Latest blissful @RandyRainbow take-down of #DonaldTrump, set to @DollyParton’s 9 to 5.

A gorgeous start to the day beside the sea at Felpham, West Sussex. It’s even sunny! If I need a reason to keep on living, this is it…. So it’s the perfect antidote to anxiety and despair.

Love this pin-up pic of a past cast of @lesmisofficial, posted by Christian Edwards, formerly @westendproducer, in his professional career.

#Seaside dogs: Fudge (who I met in Felpham)

This week’s theatre reviews by @susannahclapp in @ObsNewReview: Giant at @royalcourt ★★★★★ Roots at @AlmeidaTheatre ★★★★ Look Back in Anger at @AlmeidaTheatre ★★★ theguardian.com/stage/2024/o…

This was Gavin Creel in April, before his cancer diagnosis and death last week. Amazing how fast life can change.

This is astonishing. @realtomfrancis trying to sing the title song of @sunsetblvd as he walks through Shubert Alley in nyc: what an ordeal! Surely he can’t be singing LIVE?

From last night’s cabaret return of #PhilipQuast in his intimate autobiographical show at @CrazyCoqs: he is joined by #MattRawle in a thrilling duet of “In Lily’s Eyes” from THE SECRET GARDEN (in which he starred in the Australian and UK premieres of).

Last night I was privileged to see the extraordinary return of my friend #PhilipQuast to the London cabaret stage at @CrazyCoqs, after his recent formal retirement from the theatrical stage. What a privilege to see him at such close quarters. And in such glorious voice, too.

#Seasidedogs: Dillon and Skye.

A lot of musicals are being given a second go-round in one-off concert showings right now, but GHOST IN CONCERT provided a more persuasive case for an underrated show than most. I had a genuinely enjoyable time!

All but one of the terrific cast for GHOST IN CONCERT were entirely off-book, quite an achievement for a single show only, they were thrillingly led by @OliverTompsett & @luciejones1 as Sam & Molly, their gleaming rock-star voices matched by the sincerity of their acting.

Last night’s one-off performance of GHOST IN CONCERT (which originally premiered in the West End in 2011) was less a concert than a blueprint for how to stage the show on a more intimate scale. Though I missed the seamless magic illusions of @paulkieve, everything else was there.

Continuing a new occasional series, from my visits to the West Sussex coast: #SeasideDogs. 4) Apollo

Continuing a new occasional series, from my visits to the West Sussex coast: #SeasideDogs. 3) Rosie.

This week’s theatre reviews in @ObsNewReview by @susannahclapp: Waiting for Godot at @TRH_London ★★★★ Coriolanus at @NationalTheatre ★★★ A Face in the Crowd at @youngvictheatre ★★ theguardian.com/stage/2024/s…

This is simply magnificent: a host of Broadway’s finest — Inc @OfficialSting, @Lin_Manuel Miranda, @LizGoesOn, @RealKateBaldwin, @bstokesmitchell & more join forces with @AaronLazar to support him in his ALS diagnosis, singing a rousing “Impossible Dream”. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-c0_Xe…

Farewell to #MaggieSmith, who has died, aged 89. I’m presenting her the Critics’ Circle 2015 Award for Services to the arts, which she accepted at an event in April 2016. @guardian news story: theguardian.com/film/2024/se…

When my current depression passes, I will be forever indebted to the calm and serenity provided by our regular visits to the seaside at Goring-by-sea. I am so lucky to live just 25 minutes from here.

Love this pic of Jamie Parker @DickLeFenwick photographing the audience at last night’s final performance of @NextToNormalUK!