Mark Ludmon
@markludmon.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, editor & ghostwriter, writing on theatre, drinks, bars etc. Theatre studies MA from Central School of Speech & Drama. Early modern literature & history postgrad. Včasih slovensko. 🌈 he/him
Settling down to read what must be the last-ever weekly issue of The Stage before it goes monthly.
End of an era: I remember picking it up from newsagents in the West End when I first starting coming into London to go to the theatre in the 1980s.
#londontheatre #theatre #journalism
End of an era: I remember picking it up from newsagents in the West End when I first starting coming into London to go to the theatre in the 1980s.
#londontheatre #theatre #journalism
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Settling down to read what must be the last-ever weekly issue of The Stage before it goes monthly.
End of an era: I remember picking it up from newsagents in the West End when I first starting coming into London to go to the theatre in the 1980s.
#londontheatre #theatre #journalism
End of an era: I remember picking it up from newsagents in the West End when I first starting coming into London to go to the theatre in the 1980s.
#londontheatre #theatre #journalism
Olivier Py’s new production of Jerry Herman’s La Cage aux Folles at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris is magnifique, with a superb cast led by Laurent Lafitte as Albin/Zaza. Go see it if you can. On ne vit qu’une fois…
It’s in French but with English surtitles.
#paris #lacageauxfolles #jerryherman
It’s in French but with English surtitles.
#paris #lacageauxfolles #jerryherman
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Olivier Py’s new production of Jerry Herman’s La Cage aux Folles at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris is magnifique, with a superb cast led by Laurent Lafitte as Albin/Zaza. Go see it if you can. On ne vit qu’une fois…
It’s in French but with English surtitles.
#paris #lacageauxfolles #jerryherman
It’s in French but with English surtitles.
#paris #lacageauxfolles #jerryherman
I may have forgotten much of my Latin but I can’t help wondering if this plural ending for “alumnus” is deliberately gender-switched or just wrong. It’s about performers with a mix of genders.
(I’m all for anglicising plurals like “stadiums” but “alumnuses” doesn’t work.)
(I’m all for anglicising plurals like “stadiums” but “alumnuses” doesn’t work.)
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I may have forgotten much of my Latin but I can’t help wondering if this plural ending for “alumnus” is deliberately gender-switched or just wrong. It’s about performers with a mix of genders.
(I’m all for anglicising plurals like “stadiums” but “alumnuses” doesn’t work.)
(I’m all for anglicising plurals like “stadiums” but “alumnuses” doesn’t work.)
A bit of a surprise in my top tracks of 2025 on Spotify but guitarist Alexandra Whittingham’s beautiful recordings are my go-to whenever I need to relax.
#SpotifyWrapped
#SpotifyWrapped
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A bit of a surprise in my top tracks of 2025 on Spotify but guitarist Alexandra Whittingham’s beautiful recordings are my go-to whenever I need to relax.
#SpotifyWrapped
#SpotifyWrapped
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Fortunately we have a new Christmas movie out now: Pillion
December 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Fortunately we have a new Christmas movie out now: Pillion
Loved funny & touching new film Pillion, exploring relationship dynamics through BDSM. Interesting Q&A afterwards with Alexander Skarsgård & writer/director Harry Lighton.
#pillionmovie
#pillionmovie
November 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Loved funny & touching new film Pillion, exploring relationship dynamics through BDSM. Interesting Q&A afterwards with Alexander Skarsgård & writer/director Harry Lighton.
#pillionmovie
#pillionmovie
Found time today to visit Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury in Suffolk before a meeting. A fantastic museum and gallery with a mix of contemporary art, including a great Stanley Spencer exhibition on until March, alongside Gainsboroughs & Constables.
#gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer
#gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Found time today to visit Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury in Suffolk before a meeting. A fantastic museum and gallery with a mix of contemporary art, including a great Stanley Spencer exhibition on until March, alongside Gainsboroughs & Constables.
#gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer
#gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer
Enjoyed seeing Noah Baumbach’s film, Jay Kelly, on the big screen with a starry cast led by George Clooney. Despite his character’s flaws, it’s a compelling celebration of films & film-making. The post-screening Q&A with Clooney, Baumbach, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup etc added to the fun.
#JayKelly
#JayKelly
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Enjoyed seeing Noah Baumbach’s film, Jay Kelly, on the big screen with a starry cast led by George Clooney. Despite his character’s flaws, it’s a compelling celebration of films & film-making. The post-screening Q&A with Clooney, Baumbach, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup etc added to the fun.
#JayKelly
#JayKelly
Hey, marketers: it may be a Friday today but Black Friday is NOT “here” yet…
#BlackFriday
#BlackFriday
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hey, marketers: it may be a Friday today but Black Friday is NOT “here” yet…
#BlackFriday
#BlackFriday
Pleased to catch Clarkston in its final week at Trafalgar Theatre: a solid American drama lifted by three very strong performances from Joe Locke, Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville.
