Young Vic, LondonPiper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone's inspired present-day reworking of Lorca's tragic study of childlessnessIn one fell " but felicitous " swoop, Simon Stone has …
Royal Opera House, LondonDivine dancing, evocative staging and a sympathetic adaptation make perfect sense of Shakespeare's difficult playWatching the Bolshoi in Jean-Christophe Maillot's ve…
Lyttelton, LondonHis powerful female characters redeem this handsome but hackneyed revival of Seán O'Casey's great 1926 playThe Plough and the Stars is now most famous for causing a riot.…
York Theatre RoyalThe classic detective mystery gets the Victorian music hall treatmentFor many years now, Damian Cruden has directed the merry anarchy that is the York panto (written by and…
Battersea Arts Centre, London A spoof on Victorian melodrama from the Little Bulb troupe makes a perfect debut for BAC's new outdoor arenaBattersea Arts Centre is the only theatre in London …
The Edinburgh festival 2016 offers everything from comedy to hard-hitting political theatre, circus shows and hi-tech hybrids " and the debut appearance of one very young performer indeed Co…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe director of Gein's Family Giftshop uses her debut solo show to examine the 'women aren't funny' myth Related: Edinburgh festival 2016: what to see and where…
An anarchic 82-year-old and a one-liner star aged 13 will go on stage with very different actsAt the back of a double-decker bus parked in the bustling heart of the city, two comedians sit d…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA revival of Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins' spoof of commercial radio " first heard on Radio 4 in 1980 " offers a jolly hour of familiar material and nostalgia R…
The Edinburgh international festival will be officially launched on Sunday night with an epic outdoor event fusing animation, lighting and music. Deep Time, created by 59 Productions, delves…
Traverse, Edinburgh With a live score, a searching intellect and studied delivery, Matt Regan's show about home redraws the boundaries between theatre piece, spoken word and gigSometimes you…
Traverse, EdinburghLiam Brennan gives a tender performance in this funny-sad reworking of the Gogol story, as a lowly Scot buffeted by the forces of globalisation Related: Edinburgh festiva…
Ten years after their explosive physical approach took the Edinburgh festival by storm, John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett return with Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. They explain why…
He has found comedy in everything from knitwear to ready-to-eat apricots. But this son of Kettering's apparently whimsical humour comes with hidden depths Related: Edinburgh festival 2016: c…
It feels as if everyone's a comedian these days, but what if they really were? We asked six comics to imagine shows for some infamous public figures… Continue reading...
The actor and presenter on footballing heroes " and villains " Scottish legs and being a metrosexualBorn in Surrey, Angus Deayton, 60, studied at Oxford University, where he co-created the s…
Done well, it tells fantastical and affecting stories; done badly it descends into syrupy schmaltz. Edinburgh's mask-theatre companies discuss a delicate craft At the end of many mask theatr…
We asked fringe star Josie Long to envision the festival of the future Continue reading...
It began at a Rio barbecue. Now passinho is jinking out of the Brazilian favelas and onto a world stage"Congratulations to all of us who chose dance instead of drugs," reads the latest hourl…
Woolly Mommoth Theatre, Washington DCThe monologuist is stirring things up again with a new work that forces liberal audiences to face facts: there's a little bit of Donald Trump in all of u…
Goodman theatre, ChicagoWhen two cosmetic titans battle, it isn't pretty " but this musical doesn't quite get to the heart of the animosity between Elizabeth Arden and Helena RubensteinIf be…
The TEAM and National Theatre of Scotland have joined forces for Anything That Gives Off Light, a whisky-soaked tale exploring the entwined histories of the Highlands and the American fronti…
Summerhall, Edinburgh Kieran Hurley is like a polite Cassandra in this superb storytelling show about disconnected lives and impending doomKieran Hurley's new solo show is a quiet hurricane …
Plot of The Inevitable Heartbreak of Gavin Plimsole is steered by the heartbeats of audience membersBa-bum, ba-bum, ba-bum. It's the simple rhythm that governs of all our lives. But how ofte…
Critics are eternal optimists, only making it out every evening in the belief that we might see something to make us fall in love with theatre all over againfringe is the annual event that m…