#MindTheBaubles: Last-minute theatre gift ideas

There’s always someone who hasn’t quite got themselves organised by the week leading up to Christmas – even with the threat of Royal Mail strikes hanging over the season this year – and if that’s you, I’m here to help. These days there are plenty of ways to treat the theatre lover in your life, […]

Most popular posts of 2021

Unsurprisingly, in terms of hits 2021 was the worst year on record – I don’t actually remember writing as much as I did, so I’m glad that you’re still reading the minimal output I provide! And despite the lack of motivation, I still managed to complete a couple of challenge weeks. I was obviously still […]

Love Theatre Day 2021: Brave new world?

Happy Love Theatre Day, everyone! This year I actually feel like marking it, not because all of London’s West End theatres are now back open for business (though that is obviously excellent news), but because I’m just about working out where theatre of all kinds fits into my peri-pandemic routine – note that I’m not […]

Wuthering Heights: 2021-22 UK tour diary

As you’ll have probably guessed, this is pretty much the show I’ve been looking forward to for the past 18 months or so. I first read Wuthering Heights in 2018 and immediately thought it was ripe for adapting by a certain Emma Rice – and my wish must have reached her telepathically, as not too long […]

Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre 2021)

“For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.” The summer of 2020 was originally due to bring lovestruck Verona to London’s theatres but, following closures across the world over the past year, it appears that 2021 will do just fine. Rather than postpone their stage run, the National Theatre took the decision to […]

Interview with Invisible Cinema Russia

Last year I was interviewed by Anastasiya Kharchishena of Invisible Cinema Russia, answering questions about theatre blogging, diversity quotas, and a certain William Shakesbear… How did you get interested in theater? Why did you decide to blog? I went to a few shows when I was younger (mostly school productions, with my friends in the […]

Most popular posts of 2020

Against all odds, Mind the Blog managed to gather very nearly the same amount of hits in 2020 as it did in 2019 – considering the fact that theatres were only open for about a quarter of the year, and that I became too knackered to put many new posts out from the autumn onwards, […]

Mind the Advent 2020

After a break in 2019, I decided to revive #MindTheAdvent for 2020 – and of course focused on the array of online theatre that proliferated from March onwards… #MindTheAdvent Day 1: I have to begin with the show that started it all… @TSMGOnlineLive's The Two Gentlemen of Verona! Little did we all know how TSMGO would take […]

2020 mid-year update

Against my usual penchant for starting off slowly and then steadily heading for entropy, I went straight in at the deep end this year: my first week back in London (& the first full week of the year) was set down as #MindTheMusicals 2020! That means, of course, I began my theatregoing year by […]

Road to nowhere

At time of writing, theatres have been closed for over 100 days. It’s taken only until very recently for the government to even acknowledge there’s a problem, and all they really seemed to do was pay lip service to the industry rather than attempt to tackle it in a more practical way. Instead, theatres have […]