Citizens theatre, GlasgowThe people of a small Scottish town offer hope to bereaved families in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing in a moving music-theatre show What a joy to hear applause a…
Ã’ran Mór, GlasgowA naive Scottish academic is granted an audience with the genocidal Cambodian dictator in Jack MacGregor's play If you met a genocidal dictator how would you react? F…
Pitlochry Festival theatre Oraine Johnson's emotionally available take on Jay Gatsby adds more energy to a dance-filled show but Fitzgerald's lesson risks getting lost amid the frocks and fu…
Pitlochry Festival theatre An unplanned meeting between Burns's mother, wife and lover prompts an unsentimental reckoning for the flawed poet, enlivened with a dose of song Safe to say that …
Beats, rhymes and Bannockburn? The creators of Wallace explain why they used hip-hop to tell the story of Scotland's national hero If you were to come up with a list of the Scottish playwrig…
Gilded Balloon Patter House, EdinburghThe onstage ranting of a comedian is interrupted by impassioned accounts of violence against women in Sadie Pearson's drama Full Frontal Theatre is a fe…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAnnie Lareau lost 35 of her fellow students on the downed Pan Am flight, but her focus on the personal in this three-hander leaves a gaping hole At the start of…
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghFaustus is not damned alone in a parable about western hubris leading to war, colonialism and environmental exploitation As told by Goethe and Marlowe, the story of Fa…
Zoo Playground, EdinburghBelgian actors Verona Verbakel and Anemone Valcke share anecdotes about their industry in a knotty show about ambition and failure When we arrive, the screen behind …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghEmily Woof draws a connection between the female adulation around the Fab Four and radical artist Valerie Solanas's 1968 shooting of Andy Warhol A revolver is s…
Summerhall, EdinburghHannah Maxwell's delightfully meta hour, namechecking Richard Gadd and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's breakthroughs, is a blueprint for three potential shows " with the audience…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghIndra Wilson's imaginative monologue is a touching exploration of grief and hope through space travel If you ever need an extended metaphor, just ask Indra Wilson. I…
Banshee Labyrinth, EdinburghTheodora van der Beek's inventive and quirky show about a slimy bloke targets the male gaze The clue is in the fingers. Rubbery, bulbous things, they look as if t…
Summerhall, EdinburghTrumpeter Jay Phelps plays a devotee of Benjamin Akintuyosi's Miles Davis in this reverential tribute Celebrity biographical dramas are ten a penny but it takes audacity…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghAn authoritarian patrols the auditorium barking contradictory commands at a wannabe star in Blind Faith's uncomfortable show The male gaze is often talked of as a pa…
Love is in the air on the fringe as romantic partners put their private lives in the spotlight through daft sketches, acrobatics, folk songs " and a real wedding Some people blow their weddi…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghSophie Anna Veelenturf takes a nuanced personal look at how apps can prevent us falling for those whose politics we deplore If the Guardian's Dining Across the Divid…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghEverything depends on the audience, so no performance is ever the same in a celebration of shared experience that's perfect for the fringe Fringe favourite Ontroerend…
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThis mix of acrobatics, feverish monologues, high-altitude accidents and apocalyptic physical comedy doesn't need to have a rationale " does it? It is probably b…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe cast are formidable in this defiant if sometimes clunky show about the ups and downs of running a community treasure This story of a pirate radio station is…
Summerhall, EdinburghA woman pieces together her memories of a family tragedy in Ellie Keel's atmospheric two-hander set on Skye It starts with a shriek. A deliberate false alarm, this sets …
Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh The performers of Emergency Chorus play comic scenes, do a long syncopated dance and throw shapes in an odd two-hander Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit giv…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghHeadlines punctuate Henry Naylor's play about the newspaper's campaign against Elton John and the multiple lawsuits launched by the singer Henry Naylor started out i…
Traverse, EdinburghAfreena Islam-Wright invites the audience into her life by interspersing her version of The Chase with tales from her British-Bangladeshi upbringing There is no shortage o…
Summerhall, EdinburghRuxandra Cantir's cast of gherkins, onions and carrots is conceptually funny but lacks bite We can agree that a cabaret involving pickled vegetables is conceptually funn…