An ambitious multimedia project pulled together by director Cora Bissett and lent direction by the dramaturgy of playwright David Greig, Whatever Gets You Through the Night is an anthology o…
Ticket sales at the Edinburgh Fringe were up by an estimated 5 per cent this year, according to organisers.
Ticket sales at the Edinburgh Fringe were up by an estimated 5 per cent this year, according to organisers.
As Penelope Wilton recounts his appalling treatment of her predecessors and successors in Joe's bed, Michael Gambon's face is projected onto the gauze. Throughout the 30 minutes of the piece…
As Penelope Wilton recounts his appalling treatment of her predecessors and successors in Joe's bed, Michael Gambon's face is projected onto the gauze. Throughout the 30 minutes of the piece…
L.A. Dance Project makes its UK debut as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, with a brave but uneven programme. Company founder Benjamin Millepied's new Moving Parts is slight; the…
Thanks to Feydeau and his followers, we tend to think of farce as the most sex-fuelled of genres, full of randy bourgeois types, bent on bedding one another, who desperately struggle to keep…
Monsieur Pinglet wants hanky-panky. That goes with the terrain. Treated to a Bath Theatre Royal revival by director Lindsay Posner, A Little Hotel on the Side is, after all, a French farce, …
A secret seaside location is the setting for Tom Basden's play, which begins in the aftermath of a plane crash on a tropical island.
There's something spooky going on at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, and it's not just the ghost of Hamlet's father in their current production.
Benjamin Millepied is flying. Having choreographed the film Black Swan (and married Natalie Portman, its star), he's also the new director of the Paris Opéra Ballet.
The tale of the Salford tenor who suffered two near fatal brain tumours at the peak of his powers isn't lacking in drama. Now Russell Watson will sing the story of his life in the latest sta…
Nat comes home, drunk, to be sick in the shower; she goes back out again to take pills and have a dance. Her morbid, death-obsessed boyfriend Robert and his friend Simon, who helpfully spent…
There is a stunning performance at the heart of this theatrical adaptation of Alexander Masters' award-winning biography. Fraser Ayres plays Stuart Shorter, a chaotic, garrulous homeless man…
Yesterday, in Edinburgh, I was walking alongside a lady wearing high heels and a gimp mask. Her, not me. No-one walking past batted an eyelid. She had no flyers in her hand or any evidence o…
Last month Sir Kenneth Branagh added fuel to the curse rumours around Shakespeare's Macbeth when he reportedly injured another actor during an onstage fight. But Sir Kenneth remains seemingl…
A grown woman and a nine-year-old girl, in matching lace-trimmed page-boy outfits and long blonde hair, perform a sexily choreographed disco dance to Jessie J in front of a glittery, woodlan…
Dance Derby is a tragedy, a look back at the desperation of the 1930s Depression. This dance marathon is a last chance for many of the couples in Kally Lloyd-Jones' production for her own Co…
There We Have Been starts with dancer Lisa Welham apparently floating in space, her head and shoulders picked out by a spotlight, high above the stage. As the lights come up, we realise that…
"Wales is a radical country," declare TV screens in the four corners of an Edinburgh school hall. And "Bradley Manning is Welsh" we are also told - as a definitive full-stop to a litany of d…
Tachowa Covington lived in a water tank in the Hollywood hills for seven years; then British graffiti artist Banksy sprayed "this looks a bit like an elephant" on it, and he was thrown out: …
There are glitter curtains and mullet wigs, an overhead projector and exercise video workouts. Welcome to the Eighties! Little Bulb, a young company of five actors, take us back the decade o…
Her back catalogue includes an unflinchingly eloquent promenade play about the life of a sex-trafficked girl and a lethally mordant satire about power and privacy in the era of glossy celebr…
The International Festival's dance strand opens with Dance Odysseys, a programme of chamber dance that takes over the whole of the Festival Theatre for a weekend. Dances pop up in the foyers…
When ex-Bolshoi Ballet stars Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev dance, stunned gasps rise up from the theatre: a collective "oh" of wonder and delight. Returning for a guest appearance with t…