Two fine short plays set in the shadow of the low-level nuclear threat by leading Scottish playwrights David Greig and David Harrower prove a shining gem in this year's Traverse programme.
Most people's first experience of the Edinburgh Fringe is the frenzy of the Royal Mile, where hundreds of actors and comedians rush between performances to thrust flyers advertising their sh…
Going to a site-specific show can be an oddly infantilising experience - standing around in embarrassed silence until someone tells you what to do, meekly following the herd from scene to sc…
A brand new play by Neil LaBute before breakfast was the main draw of this first session of Theatre Uncut, a global melting pot of plays tackling up-to-the-minute themes of austerity and cit…
Molly Taylor's fascination with public transport is just contrived enough to be true, an apparent result of her having started one passionate but subsequently failed relationship with a long…
Here comes actor and, for the occasion, raconteur Rob Drummond to tell us a story.
English National Ballet has had its share of offstage dramas recently, from a sudden switch of directors to a visa crisis. On stage, the company dance Swan Lake with care and confidence, fro…
The head of one of the most recognisable venues at the Edinburgh Festival has hit out at the sheer numbers of promotional posters "despoiling" the city and called on the council to curb the …
Habitually twisting the drawstring of his hoodie, Luke Treadaway's pale, skinny Christopher has Asperger's syndrome. The troubled teen hero of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-ti…
Some are remembering loved ones; others are driven by naked ambition to perform. Whatever the motivation, thousands of women are rushing to strip off on the public stage in the coming months.
The skull of a bear that died in a baiting session " the dog tooth marks still visible centuries later " is just one reminder that in Shakespeare's world the division between civilisation an…
After getting pregnant "twice in the same tax year" the always glowing Lucy Porter returns to the Edinburgh Fringe after a two year absence - a long break by the standards of this petite com…
How to adapt novels for the stage? Following a fine old tradition of absorbing first-person narrative into a third-person drama, playwright Simon Stephens does for Mark Haddon's brilliant cu…
Josie rourke's varied and rewarding first season at the donmar Warehouse comes to a close now with this strongly affecting revival by Lyndsey Turner of the play that put Brian Friel on the m…
Former Cabinet minister Lord Falconer has been appointed the new chairman of Shakespeare's Globe.
It's the end of the Broadway rainbow for "'End of the Rainbow."
As collaborations go, The Wooster Group and the Royal Shakespeare Company make an unlikely, almost oxymoronic, partnership. Imagine Gary Barlow writing a song with John Cage or an issue of D…
The ex-wife of train robber Ronnie Biggs said she had no regrets about her life on the run and would "probably do it all over again".
A dancer left paralysed by an accident at a house party has spoken of his joy after returning to the stage for his first major role.
Two dancers who kissed as part of the Olympics opening ceremony have dismissed claims of a real-life romance and have stated that it was 'purely professional'.
Stars taking part in the opening and closing Olympics ceremonies have been paid a token fee of £1 for their performances.Â
Stars taking part in the opening and closing Olympics ceremonies have been paid a token fee of £1 for their performances.Â
As the government sets about dismantling the NHS and as rationing of rare resources becomes ever more moralising and invidious, this is a particularly timely moment for Nadia Fall's delightf…
Face to watch: Charlie Baker
It's seven years since the former artistic director of the Globe strutted on its stage, but Mark Rylance is back " as Richard III, an obvious heir to Jerusalem's Johnny "Rooster" Byron. Here…