Stand Comedy Club, EdinburghMore confident than last year's debut, Brady's show Male Comedienne focuses on what stripping taught her about feminism and female behaviour"What is this 'us girl…
Adura Onashile's new play, Expensive Shit, takes place in two toilets " one in Glasgow and the other at Fela's legendary Lagos club. She talks about her bathroom sink dramaIn a nightclub toi…
Dolphins on LSD, a comic symphony and an improbable family show about a school siege … our critics pick the top tickets of this year's fringeTankBreach Theatre's compelling look at gender …
Involving the audience is the big trend at this year's fringe. How did Alexis Petridis cope when he got up on stage in five shows?It is half past midnight and I am at the Edinburgh festival …
Our roundup of the best standup gags at this year's festivalI'm going to start doing Class-A drugs when I'm an OAP. Why wouldn't you? You don't have to get up in the morning, you'll never ha…
She was a poet laureate at 11, starred in The Archers as a teen and played Caitlin Moran in Raised By Wolves. Now the 23-year-old is taking her own show to Edinburgh " about the perils of gr…
The comedy channel Dave asked the public to vote on the best gags to emerge from this year's fringe festival, and here are the results Related: Top 10 jokes of the Edinburgh fringe festival …
These are the funniest lines we've heard so far from this year's standup shows'Surely every car is a people carrier?': 10 funniest jokes at the fringe in 2015Just switched from eating veniso…
Summerhall, EdinburghJenna Watt is tugged around the stage amid competing arguments over Britain's missile renewal in a nifty investigation of a divisive issueHow often do we admit to not re…
We asked the punk comic to keep a diary en route to his Edinburgh show. He describes what performing means to him and why he'll 'never have a straight job'2.50pm, 12 August. Sheraton Hotel, …
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughMelanie witnesses a murder plot over dinner " or is she hallucinating? Audiences enjoying a light meal enter the twilight zone in this appetising two-parte…
A bleakly hilarious, enigmatic watershed that changed the language of theatre and still sparks debate six decades onWaiting for Godot was not just a two-act play in which, as one wit put it,…
Producer hailed for the groundbreaking television film The Naked Civil Servant, and The Long Good Friday, one of the finest British gangster moviesBarry Hanson, who has died aged 72, moved t…
Usher Hall (two stars); Queen's Hall (four stars), EdinburghAudience attention waned during the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's performance of Schumann's Manfred, but Pierre-Laurent Aimard's tr…
From a burlesque that belittles the patriarchy to an unholy reworking of the Bible, righteous anger bubbles over into artistic brilliance at the 2016 festivalSmashing the patriarchy has neve…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThom Southerland directs the European premiere of this musical about an Everyman's dilemma, but it's too detached from the wider story of AmericaIt is a shock to r…
St Marks artSpace, EdinburghThe author's tales of her ancestors' flight to the new world draw parallels with today's migrants in a show that honours the graceful economy of her proseWhen 10-…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom an inappropriate house-hunter to a slave-driving Willy Wonka, Phil Wang, George Fouracres and Jason Forbes are back with a fresh handful of bizarre skitsWe…
The actor and theatre-maker had such a good time playing Malvolio in Shakespeare's comedy that he wrote a whole show for himIn the mid-90s, I acted in a production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencra…
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, Chester Theatrical joy and magic are summoned, but the caveman of Clive King's novel is sadly dehumanisedMaybe it's because it feels a bit like a circus - wi…
Tennessee Williams devastates afresh, refugees face a treacherous journey and papier-mache masks thrill in a wild and windy festival cityThe Edinburgh fringe is like a game of Scottish whisp…
Producers of West End box office hit condemn secondary ticketing websites as a 'plague' on desperate fansTickets for the hit West End Harry Potter play are on sale for more than £8,300 on…
Playhouse, EdinburghDance company Holy Body Tattoo and cult band Godspeed You! Black Emperor combine to exhausting but euphoric effect"Warning. This performance contains loud music", read th…
The American playwright explains why favouring white actors on stage is a bad business model " and publicly admits a secret about the Miss Saigon yellow-face controversy for the first time' …
From a Dream that draws on Star Wars to a starring role for the weird sisters, there's a bevy of Shakespeare-related shows at Edinburgh in the playwright's quadricentenary yearThe lure may b…