New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeThe pack prowls the stage and falls from the sky in this dark and dynamic production combining Carter's rich gothic language with impressive aerial skills The w…
Northern Stage, NewcastleVast amounts of shagpile set the scene for Jack Bradfield's production of the grotesque classic about materialism and status chasing It ends with a blast of Prince C…
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotExuberant production sees spoken word and physically expressive BSL users mirroring each other as they audition to take the lead roles Unusually for a Sha…
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughWhen the retired MD of a department store books a theatre company to perform at his home, relationships and reality begin to unravel If, like Alan Ayckbour…
Pitlochry Festival theatre Harry Mould's sweet and sexually frank debut focuses on the female volunteers at the Samaritans in the 1970s charged with talking to 'telephone masturbators' This …
Back for its 15th year, this festival favourite finds a bespectacled primate sitting silently on stage for 56 minutes " to wild applause The queue snakes around the bar, stretches down the c…
Gilded Balloon at the Museum, EdinburghAlan McHugh's play is about grief and the agony of treatment " but also hope and laughter in the face of adversity What a lovely thing to have done. Wh…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThis unfunny spoof of Glasgow's dismal Wonka-themed attraction is as short of ideas as the event that inspired it How we laughed at Willy's Chocolate Experience, a f…
Cancel culture, faltering fatherhood and the life of a tennis champ are dramatised as standups including Ivo Graham, Anna Morris and Adam Riches take a theatrical path this summer Sam Kissaj…
Summerhall, EdinburghTim Etchells' looping performance piece with Bert and Nasi replays a simple restaurant scene over and over with hilarious results Like a volley of Ken Dodd jokes or one …
Younger audiences can choose from fart jokes, dancing lizards, acrobatic bees and plenty of other monkeying around Pleasance Courtyard, 11.30am, until 25 August Continue reading...
Summerhall, EdinburghBarton C Williams, flown out of Vietnam at the end of the war, recounts his experiences of racism in Adelaide and tells the stories of others relocated around the world …
From the backseat of a moving car to a swimming pool, what constitutes a venue at Scotland's sprawling arts festival never fails to surprise Of all the extraordinary things about the Edinbur…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghThe mezcal's on hand for this strange, song-filled journey into the land of the dead If Juan Rulfo's magic realist novel Pedro Páramo has the feel of a séance, th…
Roundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghA hard-up dramatist is determined to pay tribute to her mum in Kelly Jones's deftly handled play, produced by Paines Plough In Michel Tremblay's Le Vrai Mon…
Traverse, EdinburghA couple visit a bereaved friend only to find a surprise awaits in Douglas Maxwell's comedy of social embarrassment Instead of Chekhov's gun, we have Maxwell's whisky. The…
Summerhall, EdinburghWith big hair, long dress and Appalachian accent, Charlene Boyd finds common voice with the singer in a personal and political show The most powerful country songs are t…
Summerhall, EdinburghThe schoolboys from the 2018 comedy Square Go are back and on their way to a disco with high hopes and fears On the way out, I hear someone tell his friends he had been …
Summerhall, EdinburghWriter and actor Sam Ward dissects how a community breaks down in this vivid one-man show It is not the kind of topicality Sam Ward would have wished for, but the curren…
Traverse, Edinburgh When a disappointed novelist teaching creative writing encounters a student fascinated by Crime and Punishment a dangerous passion is sparked At one p…
Traverse, EdinburghThe actor-playwright trims Rostand's classic and plays the lead with charisma in a breezy, feelgood show The joy of Virginia Gay's irreverent version of the Edmond Rostand…
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh In Eline Arbo's taut production of the neo-classical play, Ilke Paddenburg's Amazon queen presents a fearsome clash of sensuality and aggression When two tribes go to…
Traverse, EdinburghJoanne Ryan's two-hander, inspired by her own story and brilliantly performed by Pom Boyd and Karen McCartney, elevates everyday family dynamics with a light touch The str…
Traverse, Edinburgh In this story by Oliver Emanuel, posthumously presented with songs by Gareth Watkins, a couple's romance is told through the paper trail it leaves When Oliver Emanuel was…
Church Hill theatre, EdinburghVicky Featherstone's directing and Isis Hainsworth's fine lead turn valiantly blur the wild and the urban to portray the writer's introspective journey to sobri…