Yesterday, I told you about what's been happening with my father, who slipped into an extended Delirium following knee replacement surgery. For the family, seeing a loved one in Delirium can…
(Preface: After a two-week, medically-necessitated hiatus, I’m able to resume my learning blog challenge – with a serious topic. I urge you to read this one, especially if you ha…
The follow-up family call came last night so this morning I'm at Heathrow waiting for my flight to Huntsville, Alabama via Washington DC. (In case you ever wondered, there are no direct flig…
The plan today was to tell you what I've learned about Morse Code… Then this morning, I woke up to a clutch of worrying texts from my family back in the States. What was meant to be a rout…
Having just posted about St Paul’s Cathedral, it may seem a little odd to immediately follow up with an apparently “anti-church” blog, but I did warn you that my topics, an…
The Book of Mormon now has two major contenders for the title of funniest musical in London. But why just coronate one?! Let's go ahead and give them all crowns (or tiaras, if they prefer). …
I've lived in London for more than 20 years and there are still whole areas I've never heard of, let alone been to. Once you factor in the sheer magnitude of things I don't know about London…
There are two universal truths about modern life (in fact there are more than two, but these are the ones relevant to what I'm going to tell you): Everyone is busy Everyone receives too many…
I hate reviewing. There, I said it. Years ago, I reviewed very regularly, and became a member of the Critics' Circle as a result. But the truth is I've always hated doing it. And, the more y…
Today I learned something incredibly important if you've just set yourself a public challenge of blogging daily on a particular theme: in WordPress, if you pre-schedule a post to go live at …
It may be foolish to launch on April Fool's Day, but please reserve judgment until the 31st. For the month of April 2014, I've set myself a challenge: to learn something new every day. The s…
Before we were so rudely interrupted by the weekend and my boyfriend Peter's demands (schlockily entertaining by the way, even while having to wear 3D glasses), I was recapping "The Month…
What an odd feeling not to be able to write or shout about theatre – or indeed see much theatre – for more than a month, which was the unfortunate situation I found myself in ove…
I came home from the opening night of Headlong's 1984 at the Almeida Theatre in a foul mood. It's a brilliant production and a slick adaptation by Robert Icke (@robertwicke) and Duncan Macmi…
Two things kept coming to mind as I watched The Mistress Contract at the Royal Court. The two-hander, starring Saskia Reeves and Danny Webb, is based on a memoir, authored by the anonymous S…
Every subsidised theatre, as well as PR and social media savvy commercial producers, has an audience development agenda. Though the idea, of course, is to make theatre accessible to all, inc…
I’m a sucker for a good infographic so, in writing about old vs young audiences in my blog about Home Sweet Home, I couldn’t resist dusting off this Ticketmaster infographic from…
When a loved actor dies, those of us in the business mourn the person as well as the future performances that we'll now never see. And we reflect on past performances and, if you're a journa…
I am late to the blogging game. Well, sort of. I have written columns and occasional editor's blogs " not to mention countless news, interviews, features and other articles " in previous onl…