Stranger Things is just brilliant. It's so good to see a new blockbuster created in a large studio with budget and actually be a successful new story. Love to see it, want to see more of it

From an accessibility POV: Warner Brothers Studios has nailed it at Harry Potter World. Incredible. They've incorporated accessibility into absolutely everything - beautiful to see. Intro videos giving a visual tour ahead of time, subtitles, clear instructions, quiet rooms, all sorts. Well done.

Petition to ban flashback episodes in Netflix series; they are just terrible substitutions for exposition.

This has been a right for literally a thousand years - stop framing underinvestment as somehow a thing we have to lose rights about. What. The. Fudge.: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Hearing a major CEO telling the business editor of the Today Programme that they have projected they will cut 1/3 of their office workforce on the radio is toe curlingly scary. #r4today

I cannot be the only person dismayed when you spend 2-3 hours on a draft to then send it to someone and have it returned with a "I've had a re-jig" to only put it through ChatGPT and make it distinctly worse? Unbelievably depressing time.

Some pieces of TV are just pure THEATRE on-screen; a prime example being Peaky Blinders. Throughout the show the sets, costume and even the cinematography is just pure pure pure theatre in its heightened naturalism. Now I'm out of London, on a mission to find more TV like this - suggestions please!

Theatre ... Bluesky... is there a play about the moment of the downfall of the Berlin Wall? I am obsessed with it and want to find a way of dramatising that exact moment.

Dear Mr Starmer - we live on an island. Our borders aren't going to be made safer by digital IDs, just our personal freedoms made more complicated when we (excuse me whilst I laugh - "non-white" people) will be asked to show our IDs at every conceivable opportunity by the police.

@canongate.co.uk - attacking @thetimes.com for a bad review is just not a good look. There is a remarkable similarity between both endings, and pointing it out is covered under "honest opinion". Goodness me, folks. You're allowed to receive a bad review. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

As @BBCr4today were interviewing vulnerable people in camps in Northern France, whipping up racism and not pointing out the insanity of people running from conflicts having to apply for asylum with IDs and passports. Have some insight into life on the camps there. #r4today bit.ly/3VVYxx0

#BLOG - Russia’s War On Ukraine’s Culture northwestend.com/russias-war-... @springwritenow.bsky.social

*crab-walked

The BBC are seriously entertaining the removal of Human rights to deal with a made up "crisis" that Brexit didn't solve either. The removal of Human rights is vast, and never temporary. Also, never trust a man who dehumanises people down to "boat people". #R4today

Fuck AI -- give me creativity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVDf...

Great to see that the "enshittification"(™️Ben Plesser) of the world has now bled into the arts. It's sort of fucking ridiculous that we've decided that human endeavour and creation is just free. Well done: www.thestage.co.uk/news/cultura...

Do we think Trump just wakes up and thinks: "I wonder what nonsense I'm going to do today - it is Thursday after all."

Dear @googledocs.bsky.social - no: "Chairman" is not the reasonable autocorrection of "Chairwomaen" [Sic]. There's another word much closer to that spelling that makes much more sense....

I mean, yes, again and again. Harry McKrill said it best: www.openlynews.com/i/?id=7e8c9b...

Imagine going to the theatre and being alienated by LGBTQ+ people? The theatre is one of the most inclusive and safe spaces historically. This is absurd and, if it didn't need being said again: LGBTQ+ people love the theatre (OBVIOUSLY) Keep being fab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 www.thestage.co.uk/news/perform...

One of my favourite books and I'm so so glad that it's great version of it.... love love love

Could someone set up a Donald Trump watch where the bot automatically tracks his movements and the insane shit he says so that everyone else can just ignore him?

Ok, this FKA Twigs song and the visuals are absolutely a class above. Amazing work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHVx...

Lula XYZ ANNOUNCES OommoO episode 1 at The Old Market in Brighton, April 5+6 - We'd love to see you there!

Finally saw Cyrano at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social - what a piece. Sensitive, raucously funny and with an unexpectedly messy and stupidly, ridiculously, fun ending. Cast great, venue great, script great. Lived up to expectations and more - go and catch final tix: parktheatre.co.uk/event/cyrano/

£13 Cyrano tickets at the @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social? £5 Projekt Europa tickets at the @newdiorama.bsky.social? Don't mind if I do. Absolutely PSYCHED for these two...!

I know Summerhall's plight is well documented, but its eerie to walk up and see it empty. In other news though: Scotland is damn fine. Happy New Year everyone.

Thank God for Beyoncé saving this Texas mauling. Merry Christmas folks xx #nfl #okbeyoncerules

Another vast white elephant closes leaving a £51mn black hole for the council and an ugly reminder of terrible town planning. Mad. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Circus is having a moment. You got Circa's Duckpond at @southbankcentre.bsky.social for Christmas, you got Afrique en Cirque at Brighton Dome, La Clique on Leicester Square, Ockhams Razor in the @theguardian.com - mega exciting for the art form and so much more to come.

Having a full circus show in the best shows of 2024 is massive. Go @turtlekeyarts.bsky.social and Ockham's Razor. Huge. #Circusisthefuture www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/d...

Theatre substack is my kind of jam.

Also, this is cool... a 118-year-old message-in-a-bottle discovered during the renovation of the King's... It was hidden in a decorative crown above the stage and has witnessed every performance ever at the theatre! www.thestage.co.uk/news/time-ca...

I saw this last night and I was emotional. Extraordinarly hopeful message of owning your own narrative, being who you want to be. Delivered in the same institutions where police and judges would go too, that once tried to vilify and attack the community in Brixton. Subversive and a must see.

The difficulty with this is that self producing artists are now having to figure out how to pay freelancers that have worked with them based on budgets that they will have made with Summerhall income in mind. 3 months is a lot of stress to wait.

Yeeeeesssss we love this. So goodness goddamn excited!

Goodness me am I enjoying this iteration of @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social though. A feature on live video onstage (which as someone with major ADHD, personally absolutely love), the importance of pizza from the NDT (but also very important for Pleasance too). Big fan. substack.com/home/post/p-...

A further 3 months of indecision, of waiting to see if people will get paid for performances from August 2024. There are very real ramifications for this that will be quietly unseen. Artists deserve to know about the money that is owed to them sooner than Feb: www.summerhall.co.uk/2024/11/29th...

Just accepted my invitation for opening night of The Legends of Them at The Royal Court. One of the campaigns that I loved the most, and start of a friendship that I still very much value to this day with Sutara. She smashed it at UK Black Pride this year too. royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/the...

Rupert Goold's tenure at the Almeida has to rank among the greatest in British theatre history. The Years, Cold War, A Mirror, Streetcar, Patriots, Macbeth, Albion, Hamlet, The Doctor, The Wild Duck, The Writer, Summer and Smoke, Ink, Mary Stuart, Uncle Vanya, Mr Burns, King Charles III...

The insanity of the building of the i360 in #Brighton for all to see. This phallic monstrosity exists because the council borrowed £36mn, placing a huge debt on unnecessarily, and at the time had an opportunity to build a Frank Gehry gallery/housing complex. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2475434...

Had a lovely evening looking at some of the alumni from the National Circus School of Arts at der Spiegeltent in Leicester Square, definitely going back for La Clique come the 6th December. #LongLiveTheCircus

Oh damn, people are like on here on here. Like, actually on here. Let's not screw this one up... #BSKYLetsGo