Accepting that you can’t really pretend Troilus and Cressida is one for theatre noobs, I really enjoyed the Globe’s production, which managed to make it both madder and darker www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Mary Page Marlowe at the Old Vic is a peculiar play that feels like it should have either had 11 different actors playing MPM across its 11 scenes or like, two, but having five with two of them famous and getting more scenes just leaves it feeling quite wonky www.timeout.com/london/news/...

I don’t really get what ‘Tilly Norwood’ is actually supposed to do, like what is a scenario in which it would be deployed in a film, let alone a play

despite a good deal of admiration etc I’ve never really *connected* with a Beatles album before but have for whatever reason been absolutely rinsing Abbey Road this week

the new NT Hamlet is enjoyably scappy but a bit all over the shop and kind of makes me feel nostalgic for the billions of meticulously crafted blockbuster Hamlets we got last decade that seem to have suddenly dried up www.timeout.com/london/theat...

yet again vindication of my theory that there’s no need to go to Broadway because everything good comes over here anyway www.timeout.com/london/news/...

new NT hamlet is 2hr 45min! pathetic!

Sad news about Corsica Studios, which is I believe literally the only club I have been to in the last ten years (but more than once in the last ten years I’ll have you know!), although can’t help but be reasonably optimistic about their actual statement

happy quarter century, DiS, weird to think I was quite heavily involved in years nine to 16 of this

I wrote a piece on the observable phenomenon of extreme Jamie Lloyd cynicism and came to some very clever and insightful conclusions that you will have to click on the article to read

hmmmm - I think the interesting thing about the Oasis tour is actually how little discourse it threw up in the end - the band played the same setlist competently for several months, fans the world over were generally happy with it, the end

Ava Pickett’s Emma at the Rose Kingston got quite ‘mixed’ reviews but I thought it was a hoot, and I thought taking away Emma’s class privilege but replacing it with a toxic cocktail of extreme cleverness and zero emotional intelligence worked really well www.timeout.com/london/theat...

ah interesting that the NYT found a new role for Jesse Green - he is now ‘culture correspondent’, which seems to be broadly in his wheelhouse but sounds like he won’t be doing any reviews www.nytco.com/press/new-ro...

genuinely feel like the question as to whether Sadiq is actually particularly good at running the city is forever destined to be kicked into the long grass by the fact he aggravates all the worst people in the world

I'm sorry the americans have turned against PARACETAMOL?

respect to the weather today for confirming that September 19 is still technically summer

saying this into the void (sic) but the funny thing with Silksong bosses is that even more so than Hollow Knight once you work out how to beat them they suddenly fall apart after killing you 1m times in a row, absolutely slaughtered Widow and that big ant dude when I finally beat them

Simon Stone’s The Lady from the Sea is incredibly Simon Stone-ish, insofar as half of it is searingly intense psychological etc brilliance, and the other half is like a really goofy episode of Made in Chelsea www.timeout.com/london/news/...

possibly you cannot in fact form a new party of the left from a group of random MPs whose only common ground is that they all hate each other

I caught up with Not Your Superwoman at the Bush belatedly and it’s very nice, very Lynette Linton-era Bush, even though she could presumably have made it probably quite a lot glossier and more like her ‘celebrity plays’ elsewhere www.timeout.com/london/theat...

it would be very off brand of me to not love the new Alice Birch play and fortunately the brand remains intact – I loved Romans: A Novel at the Almeida, I'd have been happy if it was five hours long (which you sense it probably could have been) www.timeout.com/london/theat...

look I'm just going to say it: Robert Redford (RIP) was very good in Captain American and the Winter Soldier (2014)

Tim Crouch and Chadwick Boseman in the new Globe season, is an odd sentence to write! www.timeout.com/london/news/...

I enjoyed The Producers at the Menier last year and the cast remain great but the material’s creakiness feels exposed by a transfer to the West End www.timeout.com/london/theat...

a stage version of the classic allegorical 1952 western High Noon sounds like an absolutely batshit idea, but everyone involved in it is really good so let’s just run with it I guess www.timeout.com/london/news/...

I think this looks cool but I just really want to know what the negotiations with the Beckett estate were like – has their intransigence been overstated? Or are they just massive John Wick fans?

tbh I'm not sure charismatically meming your way through what is surely the longest and most boring electoral contest in human history – in order to do a job that isn’t even that important – offers lessons for staying popular while running a country (something Starmer is undoubtedly shit at)

I feel like I said this last time I saw it but does the scam in The Producers actually make any sense? Surely if the show was that successful they could repay all their investors anyway

I honestly went into Cow | Deer at the Royal Court expecting this to be the moment Katie Mitchell finally pushed the whole foley thing too far, and certainly I went on ‘a journey’ w/it, but I’m afraid to say that by the end I was convinced it was really good actually www.timeout.com/london/theat...

I went for a look around the V&A’s David Bowie Centre and here is what I though of the V&A’s David Bowie Centre www.timeout.com/london/news/...

living in south east London massively comes into its own during a tube strike because every day in south east London is like a tube strike

long term followers would no doubt correctly guess that I would be thrilled there’s a new Troubadour Theatre that will apparently be the biggest theatre in all of London, possibly the UK www.timeout.com/london/news/...

Netflix is just quite shit now isn’t it, like 90% garbagey documentaries

I went along to the Traitors Live as somebody who’d barely watched the TV show and basically went because all the cool young people in the office wanted to go… and it was actually incredibly good fun www.timeout.com/london/theat...

my shining-eyed children, imploringly: can you please beat this Silksong boss for us daddy? You can do that can’t you? We believe in you! me: of course boys, anything for my boys [goes to next room, a gunshot is heard]

I think because she is a such a hopelessly broken figure this is maybe teetering on the endearing, although genuinely mind boggling somebody this mad was briefly put in charge of the country

a lot to digest here but I am particularly fascinated by the Lib Dem’s polling massively well with teenagers but suffering an immediate precipitous decline

catching up with an old university challenge where the erroneously said the Andrew Scott Vanya was at the NT!

Anti-Bluesky pieces all have the same basic argument, which is that being surrounded by some of the craziest people on the American left is somehow, going to be more influential on my thinking and thought that being surrounded by racist content from around the English speaking world.

get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions

loved Dead Centre’s Dead Republic at the Royal Court which is… kind of about the Russian occupation of eastern Ukraine, kind of about deafness as allegory, kind of about deafness as reality, kind of about how awesome puppets are, all gorgeously weird www.timeout.com/london/theat...

so is it actually called “Wuthering Heights”? And is that an acknowledgement of sorts

the David Harewood Othello is currently down is as being two hours including the interval, which sounds incredibly suspicious

Born with Teeth at Wyndham’s Theatre is a sort of slash fiction workplace comedy about William Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe and it is absolute trash but entertainingly so www.timeout.com/london/news/...

hypnoboobs - to the rescue!

the final day of the school summer holidays! Astonishing and horrifying to think they were a full week longer last year. Things so desperate that yesterday’s designated activity was getting one child a haircut and today’s is getting the other a haircut

spent the last week in County Durham and the Midlands and there are a lot of flags around let me tell you

I do think the grim truth is that microblogging is just not hugely appealing to normal people in 2025

INTERESTING or not, erstwhile NYT classical music critic Zachary Woolfe seems to have genuinely been reassigned – his profile now says he’s the obituaries editor, which feels like… a pragmatic move to stay on the NYT payroll www.nytimes.com/by/zachary-w...

don't really know to what end you would conceal the fact Trump was dead