The first professional production in London of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" (translated by the Scottish drama critic William Archer) took place on 7 June 1889. 

"Gowns by Edith Head" was one of the most familiar cinema credits of the 20th century. Edith began as a sketch artist in the 1920s, and worked her way up to become the most celebrated Hollywood costume designer winning eight Oscars

The warning signs were all there – I just momentarily failed to heed them. An amateur production of a little-known play by a major playwright. “Why is it so little-known?” I might have asked myself. “What kind of amateur group?” might have followed close behind.

There’s a lot of pain in Jane Russell’s one-woman show detailing the life and lot of your average pharmacist.

The lights don't go up for some time on 'Black Comedy' down in the hall of Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church (venue 45),

Conceived and directed by Michael Lessac, the docu-drama ‘Truth in Translation' revolves around the interpreted testimonies of people in South Africa who had committed atrocities during the Apartheid era.

Here and there, now and then, absolute joy can be found on the Fringe. It's rare, to be treasured and savoured, carefully wrapped up in the mind, saved against harsher, bleaker times.

'Wan hour twenty minutes! Have they read the f****r?' as this reviewer's friend Kevin put it on learning the length of RSAMD's production of 'Crime and Punishment'.

‘If we are Women', written by the Canadian writer Joanna McClelland Glass, involves four women - a grandmother, daughter, grand-daughter, and elderly mother-in-law - who are brought together for the funeral of the daughter's lover. 

Luigi Pirandello wrote a play entitled, "Six Characters in search of an author." Described as a philosophical romantic comedy, "The Space in Between" is a clever riddle of a dramatic exercise

After all the media hype, the interviews, the previews, the bare-bum photos, "The Bacchae" has opened at the King's Theatre. All the attention was given to Scottish actor Alan Cumming, taking the starring lead role as Dionysus,

Sarah Kane, the writer of ‘Crave', burst onto the theatre scene in l995 with her play ‘Blasted' which was vilified by the critics. Three years later, when ‘Crave' was first performed at the Traverse Theatre (l998), her status was completely altered and she was viewed as one of the most influential British dramatists.

The opening of 'Game Theory' doesn't prepare us for the end. Which would be fine, save for a sense during the intervening scenes of wondering where we're going.

Georg Buchner's interpretation of French Revolutionary politics, 'Danton's Death' continues to fascinate.

In this one woman show, we meet Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, a legendary figure in the New York literary scene of the 1920s and 30s contributing to Vogue, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker.

'Kidnapped' was recently selected as the novel all citizens of this 'City of Literature' ought to be reading. It's probably also the book most people would likely choose if asked to name one nineteenth century Scottish novel.

Set in rural Suffolk ‘Stoopud F**ken Animals' revolves more around people than animals

To paraphrase Chekhov, “Any fool can survive a crisis. It’s
just getting through the daily grind that’s the real challenge.”

We all, I am sure, have suffered from insomnia at some point in our lives and so the synopsis of (Asleep in) Disorder in the Fringe programme sounded provocatively interesting.

The Truman Capote Talk Show, written and performed by Bob Kingdom was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1994, winning a Fringe First Award for best new play. It has toured the world, not least for a successful season on Broadway.