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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A friend’s colander is working very well for eclipse-watching.

View of the eclipse as seen via a colander in London Fields

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It was a real treat to see Cole Escola in Oh, Mary! tonight.

Some of the front of the Trafalgar Theatre on 11 August 2026, with artwork for Cole Escola in Oh, Mary!

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Very pleased to have done the 4 km swim at Swim Rutland this morning. The setting is beautiful (here’s a photo that I took of some of it yesterday evening), it was organised really well, and it was the right kind of challenge. And it meant a weekend in the country!

Rutland Water as seen from its north shore on 1 August 2026, with some of the Swim Rutland buoys visible to the left of the photo.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’m really glad to have been a part of London Trans+ Pride again today, with good friends (and so many thousands of people overall).

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Last night’s Edinburgh preview of the new @awkwardprods.co.uk show Linus Karp Was Hit With An Umbrella was outstanding. The show is both serious and fun, with a lovely mix of vulnerability, strength and humour. It’s well worth seeing at the Fringe.

Photo of a card with artwork for the show Linus Karp Was Hit With An Umbrella, including a picture of Linus Karp with a Soho street in the background

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Pride really was wonderful. I’m so glad finally to have seen it today.

Large sign saying “PRIDE a new musical based on the hit film” on the exterior wall of the National Theatre in London, next to the entrance to the Dorfman Theatre.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

VERY excited to have picked up a hard-copy @edfringe.bsky.social programme today, Thank you, @sohotheatre.bsky.social! (Yes, the cover has a slight tear.) It’s very big this year, but I look forward to digesting it. My first 16 shows are already booked. Any recommendations/ shows to promote?

Photo of the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme, with a bit of Soho Square in the background.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

After a few near misses over the years, I finally caught Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats tonight. I’m very glad that I did.

Photo of the playtext for Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats, showing the title, credits, and a photo of a dog wearing a pirate hat.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We still have space at Show Off! this Friday night (at The Square Pig in Holborn, central London). Doors open at 18:45 and there will be live music (with one break from 19:30 to 23:00). There will be air conditioning, and plenty of lovers of musical theatre. Join us? More info in bio.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The High Life last night was such a delight: the show is fantastic and the energy levels on stage and in the audience were top-notch. The journey to Glasgow was definitely worthwhile.

Poster for The High Life outside the King’s Theatre in Glasgow on 16 May 2026

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind was great tonight. It is well worth a visit.

Artwork for The Boy Who Harmessed the Wind outside @sohoplace on 11 May 2026

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It was an absolutely gorgeous day for my first open-water swim of the season.

The West Reservoir in Stoke Newington on the afternoon of 2 May 2026

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It’s not often that material from a show one night contains the answer to a question in a quiz the following night. So thank you Ed Gamble!

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Great to see Copenhagen tonight, around 25 years after my first (and only other) viewing. It’s well worth seeing.

Artwork for the play Copenhagen, at the Hampstead Theatre in London

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Unsurprisingly, John Proctor is the Villain was absolutely brilliant tonight.

View of the Royal Court from in front of the theatre, with JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN BY KIMBERLY BELFLOWER in red neon lights above the name of the theatre

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It was really exciting to see American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre on Monday night. Excellent show.

Artwork for American Psycho inside the lobby of the Almeida Theatre in Islington

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

5 classes you took in university: Existentialism Goethe & Romanticism Social Psychology Conflict of Laws Psychiatry and the Law (A confusing mix? Maybe.)

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My fifth show of 2026 involved a bit of a field trip - but it was well worth it. I’m glad - finally - to have caught The Last Ship, in a new production.

Artwork for the musical The Last Ship, including a picture of Sting, at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It’s very normal to run out to the supermarket just for toilet roll and ice cream, right?

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I saw more than 100 shows in 2025. There was a lot more comedy this year, but also lots of musical theatre, roughly matched by plays, and quite a few shows that defied categorisation. Seeing them all has made my life much richer, and I hope that it has also helped to inspire me to create in 2026.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Why, in 2025, are opticians separating frames by gender in their displays?

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

If you had told me that I would see shows in three different London theatres in 2025 in which the principal performer would crowd surf, I would have been very surprised. But here we are - and all three shows have been fantastic.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It has been really lovely to have Show Off! back up and running again - and especially brilliant to be reunited with so many lovely people. One more to go this year - on 14 November- and then, with any luck, several more in 2026. Here: Matthew Gent, Robert Hazle and Tasha Sheridan on 26 September.

