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Review: Our Teacher's a Troll (Edinburgh Fringe)

A new children's show by Dennis Kelly which also has plenty for adults to enjoy

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Theatre News: Spine and Travesti among final round of Fringe First Awards

Other winners included No Guts, No Heart, No Glory and Pondling

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Review: Standby for Tape Back-Up (Edinburgh Fringe)

A compelling study of synchronicity from writer and performer Ross Sutherland

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Blogs: Catherine Love: Edinburgh Fringe highlights

A round-up of some of the best shows at this year's Edinburgh Fringe

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Theatre News: Paines Plough announces new season

The company's portable Roundabout venue will visit venues across the UK

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Theatre News: Northern Stage announces Summerhall residency

The company has previously been resident at St Stephens and King's Hall

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Theatre News: Female prisoners' play in crowdfunding bid for Edinburgh Fringe

A North East theatre company are looking for help to take their production to the fringe

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Review: Going Viral (Summerhall, Edinburgh)

'Daniel Bye's latest storytelling piece hits a rich metaphorical seam'

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Review: Portraits in Motion (Summerhall, Edinburgh)

'Each year, the Fringe throws up curios like this: little gems that let you see the world a little differently'

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Review: The Great Downhill Journey of Little Tommy (Summerhall, Edinburgh)

'Jonas Vermeleun and Boris Van Severin might be theatre's McFly'

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Blogs: Matt Trueman's Edinburgh diary - Are small companies being crowded out?

'If you look around the Fringe this year, it's full of big organisations'

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Review: A String Section (Summerhall)

'One of the most gripping and visceral things I have seen this festival'

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Theatre News: Orange Tree Theatre wins the Empty Space Peter Brook Award

The theatre beat off competition from five other theatres to win today in London

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Theatre News: New Paines Plough programme announced

The new writing company will stage a series of world premieres and tours across the UK

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Theatre News: Northern Stage and Show and Tell announce Edinburgh line up

The Summerhall offerings include RashDash, Hannah Nicklin and Unfolding Theatre

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Theatre News: Adler and Gibb returns to Edinburgh

Tim Crouch's show will run at the Edinburgh Festival at Summerhall this year

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Features: 10 Edinburgh Fringe shows about the housing crisis

Housing is a hot topic at this year's festival

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Review: Edinburgh review: Tell Me Anything (Summerhall)

Following their 2014 debut So It Goes, On The Run return with a show about love, hopeless devotion and growing up

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Review: Edinburgh review: Blank (Summerhall)

Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following the acclaimed White Rabbit, Red Rabbit

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Review: Edinburgh review: Only Bones (Summerhall)

New Zealanders Thomas Monckton and Gemma Tweedie bring a new wave of clowning to the Edinburgh Fringe

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Review: Edinburgh review: Scorch (Summerhall)

A startling monologue about gender from Stacey Gregg at the Edinburgh Festival

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Review: Edinburgh review: Putting the Band Back Together (Summerhall)

Annie Rigby and The Futureheads' Ross Millard are out to get us dusting off our old instruments at the Edinburgh Fringe

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Review: Edinburgh review: Letters to Windsor House (Summerhal)

Sh!t Theatre's latest work is a ramshackle piece of documentary theatre about the housing crisis

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Review: Edinburgh review: On the Conditions and Possibilities of Hillary...

New Zealander Richard Meros, BA brings his silly manifesto to Summerhall

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Review: Edinburgh review: Two Man Show (Summerhall)

RashDash's latest production looks to expose the problems of patriarchy, and explores the limitations of language

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Review: Edinburgh review: Jonny and the Baptists: Eat the Poor (Summerhall)

The raucous comedy-music double-act present a terrifying vision of the future where swans are in charge

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Review: Edinburgh review: Counting Sheep (Summerhall)

This great piece from Toronto-based, Ukraine-born Lemon Bucket Orkestra gets the audience right into the heart of a revolution

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Theatre News: Summerhall shows dominate initial Fringe First list

Three of the six shows awarded a Fringe First today were at Summerhall

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Review: Edinburgh review: (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow (Summerhall)

Audience members are taken by the hand and sung the Judy Garland classic for an hour in this beautiful piece

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Features: Top 5 theatre openings: 5 - 11 September

The world premiere of a play based on a book by Ryszard Kapuściński and some Edinburgh Fringe successes all start this week

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Theatre News: Northern Stage announces Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 line-up

It includes shows from Graeae, the Royal Exchange and West Yorkshire Playhouse

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Theatre News: Summerhall announces full line-up for Edinburgh Festival Fringe...

The venue will host 140 shows over the course of the festival

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Features: Edinburgh Festival top ten: Matt Trueman's picks

Our critic rounds up the shows he's most looking forward to at this year's Festival

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Review: Review: Taha (Young Vic)

Through the personal story of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali, we gain both insights into the Arab-Israeli conflict and a new perspective on the way we look on at history from afar

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Features: Top 10 immersive shows at the Edinburgh Festival

Ten shows we can't wait to get swallowed up by when the Festival opens this week

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Review: Edinburgh review: Cosmic Scallies (Summerhall)

Jackie Hagan's new play visits the inhabitants of Skelmersdale

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Review: Edinburgh review: You've Changed (Summerhall)

Kate O'Donnell's piece looks at what happened when she came to terms with being transgender at the age of 38

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Review: Edinburgh review: A Hundred Different Words for Love (Summerhall)

After his success with Team Viking, storyteller James Rowland returns with this exploration of love and why one word is just not enough

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Review: Edinburgh review: Foreign Radical (Summerhall)

This new interactive show turns border control into a game

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Review: Edinburgh review: Salt. (Summerhall)

Selina Thompson's show head-on tackles Europe's involvement in the slave trade

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Review: Edinburgh review: DollyWould (Summerhall)

Sh!t Theatre present an enjoyably slipper tribute to Dolly Parton and Dolly the sheep

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Review: Edinburgh review: £¥€$ (Summerhall)

Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed bring their interactive experience about economics to the Edinburgh Fringe

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Review: Edinburgh review: Black Mountain (Summerhall)

Brad Birch combines romance and horror in his psychological thriller premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe

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Review: Edinburgh review: Mouthpiece (King's Hall)

Written and performed by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, Mouthpiece dissects the use of language in defining female lives and bodies

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Review: Edinburgh review: Heather (Summerhall)

Thomas Eccleshare's theatrical triptych sees a children's author caught in controversy

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Review: Edinburgh review: Out of Love (Summerhall)

Elinor Cook's play on the Paines Plough Roundabout stage is a female friendship in all its messy glory

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Review: Edinburgh review: Instructions for Border Crossing (Summerhall)

There's plenty of audience interaction in this latest piece by Fringe First-winner Daniel Bye

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Theatre News: Total Theatre Awards announce 2017 shortlist

The awards, overseen by a panel of 28, highlight the best in circus, dance and physical or innovative theatre as well as emerging companies

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Theatre News: Second round of Edinburgh Fringe First recipients announced

Another six companies have been awarded the top prize for new writing at the Festival

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Theatre News: Final round of Scotsman Fringe First winners announced

The last batch of recipients were announced live this week

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