#LondonTheatre
#LondonTheatre
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Pleased to catch Clarkston in its final week at Trafalgar Theatre: a solid American drama lifted by three very strong performances from Joe Locke, Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville.
#LondonTheatre
#LondonTheatre
Looking forward to a haunting time at The Weir at the Harold Pinter Theatre
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Looking forward to a haunting time at The Weir at the Harold Pinter Theatre
Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.
Still can’t get my head round the bookshop in Manchester where books are shelved by title, not by author or genre (with no consistency over whether titles starting with “The” come under T or not). I guess it suits browsing but it messed with my head too much!
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Still can’t get my head round the bookshop in Manchester where books are shelved by title, not by author or genre (with no consistency over whether titles starting with “The” come under T or not). I guess it suits browsing but it messed with my head too much!
A great time last night seeing Nick Winston’s wonderfully silly, arch and funny production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Ore Oduba is brilliant as Dr Frankenstein, leading a top-notch cast.
#Manchester #Frankenstein
#Manchester #Frankenstein
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A great time last night seeing Nick Winston’s wonderfully silly, arch and funny production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Ore Oduba is brilliant as Dr Frankenstein, leading a top-notch cast.
#Manchester #Frankenstein
#Manchester #Frankenstein
At Manchester Victoria station and there’s a long queue for Greggs while the Starbucks is virtually deserted.
#Greggs #Manchester
#Greggs #Manchester
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
At Manchester Victoria station and there’s a long queue for Greggs while the Starbucks is virtually deserted.
#Greggs #Manchester
#Greggs #Manchester
Spicing up a grim northern work trip by spending an evening with Young Frankenstein at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre! 👻
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Spicing up a grim northern work trip by spending an evening with Young Frankenstein at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre! 👻
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
@hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein
“Sorry I was a bit late for our meeting but I was distracted by an alpaca chasing a goat”
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“Sorry I was a bit late for our meeting but I was distracted by an alpaca chasing a goat”
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour.
#vauxhall
Riot Women is as glorious as everyone’s been telling me.
#RiotWomen
#RiotWomen
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Riot Women is as glorious as everyone’s been telling me.
#RiotWomen
#RiotWomen
The BBC adaptation of Rónán Hession’s Leonard & Hungry Paul is utterly charming, with a great cast led by Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston & Jamie-Lee O'Donnell. How could I resist the story of a sad socially inadequate ghost writer?
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
October 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The BBC adaptation of Rónán Hession’s Leonard & Hungry Paul is utterly charming, with a great cast led by Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston & Jamie-Lee O'Donnell. How could I resist the story of a sad socially inadequate ghost writer?
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
#LeonardAndHungryPaul
Loving new BBC3 comedy Film Club with a super cast led by Aimee Lou Wood & Nabhaan Rizwan plus Suranne Jones fabulous as mum Suz.
October 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Loving new BBC3 comedy Film Club with a super cast led by Aimee Lou Wood & Nabhaan Rizwan plus Suranne Jones fabulous as mum Suz.
I know I overslept this morning but did I miss something that explains why Google is giving me dates in the Persian calendar?!
October 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I know I overslept this morning but did I miss something that explains why Google is giving me dates in the Persian calendar?!
I appreciate there might be people who admire Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life as a creative work but are there “fans” of what must be the darkest, most depressing book that most of us will ever read?
October 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I appreciate there might be people who admire Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life as a creative work but are there “fans” of what must be the darkest, most depressing book that most of us will ever read?
Visited Quantum Untangled, a fascinating new (free) exhibition at Science Gallery London near London Bridge, featuring artwork inspired by quantum physics. Pictured are installations by Robin Baumgarten and Conrad Shawcross - best observed in person.
#quantumphysics #quantummechanics
#quantumphysics #quantummechanics
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Visited Quantum Untangled, a fascinating new (free) exhibition at Science Gallery London near London Bridge, featuring artwork inspired by quantum physics. Pictured are installations by Robin Baumgarten and Conrad Shawcross - best observed in person.
#quantumphysics #quantummechanics
#quantumphysics #quantummechanics
Fascinating event at Hatchards this evening, with Christopher Stephens talking (with novelist AJ West) about his book, The Light of Day, uncovering a forgotten but key figure in the history of LGBTQ+ rights, Roger Butler.
#lgbt #lgbtbooks @hatchards.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social
#lgbt #lgbtbooks @hatchards.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Fascinating event at Hatchards this evening, with Christopher Stephens talking (with novelist AJ West) about his book, The Light of Day, uncovering a forgotten but key figure in the history of LGBTQ+ rights, Roger Butler.
#lgbt #lgbtbooks @hatchards.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social
#lgbt #lgbtbooks @hatchards.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social