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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 18h

2026 is the year of CATS! Voguing on Broadway AND outdoors in Regents Park. It’s one of my favourite shows, so no complaints here. 😊😻

Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 1d

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TROILUS AND CRESSIDA – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Shakespeare’s tragicomic satire gets a striking but bonkers makeover

Samantha Spiro, photograph by Helen Murray TROILUS AND CRESSIDA by William Shakespeare directed by Owen Horsley Shakespeare’s Globe, London – until 26 October 2025 running time: 2 hours…

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 3d

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MARY PAGE MARLOWE – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Tracy Letts’ unconventional life saga is a feast of glorious acting

Hugh Quarshie and Susan Sarandon, photograph by Manuel Harlan MARY PAGE MARLOWE by Tracy Letts directed by Matthew Warchus The Old Vic, London – until 1 November 2025 running time: 100 minute…

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 6d

Happy 40th birthday to LES MISÉRABLES - it’s significance in musical theatre history can’t be overstated - first saw it at the Barbican on 12th October 1985 and it remains the only time I dreamt all night about the show I’d seen earlier. #lesmis 🇫🇷

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 9d

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BLESSINGS – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – bitter-sweet family drama that harks back to the swinging 60s

Gary Webster and Emily Lane, photograph by Lidia Crisafulli BLESSINGS written and directed by Sarah Shelton Riverside Studios, London – until 26 October 2025 running time: 90 minu…

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 10d

It’s my birthday today but had a scare earlier. Was out running and behind me for about a mile, just in my periphery, there was a figure all in black on a bicycle. I thought it was DEATH. But turns out it was an old man taking it v.slowly on his push bike. Most unsettling. AGE😱

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 14d

Just watched Joshua Henry and Nichelle Lewis devouring ‘Wheels Of A Dream’ from the new #LincolnCenterTheater #Ragtime on Colbert…. Am proper uglycrying. It’s good to let it all out sometimes. Can’t imagine what I’ll be like when I see it in person. Embarrassing probably.

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 14d

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GET DOWN TONIGHT – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – fabulously cast disco jukebox musical is big on tunes but short on script

Ross Harmon and company, photograph by Danny Kaan GET DOWN TONIGHT – The KC and the Sunshine Band Musical book by J F Lawton music and lyrics by Harry Wayne Casey inspired by a true sto…

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 16d

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ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Orton’s vintage black comedy returns in a mixed bag of a production

Tamzin Outhwaite and Jordan Stephens, photograph by Ellie Kurtz ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE by Joe Orton directed by Nadia Fall The Young Vic, London – until 8 November 2025 running time: 2 …

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 19d

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Clarkston with Joe Locke West End review – lacking in scope but brimming with heart

The UK premiere of the Samuel D Hunter play continues until 22 November at the Trafalgar Theatre

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 19d

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50 First Dates musical review – An emotive show that won’t soon be forgotten

The world premiere stage adaptation, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, is running at the Other Palace until 16 November

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 19d

Had to laugh just now when I saw this outside the Aldwych, which is all done up for Elf The Musical. This quote is from my WOS review for the 2022/3 Dominion season, and it was describing leading lady Georgina Castle who isn’t even in it this time round. 😂🥴 strange choice

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 20d

Chomping through a tube of Santa’s secret flavour Pringles and I feel like I am so close to guessing what the flavour is. It’s on the tip of my tongue (literally)…I feel like it’s something I’ve tasted recently. 🤔 I just hope it’s nothing yucky. Hmmmm….

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 25d

This review is mainly for #Sondheim geeks (like me) I guess - NIGHT MUSIC in Oslo

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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – highly unusual Norwegian take on the Sondheim classic but it’s still more treat than threat

Lena Kristin Ellingsen, Kăre Conradi, Mari Maurstad, photograph by Lars Opstad A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim book by Hugh Wheeler Norwegian dramaturg: Olaf Torbjør…

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 25d

Visiting the Ibsen museum in Oslo and it’s pretty hilarious that one of his main motivations to write was the portrait of rival playwright August Strindberg staring down at him from his study wall. It’s kind of nice to see that even great artists can be so human at times.

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 26d

Safe to say that the Norwegian National Theatre version of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC doesn’t look like any other production we’ve seen before - but it’s got some fabulous things in it - more thoughts to follow #sondheim #oslo

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 26d

Currently at MUNCH in Oslo. Never realised he was a dead ringer for John Lithgow. What a scream.

Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 27d

Trying to get the perfect photo from the roof of the Oslo Opera House and this bleeder was NOT moving 😂

to be fair, it does look like he/she is actually singing in this pic. I bet it’s Wagner

Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 27d

Coward’s Fallen Angels is so seldom done but now we’ve got the Menier Chocolate Factory in London producing it this year then Roundabout NYC reopening the refurbished Haïmes with it early 2026. It’s ALOT of fun.

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 28d

That wonderful feeling when you’re boarding a flight, feeling pretty zen, then in the queue behind you a small child starts screeching (not crying, actually screeching and wailing, implacably)…and it’s a pretty small plane…. 🥴 yeah that

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Alun Hood @ajhlovestheatre.bsky.social · 29d

Gotta say, I don’t know what the critics that gave SEAGULL: TRUE STORY only 3 stars were watching 😂 - I thought this was electrifying and wholly delightful. Here’s my review.

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