Claire Lams as Ana in While You Lie. Photograph: Laurence Winram While You Lie, Edinburgh The Traverse has a habit of throwing up startling new talent during its annual festival season. Not that Sam Holcroft is an unknown. Nurtured through the Traverse’s young writer’s group, her... 

AP July 16: Actor George Clooney leaves a tribunal in Milan, Italy. Clooney appeared in court as a witness in a fraud trial against defendants charged with co opting his name for a line of clothing. MILAN Actor George Clooney has testified at a fraud trial in Milan and even the judge said it seemed like a... 

Ivan Cutting, theatre director at Eastern Angles theatre company. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Anyone out and about in Ipswich in June may have come across a bright yellow camper van parked in one of a number of prominent spots. On closer inspection, they would have found it full... 

The Edinburgh festival receives £2.3m in foundation funding a year. Photograph: Murdo Macleod More than 50 of Scotland’s best-known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh festival and the Traverse theatre, face deep cuts in their grants from the new government arts agency, Creative... 

David Baddiel says cutting down his live performances coincided with an improvement in his mental health. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Say what you like about David Baddiel but you can’t say he’s lacking in ambition. Take the novel to which he’s currently...