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I got this dashiki from a new brand called Kufre Sodique (@kufresodique on instagram). It's a menswear brand but they've just introduced these cute dashikis for ladies as well!
I've always liked dashikis. I like the ease and the comfort of something so simple to wear casually at home but this one from Kufre Sodique is perfect for an outing.
It's made with high quality wool fabric and features stylish details like the embroidered neckline and a corduroy pocket, all in my favourite colour purple!
I wore mine for a house party with a pair of jeans and my favourite green & purple ankara turban for a pop of colour & print (you know me).
Then for jewelry I added some old wooden hoops I've had for ages to go with the whole African theme of the outfit.
Your danshiki is pretty, just like you.


Made in Sweden this is a Compact Splitting axe, ideal for around the camp. The (approx) 1 3/4LB head is Swedish high carbon Steel, ground especially for splitting wood. Excellent balance and a curved Hicory handle enhance the efficiency of this excellent tool of the woods!
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Próg zwalniający – środek uspokojenia ruchu, w postaci poprzecznej wypukłości na jezdni, mający na celu ograniczenie prędkości pojazdów poruszających się po drodze, na której został zainstalowany. Przejazd przez próg z prędkością większą niż dopuszczalna powoduje podbicie kół samochodu i dyskomfort dla kierowcy i pasażerów, przez co skłania do przejeżdżania przez niego z ograniczoną prędkością, zazwyczaj 20 lub 30 km/h.

Progi zazwyczaj wykonuje się z kostki betonowej, tworzywa sztucznego na bazie PVC, gumy lub mieszanek asfaltowych.

O miejscu na drodze, w którym znajduje się próg zwalniający ostrzega znak A-11a.

Nowoczesne progi zwalniające
Idea progu zwalniającego jest w dalszym ciągu rozwijana. Rozwój skierowany jest głównie na ograniczenie niedogodności dla pojazdów przejeżdżających przez próg z dozwoloną prędkością. Poniżej przedstawiono kilka proponowanych rozwiązań:
 próg z zawiasem w środku i zamontowanym amortyzatorem o tak dobranych parametrach by próg spłaszczał się przy powolnym przejeździe, a pozostawał wypukły przy przejeździe z większą prędkością
 próg ma postać rękawa wypełnionego cieczą, która rozpływa się przy powolnym najeździe pojazdu, a stawia opór przy najeździe z dużą prędkością
 próg ma nawierzchnię elastyczną, która zapada się przy przejeździe ciężkiego pojazdu np. autobusu, a pozostaje na miejscu podczas przejazdu samochodu osobowego. Dzięki temu ogranicza się wibracje, które powstają podczas przejazdu pojazdów ciężkich przez progi zwalniające i zwiększa się komfort pasażerów komunikacji zbiorowej.

Nietypowe progi zwalniające
Poza znanymi powszechnie i przedstawionymi powyżej stosuje się też inne rodzaje progów zwalniających.

 Pinezka – to próg stosowany na skrzyżowaniach, ma postać okrągłej wypukłości na środku skrzyżowania o średnicy tak dobranej by przejazd przez skrzyżowanie odbywał się częściowo przez próg. Skrzyżowanie z progiem typu pinezka jest bardzo podobne do minironda, lecz różni się od niego tym, że nie obowiązuje na nim ruch okrężny.
 Poduszka – to także próg stosowany na skrzyżowaniach. Od progu typu Pinezka różni się kształtem. Próg typu poduszka ma kształt prostokątny. W przeciwieństwie do skrzyżowania z wyniesioną powierzchnią nie obejmuje całej tarczy skrzyżowania lecz jedynie jej środkowy fragment.
 Próg wyspowy (przyjazny autobusom) (poduszka berlińska) – to próg zwalniający, najczęściej w postaci prostokątnej wypukłości na jezdni, o szerokości takiej, która umożliwia autobusowi przejazd nad progiem (bez wpływu na ruch autobusu), a samochodom osobowym nie, ze względu na ich węższy rozstaw kół.

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The 2022–23 season is the 95th in the history of Real Valladolid and their first season back in the top flight. The club are participating in La Liga and the Copa del Rey.

Players

Transfers

In

Out

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Overall record

La Liga

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches
The league fixtures were announced on 23 June 2022.

Copa del Rey

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Defenders

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! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Midfielders

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! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Forwards

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! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players who have made an appearance this season but have left the club

Goalscorers

Last updated: 18 February 2023

Clean sheets

Notes

References

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Whilst all our products are built with durable, quality materials, the time may come when you may need to replace the feed nozzle.
The nozzle is by its very nature, a consumable item, however if fitted correctly and securely very little wear will occur.
Please note we cannot be held responsible for normal wear and tear or accidental damage to the nozzle.
IMPORTANT - When installing the twin feed nozzle it must be aligned so that the sprocket is central to the nozzle i.e. both nozzle tips must touch the sprocket at the same time. If it is not properly aligned then there will be an unequal pressure on one nozzle leading to premature wear and eventually you will find that one tip will miss the sprocket entirely.


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Summer is too short to refuse any funky prints! Dorothy Shorts is made with smooth, thin material perfect for the warm weather, and comfortable enough for you to move around while engaging in fun games and activities this summer break.
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Q: Identifying "Access violation reading location" exception thrown in my code I'm a first year software engineering student and this is my second unit so far. so go easy on me please haha
My threadpool program (code largely been supplied to me from uni and additions sourced from code blacksmith on YT), throws me the error:

Exception thrown at 0x7B547643 (msvcp140d.dll) in "project_name".exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000014.

My teacher tells me "this mutex call error means you are not using mutex correctly", but it seems to me I'm using them correctly.
I read on another question here that "Access violation reading location 0x000000whatever" means that you're derefrencing a pointer that hasn't been initialized and therefore has garbage values.
Buut I can't seem to find the source of this dereferenced pointer..
Could someone please look at my code and tell me whats going on??
for all I can tell, it should be working.
Note: it does build, but won't compile and I'm still working on it so there may be same garbage #inlcudes or using std::'s.
Threadpool.h

#pragma once
#include <thread>
#include <vector>
#include "CTask.h"
#include "WorkQueue.h"

using std::thread;
using std::vector;
using std::mutex;
using std::ref;

extern unsigned int h_ThreadCapacity;

class Threadpool
{
public:
    ~Threadpool()
    {
        Stop();
    };

    void Initialize()
    {
        m_iNumberOfThreads = h_ThreadCapacity;
    };

    void Submit(CTask _iworkItem) // Enqueue
    {
        {
            unique_lock<mutex> lock{ m_WorkQueue->m_WorkQMutex } ;
            m_WorkQueue->push(_iworkItem);
        }

        m_WorkQueue->m_WorkQCondition.notify_one();

    };

    void Start()
    {
        for (int i = 0u; i < m_iNumberOfThreads; i++)
        {
            m_workerThreads.emplace_back([=] {
                while (true)
                {
                    CTask task;

                    {
                        unique_lock<mutex> lock{ m_WorkQueue->m_WorkQMutex };

                        m_WorkQueue->m_WorkQCondition.wait(lock, [=] {return m_Stopping || !m_WorkQueue->empty(); });

                        if (m_Stopping && m_WorkQueue->empty())
                            break;

                        //if not stopping...
                        task = move(m_WorkQueue->workQ.front());
                        m_WorkQueue->workQ.pop();
                    }

                    task.update(); // execute task
                }
            });
        }
    };

    void Stop()
    {
        {
            lock_guard<mutex> lock{ m_WorkQueue->m_WorkQMutex };
            m_Stopping = true;
        }

        m_WorkQueue->m_WorkQCondition.notify_all();
        // join threads
        for (auto& threads : m_workerThreads)
        {
            threads.join();
        }
    };

    static Threadpool& getInstance()
    {
        static Threadpool s_Instance;
        return s_Instance;
    }

private:
    //Constructor in private to create singleton
    Threadpool() {
        Initialize();
    }

