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  • Paapa Essiedu as Chris Keller and Bryan Cranston as Joe Keller in tense conversation on stage

    The best theatre to stream this month: Bryan Cranston cranks up the tension in All My Sons

    Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste lead a brilliant staging of Arthur Miller’s tragedy, a Shelagh Delaney deep-cut is released and Black Watch turns 20
  • Katie Norris, as Mother Succubus, sits regally while a man bows over her lap

    Katie Norris: Mother Succubus review – gothic comic enters a wickedly funny new era

  • Culture Preview Autum 2026 - Stage - Kevin Bridges, Tilda Swinton in Manfred Karge’s Man to Man

    Tilda Swinton’s blast from the past, Kevin Bridges at large and a deepfake ballet: theatre, comedy and dance to see this autumn

  • Priyanga Burford, as Noor, speaks intently to another person in the foreground

    A Small and Quiet Light review – fractured portrait of a remarkable wartime spy

  • Actors from Underground Monk Show embrace and laugh together in dark robes on stage

    Underground Monk Show review – hysterical visions enrobed in mystery

  • Comedian Dom McGovern performs on stage holding a microphone

    Dom McGovern: Prize Hog review – a sharp standup who is sure to go stellar

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    Mere Mortals review – a dazzling, maddening ballet for the AI age

  • A bearded man in a headscarf sits in a vehicle, holding an orange fuel container

    The Bridge review – a funny, furious odyssey through occupation

  • Omar Badawy.

    Omar Badawy: Guided Detour review – dizzying tales of decision paralysis

  • In The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey, a masked woman with a torch stands behind a seated man

    The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey review – time stands still at 3.43am in fringe fairytale

  • Chris Cantrill grimaces while standing at a microphone on stage

    Chris Cantrill: Rewilding review – a rural whodunnit told with midlife mirth

  • Comedian Spencer Jones in a fur-hooded coat holds a snarling dog wearing matching glasses and fur hood

    Spencer Jones: Dogs review – barking comic sniffs out community through canines

  • Tom Towelling.

    Tom Towelling Teaches You to Knit review – quirky yarns and a pop quiz in maths

  • A handstand artist balances on wine glasses as a juggler leans back, arms outstretched

    Soft Spot review – this wine-glass circus has a lot of bottle

    A handstand artist and a juggler slide, toss, stack and stand on umpteen glasses – without a drop of wine in sight
  • Jennifer Stahl stands atop San Francisco Ballet dancers crouched together against a starry backdrop

    ‘Ab-sol-utely incredible!’ The blockbuster ballet that says Pandora’s box unleashed AI

  • Pole dancer Donna Carnow arches backward mid-air holding a red balloon, lit by pink and red stage lights

    Shapes and ladders: Edinburgh fringe’s dance shows reach for the sky

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    Exit review – a circus squad who really drive each other up the wall

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    Taiwan Season: The Wall review – close encounters in a city that never sleeps

  • Britt Anderson and Richie Schiraldi in Well-Balanced Dads.

    Camping trips, grief and embarrassing your kids – the fringe shows embracing every facet of fatherhood

  • He sits on the floor holding up a scroll of rust-coloured paper that's being using as a backdrop, as though it has fallen on him

    ‘I remember going: oh hello!’ Dara Ó Briain on comedy, coolness, cruelty and finding his birth parents

  • A woman dressed in a pink satin chef's suit holding a large pie

    ‘I painted myself blue – but got skin problems’: how four Edinburgh stars created their weird characters

  • Comedian Ahir Shah, with glasses and a beard, holds a colourful embroidered umbrella outdoors

    ‘I’m not Mr Saturday Night’: the highbrow brilliance of Ahir Shah, past winner of comedy’s top prize

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  • Four actresses from Bliss sing joyfully in colorful period costumes on stage. Alexandra Emmerson-Kirby, Miriam Nyarko, Akshara Gunda, Matilda Shapland

    Fairytales pending: the fringe musicals hoping to live happily ever after

  • About-to-fall-apart energy … Megan Tomei grimaces and mops her brow during a spin bike workout in SpinQueen™.

    ‘Audiences ask to feel my calves!’ The endurance extremists pounding treadmills and pumping pedals at the fringe

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    Roll up, tumble down! The show that imagines the US as a collapsing circus – in pictures

    At the newly reopened King’s theatre in Edinburgh, as part of the international festival, Geoff Sobelle’s Clown Show is a dizzying whirl through US history
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