As the former leading couple of Strictly Come Dancing, Ola and James Jordan will next year be touring the UK with their first ever collaborative string of dates in James ...
Well it’s that time of year again- the nights are darker and the weather has taken a turn for the worst- so we all need a giggle. Thankfully, that is ...
Following a critically-acclaimed run on the West End, The Kite Runner is now touring 11 cities and towns across the United Kingdom and is this week stopping at The Lowry ...
In 2014 Fifth Word commissioned Jane Upton to write a new play. This was Fifth Word’s second collaboration with Jane after premiering her critically acclaimed debut Bones. It was at ...
Bianca Del Rio is without a doubt one of the most enigmatic and successful drag personalities in the world. Winning the sixth season of critically-acclaimed reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag ...
Peggy Whitson is a 57-year-old American woman from Iowa. She has just returned from space. You may have read about her earlier in the year, when she was congratulated by ...
By Ben Glasstone (Artistic Director of MONSTRO Theatre, the Pioneers of the Puppet Musical) About ten years ago I was staring at a shelf of oversized books in a library ...
Simple guide to having videos of yourself on the internet, don’t read the comments! 20 messages of sycophantic adulation and one “he’s terrible” will ruin your day. It’s like reading ...
For the last 15 years I have been creating and touring one-woman comedy character shows such as Joe: The Perfect Man (Outstanding Comedy Award, Ottawa Fringe) and Big Girls Don’t Cry (Best in Fest, ...
I couldn’t understand it. I’d read RL Stevenson’s short story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde as a teenager and thoroughly enjoyed it, and yet, when I ...
It’s absurd that a woman’s “worth” is still inextricably linked with her beauty, youth and child bearing potential. Yet this was something I found as a successful City trader. In ...
I'm an actor/writer from Los Angeles (Main Company member of the world-famous Groundlings Theatre, HBOs Silicon Valley, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lionsgate Dirty 30 film) coming to the Fringe for the ...
Joanne Ryan based her new show Eggsistentialism on her comical journey to decide if she should have a baby. Here she discusses the show and why, despite all the best-intentioned advice, we ...
Three years ago we decided that we wanted to make a show about politics and Rock and Roll. Just like that, no further agenda. We wanted to speak about what ...
In early January 2011, I was dumped by email. It seemed like such an abrupt and brutal way to end a long-term relationship. I'd always assumed that those conversations had ...
Danny O’Brien discusses his new show RaconTour about his search for his missing father and talks about the hilarious and awkward family moments his quest entailed. What is RaconTour about, ...
I’m Sara. According to my twitter profile I’m a poet, a performer and a feminist, but for the next month, apparently, I will also be answering to ‘God’. I’m playing ...
Having been a very minor one for the best part of 30 years, I’ve long thought there’s something pathetic about being a local celebrity. Even before I entered local radio, ...
SOPHIE WILLAN’S NEW STAND UP SHOW ‘BRANDED’ WILL BE AT THE PLEASANCE COURTYARD BUNKER 2 FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST SO WE CAUGHT UP WITH HER TO FIND OUT WHAT ...
Sara Schaefer’s stand up show ‘Little White Box’ will be at the Pleasance Courtyard – That for the month of August so we caught up with her to talk more ...
Master puppeteers Henry Maynard and Dylan Tate are the men behind Fringe favourites, puppets Boris and Sergey. Both come from fine puppetry heritage and have worked on puppetry greats including ...
Francesco De Carlo moved to Britain just as the UK voted leave in the EU Referendum. He talks about his new show Comfort Zone, his experiences in the UK and ...