    Threadpool(Threadpool const&) = delete; // singleton non-copyable
    void operator = (Threadpool const&) = delete; // singleton un-assignable

protected:
    static Threadpool* s_pThreadPool; // this is for singleton, given by uni, though not gonna use it.

private:

    WorkQueue<CTask>* m_WorkQueue;

    vector<thread> m_workerThreads;

    unsigned int m_iNumberOfThreads;

    volatile bool isRunning;
    bool m_Stopping = false;

};

WorkQueue.h

#pragma once

#include <thread>
#include <mutex>
#include <queue>
#include <utility>
#include <vector>
#include "CTask.h"

using std::queue;
using std::lock_guard;
using std::unique_lock;
using std::mutex;
using std::condition_variable;
using std::move;

template<typename T>
class WorkQueue
{
public:
    WorkQueue() {}
    //Insert an item at the back of the queue and signal any thread that might be waiting
    //for the queue to be populated
    void push(const T& item)
    {
        lock_guard<mutex> _lock(m_WorkQMutex);
        workQ.push(move(item));//copies over all the data correctly
        m_WorkQCondition.notify_one();
    }

    //Attempt to get a workitem from the queue
    //If the queue is empty just return false;
    bool nonblocking_pop(T& _workItem) // use first.. ?
    {
        lock_guard<mutex> _lock(m_WorkQMutex);
        //If the queue is empty return false
        if (workQ.empty())
        {
            return false;
        }
        _workItem = move(workQ.front());
        workQ.pop();
        return true;
    }

    //Attempt to get a workitem from the queue
    //If the Q is empty just return false;
    void blocking_pop(T& _workItem) // IF task still needs to be completed
    {
        unique_lock<mutex> _lock(m_WorkQMutex);
        //If the queue is empty block the thread from running until a work item
        //becomes available
        m_WorkQCondition.wait(_lock, [this] {return !workQ.empty(); });
        _workItem = move(workQ.front());
        workQ.pop();
    }

    //Checking if the queue is empty or not
    bool empty() const
    {
        lock_guard<mutex> _lock(m_WorkQMutex);
        return workQ.empty();
    }

    queue<T> workQ;
    mutable mutex m_WorkQMutex;
    condition_variable m_WorkQCondition;

private:
};

CTask.h

#pragma once
#include <iostream>
#include<Windows.h>

using std::cout;
using std::endl;

class CTask {
private:
    int sleepTimer;

public:
    CTask()//gets called at creation of an object
    {
        sleepTimer = 10;
    };

    ~CTask() {};

    void update()
    {
        //may be sleep
        cout << "\n\t...Beginning task..." << endl;
        std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds(sleepTimer));
        cout << "\n\t   Task Complete!" << endl;
    };
};

main.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include "WorkQueue.h"
#include "Threadpool.h"
#include "CTask.h"

using std::thread;
using std::vector;

unsigned int h_ThreadCapacity = thread::hardware_concurrency();

int main()
{
    Threadpool& tPool = Threadpool::getInstance(); // create the threadpool
    CTask task; // instance of task object

    tPool.Start();
    tPool.Submit(task);

}

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Professor Tsang worked at the University of Calgary as a postdoctoral researcher from 2009-2011 under the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Previously, he was a scientific and engineering staff at MacDonald Dewtttiler and Associates, where he worked on various remote sensing, space and defense projects with the Canadian Space Agency and Canadian Navy as customers.
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Q: CSS3 image rotator So I'm making a preloader animation which will be a 4 divs with background images crossfading. I'm wanting them nicely crossfaded at 0.6 seconds each but I'm having no luck. They keep overlapping each other too much and it's just a mess. I feel I just need the right percentage or something.
.start_loader .iconfader {
    position:absolute;
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    left:50%;
    top:50%;
    margin-left:-100px;
    margin-top:-100px;
    -webkit-animation-name: fade;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;
    -webkit-animation-duration: 5s;
    animation-name: fade;
    animation-iteration-count: infinite;
    animation-duration: 5s;
}

#load-icon1 {
    background: url(http://mydomain.com/loader-01.png) no-repeat center center;
    background-size: 200px 200px;
}
#load-icon2 {
    -webkit-animation-delay: -3s;
    background: url(http://mydomain.com/loader-02.png) no-repeat center center;
    background-size: 200px 200px;
}
#load-icon3 {
    -webkit-animation-delay: -2s;
    background: url(http://mydomain.com/loader-03.png) no-repeat center center;
    background-size: 200px 200px;
}
#load-icon4 {
    -webkit-animation-delay: -1s;
    background: url(http://mydomain.com/loader-03.png) no-repeat center center;
    background-size: 200px 200px;
}

@-webkit-keyframes fade {
    0% {opacity: 0;}
    25% {opacity: 1;}
    33% {opacity: 1;}
    53% {opacity: 0;}
    100% {opacity: 0;}
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@keyframes fade {
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A: I have done this on Codepen. Check this.
No need 4 divs for this. we can do this on single div with CSS3
http://cdpn.io/rFpmx
CODE

CSS
.loader {
  height: 80px;
  width: 80px;
  position: relative;
  margin: 100px auto;
}
.loader:after {
  content: "";
  background-position: center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: cover;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  display: block;
  height: 80px;
  width: 80px;
}
.loader.anim-1:after {
  -webkit-animation: fader 2.4s linear infinite;
}
.loader.anim-2:after {
  -webkit-animation: fader2 2.4s linear infinite;
}

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    background-image: url(http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrink_80_80/p/3/000/01f/210/0fedb27.jpg);
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don't tell me
no me cuentes
Examples have not been reviewed.
no me digas (4078)
no me diga (733)
no me dices (223)
no me digan (146)
Please don't tell me that you and Rebekah are friends.
Por favor, dime que tú y Rebekah no sois amigos.
Please don't tell me you and Rebekah are friends.
Please don't tell me you want to search the casino.
Por favor no me digas que quieres registrar el casino.
Please don't tell me you want to be an actress
Por favor no me digas que quieres ser una actriz
And don't tell me you came here looking for Steve.
Y no me digas que has venido buscando a Steve.
Please don't tell me that we met in a cemetery.
Por favor no me digas que nos conocimos en un cementerio.
Come on, don't tell me we're gonna have an intervention.
Vamos, no me digas que vamos a tener una intervención.
No, don't tell me you did all this for me.
No, no me digas que hiciste todo esto por mí.
Listen, don't tell me I did all this for nothing.
Oye, no me digas que hice todo esto para nada.
And don't tell me to just let go of Amy.
Y no me digas que deje ir lo de Amy.
Magda, don't tell me you've never kissed a girl.
Magda, no me digas que nunca besaste a una chica.
And don't tell me it's because of some stinking batteries.
Y no me digas que es por unas apestosas baterías.
And if you don't tell me the truth, Bill Compton,
Y si no me dices la verdad, Bill Compton,
And don't tell me to put a spear in your hand.
Y no me digas que ponga una lanza en tu mano.
Oh. Please don't tell me you have more bad news.
Por favor no me digas que tienes más malas noticias.
Please don't tell me you're in love with her.
Por favor no me digas que estás enamorado de ella.
Please don't tell me how to write my story.
Por favor no me digas cómo escribir mi historia.
Please don't tell me that you're still working with Klaus.
Por favor no me digas que todavía trabajas con Klaus.
Oh, please don't tell me you're gonna do that here.
Por favor no me digas que vas a hacer eso aquí.


