Theatre critics starter pack
Theatre critics & journalists. Mostly UK. Some dance critics too.
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@mrdavidjays.bsky.social
@patricianicol.bsky.social
UK journalist. Radio and podcast critic, Sunday Times. S.E London https://linktr.ee/patriciaNicol
@comaweng.bsky.social
Reviewer for LondonTheatre1 since 2014. Office manager at American International Church rehearsal rooms. Loves wine.
@cindymarcolina.bsky.social
Theatre critic + other things Member of the Critics' Circle (Drama) MA Dramaturg-to-be I only talk about theatre and Taylor Swift - 💌 cindymarcolina@gmail.com 👩🏻💻 https://linktr.ee/CindyMarcolina
@laurack.bsky.social
dramaturg, awards judge, theatre critic/editor, director, occasional producer 🎭 teacher/tutor/lecturer/coach with a PhD👩🏻🎓 angry about white supremacist heteropatriarchal capitalism✊🏻 neurodivergent London-based immigrant🌎 own views
@honourbayes.bsky.social
I write. Adventure, poetry and increasingly theatre again? Watch this space 🎭
@helenjerome.bsky.social
writing. football - women’s and men’s. theatre. music. film. telly. books. comedy. food. cider. opera. all with a passion. carpe diem
@philipoltermann.bsky.social
Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. My book The Stasi Poetry Circle (Faber & Faber) is out now
@katiejohannak.bsky.social
she/her | theatre marketing girly | award-winning critic 💐🪩🌈 @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
Bride of Art. Presenter: Front Row BBC Radio 4, Newswatch BBC1, Art of Persia BBC4, Broadcasting Press Guild Audio Presenter of the Year 2020. Sarf Londoner, spiritual Berliner,ex-Los Angelena https://samiraahmed.blog/
@ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social
Writer of scripts, theatre reviewer for WhatsOnStage, Musicals Magazine and my ajhlovestheatre blog. Critics Circle member. Runs a lot, eats a lot, over enthusiastic. https://ajhlovestheatre.org/blog/
@hamzajahanzeb.bsky.social
🪅: Personal account 📍: Kew, England 🇬🇧🇵🇰☪️🏳️🌈 🎭 : Writer #WestEnd #Broadway 📖 : Authenticity (née Sensitivity) Reader 🏆 : UK CWA Judge 🔗 : hamzajahanzeb.co.uk ✍️ : hamzajahanzeb.substack.com
@katemaltby.bsky.social
weekly at the i newspaper (news column) monthly at Prospect & at The Stage (on theatre) often at FT & Observer (books, culture) also Deputy Chair, Index on Censorship; Co-Chair, Critics' Circle (Drama); Senior Research Associate, Jesus College, Cambridge
@matt-barton.bsky.social
Grumpy. Heartthrob. Critic in WhatsOnStage / Financial Times / The Observer / Mill Media / Exeunt
@theobosanquet.bsky.social
Freelance writer, mainly about theatre, and UK editor of Backstage.com. https://linktr.ee/theobosanquet
@hollyomahony.bsky.social
.Daytime writer/editor for Backstage, StarNow and Mandy .Nighttime theatre critic, mainly for The Stage . Sometime writer of cringey first-person essays that may or may not be found in publications like Vogue
@hollywilliams.bsky.social
Author, critic, journalist. The Start of Something and What Time is Love? published by Orion. Editor of Exeunt @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social.
@traceysinclair.bsky.social
Storyteller in words and threads. Theatre critic. Author. Northern.
@anyaryan.bsky.social
Culture journalist and critic. Writes about comedy/theatre/gossip (and more).
@fionalondonarts.bsky.social
As I am the i Paper's theatre critic, I am probably in the theatre. Or the garden. For all queries, please contact Alice the cat.
@timbano.bsky.social
Arts journalist and audio producer. Read me in The Standard, Independent, FT, The Stage and other places. Listen on BBC Radio 4. Contact me at timbano.com
@fergusmorgan.bsky.social
Theatre journalist and critic. Scotland correspondent for The Stage. Words in FT, Standard, Scotsman and elsewhere. The Crush Bar on Substack: thecrushbar.substack.com
@joycemcm.bsky.social
Theatre critic, social and political columnist, campaigner for democracy and human rights, based in beautiful Edinburgh, Scotland.
@liamodell.com
Award-winning Deaf and disabled journalist | Author of ‘Selling Out the Spectrum’ (2024) 📖 | Theatre critic | Views my own. Website 🔗: liamodell.com
@markffisher.bsky.social
Guardian theatre critic and presenter of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast https://www.xtclimelight.com/ All kinds of stuff here: https://linktr.ee/markffisher
@helenshaw.bsky.social
Writing about theater for the New Yorker. Tell me if you’ve seen something good!
@eggsbened.bsky.social
Cultural talk and typing. And singing. Biographer of Stephen Sondheim. Variety, London theatre critic. The Stage, Associate writer. Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers. Somewhat gay.
@feldmanadam.bsky.social
Time Out New York theater editor and critic, Drama Critics' Circle president, recalcitrant humanist, wiseacre. Be gentle.
@danrebellato.bsky.social
World-renowned playwright and exotic dancer. http://www.danrebellato.co.uk
@starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare; editing (2GV for Arden), introducing (R&J for Cambridge), writing (Textile Shakespeare, forthcoming from Oxford UP Nov 2025!) Teaching in Cambridge (Catz). Kiwi.
@drpetekirwan.bsky.social
Performance, theatre reviewing, early modern drama, film watching, editing, cat wrangling, immigrating. General Editor at Shakespeare Bulletin; professing at Mary Baldwin Uni. He/him
@exeuntmagazine.bsky.social
Longform, thoughtful coverage of the UK's theatre landscape. Find us at exeuntmagazine.substack.com
@illuminations.bsky.social
Media producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art Images: Man w the Flower, ‘30 / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
@alexandracoghlan.bsky.social
Classical music journalist. Author, Carols From King's, Ebury, 2016.
@mrlukowski.bsky.social
Polish Brummie, Time Out London theatre editor and kids person
@alicesaville.bsky.social
A surfeit of opinions. Theatre critic for The Independent. Words in Exeunt, FT, The Observer, Time Out & more. Commission me: alice.n.saville@gmail.com
@sarahhemm.bsky.social
Theatre, politics and football mostly. I write about theatre (not football!) for the Financial Times.
@mrdavidjays.bsky.social
Writer and editor on theatre, dance. Guardian, London Standard, Dance Gazette, Why Dance Matters podcast.