Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Yes, Richard II Bridge Theatre has a magnificent cast, but this historical family tree company list is absolute genius. Every Shakespeare production should do this moving forward. 👌🏼

C.S. Lewis died on November 22nd, 1963. #OTD After the death of his friend, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote: "So far I have felt the normal feelings of a man my age — like an old tree that is losing all its leaves one by one: this feels like an axe-blow near the roots."

The way Denzel Washington, during the Gladiator press run, is telling every person who’ll listen that a milestone career like his starts with working on stage and in theater—it’s just the most beautiful thing.

uk theatre I am begging you instead of investing in AI BLOODY INVEST IN YOUR CREATIVES JESUS CHRIST 😅 I swear AI is something middle aged people and people with no imagination think is gonna save cinema and stage. It won't, it'll just fuck the environment. Stop being dumb.

honestly I think saying that classic literature like Shakespeare or Chaucer is inaccessible just creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's a bigotry of low-expectations. Oh, you're a working-class kid? You can't possibly understand Pilgrim's Progress. Stick to Love Island, ok?

please stop babying broadway performers. the tickets are hellishly expensive, there’s ton of performers who would fight til their last breath to have a role on those stages, and each one of us knows that even if you play ONE role you must know basically all the lines of the show.

Theatres across London’s West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7pm on Tuesday 21 January in remembrance of renowned British stage and screen actress Dame Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, who died earlier this week at the age of 95.

it’s about the fact that you’re destroying the planet, trying to put millions of people out of work, making the internet unusable, and turning all culture into slop. hope this helps!

1/ This is breath taking. One of the responsibilities of the assisted suicide committee is to consider safeguards against domestic abuse and exploitation of the elderly. Diane Abbot's reasonable amendment asking for this has just been voted down. This is outrageous.

Musical Theatre world! I need a pianist for a gig on Thursday Evening in Manchester, £500 for 3 hours. You’ll be sent the music before, all classics. Please share! Help 😩😩😩

Breaking: man hasn’t heard enough fantasy titles to notice that they largely follow the “a bowl of Mac and cheese” format, not only AGOFAI

Celebrities are dressing up as books and you can't change our mind... Presenting, the 2025 #BAFTAs #LookstoBooks! ✨ First up, Saoirse Ronan with Les Misérables and David Tennant with Stephanie Garber's Spectacular 🖤

This before turning 30 is crazy btw

my parents coming into my childhood bedroom

In honor of international women's day, let's take a moment to remember the most famous statistician in history. You've definitely heard of her, but you probably have no idea she was a statistician. It's Florence Nightingale.

This shook me. Gareth Southgate hits the nail on the head. Not just affecting men. It’s consumerism, capitalism, a wafer thing superficial culture which says looks, fame and money are the only things that matters. Things are broken. We need radical change in almost every area.

Quite simply legendary behaviour from our David

“Chatbots are going to render books obsolete” is an amazingly dumb take because the information they give you was illegally trained on millions of books. Gullible people see these bots as omniscient gods when they are plagiarism machines. They can’t think, they can only steal.