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Blu-ray Review: "The Birdcage" Is A Very Funny Movie
James McDonald June 8, 20142014-06-08T23:59:23-05:002014-09-25T23:23:32-05:00
Review by James McDonald
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
Robin Williams has that tenacious ability to either make you really like him or hate him. Personally, I like Mr. Williams. Naturally, there are times when he can be very frenetic, ("Mork & Mindy", "Good Morning Vietnam"), that is of course, how got started in the business but when he needs to tone it down, he can do so very convincingly, ala "Dead Poet's Society" and "Good Will Hunting", for which he won an Oscar.
In "The Birdcage", Mr. Williams plays Armand Goldman, a middle-aged gay man who owns a drag nightclub in South Beach in Florida and who lives with his companion and lover, Albert (Nathan Lane). When Armand's son Val (Dan Futterman) drops by unannounced to tell him that he is marrying his school sweetheart Barbara (a very young Calista Flockhart), all hell breaks loose.
Apparently, Barbara's father, Kevin Keeley (Gene Hackman), a U.S. Republican senator and also the vice-president of the Committee for Moral Order, is up for re-election and has just found out that his running mate died in a motel room with an underage hooker so suffice to say, he's not having a very good month.
After Val and Barbara announce their engagement, Barbara's mother Louise (Dianne Wiest), thinks a wedding would be a great way to avoid having to talk to the press and in no time, they are southbound towards Armand's residence. The only problem is, Val insists that his father has to pretend to be straight in order to keep up appearances and convert his den of queens into a palace of heterosexual virility.
It's seemingly clear that Armand is able to get away with it but Albert is the real problem. He is not only very flamboyant, he is also the lead in the club's show each night so he is privy to unpredictable and neurotic emotional outbursts and trying to have him conform to being a straight man for one evening, is going to take a miracle. The premise itself is very straightforward but there is such an eclectic and accomplished cast hard at work here that they make it appear seamless.
Director Mike Nichols ("The Graduate, "Working Girl") pulls all the right strings and thankfully, Mr. Williams is more restrained than usual and because of it, his performance is all the better. However, it's Mr. Lane who steals the show. He is overly-affectionate and constantly distraught and watching Mr. Williams teach him how to hold a piece of toast in a manly demeanor or walk like John Wayne, are amongst the film's funniest scenes. A very funny movie.
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Intimate Choreography and the Responsibility of the Audience
By Olive BieringaJune 24, 2018Press, Press for closer
BodyCartography Project's closer
Michael J. Kramer
Theatre Magazine
If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you. — Groucho Marx I.
"Can I Dance for You?"
Two dreams of contemporary dance arrive in glorious contradiction in BodyCartography Project's closer. One is an urge to dissolve the boundary between performer and audience; the other is to intensify that distinction. One is to emulate the collective ecstasies of social dance; the other is to set dance apart as a laboratory for observation of clinical ±ndings. Dream one longs to bring us all to the party under the mighty god of the disco ball. Dream two values dance as a one-way window for inquiry, a sealed room for experiments, all in service of delivering a brilliant philosophy lecture in gestural disguise. Disco groove and lectern pronouncement: can a dance put on glitter and a lab coat at the same time?
The actual movement of BodyCartography's closer and the formidable conceptual ideas guiding the dancing succeed in integrating these contradictory impulses. The dance company, based in Minneapolis and led by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, does so not by arriving at a resolution, but rather by suspending us in the approach. The dancing in closer intensi±es the competing impulses of contemporary dance — to collapse art and life into a seamless, transcendent whole; to distance art from life in order to feel both more profoundly. Which is to say, closer creates a pas de deux between Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht, between a theater of cruelty and a theater of alienation e´ects. This is a piece that, as its name suggests, is about getting closer to things without ever closing them out. The point is neither to make the boundary between performer and audience meaningless nor to keep it rigidly in place. Instead, closer asks audiences to join the dance at the threshold between performer and spectator.
closer lays bare the power of physicality and presence through a series of one-on-one performances, for one dancer and one audience, in public space. Together we play with how the meeting between performer and audience generates the possibility for something new. The work will be mounted with performers Josie Archer, Kosta Bogoievski, Olivia McGregor and Footnote for the tenth anniversary of the Performance Arcade.


