Theatre

Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.

“Local man found dead in the town of Danderhall”. They are in the news regularly these days, not their faces…
A young troupe of Russian performers has a show on at the Assembly Roxy unlike any other.
If there were one subject I wish I knew more about, it would be Greek Mythology. All of those ancient Gods…
As I write this, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics is sprawling across my TV screen, making me…
Nurturing is at the heart of this year’s flagship play in the Traverse Theatre’s Festival programme, Milk.
There was a time, not all that long ago, when you couldn’t open a newspaper or a magazine without laying your…
A wordless dreamlike tribute to love and loss.
As its title suggests, this new play by Bill Dunlop has more than just a soupcon of the French about it. Set…
A group of actors are discovered on stage, straw tails attached to their rears, pawing the ground, whinnying…
It is unfortunate that the life and work of political cartoonist, and man of many other talents, Harry Horse…
Civil Rogues is a good, old-fashioned, rollicking romp and, although it follows a rather familiar formula, a…
There aren’t many shows when the performer comes out to the queue as a kind of personal warm up act, but that…
The spirit of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival continues to thrive in the National Theatre of Scotland’s…
Emerging from a barrage of bombs and bangs, a group of (absurdly large) children survey the ruins of their…
It is an extraordinarily shameful admittance, particularly as a Welshman, but until last night I had no…
With written warnings that this performance contains loud music - and they’re not joking - monumental, from…
There is either something wonderful or something terrible to be said about improvisation.
“The feel of the sunbaked Indian dust between sandals and bare toes; that and the smell.
Janis Joplin might be gone, but more than forty years since her death, she is still not forgotten.
Hitchcock was a master director of gripping, thrilling movies. In Rear Window, a photographer is confined to…