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Bridget Christie wins best comedy show at Edinburgh Festival
A Gloucester-born feminist has beaten off six others to be crowned the winner of the award for best comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival…
Will Adamsdale (left) and Fraser Ayres make an unlikely friendship in Stuart: A Life Backwards (Picture: Murdo Macleod)
What to watch at Edinburgh Fringe
Our picks from the festival, including Tig Notaro, Hannah Gadsby and Alexei Sayle
Jacques Imbrailo as Billy Budd in the Benjamin Britten opera (Picture: Richard Hubert Smith)
South Africa's hot new opera star
Jacques Imbralio is the lead in Billy Budd and the best in a new wave of Rainbow nation singers
Lucy Cudden plays Antigone in the Greek drama The Thebans (Picture: Sheila Burnett)
The Thebans goes from light to dark
The amphitheatre next to City Hall hosts a free evening of Greek dramas, with Prince Of Thebes being suitable for families while Oedipus and Antigone…
Hattie Morahan plays Nora, and Dominic Rowan is Torvald in A Doll's House (Picture: Alastair Muir)
A Doll’s House is not a home
An impeccable cast present a thrilling study of a repressed and childlike woman’s attempts to flee a torturous family life…
Chimerica at the Harold Pinter Theatre Elizabeth Chan as Liuli, Benedict Wong as Lin, David K S Tse as Wei ©Alastair Muir
Chimerica in the West End is blistering, explosive, essential theatre
Lucy Kirkwood's sweeping geo-political drama is dizzying in its scope and invention - and stunningly realised in this production
ZooNation's Groove on down the Road at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London, Great Britain press photocall / rehearsal 9th August 2013 Annie Edwards as Wicked witch of the west Photograph by Elliott Franks Tel 07802 537 220 elliott@elliottfranks.com 2013©Elliott Franks Agency space rates apply
ZooNation's Groove On Down The Road is wizard entertainment
The pioneering street dance crew's take on The Wizard Of Oz is up there among its finest work to date
Fan Xiaofeng as Bertha in Jane Eyre (Picture: Zhao Lu)
Shanghai Ballet’s Jane Eyre: What’s with all the flailing arms?
Charlotte Brontë’s Victorian Gothic romance, Jane Eyre, is an interesting choice for a Chinese contemporary ballet company to adapt - and then bring to London
Erich McElroy doesn't like the US Christian Right - so makes jokes at their expense (Picture: supplied)
Comedian Erich McElroy takes aim at the Christian Right
Londoners ought to get with the Camden Fringe programme – there were just a handful of people at this show from Erich McElroy
A Doll's House at The Duke of York's Theatre Hattie Morahan as Nora, Dominic Rowan as Torvald ©Alastair Muir
A Doll’s House in the West End: Hattie Morahan thrills in a production of shattering force
Carrie Cracknell's innovative staging of Ibsen's most famous work boasts a riveting performance from Hattie Morahan as Nora
The Pride Hayley Atwell (Sylvia) in The Pride, Trafalgar Studios, Photo Marc Brenner.jpg
A fine and funny revival of landmark play The Pride
Alexi Kaye Campbell's award-winning play about gay relationships is a deeply resonant drama
Home at National Theatre is where the heart is
This simple piece of verbatim theatre, giving homeless young people a voice, is an uplifting, inspirational show
News
Amnesty uses comedy to fight oppression at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Not everything at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival is about entertainment – there is nothing funny about citizens across the world being imprisoned for speaking…
West Side Story may be lacking in menacing thuggery but it still rings with depressing pertinence (Picture:
West Side Story still packs a punch
Although some of West Side Story's dialogue dates the classic story of the Jets tangling with the Sharks, it’s still a catchy and relevant musical…
Liola at National: Not all fun in the sun
Pirandello's Sicilian whimsy is enthusiastically performed - but gusto can't hide a bitter aftertaste
Luke McGregor
Luke McGregor joins Australian invasion
Soho Theatre is once again making up its schedule with rising stars from Australia. Sam Simmons, Ronnie Chieng and Matt Okine all return this month…
Music
Booker T Jones is playing four nights at Ronnie Scott’s (Picture: supplied)
Booker T knows his Onions
There’s no mistaking the sound of Memphis multi-instrumentalist/composer (and Hammond organ hero) Booker T Jones.…
The Events by David Greig
Edinburgh Fringe round-up
Our picks from the festival, including David Greig’s The Events, Ontroerend Goed’s Fight Night and Tim Price’s I’m With The Band…
Carrie Cracknell
Carrie Cracknell’s in at the deep end
The acclaimed theatre director talks about the challenge of taking on Ibsen’s intense masterpiece A Doll’s House.…
Ruby Wax will perform her stand-up show, Out Of Her Mind, at Shuffle festival (Picture: Getty)
Danny Boyle to host Shuffle festival in mental asylum
From rooftops to cemeteries, it’s as if movies are being screened everywhere but the cinema these days…
Richard Davenport 2013. London, Tricycle Theatre, The epic Adventure of Nhamo the Manyika Warrioir and his sexy wife Chipo. By Denton Chikura
The Epic Adventure Of Nhamo is a heart-warmingly silly debut
Denton Chikura's first play is a wild, oddball comedy where audience participation is actively encouraged…
THE SAME DEEP WATER AS ME by Payne, , Writer Nick Payne, Director John Crowley, Designer Nick Pask, The Donmar, 2013, London, Credit: Johan Persson/
The Same Deep Water As Me stays in the shallows
Constellations playwright Nick Payne's latest play is a baggy tale that remains determinedly earthbound
The Von Trapp children sing with Maria in The Sound of Music (Picture: Johan Persson)
This Sound Of Music will have you smiling
Rachel Kavanaugh’s production of The Sound Of Music is witty and well-sung…
Wara are launching their debut album, Leave To Remain (Picture: Silvia Cruz)
Take in Wara's blend of styles
This live bill fits loosely into the modern world music category – but also vigorously embraces too many styles to be pinned down for long…
Silencio
A silent disco with art-school pretensions
Multi-media theatre production Silencio isn’t even on the same planet, let alone the same dimension
Jockum Nordstrom: Fantastical and surreal
Enjoy the laughs from your sofa
Edinburgh Festival: Home truths from Alex Horne
Innocent co-founder: Our smoothies were inspired by hangovers
Edinburgh Festival: It's tough for today's podcasters, says podcasting pioneer
On the crest of a wave – at first