Richard Kind is obviously as great a Max Bialystock as I’d expected. While I’d prefer double the tap dancing stormtroopers than this Menier originated revival has its a big show with big performances that still works all these years later

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is one of the best new musicals I have seen in a very long time. Mark Addy and Jenna Russell perfectly leading a company full of life, joy and a lot of other feelings. Go see before it closes next weekend

also only AJC is just a treat as Aurora. It’s a role perfectly tailored to her many talents. Brava all round to full company in a powerful intimate revival

it’s also headed to Southampton then Bristol. And well worth your time. The perfect example of how musical theatre is the perfect format to deliver wildly clashing tones

Run up to Leicester to see Anna Jane Casey in Kiss of the Spiderwoman. For me it’s Kander & Ebb’s finest work with gorgeous music and sharp writing from Terrence McNally. Brutal and timely work by her two leading men offering different perspectives of finding dignity in the darkest of places.

it was of an era when genre was still looked down upon as not capable of prestige TV but I think would get more credit today if the people looked past the title. Still felt radical viewing for a US network peak 9/11 era

Rewatched it all last year and was struck by how it holds up & the ending (epilogue is whatever) always worked for me but is clearly set up from the start

and yes the best song is the Schmuel Song for its exceptional pay off

yeah that was perfect. Like finding the show again 24 years after first obsessing over the album and finding it too helpful during my own heartbreak. No one really does it like Rachel Zegler but first time seeing Ben Platt since DEH pre Tony

I mean yes of course I’m at the Palladium for The Last Five Years with Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt.

Thoroughly enjoyed the revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Lesley Manville at the NT. I hear Marianne Elliot likes to stage with a bold light feature

The visa / ilr changes are abhorrent full stop but she is actually making it harder for those delivering social care? What planet is the Home Secretary on? And why should any Labour MP support rewriting the rules for people part of our society & making a difference?

so many important steps across Government drowned out by failing key industries & the economic and moral harm of immigration policy

I have deep and profound disagreement with this Labour government but on what planet is Sharon Graham residing to claim it’s not backed workers?

I guess that’s one way to try and kick start her failing campaign

Barbara Cook’s live album Better with a Band really improves a late commute home

If you saw Stereophonic then you loved that and will have to see Eli Gelb as the lead in this opposite a stellar Pearl Chanda and fine support from Nancy Carrol & others in this tight character study of self loathing, shame and psychoanalysis

Jordan Fein’s production of Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass at the Young Vic is an incredible two hours of intense, complex emotions that I highly recommend. It’s a play I’ve not encountered since sixth form & one I couldn’t fully understand then. Impossible to watch without current lens

it’s set before they invaded Ukraine. It’s fine.

I guess you missed his two Olivier winning performances and the Tony

hmmm I did say to a friend they need to watch this cause Bertie Carvel is in the cast and as ever just disappears into a role

Devoid of purpose isn’t a phrase I’d use for the LP but you do you Sharon

Where do you find these people?!

Arcadia at the Old Vic is rather excellent. Beautifully staged by Carrie Cracknell

some of us were educated in a petro oil state overflowing with Barnett consequential and avoided such drudgery

Fascinating to see American Psycho for a third time by the same director in a third new production. Equal parts bleakly hilarious and the most sickening dread. Loved it

He kinda is tho

Can the Guardian ever stop using the term “union boss” in a headline challenge?

Meanwhile their Instagram account is still up and full of supportive comments. Begs the question, why be on Twitter any more in the first place? What audience are you realistically reaching and at what price?

The previous programme was such a success in ensuring grounded trade unionists got elected to parliament and then absconded to form a fringe left party via betrayal