Maddie and Marcus Rice bring a light touch to heavy themes in Goodbye Dandelion, finding warmth, melody, and secular comfort in the face of voluntary mortality.

A slick marriage of honky-tonk twang and musical theatre, Oil & Whiskey boasts stellar vocals and sharp tunes, even if its script needs more emotional grit.

Paul Howard’s The Sh*t Table extracts exquisite, toxic hilarity from wedding reception exile. Don’t Think Twice Theatre delivers a flawless Fringe triumph.

In SLAY, writer-performer Lois-Amber Toole channels Gen-Z bravado and trauma into a darkly funny, surreal, and fiercely original solo performance.

Stockard Channing guides David Westhead through a bleakly witty, finely calibrated revival of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at Edinburgh’s Assembly Roxy.