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Fringe Theatre Awards @fringetheatreaward.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The Fringe Theatre Awards congratulate Simon Bejer (Design), Matthew Kellett and Catrine Kirkman (Performance) and Charles Court Opera (Production) in the Opera Patience Further show information available wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/pat... Please see FTA website #theFTA www.fringetheatreawards.co.uk

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Musical Theatre Review @musicaltheatrer.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

‘As the choir comes together for a final a cappella performance, it does feel like a powerful statement – not just for lesbians, but for all LGBTQ+ people’ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ for The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs at the Kiln Theatre @greatscott.bsky.social musicaltheatrereview.com/the-ministry...

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Musical Theatre Review @musicaltheatrer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

‘It does succeed in bringing the joy… And there’s no point in pooh-poohing a fun musical’ ★ ★ ★ for Lovestuck at Theatre Royal @stratfordeast.com @greatscott.bsky.social musicaltheatrereview.com/lovestuck-a-...

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Musical Theatre Review @musicaltheatrer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

‘The key to This is My Family’s charm is that there’s something universal to recognise in its charms, its squabbles, its in-jokes & its occasionally buried love’ ★★★★ for This is My Family at @swkplay.bsky.social Elephant @greatscott.bsky.social musicaltheatrereview.com/this-is-my-f...

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Musical Theatre Review @musicaltheatrer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

‘Act I is much the strongest part of the show, thanks to both Buckley & McHale’s warm double act & some of the show’s strongest musical numbers’ #Review The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse Borough @greatscott.bsky.social ★ ★ ★ musicaltheatrereview.com/the-frogs-so...

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Musical Theatre Review @musicaltheatrer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

‘The production suddenly mutates into the sort of show that one hopes to see on a West End stage, but rarely does’ #Review Clueless: A New Musical at London’s Trafalgar Theatre @greatscott.bsky.social musicaltheatrereview.com/clueless-a-n...

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Musical Theatre Review @musicaltheatrer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

‘It makes one appreciate the songwriting skills in the musical even more than its original staging did. More than that it reaffirms that there’s something worth treasuring’ ★★★★★ for Why Am I So Single? Original London Cast Recording @greatscott.bsky.social musicaltheatrereview.com/music-review...

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Musical Theatre Review @musicaltheatrer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

‘Mehmet Ergen ensures that it is arguably a closer rendition of Waters’ naughtiness & eclecticism than its more polished predecessor Hairspray’ #Review Cry-Baby, The Musical at the Arcola Theatre @arcolatheatre.bsky.social @greatscott.bsky.social musicaltheatrereview.com/cry-baby-the...

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Musical Theatre Review @musicaltheatrer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

‘There is such a thrill when watching KENREX that one feels it is surely the theatrical event of 2025 to date. It may even be the event of the year’ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ for Kenrex at @swkplay.bsky.social Borough #KENREXtheplay @greatscott.bsky.social musicaltheatrereview.com/kenrex-south...

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Captain America is pretty good, if hampered by the obligation to the third act CGI slugfest. That derails the structure quite a bit. Still, outside that it’s nice to see Eternals acknowledged in the wider MCU at long last.

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

★★★★ Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew, Bush Theatre. “lands some strong punches… it still speaks to, and on behalf of, so many who lost loved ones at the height of the AIDS crisis” www.thereviewshub.com/lavender-hya...

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Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew – Bush Theatre, London - The Reviews Hub

Writer: Coral Wylie Director: Debbie Hannan One of the earliest scenes in Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew causes the heart to sink. Suburban couple Craig and Lorin discuss their non-bina...

