memoir for Springsteen on Broadway, at the Walter Kerr theatreBruce Springsteen said on Wednesday that he …
Traverse, EdinburghA different actor performs each night in Nassim Soleimanpour's audacious new play that explores the freedom and limitation of languageWhen we go to another country, what i…
Singer, actor and Broadway star who reinvented herself on the cabaret circuitThere are few musical theatre careers that divide as sharply into two parts as did that of Barbara Cook, who has …
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Traverse, EdinburghDomestic friction and a guilty history set the scene for powerful performances in Douglas Maxwell's new playSubtlety is not the prime asset of Douglas Maxwell's new play. …
Kenneth Cranham was a teenager when Joe Orton cast him in a radio play and the pair became close friends. Fifty years after the great playwright's murder, he remembers a flat full of cream c…
Underbelly Med Quad, EdinburghThe standup is strongest when she eviscerates cultural cliches in this nervy but promising fringe debutAditi Mittal's recent Radio 4 show was called A Beginner'…
How the Guardian reported the death of Joe Orton, 50 years ago, from his funeral to the legal problems with his willOn 9 August 1967, the playwright Joe Orton was murdered by his lover, Kenn…
Guildhall, Portsmouth"The most excruciating moment of my career," Frankie Boyle is said to have called it. But if he's embarrassed by his confrontation with a woman upset by his jokes about …
EICC, EdinburghThe cackling peddler of brutal jokes about the most sensitive subjects is not for the faint-hearted, but his new standup show is relentlessly funnyIf you thought Frankie Boyle…
Albert Finney sobbed like an animal, Harold Pinter ramped up the terror and John Hurt even resembled Beckett himself. Now, at the Edinburgh festival, Barry McGovern takes on the role that ne…
Comedian Keegan-Michael Key will join Schumer in Martin's 'loopy' marital satire Meteor Shower, which opens 1 NovemberAmy Schumer is to make her Broadway theatre debut this autumn in a play …
The star of Jez Butterworth's acclaimed play grew up thinking her uncle had died in a car crash. Then one day she was told the truth: he had been 'disappeared' by the IRAOn New Year's Day in…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh The outrageous standup turns a story of lifelong loneliness into an irresistible hymn to self-realisationElsewhere at the Edinburgh fringe, Rose Matafeo uses r…
Edinburgh fringe play Last Resort reimagines the notorious detention facility as a package holiday destinationIt could be a package holiday destination like any other: tropical climate, beau…
The Scottish playwright's take on an Ionesco classic comes with added festival gags, while her drama Meet Me at Dawn looks at the difficulty of letting goThree works by the Scottish dramatis…
Northern Stage at Summerhall, EdinburghAn unloved new town reunites old friends in Jackie Hagen's two-hander, lifted by the performances of Reuben Johnson and Rachel DenningThe disabled-led …
Storyline writer and scriptwriter on Coronation Street who was responsible for one of the soap's most dramatic episodes " the 1986 fire at the Rovers ReturnTom Elliott, who has died aged 79,…
Summerhall, EdinburghA winning performance amid exhilarating sound and lighting gives universal resonance to this account of the director's rare conditionIs it possible for us to understand …
Underbelly Med Quad, Edinburgh The standup aims his moral disgust at targets including the Queen, Dominic Sandbrook and Jack Whitehall, in a hilariously mean but erudite setWatching late-per…
Festival theatre, EdinburghA stellar cast in this minimalist new production " complete with shouty, Brexit-era headlines " make Mark-Anthony Turnage's 1980s classic a tale for our timesAfter…
Comedians once embraced a signature quip or look, so why have such tropes fallen out of favour? Related: Stand down: when comics make unfunny big-screen comedies Imagine a museum devoted to …
His show Made in Britain debunked myths about Muslims in the UK. As he returns to Edinburgh, Tez Ilyas talks about the cut and thrust of panel shows and why the fringe is like a freshers' we…
Actor and standup Eddie Izzard talks about his debut as a raven, beating stage fright and why lipstick gags don't make good comedyYou've been doing stand-up for years now. How much do you ne…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comedian keeps things upbeat as she lightly interrogates Hollywood cliche and the role models on offer to young womenRose Matafeo has watched a lot of romco…