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Tim believes that health care is a right. He remains committed to protecting the Affordable Care Act and improving the health care system to give all Americans access to quality, affordable health care. As a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, he's introduced legislation to give Americans more options for affordable health insurance, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and combat the opioid epidemic.
Tim supports giving Americans more options for affordable health insurance, and he has co-authored a proposal to do just that: Medicare-X. Medicare-X would create a low-cost public option for health care, available in every ZIP code, allowing Americans to choose between the existing private insurance plans or a public one. Medicare-X would build on the Medicare framework of doctors to establish a public insurance plan offered on the individual and small business health exchanges. The Medicare-X plan initially would be available in areas where there is a shortage of insurers or higher health care costs due to less competition—including rural communities—then expand to every ZIP code in the country.
Tim believes we must do more to lower health care costs while improving the quality of care through promoting preventive care and effectively using technology, like telehealth.
Tim is a strong supporter of Medicare and Medicaid — critical programs that provide health care and economic security to seniors, people with disabilities, and the most vulnerable Americans. He has been a vocal supporter of Medicaid expansion in Virginia, which provided hundreds of thousands of people with access to care.
He has also introduced bipartisan legislation to help combat Alzheimer's disease and support caregivers who sacrifice so much to help their loved ones.
Tim has championed bipartisan legislation to fund pediatric cancer research, named in honor of Gabriella Miller of Loudoun County, a powerful advocate for pediatric research who passed away from a brain tumor at the age of 10. The bill became law in 2014 and has already provided $50 million for the Pediatric Research Initiative Fund.
Tim has led the fight to protect young people from harmful tobacco products and successfully passed legislation raising the federal tobacco purchase age from 18 to 21.
He has also introduced and successfully pushed for Senate passage of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, legislation to prevent burnout, suicide, and mental and behavioral health issues among health care workers. The bill was named after a Charlottesville-born physician who died by suicide in April 2020 while working on the frontlines of the pandemic in New York. It was signed into law by President Biden on March 18, 2022.
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About Us Meet the Mates
My Theatre Mates are your Theatre Mates. But who are we exactly? Here's a little more about the myriad theatre bloggers who have contributed to the site so far.
Click on each Mate's title name in their bio box to see their full author pages and contributions to date.
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Founder Mates
Terri Paddock
Terri Paddock runs the Terri Paddock Group, which provides content and social media marketing services for theatre clients across channels including MyTheatreMates.com, StageFaves.com, Stage Talk and TerriPaddock.com. Previously, Terri Paddock founded WhatsOnStage.com and the WhatsOnStage Awards, running the company and its events from 1996 to 2013. Terri is also the author of two novels, Come Clean and Beware the Dwarfs, and has previously written for the Evening Standard, Independent, The Times and other national publications. She is renowned for her 'legendary' post-show Q&As and also produces the annual Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and acts as a digital, content strategy and event consultant for theatre, producers and other clients. She tweets about theatre at @TerriPaddock.
Mark Shenton
Mark Shenton has been a full-time freelance London-based theatre critic and journalist since 2002, and is proud to have co-founded MyTheatreMates with Terri Paaddock. He has variously (and sometimes simultaneously) been chief theatre critic for the Sunday Express, The Stage, WhatsOnStage, What's On in London magazine and LondonTheatre.co.uk. He has taught at ArtsEd London in Chiswick on musical theatre history since 2012. He was until recently President of the Critics' Circle, and is also on the board of Mercury Musical Developments and the National Student Drama Festival (NSDF). You can follow him on Twitter @ShentonStage, and on instagram at @ShentonStage. His personal website is www.shentonstage.com.
Syndicate Mates
Aleks Sierz
Aleks Sierz FRSA is a theatre critic, and author of the seminal study of new 1990s playwrights, In-Yer-Face Theatre. His other books include Rewriting the Nation, The Theatre of Martin Crimp, John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights and Modern British Playwriting. His latest book (co-authored with Lia Ghilardi) is The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre. He also works as a journalist, broadcaster, and lecturer. Aleks blogs independently at www.sierz.co.uk and tweets at @alekssierz.
Alun Hood
Alun Hood has been at the theatre on a regular basis since the age of 8. He has seen upwards of 3000 stage productions, mainly in London but also in New York, Paris, Sydney, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Chichester, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff and, er, Croydon. He'll go anywhere for a bit of live action and red plush. Alun studied Drama & English at University of London and has worked in theatre all his professional life. In addition to his personal blog, he reviews for WhatsOnStage and was a 2016/7 theatre panellist for the Laurence Olivier Awards. He's on Twitter at alunjohnhood.
Amy Toledano
Amy Toledano is a passionate and avid advocate of new writing and theatre in the UK and abroad. Writing her first play Submit/Us, in 2017, Amy has gone on to write poetry for online magazine Fearless Femme, as well as writing for The Plays the Thing blog for fellow MyTheatreMate Laura Kressly. She started her own site www.withinherwords.co.uk in 2018. Alongside this, Amy is a performer herself and has appeared in shows at the Tristan Bates and the Bread & Roses Theatres, and continues to create and promote exciting new work.
Andrew Keates
Andrew Keates is a multi award-winning director. His West End credits include: As Is (Trafalgar Studios), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Charing Cross Theatre), Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios). Other credits include: Chinglish (Park Theatre), Steve Furst: In Character, Rooms: a rock romance (Finborough Theatre), A Winter's Tale, The Thing About Men and The Hired Man (Landor Theatre), Bent, Just So (Tabard Theatre). Andrew was the theatre manager and artistic consultant of the Landor Theatre for over three years. He is the current artistic director of Arion Productions, through which he launched the Show People Podcast in 2017. The free bi-weekly podcast shines a spotlight on the UK performing arts industry and to those dedicated to their craft within it. It's on Twitter at @ShowPeopleUK. In addition, Andrew tweets at @andrewkeates and his personal website is www.andrewkeates.co.uk.
Andrew Wright is an award-winning choreographer, whose myriad credits from the West End, Chichester, Bath, Leicester and elsewhere, include: Mrs Henderson Presents, Guys and Dolls, Singin' In The Rain, Barnum, 42nd Street, The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound, High Society, Wonderful Town, Betty Blue Eyes, Saturday Night Fever, A Little Night Music, Follies, Oliver!, The Showgirl Within, Almost Like Being In Love, Stepping Out, Once Upon A Time At The Adelphi, By Jeeves, I Sing and Soul Traders. He directed and choreographed Happy Days (National Tour), for which he was nominated for Best Director/Choreographer in the Broadway World Awards 2014. Andrew was educated at Millfield School (Old Millfieldian of the year 2015, Distinguished Old Millfieldian 2012) and trained with the NYMT and Arts Ed. He blogs at a-wright.com and tweets at @AndrewWright5.
Anne Cox is a journalist and blogger with more than 35 years' experience and a passion for the theatre. Over the years, she has covered am-dram, regional and national theatre. As a critic for her own site Stage Review, she now reviews professional productions within about a two-hour drive of her home patch of Bedfordshire - from the RSC in Stratford, through the Home Counties and London to Chichester. She now runs her independent theatre website Stage Review and tweets @stage_review.
Annie Davey
Annie Davey is a Terri Paddock Group intern, working across MyTheatreMates and sister site StageFaves. She's been in love with theatre for as long as she can remember and enjoys combining it with her love of English and review writing. She is also studying with LAMDA and taking regular performing arts exams.
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Carole Woddis
Carole Woddis has been a theatre journalist and critic for over 30 years. She was London reviewer and feature writer for Glasgow's The Herald for 12 years and for many other newspapers and magazines. She has contributed to other websites including The Arts Desk, Reviews Gate and London Grip and now blogs independently at woddisreviews.org.uk. Carole is also the author of: The Bloomsbury Theatre Guide with Trevor T Griffiths; a collection of interviews with actresses, Sheer Bloody Magic (Virago), and Faber & Faber's Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama with Stephen Unwin. For ten years, she was a Visiting Tutor in Journalism at Goldsmiths College and for three years with City University. Earlier in her career, she worked with the RSC, National Theatre, Round House and Royal Ballet as a publicist and as an administrator for other theatre and dance organisations.
Caroline Hanks-Farmer
Having been a performer for many years, Caroline knows first hand how much the support of a good audience is valued, appreciated and needed. She is passionate about all performing art, but has a particular interest in new writing and Off-West End productions. Having reviewed for other publications, she set up her website, Carn's Theatre Passion, to provide more exposure for these areas, as well as news, views, interviews and information on all stage-related matters.
Charlotte & Jeff
Charlotte Peters is a theatre director who, before the virus changed the world, was Associate on the international tours of War Horse and An Inspector Calls and due to direct new comedy Another Mother at the Park Theatre. Charlotte co-runs Brickdust who are currently developing a site-specific horror. Since the world shifted, Charlotte's been working on online projects including a Brickdust monologue by Lucy Nichol for Coronavirus Theatre Club and Jon Gracey's The Ultimatum Game, which premiered on Twitch. Teaching piano on Zoom has also been keeping her sane, along with learning to relax for the first time in years! Charlotte is married to Jefferson Turner, one half of Dan & Jeff, who created the internationally acknowledged Potted Potter, currently in 'residence' in Las Vegas, and Potted Panto, most recently at Southwark Playhouse. In their early days, Dan & Jeff were also CBBC presenters, which gives Charlotte immense joy. As director of his own company, Jeff has just had to make the difficult decision to furlough himself as an employee, meaning he can't do any work. As a writer, this means life is 95% the same as it was before lockdown. He's, therefore, spending these new times running, and throwing darts in the garage-turned-pub. Charlotte and Jeff generally only see each other a few times a week so these new times hold a brand new experience for their marriage! They're on Twitter (and Instagram) at CharlottePeterz and ActorJeff.
Chris Grady
Chris Grady is a creative and business life coach who has worked in arts and project management for more than 30 years, running marketing departments and creating festivals and theatres in Bristol, Plymouth, Edinburgh, Buxton, Keswick, London and Bury St Edmonds. He has also run the Vivian Ellis Prize for new musicals, and written Your Life in Theatre, a careers guide for all stages of your career. He is preparing an MA for Theatre Producers with Mountview Academy for Theatre Arts. Chris blogs about arts management at www.chrisgrady.org.
Darren Ross
Darren Ross is a writer whose recent short plays include: Finish With A Trip to the Gift Shop (The Lion and Unicorn Theatre), A Copy of a Copy of a Copy of a Copy (The Front Room Space, Croydon) and Sorry, My Compassion Is On The Blink (part of The Science Fiction Theatre Festival at The Pleasance Theatre). He's also web developer and is the technical lead on MyTheatreMates.com and our sister site StageFaves.com.
Debbie Gilpin
Debbie Gilpin stumbled into writing about theatre when she moved to London after studying for a degree in Human Genetics at Newcastle University. She started her website Mind the Blog in November 2014 and also tweets from @Mind_the_Blog. She spent the best part of 2014-16 inadvertently documenting Sunny Afternoon in the West End, and now also writes for BroadwayWorld UK. Debbie's theatre passions are Shakespeare and new writing, but she's also a sucker for shows with a tap routine.
Dominic Cavendish
Dominic Cavendish is the lead theatre critic for The Daily Telegraph. He is the founding editor of the audio archive theatrevoice.com. His personal website Criticalmuse.com is for further theatrical musings, alongside an archive of some published articles. He tweets regularly at @domcavendish.
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Edward Seckerson
A prolific broadcaster, writer and journalist as well as a self-confessed 'musical theatre obsessive', Edward has interviewed everyone from Bernstein to Liza Minnelli, Paul McCartney to Pavarotti, Julie Andrews to Andrew Lloyd Webber. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage & Screen. He also regularly produces podcast interviews with notable theatrical artists and makes regular appearances on the BBC Radio 2 Arts Show, BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, where he presented the 2007 series of the music quiz Counterpoint. He has published books on Gustav Mahler and the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, is a regular critic for Gramophone Magazine and Opern Welt and a founder member of The Arts Desk. He also blogs independently at www.edwardseckerson.biz and tweets at @seckerson.
Elaine Chapman
Elaine Chapman an English graduate from Winchester University. By day a mother and business owner. By night an avid theatregoer enjoying the world of reviewing theatre and films from an audience perspective.
Emily Garside
Emily Garside is an academic and theatre writer. Following a PhD in depictions of HIV/AIDS in theatre, she decided to move on from academic writing to take her writing about theatre to a wider audience. By day a research advisor and by night theatre writer, playwright and lover of all things theatre. Emily blogs at emilygarside.com and tweets at @EmiGarside.
Emma Clarendon
Emma Clarendon studied drama through A-Level before deciding she was much better suited to writing about theatre than appearing onstage. She's written for a number of online publications ever since, including The News Hub and Art Info. Emma set up her own blog, Love London Love Culture, in April 2015 and tweets at LoveLDNLoveCul.
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Fairy Powered Productions is a website set up by lifelong theatre lover Susan Lindsay to cover news, views, interviews and reviews. A place for all things theatrical, it concentrates on the talent appearing in the regions as well as the West End.
Florence Andrews
Florence Andrews trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Cameron Mackintosh Award, before being lucky enough to graduate straight into Trevor Nunn's production of Sondheim's A Little Night Music' at the Menier Chocolate Factory, and then at the West End's Garrick Theatre. Since then, Florence's credits, mainly in the West End, have included Annie Get Your Gun, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Wizard of Oz, Dandy Dick, Wicked, Once, Miss Atomic Bomb, and originating the role of Rosalie Mullins in School Of Rock. Florence has also appeared as a soloist both internationally and at venues closer to home such as the Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall, and is a seasoned session singer when she's not camping it up on the stage. She is a mother of two little'uns, and exploring different mixes of tonic and spirit in order to support her new, somewhat challenging, side hustle as a home educator during lockdown. You can also #GetSocial with Florence on our sister site StageFaves.com.
Helen McWilliams
Helen McWilliams is a Midlands-based reviewer, but is happy travelling anywhere and everywhere to pursue her love of the theatre. Since 2013, she has been combining her passions for writing and theatre in her Entertainment Views site (formerly Break A Leg). She also enjoys interviewing actors, writers and other professionals from the business.
Iestyn Edwards
Iestyn is an award-winning vaudeville performer, published journalist and poet. He is in the line-up of The Stage at Cafe de Paris Saturday performances, is the first-cast variety act on the international Evening of Burlesque tour, and also tours his self-written double bill My Tutu's Gone AWOL! His blog, "My Days in the Frills, lives at iestynedwards.blogspot.co.uk and he tweets at @iestynedwards and, as his alter-ego, at @madamegalina.
John Chapman works as a freelance education consultant, writer and copy editor. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Headteacher specialising in English and Drama. John first took to the stage as a schoolboy pretending to be a Latin frog. Decades later, he has been involved with 150+ productions, usually as an actor or director. He is currently a member of Tower Theatre in Stoke Newington, London. In 2016, he was in their "mechanicals" team that worked as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play For The Nation, appearing both at the Barbican and in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2004, he served as a panellist on the Olivier Awards; he is currently an Offies assessor. He reviews for a variety of websites, writes his own independent blog 2ndFromBottom about his theatrical life.
Justin Murray is a director and theatremaker whose work has been seen nationally and internationally. He recently directed The Wizard Of Oz at The Scoop in More London Riverside as part of London's Free Open Air Theatre Season. Justin was associate director of Actors of Dionysus for whom he directed Antigone (R&D and national tour). Justin is artistic director of Catharsis and has directed their previous five shows, Hippolytus (Hope Theatre), Hecuba (White Bear Theatre), purged (Brighton Fringe), The Complete Greek Tragedies (In One Hour) (Rosemary Branch) and Ashurbanipal (The Crypt Gallery). As associate director: FILTH (Camden Fringe) and Rounds (Southwark Playhouse / Bolton Octagon). Other work includes Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy, at the Edinburgh Fringe. Assisting includes Helen for Actors of Dionysus, The Odyssey at More London Riverside, and The Cherry Orchard at The Union Theatre (both for Phil Wilmott).
Kate Gould
Kate Gould is an experienced journalist with other 20 years' experience writing across newspapers and magazines, including most recently South London Press. In addition to occasional theatre reviews, Kate specialises in interviews and features. Her myriad celebrity interviews have included Freddie Fox, Gary Barlow, Priscilla Presley, Jason Donovan, Linda Gray, David Baddiel, Jimmy Osmond, Lee Mead, Shaun Dooley, Petula Clark and Paul McGann. She now writes independently at kateinbrockley.blogspot.com/.
Katharine Kavanagh
Katharine is a circus writer based in the Midlands, a handy travel hub for getting out and about to new and smaller-scale work. From a background as a performer, theatre-maker and circus volunteer, Katharine took part in the EU-funded 'Unpack the Arts' circus residency, set up The Circus Diaries website, and now dedicates herself to sharing the intricacies of circus art with the world. She says: "Circus is an area of performing arts where few people have the vocabulary and understanding to write balanced critical appraisal. This tends to result in wishy-washy 'reviews' that all sound the same and say very little about the relative quality of the show. "As the circus arts grow in popularity and engagement across the UK, it's important for critical voices to reflect this to increasingly discerning audiences. That's where I come in."
Kirsty Herrington
Kirsty Herrington is a blogger who fell in love with theatre at a young age and spent the majority of her student loan on tickets to West End Shows while she was at university. She began reviewing regularly for fellow MyTheatreMates' sites Love London Love Culture, Jonathan Baz Review, London Theatre Reviews and Mind the Blog before setting up her own site From Page to Stage in 2018. With a background in journalism and a keen enthusiasm for both plays and musicals, Kirsty often reviews productions in London and East Anglia. She tweets via @kherrington83.
Kris Hallett
Kris Hallett is a writer, critic, director and teacher based in Bristol and Bath. From 2010-2014, he was Artistic Director of theatre company Fire Under The Horizon. He has been reviewing theatre in the South West for various publications since 2013. He now publishes on his own Life as Theatre blog. He tweets @krishallett.
Kristy Stott
Kristy Stott, editor of Upstaged Manchester, is an entertainment journalist, theatre critic and general arts lover. Kristy has been an avid follower of the Manchester theatre scene for as long as she can remember and has written for WhatsOnStage, the Library Theatre Company and Cornerhouse Manchester. Kristy is also news editor and presenter for Trafford Sound community radio.
