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  Mark Thomas's Cuckooed - a funny and fascinating comedy of betrayal and corporate spying

  3 Sep 2014: Mark Thomas and Danny Chivers take to the stage with their shows about undercover infiltration

• Delusion of the Fury – Heiner Goebbels brings an extraordinary opera to life

  

  31 Aug 2014:

  With its unique instruments and otherworldly rituals, Harry Partch's opera is strange, beautiful and utterly compelling, writes Andrew Clements

• Front; Escaping War; Helen Lawrence – review

  

  31 Aug 2014:

  Two takes on war employ connect with the past using multiple media and disciplines, while a noir tale of corruption scuppers itself with technical trickery, writes Clare Brennnan

• Mat Ricardo: Showman review – a slick and artful juggling act

  

  29 Aug 2014:

  This gloriously old-fashioned celebration of the juggler harks back to the golden age of variety and vaudeville, writes Lyn Gardner

• Les Troyens review – Mariinsky without the magic

  

  29 Aug 2014:

  Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Opera make Berlioz's magnificent opera seem routine, writes Andrew Clements

• Harry Partch – how Heiner Goebbels bought Delusion of the Fury to Edinburgh

  29 Aug 2014: US composer Harry Partch invented an entirely new musical language and created an orchestra of new instruments to play it on. Heiner Goebbels tells Kate Molleson about his production of Partch’s most radical work, coming to Edinburgh this week.
  

• Barbican accused of 'complicit racism' over installation with live black models

  28 Aug 2014:

  Brett Bailey's controversial Exhibit B forces the audience to engage with stories of exploitation, say supporters

• Clap hands for Paco Peña's flamenco dancers – in pictures

  28 Aug 2014: Flamenco guitarist Paco Peña’s new show, Patrias, is part of this year’s Edinburgh international festival. Here’s a reminder of his colourful and electrifying stage shows

• Paco Peña review – an intimate and fiery flamenco tribute to Lorca

  

  28 Aug 2014:

  Spanish guitar virtuoso Peña leads a band of musicians and dancers in a dazzling show honouring the murdered writer, writes Alice Bain

• William Tell review – Noseda does justice to Rossini's freedom fighter

  

  27 Aug 2014:

  Teatro Regio Torino's sparkling concert-performance of the full Rossini opera proves there's more to it than the 'Lone Ranger' overture, writes Kate Molleson

• Steen Raskopoulos review – charming, nerve-jangling comedy

  

  27 Aug 2014:

  Raskopoulos has acting flair, an eye for vivid character and deftness in handling and discomfiting his audience, writes Brian Logan

• Kronos Quartet perform first world war multimedia project Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 for Edinburgh international festival

  Video (7min 05sec), 26 Aug 2014:

  In this exclusive video for the Guardian the Kronos Quartet's leader David Harrington introduces their latest work which blends an emotive score by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov with archive footage from the first world war reclaimed by film-maker Bill Morrison.

• Marcus Sedgwick: My next book is a response to 2001: A Space Odyssey

  26 Aug 2014:

  Marcus Sedgwick is a man of many stories: an alternate, flooded Britain, vampire folklore, the Russian Revolution – what can we expect from him next? As our teen reporter Patrick Sproull finds out, it's an homage to film director Stanley Kubrick…

• JK Rowling and Malala Yousafzai meet at the Edinburgh international book festival

  25 Aug 2014:

  Newsflash: the Harry Potter author introduced the teenage education activist at her sold-out talk at the Edinburgh festival

• Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope: Edinburgh festival 2014 review – pithy wit under a blue-rinse wig

  

  25 Aug 2014: The legendary 'stately homo', who found fame after the 1975 TV adaptation of his autobiography, is stylishly brought back to life by Mark Farrelly in this entertaining one-man show, writes Lyn Gardner

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