What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? There is not a huge amount, it must be said. Unless you are reading this at the ...

The Karate Kid – The Musical, at the Festival Theatre this week and the Glasgow Theatre Royal next, is one of those shows that is touring ‘ahead of its West End debut’. While there are many things to ...

Two of my diligent actors were crawling about the carpet floor whilst I was trying to work out how best to explain a hole in the darkness. I wasn’t doing the best job, and I had spent a week trying to ...

BookFest: Booking opens today, Thurs 28 June. The Edinburgh International Book Festival, now firmly established at the Edinburgh Futures Institute in Lauriston Place, has its usual quota of ...

The Hen Night by Debbie Hannan, the last in the current season of A Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at Assembly Roxy, is a wonderfully performed piece that is great fun as well as deceptively ...

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, ‘the world’s foremost gender-skewering, comic ballet company’ return to Edinburgh for two nights at the Festival Theatre. And they bring fun and a high standard ...

Hill Street until Friday, is a convincing and intimate piece of theatre realised with great care. This is the debut production from Union Theatre Company, newly formed by some of those associated with ...

Getting Along With Gran works on a number of levels. It’s a fun exercise in nostalgia, it’s a breezy and funny piece of accessible theatre, it’s an important platform for under-represented stories and ...

Set out for a short run at the Traverse, Lung Ha’s The Table is a curious hybrid of immersive theatre, dance, spoken word and imagery. A hybrid that draws you in and leaves you asking more. The ...

Sticking with the Roxy, their first season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint lunchtime theatre is going out with a bling with ...

Ben Martin Byrne’s play follows five restaurant workers down on their luck struggling in a minimum wage job in a capitalist world gone mad. A comedic tale on one of societies unfunny topics. From ...

Evening: 7.30pm, Sat mat: 2.30pm. (Trav 1). Based on the extraordinary true story of a sixteen-year-old girl who led France to victory in the Hundred Years War, Saint Joan explores power, gender and ...