I feel like phone reception in Edinburgh has gone drastically downhill in the last year

there is surely a horrendous prequel to paddington ripe for the making: why did he arrive fron a station that primarily serves the south west? did he have adventures in wiltshire first? Was there a whimsical sea voyage involved?

Just Another Film Nerd@anotherfilmnerd.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pitch your most pointless, dull prequel idea that could potentially be greenlit in this idea-starved world. DIRTY: In which we learn how Harry Callahan earned his nickname.

obviously the first comedy show I saw was the one about theatre critics – I really enjoyed Andrew Doherty’s Reviewers Welcome… TO DIE!, the gleefully lovecraftian expression of a man pettily irritated that his last show got 3* reviews www.timeout.com/edinburgh/co...

Andrew Doherty: Reviewers Welcome... TO DIE!, Pleasance Courtyard review: Doherty’s preposterous supernatural revenge fantasy about his last show getting three-star reviews is a hoot

I don’t think Andrew Doherty actually wishes death upon any theatre critics. He certainly didn’t kill me when I came to see his new show. Still, I do think is h

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A Trial at the Lyceum Theatre: the problem with ACTUALLY putting Thomas Stockmann on trial is that it’s screamingly obvious he’s in the right! Still kind of amazing to see Wagner Moura in person, the man is a dreamboat www.timeout.com/edinburgh/th...

A Trial – after An Enemy of the People, Lyceum Theatre review: Superstar Brazilian actor Wagner Moura elevates this slightly toothless riff on Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People’

Wagner Moura’s recent lead role in the hugely acclaimed Brazilian film The Secret Agent made him the first actor from his country ever to bag a Best Actor Acade

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the EIF’s [seagull] was a hilariously ‘challenging’ way to start my festival and the use of shifting modes of sign language means the pacing is inherently screwed as the first act goes on forever and the final act is wrapped up in 15 mins. But actually quite charming www.timeout.com/edinburgh/th...

[seagull], Studio Theatre review: This experimental sign language take on Chekhov at the Edinburgh International Festival is challenging and charming

It would be silly to deny the fact that this Flemish sign language take on The Seagull is challenging: the steady stream of punters leaving throughout when I

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I think the Q of whether Cats is actually a classic musical or whether it’s a daft novelty that got lucky broke my brain a bit, but I thought Drew McOnie’s revival was classy but not v brave about trying something new a la OAT Evita, JCS and indeed the Jellicle Ball www.timeout.com/london/news/...

‘It’s still just a series of cats singing silly songs!’: Cats at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Review

The biggest musical of the ’80s and ’90s is back in its first ever British revival

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lol

you know what I kind of think fair enough, ‘haven for ethically disenfranchised Twitter addicts’ is not a business model - but what is a business model to grow a *micro blogging* site in 2026?

The Verge@theverge.com · 7d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Dog Man the Musical is a lovably scrappy take on the source material that will surely be incomprehensible to anyone who doesn’t know what Dog Man is (not a problem) but maybe could do with scaling up a bit to fit the Queen Elizabeth Hall www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Dog Man: The Musical, Queen Elizabeth Hall review: This indie musical for kids deftly channels the freewheeling silliness of Dav Pilkey’s graphic novels

To state the obvious: if you’ve no idea who or what Dog Man is, Dog Man the Musical is probably not for you. That’s not a criticism of Dav Pilkey’s wilfully sil

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Trump Baselessly Claims He Is Viral 40-Pound Tabby Cat Named Daddy Cinnamon https://theonion.com/trump-baselessly-claims-he-is-viral-40-pound-tabby-cat-named-daddy-cinnamon/

Now You See Me Live at the London Coliseum is a very enjoyable MAGIC SPECTACULAR that basically has nothing to with the preposterous anticapitalist grunge wizards film trilogy other than presumably Lionsgate was paid a tonne of money for the name www.timeout.com/london/comed...

Now You See Me Live, London Coliseum review: impressive magical spectacular based on the hit films

This family-friendly magical spectacular is very impressive, despite having almost nothing to do with the hit films

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hmmm - Neko Case on, presumably, Glenn Hansard nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?

This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.

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will never not be sad that the pandemic torpedoed the original incarnation of the Boulevard, which was a rich person’s vanity project but a really good one. Not really surprised it’s not proven financially viable as a comedy venue given it was almost designed not to be

muldoon@muldoon.bsky.social · last wk.

This is sad - fantastic building. Always got the impression they didn't have the marketing firepower to sell their Fringe-y programme, and never seemed to attract the big names that would sell out the venue without the need for any marketing www.chortle.co.uk/news/2026/07...

what if boy george actually got AI to make up that song so he could get out of starring in jesus christ superstar, what then www.whatsonstage.com/news/boy-geo...

Boy George withdraws from Jesus Christ Superstar at The London Palladium

The singer was due to perform from next week

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this is a shame but worth saying S1 felt like a perfectly closed story and Ben Kingsley is really old now

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2w ago

'Wonder Man' has been canceled The show is no longer returning for S2 (via Variety)

oh hello UEFA www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.

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this is a hoot!

Robin Wilde@robinwilde.me · 2w ago

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

this may be a very dumb thing to ask but recent-ish (or current) students: What do/did you use your laptop for? I assume for essays and written assignments but anything else?

allowing myself one nerd comment on the MCU blah: presumably some weird time shit will happen in the course of Secret Wars/Doomsday as wasn’t the character like five in Black Panther 2?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Black Panther 3 will be released December 15th, 2028. David Jonsson will star as T'Challa's son in the film.

I saw the film The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan!

I interviewed all of the Strokes together ahead of First Impressions of Earth and Julian was noticeably ahead of the pack, just had amazingly good skin as I recall

Jeremy Dauber@jeremydauber.bsky.social · 2w ago

Random question: what celebrity have you met in real life who was dramatically better looking than ypu thought they were based on on screen appearance?

the most jaw-dropping thing about burlesque for me is the fact the producers can actually be arsed to persist with it when clearly the universe has been sending them a very specific message for a very long time

The Stage@thestage.co.uk · 3w ago

Burlesque the Musical has postponed its first batch of touring performances at Woking Theatre two days before they were set to begin, with a planned run in London also delayed 👇

quite giddy that the school summer holidays mean I had to delegate the trainspotting musical review to @hollyomahony.bsky.social who I would say was very fair about the cast while very clear on why it was a terrible terrible idea

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's no way the Trainspotting musical was ever going to be good. Why would you do this? www.timeout.com/london/news/...

new Donmar season, v psyched for No Man’s Land finally coming around again w these lads www.timeout.com/london/news/...

The Donmar Warehouse has announced its 2026 winter season

A starry Pinter revival plus two other shows make up the influential Covent Garden theatre’s new season

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I spoke to Rebecca Frecknall! About staging Cleansed, leaving the Almeida, being pestered by Paul Mescal, keeping Cabaret running + the Americans hating Cabaret www.timeout.com/london/news/...

‘You can have empathy for anyone’ – director Rebecca Frecknall on staging one of the most extreme plays ever written

The ‘Cabaret’ director bows out of her illustrious career at the Almeida Theatre with a rare revival for Sarah Kane’s shocking ‘Cleansed’

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I’ve spoke to a billion people (about five?) who’ve said they want to see 1536 but the remaining tickets are too expensive so PSA if you can wangle next thu arvo off!

bit late posting this as I am on a trip to THE LONGEST CONTINUOUSLY INHABITED CITY IN EUROPE but…

pricks

sigh