Theatre

Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.

The playwright Guillermo Calderon, born 1971 in Santiago, grew up during the military dictatorship of…
A brilliant show: funny, touching, and completely satisfying to someone who had no familiarity with the books…
It’s rare for one of the BBC’s "Plays for Today", a sadly defunct manifestation of public service…
A Japanese parable of greed, sloth, industrialisation, lust, deception, lies, and stupidity. Not bad for…
"I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a…
ā€˜Adler and Gibb’ seems a departure from Tim Crouch’s previous work.
Jimmy makes a panicked phone call – ā€œKitty, my hands have disappearedā€.
The vast space of the Assembly Hall with its high rafters and apron stage, is the ideal theatre to stage this…
ā€˜Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ says the 17th century aphorism.
They are everywhere. And I have seen my fair share of them. So, when I spied a show in the Fringe guide…
Our fascination with crime, from true murder cases to thrilling TV series such as Law and Order, The Wire,…
In today’s world of rapidity, this cute romcom – a first outing by 17-year-old playwright Noah Altshuler –…
On the tenth anniversary of his death, Ken Campbell, legendary theatre maverick is back at the Fringe.
Postmodernist '90s themes meet '60s Dixie Land tunes in this charming operetta about the effects of amnesia…
It is perhaps only in the last twenty years or so, thanks to the movement to document ā€˜history from below’,…
Good theatre is like the elixir of life and Brian Friel's play Faith Healer is a theatrical experience.…
Reviewing this last part of Rona Munro’s triptych of plays on Scotland’s first three Stewart kings feels…
I was once on a bus in Chile which had in place of the usual Don't Disturb the Driver sign one which read "…
High above the streets of Paris there is a place of angels and gargoyles.
The human design has flaws. Hearts break, memory fades, bodies fail and ultimately nothing lasts infinitely.