Matthew Gent, Robert Hazle and Tasha Sheridan at Show Off! on 26 September 2025

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I finally saw Ohio tonight, at the Young Vic. It was brilliant. It’s well worth a visit.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It’s tonight! Very excited to be bringing Show Off! back (again) - and also quite conscious that it is going to be a very busy day.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Songs For A New World tonight was fantastic!

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Tonight’s show was Every Brilliant Thing, with Sue Perkins. It was fantastic.

Photo of the electronic billboard for Sue Perkins in Every Brilliant Thing over the entrance to @sohoplace in central London.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Some exciting professional news: Show Off! is returning in September! Matthew Gent and Tasha Sheridan will be co-hosting, with Robert Hazle at the piano. I will undoubtedly mention this again between now and then:)

Image for the 26 September 2025 Show Off! night, marking a return from a hiatus.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Normal levels of theatre activity will resume next week - and there is certainly a daunting mountain of admin to be handled in the meantime - but it has been very strange going from the wonderful overstimulation of the Fringe to a very quiet and largely theatre-free late summer week in London.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I made it back to the Edinburgh Fringe this year as a punter, seeing 25 shows in 3 1/2 days last week. I absolutely loved it, despite the exhaustion that came with it.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The summer fun is largely over now. The coming weeks and months are likely to be action-packed, with plenty of cause for anxiety, but I’m also looking forward to lots of things. I will likely be a bit more present here going forward.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The weather was mixed, but it was nevertheless great to fit in a swim at the West Reservoir today.

The West Reservoir in NE London on 20 July 2025

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It was great to be dancing with friends at the Rivoli again tonight, for the first time in far too long.

The Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park on the evening of 19 July 2025

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It's Independent Bookshop Week. Ways you can support them: -Don't browse a little bookshop, make a mental note of titles, then get them on Amazon. Buy the books then and there! Dare you! -Get them to order books in, they almost always can. -Just march in and present them with a huge bag of money.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

It was a fun first day of Might Hoopla. @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social’s fabulous outfit was popular!

Photo of some of the crowd at a stage at Mighty Hoopla 2025, with the back of a person in a silver sequined jumpsuit filling much of the frame.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

So glad to have seen The Ballad of Wallis Island last night. It is a lovely film.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Saw Meow Meow tonight - for the first time in a while but very much not for the first time - at @sohotheatre.bsky.social. The show was utterly brilliant. I highly recommend it.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Thoroughly enjoyed my first swim at the West Reservoir of 2025

View of the West Reservoir in Stoke Newington (London, UK), which offers open-water swimming.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Fifteen years ago right about now, on Saturday 6 March 2010, the first ever Show Off! night was in full swing. It was an exciting, exhilarating night at Koha with a great crowd.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’m sad that Why Am I So Single? has ended so soon, but really glad that I got to be there today for the final performances. It is an extraordinary show, and it was an extraordinary production - and today was really special.

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A couple of weeks into 2025 and the shows are becoming a bit more serious, which is not a bad thing. Tonight’s was @ivograham.bsky.social’s Carousel at the @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social. It was fantastic.

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 11/12/2024

Hello hello - calling my trans and NB folks and related allies. I'm writing an explainer on puberty blockers. If you or someone you love has used them and found them helpful, would you like to drop me a line at kat.brown@inews.co.uk? #journorequest

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It was great to be back at the Rivoli Ballroom last night for Charles’s Jukebox. It’s a real treat to let loose on the dance floor there with so many friends.

Part of the ceiling of the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park on 30 November 2024.

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Hannah Hiles @hannahhiles.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Genuinely shocked at the plans to close the Museum of Cannock Chase and the Prince of Wales Theatre in Cannock, where I lived from 2006-2021. A petition has been launched to try to save them: www.change.org/p/save-the-p... 🎭

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Save The Prince of Wales Theatre, Cannock

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Tonight’s show was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Cameras are actively encouraged at the curtain call, so here we go (though it’s not a great shot). I’m really glad to have seen it.

Curtain call at The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on 25 November 2024

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The Pink Dancers’ Winter Ball tonight was a lot of fun. Great people, great dancing, and some fabulous outfits.

A view of the ceiling of the Great Hall at the Bishopsgate Institute during the Pink Dancers’ Winter Ball on 23 November 2024

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Tonight’s show was Sasha Regan’s production of The Pirates of Penzance at Wilton’s Music Hall - my first time seeing the production since 2012. The cast and MD are fantastic, and it was a lot of fun.

The front door of Wilton’s Music Hall as seen from Graces Alley on the evening of 21 November 2024

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Sue Knox @thisstage.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi! I have just arrived here. I aim to participate a bit more actively very soon :)

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