Never Mind The Blog… Here’s Autumn/Winter 2019

The slightest of delays in getting this one out – but if you were dealing with unco-operative internet, a laptop whose keyboard still won’t work, and a manic month at work to prepare for, you’d be in the same boat. News Tower Theatre in Stoke Newington is celebrating its first anniversary, and will be […]

2019 mid-year update

Once again things started off steadily and sensibly, but then too much interesting sounding stuff (both in & out of London) came up and ended up taking over my diary… I may have again gone down in terms of the amount of shows I’ve seen in six months (103 different shows, 126 individual visits to theatres), but I […]

Favourite shows of 2018

As I ended up seeing more different shows than last year (and almost as many in total, thanks to some repeat visits), I decided enough was enough – it’s finally time to branch out from the weird top 12 idea. Beginning with a short list of around 40 (admittedly this doesn’t sound very short), I […]

Favourite male performances of 2018

There have been so many brilliant performances this year that I simply couldn’t narrow them down enough – and it also didn’t seem fair to restrict things even further, so I’ve split what would usually be one post into two (favourite female performances to follow). Mind the Advent also promoted a few more performances, just […]

Day 1: Ticket to Ride

‘Tis the season… For a constant stream of new show announcements! Over recent weeks it definitely feels like we’re being bombarded with information about what’s coming up both in London and elsewhere in the country, as theatres announce their programming for winter and spring one after another. Add into this the hotly anticipated Broadway transfers […]

Never Mind The Blog… It’s September 2018

September is a bit of a busy month at the day job, so I’ve made sure that my evenings are filled so I have something to look forward to each day… On the broader theatrical landscape, there are plenty of things opening this month! In London Eugenius! returns to The Other Palace, Milly Thomas’ Dust […]

“Sit by my side and let the world slip”

Previously I’ve written about ‘how to be a groundling‘ at Shakespeare’s Globe (though obviously some of those tips can be universally applied to standing areas in theatres), so I thought it was high time I turned my attention to the more widely used format: seats. An element of theatregoing that can just be taken for […]

Missed The Boat: Photograph 51

In 2015, Anna Ziegler’s play Photograph 51 was brought to London’s West End by the Michael Grandage Company, running at the Noel Coward Theatre from 5 September until 21 November. It was in development for many years prior to this run, however, receiving its première in Maryland in February 2008, winning the STAGE International Script […]

Olivier Awards 2018

So, that just happened! Despite some small disappointments in the nominations (nothing too much, just some things felt unnecessarily overlooked), I was rather looking forward to this year’s Oliviers. And I was also rather glad that I wasn’t on site to cover the ceremony this time – partly because of the damp forecast, partly because I […]

Never Mind The Blog… Here’s March 2018

First off, you’ll notice that (unlike February) I’ve had a little bit of time to raise the logo stakes slightly – so it’s slowly getting there… Lots of different things opening across the country this month. In London there are a lot of fringe & Off West End productions coming for you, such as Glass […]