It was the first pub theatre to open in the capital since the days of William Shakespeare, providing Hugh Grant with an early break and supporting the work of French and Saunders.
It was the first pub theatre to open in the capital since the days of William Shakespeare, providing Hugh Grant with an early break and supporting the work of French and Saunders.
What are we talking about? An original musical at the National, The Light Princess is a dark fairytale where a heavy-hearted prince and a weightless princess face grief and fear, love, rebel…
A single cast tells two separate stories of gay lovers in Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride, set in 1958 and 2008 (when it was first staged), exploring the characters' own, and society's, chan…
Sixteen different real-life accounts of love are delivered by four actors in this nicely realised piece of verbatim theatre.
Sixteen different real-life accounts of love are delivered by four actors in this nicely realised piece of verbatim theatre.
The Traverse's festival centrepiece is a complex, rewarding dramatic monologue by David Harrower, charting the changing psychological landscape of the streets of Glasgow through the story of…
They seem to have a magic touch, the three young puppeteers of Perth Theatre Company.
The second play by Bruntwood Prize-winning playwright Andrew Sheridan, Hope Light and Nowhere isn't overly imbued with the first two: it's a searing but bleak and gloomily absurdist piece se…
Performers are regularly ushered onstage with the exhortation to "break a leg". Yet it was almost worse for a stagehand at the Edinburgh Fringe after an audience member's perfume sent him in…
"We are here as witnesses." These words stare down at you in large white letters from the back wall of a neighbouring house, and they're apt: in Common Wealth's site-specific production, you…
There's an invigorating flair and ambition to Holes, and not just because it begins with a walk along a blustery beach. Audiences are bused out of town to a "secret seaside location", where,…
The young Glaswegian company Junction 25 return to Edinburgh with a devised show that plunges the audience into a world many of us have happily left behind: school.
An audience member's perfume caused a near-fatal allergic reaction for a stagehand at the Edinburgh Fringe.
An audience member's perfume caused a near-fatal allergic reaction for a stagehand at the Edinburgh Fringe.
As protests mount over Russia's anti-gay laws, it seems a good time to be reviving Alexi Kaye Campbell's shrewd, witty and deeply affecting 2008 play about the changes in attitude towards ho…
"Allen, despite Allen, contained multitudes," said the New York punk priestess Patti Smith of her late friend, the beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Cut to five words, it was possibly the most profo…
Ballet loves a star partnership and none more so than that of Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, the Russian duo who are firing up audiences across the globe.
One of these days, pigs might fly and Philip Ridley will write a play full of joy, laughter and sparkling merriment. Meanwhile, he follows the dark and murky byways of lives that have gone l…
In 2008 Badac Theatre Company staged a show at the Fringe about the Holocaust which attempted to recreate the experience of the gas chambers by casting the audience as victims, herding them …
What kind of people would inhabit a brave new world, leave behind the war and pollution of old earth and start again on a fresh planet? If Grid Iron's site-specific, immersive piece for the …
This is theatre's answer to Zero Dark Thirty, but instead of Jessica Chastain and a multimillion dollar re-enactment of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, there is one woman, standing in a flight…
There is much to admire in the Wooster Group's technically impressive splicing of Richard Burton's 1964 Broadway Hamlet with a live performance in a Victorian theatre.
If the masses have religion and, latterly, the X Factor, then throughout its 120-year history The Sleeping Beauty could easily be described as the opiate of the elite. Every age, and every g…
It is, one fears, a shark-eat-shark environment in The Same Deep Water as Me, the dark new comedy by the Olivier Award-winning playwright Nick Payne (of Constellations fame). Though in denia…