Today’s entertainment is Barbara Pym’s Quartet in Autumn at the @arcolatheatre.bsky.social. As a longtime Pym fan, it’s great to see her work on the stage for the first time.

Back at the Donmar to see Monica Dolan in Mass. #theatre2026

Now reading… 📚

Feel very lucky to have caught Vincent in Brixton in its final week at the Orange Tree Theatre. Always a privilege to see the wonderful Niamh Cusack live on stage. #theatre2026

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well.”

In London for the day to see Bird Grove at the Hampstead Theatre ✨ #theatre2026

Monsters and madness and men, oh my! The Terror is the unsung treasure of peak television

Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance

Ooh! Hattie Morahan, Siobhan Finneran & Sophie Thompson all in the same season? The Donmar never misses.

I’m giving all of the 2004 BBC adaptation of ‘North and South’ family, friends and fans a big smacker on the lips today to say thank you for the last 20 years of love and support. Thornton was a career changing role and one that I’ll never forget.

My first visit to Cambridge. Spent the day pretending I was a sad gay floppy-haired Edwardian undergraduate involved in a doomed love affair. #onlyconnect