Laura Kressly
Laura is a US immigrant who has lived in the UK since 2004. Originally trained as an actor with a specialism in Shakespeare, she enjoyed many pre-recession years working as a performer, director and fringe theatre producer. When the going got too tough, she took a break to work in education as a support worker, then a secondary school drama teacher. To keep up with the theatrical world, she started reviewing for Everything Theatre and Remotegoat in 2013. In 2015, Laura started teaching part time in order to get back into theatre. She is now a freelance fringe theatre producer and runs her independent blog, theplaysthethinguk.com.
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Lauren Humphreys
As well as blogging at Glasgow Theatre Blog, Lauren Humphreys is the Scotland Editor at The Reviews Hub (including its Edinburgh Festival Fringe Editor), and has written for Time Out, Groupon City Guide, TV Bomb, Broadway Baby, One Stop Arts and Stay.com as well as contributing to many European travel guides on culture in Scotland's biggest city. Glasgow Theatre Blog has been voted the No.1 theatre blog in the UK in the Cision Media Rankings, in the Lastminute.com Top Ten and has never been out of the Vuelio Top Ten UK Theatre Blogs since its inception. Lauren has also been the lucky recipient of the Oran Mor, A Play, a Pie and a Pint Critics Circle prize… twice. During the Commonwealth Games in 2014, she was one of 14 bloggers from around the Commonwealth chosen to be part of the official blog "Team 14", writing about the cultural impact of the games. She teaches a workshop on theatre blogging as part of Glasgow's Tron Theatre Ambassadors programme, for students aged 15-18, encouraging the next generation of arts critics.
Libby Purves
Libby Purves was theatre critic for The Times from 2010 to 2013. Determined to continue her theatre commentary after losing that job, she set up her own site www.theatrecat.com in October 2013. She personally reviews all major London openings, usually with on-the-night publication, and also gives voice to a new generation of critics with occasional guest 'theatrekittens'. In addition to her theatre writing and myriad other credits, Libby has been a presenter on BBC Radio 4's Midweek for over 30 years. She is also the author of a dozen novels, and numerous non-fiction titles. In 1999, Libby was appointed an OBE for services to journalism.
Lisa Martland
An editor, writer and critic, Lisa Martland is the founder of Vuelio top-ranked website Musical Theatre Review which she set up in 2013. She has largely single-handedly developed it into one of the UK's must-read sites for professionals and expert followers of the sector. In 2018, Lisa also joined the Terri Paddock Group, taking on the role of editor for both MyTheatreMates and our sister musical theatre site Stage Faves. Formerly, she was deputy editor at The Stage Newspaper.
Liz Dyer
A lifelong fan who's always been far more comfortable watching theatre than making it, Liz Dyer fell into blogging very much by accident after joining the blog team at London Theatre Direct. From there, she began reviewing regularly for LondonTheatre1.com and (fellow Mate) Carn's Theatre Passion, before setting up her own site Theatre Things in 2015 to cover shows across London and Kent. She tweets from her blog at @theatrethingsuk and personally at @lizzid82.
Louise Penn
Louise Penn is an experienced writer and editor, published in a variety of outlets. She worked as a professional librarian for 25 years before going freelance full-time in 2018 and setting up her Lou Reviews blog. She is passionate about all types of theatre and the arts.
Luca Molinari
In love with the city of London (and grateful for all its opportunities), but also with theatre and music, Luca Molinari started his blog London Theatre Reviews in 2018, with the idea of sharing reviews, news and interviews in an easy and accessible way.
Maryam Philpott
Maryam Philpott has run the London-based Cultural Capital blog since 2013, predominantly reviewing theatre, but also exhibitions and special film screenings with a more in-depth and discursive approach. Since 2014, Maryam has also written regularly for The Reviews Hub, reviewing all forms of professional theatre including Fringe and West End, as well as contemporary dance, ballet and opera. She has a background in social and cultural history, and tweets as @culturalcap1.
Matt Merritt
Matt has been a theatre fan since childhood, regularly visiting theatres in his native Portsmouth and surrounding areas. He has been reviewing for some time, initially for local press outlets before starting his own site, Sitting in the Cheap Seats, in 2013. These days he can generally be found in the front row of the balcony in a theatre in the Southwest (or on trips to London), quietly thankful he is short enough not to notice the lack of legroom!
Matthew Amer
Matthew Amer joined forces with Terri Paddock in November 2018, working on campaigns across both MyTheatreMates and our sister site StageFaves.com. Most recently, he helped London & Partners launch Theatre.London and, prior to that, worked for 14 years at The Society of London Theatre, on print and online publications, editing OfficialLondonTheatre.com and covering everything from the Olivier Awards to Stage One, and launching everything from blogs to YouTube channels. He also now works as a freelance journalist and digital consultant and tweets at @MattAmer.
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Michael Davies
StageReviews was launched by theatre critic and writer Michael Davies to offer independent coverage of stage productions across the Midlands and beyond. During a 25-year career in newspaper journalism, Michael was the staff theatre critic for a number of regional publications across the country. His reviews have been published in The Independent, The Stage, the Birmingham Mail and a host of other print titles, as well as online for WhatsOnStage. As a freelance writer, he is a regular contributor of programme notes for venues all over the UK and in the West End and is also an award-winning playwright and lyricist. For more information, visit Michael's personal website at www.mrgdavies.com or follow him on Twitter at @StageReviews and @mrgdavies.
Michael Davis is a former actor and director. He's passionate about fringe theatre and publicising shows that don't necessarily receive mainstream attention. He's previously reviewed for Female Arts and The Play's the Thing and now runs his own site, Breaking the Fourth Wall. Michael is interested and knowledgeable about all aspects of the arts. He tweets @Michael30517721.
Mike Dixon
Mike Dixon graduated from Trinity College of Music in 1979. Over the course of his varied and multi-faceted career, Mike has established himself as one of the leading figures in the West End, Television and Radio as Musical Supervisor, Musical Director, Conductor, Arranger and Composer.
Naomi Westerman
Naomi Westerman is a British writer of Middle Eastern heritage. A former anthropologist, she started writing in 2015. She is a graduate of the Criterion Playwriting Programme and Graeae's Write to Play training scheme for disabled writers. Naomi's credits include Tortoise, Puppy and Sketching (one of the co-writers with James Graham). She was recently shortlisted for the Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award, and is currently an Associate Company Member at the Bush Theatre and under commission to write a new play for them. Naomi is also co-founder of the feminist theatre collective Little but Fierce, and an advocate for disability representation in theatre. She also founded and run the Grassroots project, an outreach initiative to provide free mentoring, workshops and resources for young people from marginalised backgrounds to make their first short films.
Nick Lambert
Born in London and raised in Ireland, Nick Lambert loves London, where he now lives and works. He set up his blog The London Lark! to celebrate the city, offering reviews of places he's been and things he's seen – with a major focus on theatre, his particular interest. As a theatregoer, he's also been designated a Time Out Tastemaker and regularly posts on Trip Advisor, where he's amongst the top 1% of reviewers read. He tweets at @NickNickLambert.
Not Exactly Billington
Launched in 2012, Not Exactly Billington is a Leicester-based theatre blog run by Adam and Jasmine, who are keen to explore and promote the arts on a national scale while maintaining the importance of regional voices, perspectives and creative endeavours. The couple share blogging responsibilities and often collaborate on reviews, thus giving a broader response. For three years, they also successfully ran the #ReadaPlayaWeek initiative. Each week, they championed a different play, ensuring there was equal representation of male and female writers as part of their advocacy for gender equity and diversity in the arts. They tweet at @NoBillington.
Olivia Mitchell
Always surrounded by music from a young age, Olivia Mitchell is currently completing a degree in Classical Singing. To honour her passion for musical theatre in particular, in 2015, she started her blog Rewrite This Story, where she reviews shows, interviews performers and writes about all things theatrical. She tweets via @RewriteThisWeb.
Phil Willmott
Phil Willmott is a multi-award winning director, playwright, composer, librettist, teacher, dramaturg, arts journalist and actor and currently the editor and chief theatre critic for the commercial ticketing website. LONDONBOXOFFICE.COM. As a theatre maker he has worked in theatres across the world on everything from the classics, musicals and family shows to cabaret and cutting edge new writing. He is the founding artistic director of several multi-award-winning theatre companies including the Finborough Theatre, the Phil Willmott Company, which presents the annual Essential Classics at the Union Theatre; and Gods & Monsters, which, for 15 years, presented the annual London Free Theatre Festival at The Scoop amphitheatre adjacent to London's City Hall. Find out more about Phil at philwillmott.org and on Twitter at @PhilWillmott.
Philip Dehany
Describing himself, Philip says: "My Twitter profile once said, Actor. Director. Producer. Writer. Arts Ed boy. It now simply says Blogger. In short, I am 5 foot 5 tall. Northern. Gay, and Stagey. I am and have been all of the above." He launched That Stagey Blog in 2018.
Pint-sized Playwriting
The Pint-Sized Playwriting Podcast exists to help emerging playwrights understand how to get ahead in the world of new theatre. It's run by Nick Oliver and Matt Maltby, founders and co-producers of new writing theatre company, Pint-Sized. The company tweets at Pint_Sized_.
Rachel Williams stumbled into blogging entirely by accident and mostly as a way of amusing herself and a couple of theatre-loving friends. Several years and a permanent move to South East England later and blogging at viewfromthecircle.blogspot.com has become a real passion (balanced increasingly precariously with a day job in the charity sector). Theatrical passions include Shakespeare, musicals, new writing, new theatres, James Graham and anything Bertie Carvel happens to be doing.
RevStan
Revstan really is a reverend (it's amazing what you can buy on the internet) but not a man (the Stan bit is a long story). By day, she is a freelance editor and copywriter; at night, she escapes into the world of theatre and has been blogging about it at theatre.revstan.com since 2007. She says: "I'll watch pretty much anything, from something performed on a stage the size of a tea tray to the West End and beyond. The only exception is musicals. Tried 'em and they just don't do anything positive for me."
Robbie Durham
Robbie Durham is an actor/musician from the Scottish Borders, who now lives in London. Trained at Arts Educational School London, Robbie has performed in the West End, UK and international tours. His recent credits include Million Dollar Quartet, High Fidelity and Sunny Afternoon. He also writes his own music, performs solo and with his sister who is also an actor/musician. He plays guitar, piano, bass and (a very little) drums. You can also #GetSocial with Robbie on our sister site StageFaves.com.
Scatter of Opinion
Rosie Snell fell in love with Asian theatre and devising while completing her degree in Theatre Arts, Directing. After university, she worked in the West End before taking on a role outside the arts industry. Missing the magic of theatre, she founded her blog Scatter Of Opinion in February 2015. I hope to bring on more guest reviewers to the blog this year. She reviews shows big and small and, with the help of collaborator Greg Spong, accompanies each post with an original illustration. She tweets via @ScatterOpinion.
Shanine Salmon
Shanine Salmon was a latecomer to theatre after being seduced by the National Theatre's £5 entry pass tickets and a slight obsession with Alex Jennings. She is sadly no longer eligible for 16-25 theatre tickets but she continues to abuse under 30 offers. There was a market for bringing awareness that London theatre was affordable in an era of £100+ West End tickets – Shanine's blog, View from the Cheap Seat, launched in April 2016, focuses on productions and theatres that have tickets available for £20 and under. She is also quite opinionated and has views on diversity, pricing, theatre seats and nudity on stage. Her interests include Rocky Horror, gaming, theatre (of course) and she also has her own Etsy shop. Shanine tweets at @Braintree_.
Shyama Perera
Shyama Perera is a novelist and broadcaster. She has been a judge on both the Olivier Awards panel and their Affiliate Awards panel. She ran the Monkey Matters Theatre Reviews website for six years and reviewed for local papers and BBC London before realising it's much more fun being part of a lively team. She is delighted to be one of My Theatre Mates.
Simon Parris
Simon is a Melbourne-based theatregoer and critic, who reviewed for many years for Theatre People and the Sunday Herald Sun. He has also acted, directed and choreographed, and has served on the boards of the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria Committee and The Opera Studio Melbourne. In addition to productions in Melbourne, on his extensive travels, Simon reviews shows in Sydney and on annual trips to Broadway and the West End. He now blogs independently at simonparrismaninchair.com.
Sophie Garrod
Sophie Garrod has loved the theatre since a very young age and always loved to write. Whilst studying journalism, media and cultural studies at Cardiff University, she set up her One Woman West End Show website. She also now works at a theatre, so has insights into how theatres operate and how shows are produced. She writes reviews, as well as opinion pieces that are light-hearted and those that tackle more serious issues such as disability and race in theatre.
Stephanie Ressort
Stephanie is a functioning theatre addict. Her friends might be more worried about her habit, if they didn't benefit from her ninja theatre booking skills. Not a reviewer in the traditional sense, she focuses on the things she's loved, the shows she's excited about, and her tips for finding great, affordable theatre in London. Notorious for her obsession with sitting as close to the stage as possible, it is not surprising that Stephanie's now also exploring if she has what it takes to write for the theatre.
Susan Elkin
Susan Elkin is a former teacher of secondary English. She has also been a very active and eclectic freelance journalist for more than 25 years. She now focuses on education, performing arts and books, and was education and training editor at The Stage newspaper 2015-2016. Susan is the author of over 40 books, mostly on education and performing arts topics, including So You Want to Work in Theatre (Nick Hern Books). In 2016, she launched her personal website susanelkin.co.uk.
The Family Stage
The Family Stage is a blog following the lives of two musical mad mums who are attempting to sustain their theatregoing habit after adopting two little girls. Born out of Mummy's indecision over whether to become a theatre blogger or mummy blogger, it attempts to straddle the boundary between the two worlds. But with family life revolving around extracurricular activities of the performing arts variety, and weekends filled with family theatre, Mummy finds that her musings remain distinctly stagey. When the munchkins are in bed, Mummy and Mrs Mummy take it in turns to go to grown-up shows, ensuring that they have something to talk about besides children.
Thom Dibdin
Thom Dibdin has been reviewing and writing about theatre in Scotland since the last millennium. He is currently Scotland Correspondent for The Stage newspaper. In 2010, he founded AllEdinburghTheatre.com. The city's only dedicated theatre website, it covers all Edinburgh theatre year-round - and all theatre made in Edinburgh during EdFringe. Thom is passionate about quality in theatre criticism and is a member of the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland. He tweets from @AllEdinTheatre and, personally, from @ThomDibdin.
Tim Masters
For many years, Tim Masters was a BBC arts correspondent covering the UK theatre scene. In 2017 he changed jobs at the Beeb, but he still loves to escape to the theatre as often as he can. With London's theatres just a Boris bike ride away, he thought he'd get back into writing about the plays, the actors, the creatives and the excitement of opening nights. The Man in the Grand Circle is a personal blog and not related to the BBC.
Tom Bolton is an author and researcher, based in London. He comes from Stratford-upon-Avon, where Derek Jacobi in The Tempest got him hooked on theatre. He sat on the Olivier Awards judging panel, and started reviewing for Londonist in 2010. He is particularly keen on disinterred classics, new writing and physical theatre, and spends a week at the Edinburgh Festival every year looking for more. Tom blogs independently at tombolton.co.uk and tweets @teabolton.
Vicky Anderson
A former newspaper arts editor at Liverpool Daily Post, Vicky Anderson has been blogging about theatre in Liverpool since 2010. Her site, MADE UP: Onstage in Liverpool, "attempts to cram in as wide a variety of news, reviews and interviews on theatre happenings in Liverpool as possible".
Violet Mackintosh
Violet Mackintosh has experience as an assistant stage manager for the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) and as a production assistant at the Edinburgh Fringe. She pursues her interest in theatre through her blog: www.thevioletcurtain.com, also following global theatre, particularly in Germany. Violet lives in London and is a student at the University of Toronto.
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If you aren't familiar with Kiva.org, you will be in just a few minutes. Kiva is a "non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty." Kiva allows individuals to lend money to people (who work with Field Partners, who administer the loans for Kiva) without access to traditional banking systems.
It's pretty cool. You lend money to someone who uses it to buy supplies or use it for their small business, and they pay back the loan once it pays for itself. An example is someone who needs to buy pasta, rice, and vegetables to sell to at their business.
2. Search through the hundreds of loans until you find one that speaks to you. You can filter by country, gender, sector, or attribute.
4. Get repaid and find a new loan to fund!
Through Kiva, I've made $150 worth of loans, all for free. And all loans have been paid back on time.
Most free money offer have a catch. But this is truly $25 that you can lend for free, and better yet, you feel good while using it. There are plenty of reasons to give money to charity, and this is a free way to truly make an impact on others!
What are you waiting for? Start lending with Kiva!
That's a great offer. I just signed up to help someone out no strings attached. The one thing it does say is that the sponsor will get the money back when it's repaid, not me, but that is completely fine by me. It's just nice to know the free money is being put to good use. Thanks for letting me know!
@Jake Erickson, Nope, just copied it from the landing page: "Step 3: Do it all again!
@Daniel Packer, That's awesome. I guess I thought I read differently, but either way it's still a great deal!
I have been using Kiva for years. I think it is pretty cool and I have always gotten my money back. Why not promote people that just need a break? Kiva is a life changer for many.
We've made several loans through Kiva and do recommend the organization. But I don't consider it "giving" since the money is loaned. We put $50 in a few years ago and have cycled it several times to different people – it's nice to know how much mileage the money has gotten!
@Emily @ evolvingPF, You're right, it's not example giving, but I feel better loaning money to people who are trying to make the most of it than to an organization, even if I support them wholeheartedly. Maybe it's because there's a connection and you know exactly where the funds are going?
I never heard of Kiva before. Thanks for writing this up.
Seems like a wonderful idea. I'd be interested to know exactly how the finances are managed and how they choose to give. Great post!
That is a really nice cause. It's always self-fulfilling to help and do some random act of kindness to someone, no strings attached.
@KC @ genxfinance, Have you used Kiva? If not, why? It seems like such a no-brainer to me but for some reason people aren't jumping on board fast enough!
I've heard a little about Kiva, but did not know exactly what it was that they do. It sounds like a great idea and one that I think we'll be looking into. I like that it seems to meet immediate needs as opposed to just sending it to some organization.


