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Brilliant comic actor and manager best known for his Whitehall farces who became a dedicated campaigner for people with learning disabilitiesBrian Rix, Lord Rix, who has died aged 92, devote…
Torch songs are lighting up the city this year, from Alan Cumming's take on Adele's Someone Like You to Lady Rizo's anthem of a sleep-deprived mum"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," o…
Old Vic, LondonMatilda maestro Tim Minchin and team have ingenious fun with his new musical adaptation of the movie classic " but would you want to see it more than once?Groundhog Day has al…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThere's method in the puppet mayhem of Emma Rice's Kneehigh musical adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's D-day taleAt the Globe, artistic director Emma Rice and Michae…
Festival theatre, EdinburghPite's Emergence works wonders with the hive mind, while Preljoçaj's MC 14/22 visits male bodies by way of the apostlesEvery ballet company in the world current…
Minerva, ChichesterJohn Galsworthy's 1909 drama of industrial woes still resonates in a fine revival by debut director Bertie CarvelA sound montage of news items and politicians' statements …
Roslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyJohn Cleese's production looks and sounds almost exactly like it did on TV, but it would be cheaper " and probably more fulfilling " to rewatch episodes at home …
A dignified comic actor in farce and on TV, and a dedicated disability campaigner alongside her husband, Brian RixThe acting career of Elspet Gray, who has died aged 83, was obscured but not…
If this simple gauge of gender inequality in film has Twilight winning over Gravity, there's obviously something wrong. As a feminist playwright, I've found another solutionWhen I discovered…
John Kearns has turned failure into silly, soul-searching comedy. Will scooping Edinburgh's top comedy award spoil the punchline? Brian Logan meets the man hailed as the new Hancock"Can you …
Sole Rebel Tap kicks back at Han Christian Andersen's misogyny, a former Riverdance principal bares his soul in Lïnger, and more from the fringeOn the shouty, competitive platform of the …
Apart from some cuts " and the inline-skating " producers say musical adaptation remains faithful to classic novelLeo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina features passionate love, abject misery an…
Alan Dossor and I were contemporaries as undergraduates at Bristol University's drama department in the 60s. The picture accompanying his obituary, of Alan as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in An…
Ronnie Ancona's Gertrude serves up a bloody homecoming dinner down the Prince of Denmark pub in the seventh of the British Council films for Shakespeare Lives 2016, a global programme celebr…
Forest Fringe at Out of the Blue Drill Hall, EdinburghIra Brand, performing in male drag, takes a thoughtful tour in a show that questions our notions of power, gender and identityEver wante…
Minerva, ChichesterJohn Galsworthy's play about industrial action at a Welsh tinplating firm, directed by Bertie Carvel in his debut, is more than a century old, and as relevant and vivid as…
Us/Them | Matilda: The Musical | Heads Up | Always Orange | Young ChekhovA show for young people about the 2004 Beslan school siege may sound an unlikely proposition, but Belgium company Bro…
Screenwriters often find themselves in a straitjacket " but comedy shows written for the theatre have free rein to be as foul-mouthed and foul-minded as they like. The world needs more of it…
St Petersburg Ballet Theatre | Taiwan Season | Barrowland BalletDiva ballerina Irina Kolesnikova stars in Her Name Was Carmen, an updated setting of the Bizet score relocated to a European r…
Edinburgh International Conference CentreTwo Scots team up with a woman from West Virginia in a play that uses folk music to explore the misery of the Highland clearances and mass emigration…
Festival theatre, EdinburghA choreographed spin on The Last Supper proved an intense exploration of male community, while a piece revolving around swarm intelligence had a fluid buzzScotland…
Where comedians once made the most of minority experiences, Fin Taylor, Brendon Burns and Peter White are three performers on this year's fringe digging into white privilege We're used to st…
From Billy Connolly to Shaun Of The Dead, the comedian reveals the things that make him laugh the mostBilly Connolly's incontinence pants routine from his Audience With Billy Connolly. It wa…
She has bust every taboo going. But has the caustic comic gone too far with her new song about rape? She talks about being accused of racism, falling out with Tracey Emin " and why she loves…
Kate Norris and Sinead Parker sketch out the desperation of a quarter-life crisis in lurid performance and fine writingAll Edinburgh venues have their ghosts, and in the Pleasance Attic I'm …
