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  • Sean Gilder and Jack Lowden in The Fifth Step

    The Fifth Step review – Jack Lowden excels as an alcoholic finding a sponsor

    In David Ireland’s complex two-hander, co-starring Sean Gilder, a troubled youth is persuaded to join the 12-step programme by a former addict
  • Flippant … Wankernomics with Charles Firth, left, and James Schloeffel.

    Wankernomics: As Per My Last Email review – humdrum office hellscape

    These games lampooning business jargon and CV exaggeration are relatable and initially amusing but soon start to drag
    • Scottish arts sector appeals to ministers over ‘devastating’ budget cuts

    • Show Pony review – what happens when the circus says goodbye to you?

    • Stuffed review – urgent warning about food poverty drowned out by clowning

  • As serious or silly as you like … Ben Welch as RaveRend and Lawrence Cole as Trev in House of Life

    House of Life review – glittering benediction from a joyously funky double act

  • Grandparent greets daughter and grandchildren

    Brief letters
    A toast to grannies and good manners

  • Gráinne Dromgoole (left) and Maria Pointer in Deadheads at Assembly George Square.

    Deadheads review – the fraying of two sisters’ childhood bond

  • Emma Taylor in Man: A One Woman Show.

    Man: A One-Woman Show – compelling collage of toxic masculinity

  • It’s the Economy, Stupid! review – engaging account of maths, money and personal cost

  • Ian McKellen says fat suit saved him after ‘horrible’ stage fall

  • Theatregoers during the interval during a show at the Barbican theatre in London.

    Brief letters
    Intervals are the best bits – give us a break

  • Jonny Donahoe, back in the role he originated in 2014 in Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing.

    ‘I wanted to give people hope’: how Every Brilliant Thing became theatre’s best antidote to depression

  • The top of a brick archway

    Archaeologists uncover ‘Shakespeare’ doorway in Norfolk theatre

  • (from left) Safeena Ladha, Eugene McCoy, Tom Byrne and  Maddie Rice in The 39 Steps.

    The 39 Steps review – comic homage to Hitchcock thriller goes off the rails

  • Michael Billington

    Dominic West is a fabulous Faustus but this movie marathon plays the devil with Marlowe

    Michael Billington
  • Wet Mess performs Testo at Edinburgh Fringe 2024

    Essentially Edinburgh: dance, drag and plenty of drama at the 2024 festival – in pictures

  • Experts in landing a punchline … Chemo Savvy.

    Chemo Savvy review – cancer comedy inspired by actor Andy Gray is less about death than rebirth

  • Tom Brooke and Kerry Condon in After The End at the Traverse theatre, Edinburgh festival 2005.

    ‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough

  • Amy Kennedy as Elise and Ramesh Meyyappan as old Harry in Love Beyond.

    Love Beyond review – powerful story of dementia plays out like a thriller

    Glasgow-based Singaporean d/Deaf writer and actor Ramesh Meyyappan is Harry, who is trying to piece together his life story like an existential detective
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