Yeah! Thank you all for your support following the blog.
DishingwithDiane.com has reached over 100 likes!
If you enjoy the posts, please tell your family and friends and continue to share the page on your timeline and spread the word.
This blog is truly a labor of love sharing my hobby with so many.
Your comments and messages have been so inspiring and I hope the blog gives you many new ideas to decorate your own tablescapes and try new recipes.
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Congratulations on reaching 100 likes! I know it will continue to grow! I look forward to every holiday even more so than before because I can read and see this beautiful blog! Thank YOU, Diane!
Thank you Suzanne, I deeply appreciate your support.


Enjoy this win because it was awesome.
Post subject: Enjoy this win because it was awesome.
Sure, this should have been a loss, but as in 2016 Gase's teams find a way to win when they want to.
Enjoy this one because it was awesome.
We all know there have been too many Miami Dolphins games like this in which the Dolphins fall short. We all remember games like this the Dolphins lose because that fumble at the goal by the Chicago Bears running back doesn't happen. Or that T.J. McDonald interception in the end zone doesn't happen. Or that overtime Cody Parkey field goal attempt sails through the uprights instead of flying wide right.
So enjoy that so much worked for the Dolphins on Sunday. Enjoy that it all seemed to work -- including the work by Brock Osweiler.
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Phins are like 17 - 6 in games decided by one score over the last few years.
I'm really impressed and happy for the Phins and fans right now. I'm a little frustrated that the Patriots got an easy TD or two and beat the Chiefs last night. Miami can't catch any breaks.
We should be favored in the next 4 games.
Looking forward to a run.
I see a run like 2016 coming! But this time it don't stop in Pittsburgh.
We have Moore fire power now. The new #8.


