Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies) review – a magic hour

Kate Ireland’s warmly delivered one-woman show considers the pressures of productivity, rules and rewards at school and beyond

Wodehouse in Wonderland review – less than spiffing portrait of the artist as a light comedian

Robert Daws stars as the great comic author in this one-man show but is let down by lukewarm humour

‘Stupider than everyone else’: one comic’s semi-naked bid to perform dozens of Penguin novels

In a riotous show, Garry Starr dons a tailcoat, flippers and little else to re-enact a bookshelf full of classics. Would you help him bring The Jungle Book to life?

Garry Starr: Classic Penguins review – brilliantly ticklish riff on a stack of literary tomes

Dressed as the publisher’s emblem, in orange flippers and not much else, the ingenious comic delivers a dizzy series of droll visual routines

Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits review – the nation’s favourite foul mouth

There’s more Margolyes than Dickens here, but her gift for florid characters is on fine display and suits the Victorian master perfectly

Ugly Sisters review – deft duo riff on Germaine Greer’s encounter with a trans woman

Charli Cowgill and Laurie Ward revisit an article by the author of The Female Eunuch in this thought-provoking hour

The Outrun review – ambitious staging of Amy Liptrot’s Orkney addiction memoir

Vicky Featherstone’s directing and Isis Hainsworth’s fine lead turn valiantly blur the wild and the urban to portray the writer’s introspective journey to sobriety

Growing sponsorship row leaves UK summer arts festivals in turmoil

Book festivals and events still sponsored by Baillie Gifford to meet investment firm amid row over funding

On my radar: Val McDermid’s cultural highlights

The bestselling crime writer on exploring the Belgian coast, deep-diving into the middle ages and an enlightening exhibition of female Scottish artists

To see or not to see: Edinburgh fringe’s startling plays about perception

Two new shows at the festival question senses of hearing and sight in engaging and eccentric ways

Edinburgh fringe with the family: five shows for kids

Imaginary friends, runaway horses and Roger McGough’s take on the Wind in the Willows are among the treats for younger audiences at the festival

The Ballad of Truman Capote review – party play goes jolly lightly

Andrew O’Hagan’s script has some witty lines but this drama about the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood lacks narrative focus

Oliver Mol: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The author shares what makes him laugh online, featuring Lou Reed, Wim Hof, and one very Brisbane video

Edinburgh book festival hoping Greta Thunberg will bring back audiences

Fallout from Covid crisis has left event struggling financially after last year’s ‘traumatic’ fall in sales

A Little Life review – Hanya Yanagihara drama is not for the faint-hearted

Ivo van Hove directs a mesmerising four-hour adaptation of a divisive novel that unpicks privilege, abuse and psychological damage