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This week's plays have involved so many horrifically creative stage weapons- a stiletto heel, Bible pages, electric cattle prod, bath tub - and the only lasting impact on my desensitised psyche is that the "stupid deaths" song from Horrible Histories is stuck in my head. Uh oh.

It's true, I'm far from immune to the gory lure of a pristine white set that ends up splattered with crimson independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

First two star review in forever - really wanted to enjoy this one but bizarrely for a feminist reimagining, it had less insight into gendered violence than the original independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

It really is 10/10 catting to settle in for a luxurious nap on the dry-clean-only dress I laid out minutes before, no notes

Went to a fancy Everyman cinema for Timesplitter and didn't regret it - what a gorgeous, unclassifiable tale of limerance and metamorphosis, lavish and silly as a Kate Bush music video

Oh it's so nice to see Time Out (briefly) back in print - and even nicer to see my lovely wife acting as Paddington's second-in-command to make it happen

Sharon D Clarke: ‘When I first started being seen for TV roles it was just endless nurses’ theguardian.com/culture/2024/o…

Mr Loverman is such a moving, warm, intense look at hidden gay lives - I loved chatting to Sharon D Clarke about it (and its polar opposite, her forthcoming Lady Bracknell)

Please can the builder who wrote this do all future south london signs eg "mind your manners" (nightbus) & "you'll catch your death" (for the coatless queue outside Venue)

This is so awful & part of a culture of making artists shoulder financial risk. Even if they legally can't release the money, Fringe Society should make a stand eg by guaranteeing artists get box office by the end of Sept, and removing venues who don't comply from the programme

Instead of interval ice creams, can't we have... interval Cornish pasties?

My inbox is full of invites to the "premieres" of Christmas adverts, I feel like we need an old school Vice piece where someone gets tanked on mulled wine and scented candle fumes & shambles through them all like a festive Hunter S Thompson

"The critical conversation around theatre is at risk of going quiet, just when we need it the most" The first instalment of a relaunched Exeunt is out, feat an intro by new editor Holly Williams, and a dialogue on the state of criticism by Natasha Tripney and Alice Saville