Alice Jones
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30 best shows to watch at Edinburgh 2021, from the Fringe to the Book Festival
This year’s festival is smaller than usual but there is still much to enjoy - in person and online - from comedy, theatre and dance to music and books events → Read More
Euro 2020: Celebrities share their predictions about the final and whether they think football is coming home
The nation’s celebrities tell i what team they think has the best chance of taking home the trophy on Sunday → Read More
Bukky Bakray on ‘Rocks’ and the Baftas: ‘Anyone can act. The industry makes it exclusive out of fear’
The teenage actor on the role that changed her life: 'If you took a picture of my life and showed Bukky back in the day, I would have slapped you for lying' → Read More
Lou Sanders on shame, skating and her new show, Unforgivable: 'You don't have to be broken to be funny'
The comedian found her voice when she gave up drinking, moved on from her past and worked on her own happiness → Read More
Craig Revel Horwood: 'I call it the Strictly blessing, not the Strictly curse. I think it's great'
The Strictly Come Dancing judge on dancefloor disasters, drag, marriage — and why the best celebrity never wins the show → Read More
Adam Buxton: 'I'm worried that I'm spiralling'
Comedian and podcaster Adam Buxton talks to Alice Jones about therapy, grief, and how he coped with a midlife crisis by writing a memoir → Read More
‘Edinburgh is everything’: The Fringe Festival may be cancelled but the spirit is alive
David Chapple began planning his trip to the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe Festival a year ago, since you can’t be too prepared when you hold the world record for the most Fringe performances attended in one season. → Read More
The Downton Abbey film is a symptom of our inability to say goodbye in culture
Behind every globally successful television series is a team of people asking ‘how hard can it be?’ about the transition to the big screen → Read More
There’s an upside to the Amazon leak of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
Bookshops fumed. Journalists panicked. The Atwood was out of the bag - a full week before the global publication date. → Read More
Mat Ewins, Edinburgh Fringe 2019, review: ‘Unrivalled gags-per-minute’
The pace is wild, the presentation deliberately ramshackle but it can’t disguise the fact that Ewins is a technical genius, writes Alice Jones → Read More
London Hughes: ‘If I was a white dude, would I be at the Edinburgh Fringe or would I be selling out arenas?’
London Hughes started her career on Babestation and CBBC. Now she's the breakout hit of this year's Edinburgh Fringe with a show about dating → Read More
The best new comedians to see at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019
Alice Jones reviews debut comedy shows by Catherine Cohen, Janine Harouni, Michael Odewale and Anna Drezen at the Edinburgh Fringe → Read More
Stop calling things ‘the new Love Island’ – and stop trying to make opera fit the mould
What really brings in new audiences is good productions, done well, at accessible prices - that's better, and less patronising, than Love Island chat. → Read More
Josie Long, Edinburgh Fringe 2019, review: unflinching tales of motherhood
In Long’s hands, the topic of parenthood is revitalised, as she ranges from the power of the Baby on Board badge to climate apocalypse → Read More
Arrested Development star Alia Shawkat says ‘women are gross too – we’re not all just projections of your mother, you know’
Alia Shawkat grew up playing sassy teenager Maeby on sitcom 'Arrested Development'. Now starring in new indie film ‘Animals’, she tells Alice Jones why she wants to play characters that show women’s lives in all their "messy complexity" → Read More
Edinburgh Festival: How Rose Matafeo went from teen star to award-winning comedian who ‘can never sit in silence’
Matafeo was only the fifth woman and the first woman of colour to win. 'If I watched myself, honestly I don’t think I would be a fan', she says → Read More
Of course Scarlett Johansson thinks she can play a tree – that’s privilege
Animal, mineral, Asian or trans, it’s all the same to Scarlett; she doesn’t see difference, you see. She just sees parts that she can play → Read More
No, trigger warnings on theatre productions don’t spoil the plot. You don’t have to read them
I could have read all the warnings about violence 10 times and still not have been ready for what happened in The Ferryman → Read More
A black Little Mermaid played by Halle Bailey is a cause for celebration, not complaining
A black Ariel shouldn’t be remarkable, but it is. It took Disney 49 films before girls of colour finally got a princess who looked like them → Read More
No, Netflix is not the death of books, despite the sales figures. These things can co-exist
Sales of physical books fell by 5.4 per cent last year, the first decline in five years - and the Publishers Association blames Netflix → Read More