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  • Evening Standard Theatre Awards – my two favourite winners

    My favourite winners from last night's Evening Standard Theatre awards reflect the best of the old and new theatre. seven methods for killing kylie jenner, Royal Court. Photo Helen Murray. First is Andrew Scott's winning performance in Present Laughter. Not only was it such an outstanding and memorable performance deserving of a gong but the…

  • Olivier Awards: The two winners I’m particularly chuffed about

    Flicked on social media this morning to cast my eye over the winners of the Oliver Awards and particular chuffed to see two names on the list. First up was Flesh and Bone which won Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre (basically best fringe production).  I gave it five stars when I saw it for its…

  • 2018 theatre review: Favourite moments from the surreal to the emotional and some awards

    110+ plays and my first visit to the Edinburgh Fringe (15 plays in 6 days), 2018 was quite a year… Magic and memorable moments: Patsy Ferran in My Mum's A Twat, Royal Court. Photo: Helen Murray. Feeling part of the set:  Sitting on a bean bag on the carpet in Patsy Ferran's 'bedroom' for My…

  • 3 London theatre stories that caught my attention this week – and an actor encounter

    1. Exciting casting announcement at the Donmar  One of my favourite films growing up in the 80s was The Goonies so imagine my excitement when learning that Martha 'Stef' Plimpton is going to be starring in the Donmar Warehouse's production of Sweat (previews from Dec 7). The Pulitzer Prize-winning play was written after playwright Lynn…

  • My theatre ‘StOlivier’ awards 2017

    Step aside best actor/actress/play etc this is what was noteworthy for me in theatre land, in 2017. Menagerie award The Ferryman was an award winning play in many way but for me it deserve an extra gong for fur and feathers – a cute little rabbit and a goose both made scene stealing appearances. Babies?…

  • Rev Stan’s StOlivier theatre awards for 2016

    Sam Marks and David Tennant in Richard II for RSC Photo by Richard Termine It was a year in which I trod the boards with Freddie Fox, Ruth Wilson threw flowers at me and Sam Cooke sang to me but these are mere trifles in a stellar year for theatre. So forget expert panels and…

  • That was my year of theatre-going 2015: The StOlivier awards

    There are awards and then there are the StOliviers… I'm only human award: This goes to Ben Whishaw who, during the Iliad live reading, mispronounced a name did a delightful giggle at his mistake before slipping straight back into character and carrying on. You can see the reading here (roughly 26 mins in for the…

  • Rev Stan’s Theatre blog StOlivier awards for 2014

    Champagne photo by Rev Stan It was a year in which I was spat on, splattered with blood and humiliated – the things we audience members have to go through when watching a play. It was also the year of the dog with not one but two scene-stealing canine appearances (Two Gentlemen of Verona and…

  • The highs and lows of 2013 in theatreland, it’s the StOlivier awards

    It's that time of year to recognise, reward or even just acknowledge those special moments from the last 12 months of theatre. First of all some goodbyes. The Old Vic Tunnels closed its doors and the Southwark Playhouse moved from under the arches at London Bridge to temporary space at Elephant Castle, which has a…

  • Probably the most important theatre awards of 2012: The StOliviers

    It's that time again, or rather I have time on hands, so here we go, here are my awards for this year's good and bad behaviour and some of things that stood out (and no that isn't a euphemism for Tom Colley, or maybe it is ;0): The bite the hand that feeds you award:…