My out of office is OFF. Dissertation has been submitted. A few words below. If your email was ignored over the past three months, this is why. I AM BACK!!!

Will they or won't they snog? That is the question. Review on @uk.broadwayworld.com embargoed until 00:01 on 3rd September 🎭🦷

The amount of contempt bordering on hatred that I've seen online in the past 20 hours bc Taylor isn’t marrying the person some people want is genuinely staggering. I thought my corner of fandom was a safe haven, but it's made me think twice about certain individuals. Big yikes.

Hiiiii I'm back three-starring national treasures 🤗

Not usually one to complain, but we experienced some appalling behaviour by the @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social FOH tonight.

The fourth season of Children Ruin Everything is finally on Netflix, so this is your reminder that it's one of the finest comedy series out there.

I really struggled with this (both watching it and writing about it).

You heard it here first.

This was cute! Excellent leads! A bit of a naive take and way too rushed, but it can get there! (No stars bc they're kids)

I'm getting so fed up with @edfringe.bsky.social coverage this year. Unjustified ratings, stars thrown in for views, no reviews... what's going on?! Why are only three outlets doing it properly?!

I recently wrote this piece starnow.com/uk/magazine/ar… about starting out in the industry. It turns out @stratfordeast.com also has a youth scheme that you can join if you live in Newham!

Did something different last night and went to my first k-pop concert! Though I have a BTS superfan as a bestie I wasn't entirely familiar with their game. Five stars from me for Jin, no notes whatsoever. I didn't know any songs but had such a good time! #RUNSEOKJIN_epTOUR_UK

Say what you want about Six, but the songs hit so hard. "You say it's a pity 'cause, quoting Leviticus / I'll end up kiddy-less all my life" is insane scansion.

Now that the Fringe is in full swing, let's remember that a review is different from a reaction.

A repeat visit to Sing Street? It must be good! (Here's my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review from a few weeks back www.broadwayworld.com/westend/arti...)

The longer I am on hinge the more firmly I believe that the male loneliness epidemic is self-imposed. Like, what do you mean it doesn't come naturally to you to ask me one question after I asked you two consecutive ones? All it takes is "you?" FML fr

Just out of Burlesque and I feel like I need a cleanse.

I can't remember the last time I five-starred a musical.

I've been having this thought recently that you could apply the dead internet theory to commercial theatre to some extent with a lot of caveats. Might need to write about this at some point but I'm consumed by other stuff atm.

This is a good one.

👻👻👻 but fully here for an Ethel Cain summer.

Here we go again. Did I con myself into buying merch? Maybe.

Visit one of two this week (very random coincidence, even though I *finally* physically started writing my dissertation after a month of straight research).

Regularly, the theatre community gets a topic everybody feels the burning need to speak about, regardless of how educated the individuals are about it, simply bc it's the cool thing. Recent examples? The balcony scene, West End live. Two more days of the latter, then we move on.

I'm nearly done with We Were Liars and I have thoughts. 1) I don't remember the book being so boring and slow; 2) some parts are either written by AI or by picking cliché lines nobody would ever say out of a jar; 3) a few nepo babies get away with it bc they're actually good.

What a privilege to see this.

This is cute! A hearty ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ even though I don’t condone its veiled misogyny.

Different crowd today. Stiff and unresponsive.

This was obvs so much fun, so here's a play-by-play report on what happened instead of a review.

THIS

Currently researching caveats so I can still write about it 🤐

A bloody good interview where @mindtheblog.bsky.social grills @mincemeatlive.bsky.social's producer Jon Thoday about their West End ticket pricing.

Really loved this, but it makes you realise that the ecology of theatre relies on intervals to make money at the bar.

Big ouch.

What a joy to receive this 10th anniversary edition early from @portybooks.bsky.social.

👻👻👻 with enormous potential.

How do you know this industry isn't real? Now that my master's is drawing to a close, a series of dramaturgs have come to lead workshops and share their practice. One of the leitmotifs of these conversations is that you're expected to work for free to some degree for a while. ++

Here I am, asking begging praying for a London transfer of John Proctor is the Villain.

This play has the most David Ireland exchange David Ireland has ever written.

This gets a full five, I cried.

Get yourself to Hammersmith!

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This really resonated with me. Pls go.

I'm begging you to stop pitching me plays made with AI. I'm not coming to review any of them.

There you go.

Why are we ruining live theatre?

I unfortunately didn’t like this.

This play! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I couldn't comment live because I was at a 20th anniversary screening of Pride and Prejudice (I cried) but Indhu Rubasingham's first chapter is literally the season of dreams. So exciting.

You know what I find hilarious? "Reviews don't matter" until they do. People weaponise them and use them to their advantage whatever the rating is, mostly with no concern for what they say. It's been an amusing few days.