News
February
As panto season came to an end around the middle of January, we finished all the panto production reviews. You can see them all in out separate ‘Christmas Productions 2024’ issue, which is now in the archive.
We will be producing a separate issue for the Mime London 2025 festival, which used to be called the London International Mime Festival. You can search for these productions in the archive with “MimeLondon 2025”, and it will be included as a separate issue at the end of February.
We are making further changes to the website this month. In doing this work, we have noted some statistics. In Theatre Record, at this point in time, we have covered reviews from 485 theatres, with 709 different venues, and 224 different sub venues. We have covered theatres in 96 towns and cities across the UK.
Enjoy the next issue and, as always, do let me have your suggestions or comments at editor@theatrerecord.com
Wed 01 Jan 2025
January
Happy New Year to you all.
As you'll see we have completed 2024 with a special Christmas issue, which so far has 33 productions reviewed, but there will be more as the pantomime season continues. We will review as many as we can. I'm off to see my local production of Treasure Island later this month. Pantomimes are a cultural phenomenon that weaves their magic through communities across the country. They bring people of all ages and backgrounds together. They bring escape from the everyday and allow us to laugh at ourselves. I shall certainly have a good laugh.
After the panto season is over, Oliver! will open at the Gielgud Theatre on the 14th January and Cymbeline will open at the Globe Theatre on the 22nd. As well as reviewing any productions between now and then, we shall continue to enter the archive.
Thank you as always to all of you for your continued support, and thank you too for all of your suggestions and comments. As always, please keep sending them in to editor@theatrerecord.com
Sun 03 Nov 2024
November
We're starting to enter lots of Christmas productions this month. 'The Red Shoes' opens at the Swan Theatre at Stratford on the 14th, and 'A Christmas Carol' opens at The Old Vic on the 20th, with John Simm playing Scrooge. For many, this represents the start of the Christmas season. I'm looking forward to reading those reviews, and we'll bring you as many reviews of Christmas productions from around the country. As usual, they will be in a separate issue, rounding off TR issues for 2024.
We've also been continuing to enter the archive, and have now entered all of the productions for 1985, making them fully searchable. we're aware that sometimes the search can take a while to load (a problem with old system meets new system) but we're working on that. We'll continue apace.
Thank you as always, to those who have contacted us with pointers and suggestions. We're always grateful, so please continue to do so at
editor@theatrerecord.com