Rt Honorable Prime Minister of Uganda Dr Ruhakana Rugunda arrives at the 3rd Annual Sickle Cell conference at hotel Africana….
Participants; first sickle cell conference in Uganda. July 11th 2013. Organized by UASCRF and BMK Group.
"To have communities aware of sickle cell disease and its social connotations; to improve the economic empowerment of people living and affected by sickle cell disease and minimize stigmatization in Uganda".
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cannot know that you are a carrier unless you test. Intensify sensitisation on social media".
"I have learnt how sickle cell is acquired. Services should be extended to villages".
"Please intensify screening in universities as you give information as well. Thank you for the work".
learnt how sickle cell disease is acquired".
have learnt how someone with sickle cell can be managed to stay healthy".
must be done before marriage and before getting children.
Thank you for the free service because some people cannot afford paying for them".
"Thank you for the information and screening, this will help us know what decision to take in the future.
Sickle cell testing should be must to everyone".
marriage partners, we need to test first. Thank you for the screening".
"It was an educative event.Introduce clubs in many schools dealing with issues pertaining sickle cell.
Avail information to schools in magazines and brochures about sickle cell".
"The event was inspiring. You need to extend your services to villages because people there lack a lot".
best we can help fellow students living with sickle cell disease keep well in school".
"I have learnt alot which is going to help me make my sickler son lead a normal life Thank you USCRF".
"Iam glad to know my sickle cell status, Thank you for the awareness and screening . Thanks for being a very welcoming team".
"This office (USCRF) is so encouraging/ strengthening and promising. I testify that iam living in a better state than before".
Disability Rights for Inclusive communities.
In Uganda the dilemma of a sickle cell sufferer and the immediate family goes beyond grappling with the overwhelming health effects of the disease. The deeply-rooted stigma from society alone causes families to sometimes hide their sick for fear of being labeled cursed and eschewed from social functions. When known that a family has a sufferer, intimate relationships with any member of that family are shunned.


