I had an odd experience the other day, something that has never happened to me before, and certainly something that I never thought I’d actually find myself enjoying – I started to get interested in maths. Specifically, in the laws of divergent series, where the individual sum of an infinite sequence does not approach zero [...]

The look of surprise on the usher’s face as we ascended the escalator in the foyer of Tokyo’s National Theatre of Japan is one that I hope to never, ever forget: we had just informed him in the politest way possible that we did not require an English audio guide because we wanted to watch [...]

To be honest I don’t usually drink when I go to the theatre, partly because I have a bladder the size of a walnut, but primarily because it is so cripplingly expensive. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry recently when a very modest round for myself and three friends at the London Palladium [...]

Reading the comment streams after online newspaper articles and blogs is not good for my blood pressure. I hate to say it, but Joe Public can be a right idiot sometimes. The latest ongoing saga on theatre blogs far and wide is, of course, the subject of funding cuts for the arts, and while opinions [...]