Sue Knox

A friend’s colander is working very well for eclipse-watching.

It was a real treat to see Cole Escola in Oh, Mary! tonight.

Very pleased to have done the 4 km swim at Swim Rutland this morning. The setting is beautiful (here’s a photo that I took of some of it yesterday evening), it was organised really well, and it was the right kind of challenge. And it meant a weekend in the country!

I’m really glad to have been a part of London Trans+ Pride again today, with good friends (and so many thousands of people overall).

Last night’s Edinburgh preview of the new @awkwardprods.co.uk show Linus Karp Was Hit With An Umbrella was outstanding. The show is both serious and fun, with a lovely mix of vulnerability, strength and humour. It’s well worth seeing at the Fringe.

Pride really was wonderful. I’m so glad finally to have seen it today.

VERY excited to have picked up a hard-copy @edfringe.bsky.social programme today, Thank you, @sohotheatre.bsky.social! (Yes, the cover has a slight tear.) It’s very big this year, but I look forward to digesting it. My first 16 shows are already booked. Any recommendations/ shows to promote?

After a few near misses over the years, I finally caught Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats tonight. I’m very glad that I did.

We still have space at Show Off! this Friday night (at The Square Pig in Holborn, central London). Doors open at 18:45 and there will be live music (with one break from 19:30 to 23:00). There will be air conditioning, and plenty of lovers of musical theatre. Join us? More info in bio.

The High Life last night was such a delight: the show is fantastic and the energy levels on stage and in the audience were top-notch. The journey to Glasgow was definitely worthwhile.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind was great tonight. It is well worth a visit.

It was an absolutely gorgeous day for my first open-water swim of the season.

It’s not often that material from a show one night contains the answer to a question in a quiz the following night. So thank you Ed Gamble!

Great to see Copenhagen tonight, around 25 years after my first (and only other) viewing. It’s well worth seeing.

Unsurprisingly, John Proctor is the Villain was absolutely brilliant tonight.

It was really exciting to see American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre on Monday night. Excellent show.

5 classes you took in university: Existentialism Goethe & Romanticism Social Psychology Conflict of Laws Psychiatry and the Law (A confusing mix? Maybe.)

My fifth show of 2026 involved a bit of a field trip - but it was well worth it. I’m glad - finally - to have caught The Last Ship, in a new production.

It’s very normal to run out to the supermarket just for toilet roll and ice cream, right?

Why, in 2025, are opticians separating frames by gender in their displays?

If you had told me that I would see shows in three different London theatres in 2025 in which the principal performer would crowd surf, I would have been very surprised. But here we are - and all three shows have been fantastic.

It has been really lovely to have Show Off! back up and running again - and especially brilliant to be reunited with so many lovely people. One more to go this year - on 14 November- and then, with any luck, several more in 2026. Here: Matthew Gent, Robert Hazle and Tasha Sheridan on 26 September.

I finally saw Ohio tonight, at the Young Vic. It was brilliant. It’s well worth a visit.

It’s tonight! Very excited to be bringing Show Off! back (again) - and also quite conscious that it is going to be a very busy day.

Songs For A New World tonight was fantastic!

Tonight’s show was Every Brilliant Thing, with Sue Perkins. It was fantastic.

Some exciting professional news: Show Off! is returning in September! Matthew Gent and Tasha Sheridan will be co-hosting, with Robert Hazle at the piano. I will undoubtedly mention this again between now and then:)

Normal levels of theatre activity will resume next week - and there is certainly a daunting mountain of admin to be handled in the meantime - but it has been very strange going from the wonderful overstimulation of the Fringe to a very quiet and largely theatre-free late summer week in London.

The summer fun is largely over now. The coming weeks and months are likely to be action-packed, with plenty of cause for anxiety, but I’m also looking forward to lots of things. I will likely be a bit more present here going forward.

The weather was mixed, but it was nevertheless great to fit in a swim at the West Reservoir today.

It was great to be dancing with friends at the Rivoli again tonight, for the first time in far too long.

It's Independent Bookshop Week. Ways you can support them: -Don't browse a little bookshop, make a mental note of titles, then get them on Amazon. Buy the books then and there! Dare you! -Get them to order books in, they almost always can. -Just march in and present them with a huge bag of money.

It was a fun first day of Might Hoopla. @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social’s fabulous outfit was popular!

So glad to have seen The Ballad of Wallis Island last night. It is a lovely film.

Saw Meow Meow tonight - for the first time in a while but very much not for the first time - at @sohotheatre.bsky.social. The show was utterly brilliant. I highly recommend it.

Thoroughly enjoyed my first swim at the West Reservoir of 2025

I’m sad that Why Am I So Single? has ended so soon, but really glad that I got to be there today for the final performances. It is an extraordinary show, and it was an extraordinary production - and today was really special.

A couple of weeks into 2025 and the shows are becoming a bit more serious, which is not a bad thing. Tonight’s was @ivograham.bsky.social’s Carousel at the @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social. It was fantastic.