Since Reliance Jio entered the Indian telecom area, it has been giving fierce competitors to incumbent telcos. And it's not simply the aggressive pay as you go plans, however the postpaid plan from Jio can also be extremely aggressive. In consequence, incumbent telecom operators have additionally gone aggressive with their pay as you go and postpaid plans. Right here's a have a look at greatest postpaid cell plans underneath Rs 500 from Reliance Jio, Vodafone, Airtel and BSNL.
Jio solely has one postpaid plan, and it's extremely reasonably priced at Rs 199. As part of the plan, you get limitless native and nationwide calling, limitless roaming and limitless SMS (100 per day). By way of knowledge profit, Reliance Jio is providing 25GB knowledge, with none every day restrictions. As soon as the every day restrict is exhausted, customers can proceed with high-speed knowledge obtain at simply Rs 20 per GB. Customers additionally get a complimentary subscription to Jio app suite.
Vodafone has two postpaid plans underneath Rs 500, one priced at Rs 399 and the opposite priced at Rs 499. Each plans supply limitless native and nationwide calling, limitless roaming and 100 native and nationwide every day messages. What adjustments between each plans is the information advantages – Rs 399 plan provides 40GB knowledge, whereas Rs 499 plan provides 75GB knowledge. There's additionally knowledge rollover function, whereas you'll be able to carry ahead as much as 200GB knowledge. Each plans additionally embrace complimentary ZEE5 and Vodafone Play TV entry, and one yr Amazon Prime subscription as part of the package deal.
Just like Vodafone, even Airtel has plans with the identical pricing. The advantages additionally stay the identical – Rs 399 plan provides 40GB knowledge, whereas Rs 499 plan provides 75GB knowledge. Apart from native and STD calling is limitless, nationwide roaming is free, and also you get every day 100 native and nationwide SMS free. Each Airtel postpaid plans additionally include Amazon Prime subscription for one yr, and free entry to ZEE5 content material. One small change is that the Rs 499 postpaid plan additionally comes with three months free Netflix subscription.
State-run telco BSNL can also be providing postpaid plans at aggressive pricing. The Rs 399 plan provides limitless native and nationwide calling, and 30GB 2G/3G knowledge. The plan additionally consists of 100 native and nationwide SMS every day.


Merrimack won the 2018 NE10 Women's Golf Championship at Capital Hills at Albany, led by the 1-over performance of Krystal Knight - the tournament's individual medalist honor. It is the program's fourth in five opportunities.
Southern New Hampshire, led by Matt Paradis, won the 2018 NE10 Men's Golf Championship at the En-Joie Golf Club in Endicott, N.Y., the fourth title in program history.


Blyth Academy Downsview Park offers students an opportunity to repeat any high school course with a teacher in a private setting or through Blyth Academy Online, our online high school. Students are only eligible to enrol in a repeat course if they have previously completed the course and attained a mark of at least 40%.
Unhappy with a grade this year? Redo the course and take advantage of our personalized education and one-on-one teaching from the comfort of your home. Our Repeat Courses are the same as our regular courses, but the assessment and evaluation has been tailored to students taking them for a second time. The course covers the same content, and the same credit is awarded at the end.
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