With their funding under threat, acts which refuse to be sidelined find a platform in Edinburgh's Integrated Fringe - but how can they survive the cuts?"It only took the NT 50 years to notic…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghJenny Lee's timely play examines our relationship with digital technologies, and questions the corporations who aim to predict our intentionsWe all like to thin…
Forest Fringe, EdinburghAction Hero's entertaining show about a celebrity on a photoshoot draws us in as observers, participants and accomplicesAction Hero's show Frontman presented us with …
King's theatre, Edinburgh With a glorious sense of chaos, this production celebrates the community surrounding a dying trombonist with eloquence and a deep sense of funWe all eventually marc…
Underbelly, EdinburghThe jackboot of history hangs over Rhum and Clay's moody and atmospheric look at fate, free will and memory loss We all wonder if we had taken a different path where we …
The rules of engagement in theatre have changed, and now audience participation is everywhere. But artists have a responsibility to take care of those they pick onI'm always fascinated in th…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Greig and Graham Eatough's insanely ambitious adaptation of the Alasdair Gray novel is like a heady, unsettling, unpredictable dream Related: Alasdair Gray's La…
There are eight more days' of shows to choose from including Smoke and Mirrors, O No!, Backstage in Biscuit Land and The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of HeavenSome people seem under the …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe quality of the writing and performance shines through in Gina Moxley's powerful drama about a young woman piecing together painful memoriesGina Moxley is di…
Zoo, EdinburghPainful truths await the baby-boomer generation as sexuality dawns in the era of glam rock and Deep ThroatChristine (Kerry Lovell) has a fraying David Cassidy poster on her bed…
Summerhall, EdinburghThe Flanagan Collective's latest show weaves quantum physics, magic and a critique of consumer capitalism around its central couple with a light touchJ is a Birmingham p…
Traverse, Edinburgh (off-site)This walking show takes place on the Edinburgh streets, and has all the adrenaline-charged thrill of teenage loveThere is a moment at the end of Forever Young, …
Edinburgh shows can be calling cards for emerging artists, but making connections should not be at the expense of year-round development "Edinburgh's a casino, but some do hit the jackpot," …
Traverse theatre, EdinburghUnlimited Theatre go beyond the ken of the living with this enjoyable, poignant cabaret piece about death in the distant and all-too-near futureThere are only two …
Underbelly (off-site), EdinburghThe audience's experience of intimacy is at the core of this vivid and sophisticated dramatisation of the lives of sex workers"What I offer is extreme intimac…
Traverse theatre, Edinburgh Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall's adaptation of Alan Warner's The Sopranos follows a troupe of convent choirgirls on a rampage across the city, to exhilarating effec…
Barbican, LondonLess a tragedy and more a tortured comedy played out in the squelching mud and dirt of Elsinore, Thomas Ostermeier's Schaubuhne production shines the same forensic light on S…
Summerhall, EdinburghUS writer-performer and globetrotter Thaddeus Phillips muses on the meaning of safe passage, but fails to address the current refugee crisisApparently it was Henry V who…
The Famous Spiegeltent, EdinburghLa Clique are a long way from the subversive, elegant burlesque with which they made their name: this is a glitzy but unsophisticated good-time showBurlesque…
Traverse (off-site), EdinburghZinnie Harris's 40-minute opera set in a kitchen-sink wasteland is beautifully performed with a moving score by John HarrisZinnie Harris has pruned and retraine…
Forest Fringe, EdinburghMusical vagabonds Little Bulb use cabaret and science to explore the purpose of song " but the piece is still finding its voiceIf there is a more loveable company tha…
If you catch them at the right moment in your life, some shows speak directly to you, as if they were made with you in mindYesterday at Forest Fringe, I had one of those moments in the theat…
Forest Fringe, EdinburghMixing truth and fiction, card tricks and illusions, this delightful, bamboozling magic show reveals the misdirections that occur in theatre and in lifeVincent Gambin…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith a Daily Mail-reading landlady and an ineffective vicar, this nimble satire has characters straight out of Midsomer MurdersThe fairytale village of Massivev…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA terrible secret drives Philip Ridley's tense and affecting drama about a teenage magician with mental health problemsWe need to talk about Donny. Actually, Do…