As the title suggests, this focuses on a celebrated character from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Nick Bottom, the weaver and super-keen amateur actor who wants to play every role in the ...

In David Harrower’s adaptation of Spark’s celebrated novel, Gayle Rankin plays Miss Jean Brodie, the charismatic teacher at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, whose individual approach to education ...

Adaptations of Muriel Spark are never in short supply on the Edinburgh stage, but the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a monumental production in many ways ...

Whaur’s Yer Wullie Shakespeare Noo?, the latest Play, A Pie and A Pint offering from Òran Mór’ at the Traverse, has plenty of pace and spirit, but ultimately is an unsatisfactory affair. Presented ...

In 36 years Showcase has raised over £385 000 for Macmillan Cancer Care, and the annual production at the Church Hill continues to provide an upbeat and thoroughly entertaining selection of music.

Tweedy’s Massive Solo Show at the Udderbelly for the full run of the Fringe is wonderful entertainment for all ages. As the title suggests, it’s an hour-long, entirely solo show conceived and ...

C Theatre’s Shakespeare For Breakfast which returns to C Aurora for the whole Fringe, is a comedic play (with added breakfast) that pushes Shakespeare to newer audiences. Appearing at the fringe since ...

Is This Your First Crime? playing a mid-morning slot at theSpace on the Mile, sees New Celts alumni, Long Face Theatre, deliver on both halves of their promised remit – comedy and new writing; ...

In What Are You Doing After the Orgy? at The Carbon Lounge, writer and performer Nikolai Phalen asks a lot of questions, quite beyond the one in the title. A self-avowed 6’2” ex-porn actor, he starts ...

Zora Howard’s Hang Time is an overwhelming juxtaposition of racialised violence and interior possibility. The Flea Theater of New York’s production, written, directed and produced by Howard, is having ...

Aria Alba – Opera For All brings a double bill of one-act operas to Stockbridge Church this Fringe, with the classic pairing of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci in a ...

Combining sitcom and mythology is the kind of high-concept premise that can always find a willing audience at the Fringe. It’s Always Sunny on Olympus from Mind Yer Head and New Celts at theSpace on ...