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Diary of a Theatre Addict: Being Forced to Take a Break by Disclocating My New Hip

Mark ShentonWednesday December 2Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the dayLeave a Comment

I’m being forced to take a theatre break thanks to disclocating my brand-new hip! But perhaps I can finally catch up some movies and TV series…..

Diary of a Theatre Addict: A week in New York, Some Magic, and a New Hip

Mark ShentonSunday November 22Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the dayLeave a Comment

London hits transfer to New York, and I come back from NYC to a hip replacement.

Diary of a Theatre Addict: Ten Crazed Days (and Nights) Before I Go Away Again

Mark ShentonSunday November 8Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the dayLeave a Comment

I’ve had ten days in London between a holiday in Gran Canaria and heading to New York — and have been to fifteen shows. But I’m finally giving up on going to live concerts.

Diary of a theatre addict: from a pool in Gran Canaria, a sense of perspective, at last

Mark ShentonSaturday October 24Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the dayLeave a Comment

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Diary of a Theatre Addict: From New York to England, Wales and Scotland in a Seven-Day Period

Mark ShentonWednesday October 14Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the day1 Comment

I began a busy week in New York and then was in England, Wales and Scotland – only Ireland eluded me.

Diary of a Theatre Addict: Officiating at a New York wedding (and catching some shows while I was there!)

Mark ShentonTuesday October 6Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the dayLeave a Comment

My theatre addiction still saw me seeing 7 shows in New York last week – but it all faded into insignificance next to the show I presided over: the wedding of my friends Dana P Rowe and Andrew Scharf!

Diary of a Theatre Addict: Starring with a cast of 500 Supporting Actors, and Two Trips to Yorkshire (with a day in London inbetween)

Mark ShentonSunday September 27Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the dayLeave a Comment

You Me Bum Bum Train isn’t exactly a train journey, but it provided the ride of my life; I also made two separate train journeys to Yorkshire that provided musical and comic diversions of their own.

Diary of a theatre addict: Robert Lindsay and I make up, but I fall out with Harvey Fierstein in another busy week

Mark ShentonSunday September 20Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the dayLeave a Comment

I make up with Robert Lindsay and meet with the wonderful Mark Rylance, but I have more mixed emotions about Harvey Fierstein, even as I’ve seen three shows connected to him in the space of six days.

Diary of a Theatre Addict: Finding myself centrestage at my public birthday party

Mark ShentonSunday September 13Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the dayLeave a Comment

This week I had another birthday — but it wasn’t any birthday: Scott Alan threw a public birthday bash for me. And it was the best of my life!

Diary of a Theatre Addict: Returning twice over to two Shows in the same week, plus other reprises

Mark ShentonSunday September 6Include in homepage slide?, Thought of the dayLeave a Comment

I did a week full of repeats of shows I’ve seen before – two of which I repeated again in the self-same week. (And one of them I even saw twice in less than 24 hours!)

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