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Tonight’s EastEnders is good and all, but with the flashbacks (and reprise of a certain actor playing a young version of a beloved character) one can’t help but feel for the late Jo Warne and her erasure from Easties history

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Musical Theatre Review @musicaltheatrer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

‘Without The Music Mandrew, Flo and Joan would not have been able to write one of the most fun new musicals of the year’ ★ ★ ★ ★ for One Man Musical at the Underbelly Boulevard @greatscott.bsky.social buff.ly/3EeuJ9r

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I know it's of little to no consequence, but in the National Theatre's new "What's on in 2025" booklet I received in the post, it's really frustrating that none of the spears put together for each production tell you which theatre the production will actually be in…

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I know we’re all pretty much Wicked discoursed out by now, but why has nobody mentioned the similarity of Dancing Through Life to the This Morning theme

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I can buy Leo Woodall as the world’s sexiest maths postgrad in Prime Target (Apple TV+), but not that he’d kick Fra Fee out of bed so that he can scribble a couple more formulas. All believability out the window right there.

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We’re now in the arse end of January, so why is #TheArchers STILL banging on about panto?

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Nobody really shares their Wordle efforts any more, but there’s a real sense of pride when the WordleBot can’t solve it and you did.

Screenshot from the WordleBot summary of my effort versus its own. “Comparing Our Solutions: I tried solving it in my own, and you have succeeded where I failed. I did my cap to you. “

Your solution: 4 steps, 45 luck.
My solution: unsolved. 19 luck.

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

★★★★★ for James Joyce’s The Dead, an evening of midwinter choral works by London’s LGBTQ+ classical choir accompanying a reading of the famous short story. If this becomes an annual work, I’ll be returning each time www.thereviewshub.com/james-joyces...

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James Joyce’s The Dead – Wilton’s Music Hall, London - The Reviews Hub

Adaptation and Director: Séamus Rae Musical Director: Jamie Powe James Joyce’s short story The Dead, the final and longest in his anthology Dubliners, was once described by T.S. Eliot as one of the gr...

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Just seen a show that combines a queer choir with a James Joyce short story, and it’s set the bar for what classical music and theatre can deliver in 2025. Full review to be filed, but my heart is full.

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Jake Orr @jakeorr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Looking to work with a Stage Manager and Production Manager for tiata fahodzi’s spring touring plays. It’s a lovely gig going to some great venues across the country. www.tiatafahodzi.com/jobs

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Jobs (All) | tiata fahodzi

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

At work in Friday we had a team exercise at which we each played “two truths and a lie”. Mine were: * Stephen Hawking once ran over my foot with his wheelchair * I was punched in the arm by Judi Dench * I won an award for my blogging I wonder which one is the lie…?

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Obligatory programme-in-front-of-stage shot (don’t worry, that bank of seats is now filling up nicely) #LittleShopOfHorrors

The programme of little Shop of Horrors (book and lyrics Howard Ashman, music Alan Menken) featuring Colin Ryan as Seymour and Georgina Ounorah as Audrey). The programme is held in front of the pre-show stage, upon which are large LCD-style displays with today’s date, 11/01, displayed. Behind that, an empty tier of seats is visible.

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Shouldn't have to say this, but if you are on the front row of the audience at a fringe venue, where the space is so small that you are on the very edge of the performance, please for all that is holy do NOT use the set as a resting place for your wine glass.

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Just home and catching up with #TheTraitors and keep finding myself distracted by how cute Dan is

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The name game! Hamilton Hamilton. Bomilton Banana fanna bohannon Hamilton!

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Given the episodes *after* the live ep will have been in the can long before the result of the public vote, this must surely be one of the silliest publicity stunts ever

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

If you want an excellent film set within the world of a Disney classic, The Lion King 1½ is on Disney+. In cinemas, Mufasa isn’t quite on the same level. boxd.it/8kN2lH

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A ★★★ review of Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)

All the emotional depth and coherence of a direct-to-video sequel. Iii

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

★★ for Higher Ups, Old Red Lion: “in creating a business environment that is so distorted and unbelievable… any possibility of satirising appalling workplace behaviour disappears completely.“ www.thereviewshub.com/higher-ups-o...

