You should know I am both a person who decides using your phone as a mini plate for an emergency bit of battenburg, and a person who will only an hour later be surprised that something seems to have happened to my phone screen.

This is such desperately sad news, he was such a devoted advocate for new musicals and for digital theatre. Thinking of his friends and family especially.

There is little fear like the code not working when you have taken a picture and are pretty confident in this being the right locker.

200 grand in savings!! Is he selling illegal war memorabilia by any chance

My dad's writing was once criticised in print by the late Jeffrey and it remains one of the things I am proudest of him for.

This is our book! Written by Sean Mayes and me, it recounts the vital importance of Black practitioners in shaping British musical theatre, and we remain hugely proud of it.

Solidarity in Billy Elliot is an incredible example of how musical theatre story telling can compress stories with incredible economy and imagination.

For the long running followers of adventures with wooden spoons, the British Library soup is so hot it also flattens the not very round spoon. If you see me drinking from a paper soup cup, you didnt.

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I have this sense about the use of the phrase "a quiet X" that it's become a huge red flag, and also "hits differently"

Thank goodness this is wonderful news x

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