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The artistic director of the American dance-theatre company explains why they are taking on Wayne McGregor’s speedy, scribbling moves and Hofesh Shechter’s bleak and brutal Uprising
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Akram Khan unleashes a radical Giselle, the Alvin Ailey company bring a hip-hop battle and secret choreographers keep audiences guessing at Dance Umbrella
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From bopping to Top of the Pops to a failed Cats audition, Quarantine’s five-hour show Wallflower asks its performers to recall every time they’ve ever danced
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Scottish standup picks up top prize, while Scott Gibson is named best newcomer
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In recalling his brain haemorrhage, the Glaswegian comic – shortlisted for Edinburgh’s best newcomer award – delivers a cheerful-squeamish set
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One of the first young transgender performers in UK musical theatre talks about singing in the gender-bending first world war show Brass and the support of his parents who are both priests
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This year’s Edinburgh fringe is full of personal stories and real-life drama, but not every production mines the lives of others with equal success
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Full of costumes and musical magic, the fringe can cast a spell over most adults – but for the very young, it’s a creative introduction to a whole new world
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Producers of West End box office hit condemn secondary ticketing websites as a ‘plague’ on desperate fans
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Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Venice, in which the moneylender reminds Antonio of the times he has insulted him
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Joanna Vanderham performs Juliet’s speech from the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet
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Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from Act II, Scene 1, in which he sees a murder weapon in a hallucination
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Ayesha Dharker plays Titania, the queen of the fairies, in a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Jaques’s speech about the seven ages of man from As You Like It is performed by Zawe Ashton
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David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s speech in which the sorcerer contemplates the end of life – and the playwright, perhaps, considers the end of his career
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Forget about the Disney film: Jasmin Vardimon Company’s dance adaptation, which debuts this month, is an altogether darker adventure inspired by Carlo Collodi’s 19th-century novel
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At 2.6m words it’s something of a mouthful, but John Chilcot’s Iraq war report is being tackled by comics at the 2016 fringe in a performance expected to take two weeks. Here, they explain why holding the powerful to account is ‘exactly what Edinburgh is for’
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From Cambridge Footlights in 1981 to Sam Simmons in 2015, explore the history of the Edinburgh comedy awards. Find out who won, who they beat and how the art of comedy changed each year
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More big-hitting acts like Daniel Kitson and Bridget Christie aren’t launching their new shows in Edinburgh – they’re developing them there
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Shappi Khorsandi felt as if she’d walked on the moon. Isy Suttie watched a man change a dressing on a wound as she spoke. Omid Djalili fell off the stage. So how did the first gigs of Paul Merton, Susan Calman and other top comics go?
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Our How We Staged Shakespeare series ends with the celebrated actor explaining why he keeps coming back to the much-misunderstood role of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
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Adura Onashile’s new play, Expensive Shit, takes place in two toilets – one in Glasgow and the other at Fela’s legendary Lagos club. She talks about her bathroom-sink drama
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Bill Murray’s deadpan misanthrope is now a jock belting out showstoppers. So does this stage replay bring new shine to the quirky love story – or kill a classic?
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Other lives: Head of Young Court at the Royal Court theatre in London
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Ronni Ancona’s Gertrude serves up a bloody homecoming dinner down the Prince of Denmark pub in the seventh of the British Council films for Shakespeare Lives 2016
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Ant and Dec? Perpetual laughter. Boris Johnson? Strangle the vowels. Andy Murray? Just growl. Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner try and make a mimic of Stephen Moss
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Hugh Quarshie stars as Othello and Joanna Vanderham is Desdemona in Iqbal Khan’s gripping production at Stratford in 2015
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In a new play written for the Guardian, the award-winning writer of political smashes This House and The Vote, goes inside the Brexit bunker as its sweaty-palmed task force prepares to trigger Article 50
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Encore! The best theatre of autumn 2016