Gemma Casey-Kirk as Natasha in a scene from Higher-ups. Photo: Charlie Lyne

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Catching up again with THE FALL GUY (currently on Sky Cinema), which I loved at the cinema and which holds up really well on repeated viewings. The kind of romantic action comedy thriller that we’re repeatedly told Hollywood doesn’t make any more, single-handedly showing why it should never stop.

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt in publicity artwork for the 2024 film The Fall Guy

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Midway through ep2 of Missing You, the latest of Netflix's annual Harlan Coben adaptations (transposed from their original US locations to Britain) and I think this may already be my favourite one yet.

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

As the Garrick has no public WiFi, a petition to replace Why Am I So Single with Why Have I No Signal

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I have definitely chosen the wrong evening to head into the West End for my final theatre show of the year…

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The Holmwood Foundation @theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

IMPORTANT NEW YEARS INFORMATION: If you start listening to Episode One of The Holmwood Foundation at 11:35:39, you will ring in the New Year with Jeremy Larkin yelling "FUCK" inside a phone booth. And isn't that truly what we all deserve this 2025? pod.link/1768238933

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The Holmwood Foundation

The Holmwood Foundation is a Found Footage Horror-Fiction Podcast following Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the mysterious Holmwood Foundation, as th...

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Did a little Keynote thing to break down what I've been up to theatre-wise in 2024. youtu.be/DqBa91bbn3g

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My year in theatre: 2024

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Finishing up S3 of What If…? and really appreciate the wholehearted integration of Kirby dots into the cosmic battle sequences

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

My contributions to this annual round up include praise for both Fangirls and Why Am I So Single?, each finding ways to talk about love in all its forms

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Vengeance Most Fowl was as damn near perfect as one could have hoped. Consistently inventive throughout.

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Parental view of #DoctorWho: “That was good. Didn’t understand a word of it.”

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Enjoying the King's Speech, with its reminder of working royals meeting the public, and no reminders of Prince Andrew meeting the lawyers

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Always fun to watch Only Connect with a team of people you already know are awesome – and then they go on to demonstrate it, too

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I see there’s an “isn’t Strictly great” show on BBC1 right now, that doesn’t seem keen to engage with the recent emergence of rehearsal room malpractice…

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

★★★★ for Le Gateau Chocolat: Musicals Mayhem, Soho Theatre: “delivered with bucketloads of gusto and charisma that often feels more like a late-night revelry than the early-evening experience it is” www.thereviewshub.com/le-gateau-ch...

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Le Gateau Chocolat: Musicals Mayhem – Soho Theatre, London - The Reviews Hub

There’s something joyfully escapist about many a musical theatre show tune. Even when the musical from which it springs has deeper, more troubling meanings, as with Cabaret and its themes of complicit...

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Really enjoyed Dream Productions, the Pixar animated sitcom on Disney+. It's pretty much Inside Out 1½.

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

3/4 of the way through Le Gateau Chocolat’s hour of Musicals Mayhem, he announces thee start of the singalong section. Which must have come as news to the woman behind me who had clearly asssumed it started 45 minutes earlier

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

At the interval of the RSC Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Barbican (day seats ftw) which I am enjoying v v much.

A hand holds the programme for A Midsummer Night’s Dream in front of an empty stage. On the front cover Matthew Baynton (Bottom) stands in front of a floral print, with donkey ears picked out in fairy dust over his head.

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Scott Matthewman @greatscott.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

★★★ from me for The Little Foxes, Young Vic: “Why the need to time shift is unclear, but it certainly doesn’t do anything to enhance the portrayals of back-stabbing and outmanoeuvring… it just makes everything sound like a cheap knock-off of Dallas” www.thereviewshub.com/the-little-f...

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The Little Foxes – Young Vic, London - The Reviews Hub

Writer: Lillian Hellman Director: Lyndsey Turner Lillian Hellman’s 1939 The Little Foxes, centred around the business schemings of three siblings in 1900 Alabama, is not as often revived as other thea...

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