St George’s Day on @NCPR
This week’s #GlobalHeartbeat celebrates the music of England—pastoral, punk, poetic and proudly peculiar.
Featuring the incomparable Half Man Half Biscuit (of course), alongside voices old and new.
Sunday, 9pm ET
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Apparently I saw a LOT of theatre at Edinburgh Fringe in 2025.
In an attempt to better organize my theatre writing, I’ve gathered my reviews here:
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What happens when the masters of political satire grow old and discover the world has moved on without them?
My review of I’m Sorry, Prime Minister at the Apollo Theatre is now up on A Considered Opinion.
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Three weeks from Friday, I’ll take part in the 2026 @WaypointNH SleepOut.
One night outside can’t eradicate youth homelessness — but it’s a way of standing in solidarity and saying: we see you, we hear you, you’re not alone.
If you can, please consider supporting:
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In Broken Glass by Arthur Miller at the Young Vic, history doesn’t stay in the headlines. It enters the marriage. It stiffens the spine.
1938 Brooklyn — yet it feels like Feb 2026.
The personal is political. The political is personal.
The echo is loud.
The fourth wall fell away and, for an hour, we were all locked inside the Coach & Horses with Soho’s most irascible wit.
Robert Bathurst gives a bravura performance in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. Five years into this residency — now one of my favourite theatre traditions.
Sunday Afternoon Tea at The Savoy.
Is it slightly touristy? Yes, perhaps.
Is it absolutely sumptuous? Completely.
Does it need to be done every time we’re in London? Without a shadow of a doubt.
@nationaltheatre.org.uk Playboy of the Western World becomes a study in communal appetite. Legends aren’t discovered — they’re manufactured. As Christy grows in stature, the village sustains the lie for its own ends. The laughter turns sharp. Myth empowers — and devastates.
Deep Azure at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is ritual, resistance, and devastating sorrow. Hip-hop and verse pulse from the human body alone. A “no case to answer” verdict fractures the room. The political becomes painfully personal. No triumph — just truth. #Theatre #DeepAzure
Who counts as “my own”?
All My Sons feels chillingly contemporary — a slow, devastating reckoning about loyalty, profit, and responsibility.
Bryan Cranston dissolves before our eyes.
I’ve never heard an audience so still.
We endured it together.
Woman in Mind shimmers like the edge of an ocular migraine — bright, funny, and quietly fracturing. Sheridan Smith threads absurdity and tragedy with stunning control. The final image lingers.
Barbed. Simmering. Explosive.
Dance of Death at the @OrangeTreeThtr turns marital warfare into something inescapable in the round. Keen, Dillon and Streatfield deliver ferociously precise performances. Dread you don’t watch — you inhabit.
Cynthia Erivo is extraordinary in #Dracula at the Noël Coward — navigating cameras and live cinema with jaw-dropping control. The production sustains relentless kinetic tension, but I missed the breath and stillness gothic needs to truly chill the bones.
Honored to be the Performance Judge at the second NH heat of Poetry Out Loud this evening. There’s nothing quite like hearing young people bring poetry to life. 🎤✨ #PoetryOutLoud
Yes! He’s one of a bunch of musicians making “good trouble” out there…
If I’m honest, this would be fine with me…
This is gloriously bonkers in the best possible way. The concept alone made me laugh & knowing it’s in Andy’s hands gives me full confidence it’ll be sharp, surprising & very funny. Thrilled to have backed it, and very much hoping to be in the audience!
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Radio drama has been described as the “theatre of the mind,” and we listeners have the opportunity to vote for our favorites in the @radiotimes.bsky.social Readers’ Drama Award.
Delighted to see ‘When Maggie Met Larry’ by @thattimwalker.bsky.social in contention!
Tonight’s Global Heartbeat on NCPR is a Robert Burns special — music celebrating Scotland’s national poet and his enduring legacy.
Hope you’ll tune in. 9pm ET.
www.ncpr.org
Heartbroken to hear this news about Martin Carthy, but also immensely grateful for decades of songs, scholarship, and inspiration. Thank you, Martin, for carrying the tradition forward and sharing your gifts so generously. I wish you peace for your next chapter.
I’m sleeping out in March for the @WaypointNH SleepOut — a night to raise awareness of youth homeless.
15,000 young people in NH affected each year.
One night outside to say: you are heard. I would very much welcome your support. No amount too small.
p2p.onecause.com/waypointnhsl...
A favorite part of the new year: the chance to start anew with these old friends.
The same to you and Bruce, love.
This is the first song I listen to every new year’s morning.
“Let the darkest side of the past stay dark, and only good recall. For I must believe the world to be a good world after all.”
Happy New Year.
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“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
T. S. Eliot - Little Gidding - The Four Quartets.
All the best when it comes, folks.
Wherever you are, however you’re celebrating, stay safe and well.
I wish you all the very best for 2026.
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Happy Christmas to all who celebrate.
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It was special, for sure.
Dreams do come true.
