Mark Ravenhill

Great piece in the Observer today, Luke x

We're thrilled that Ben and Imo has been nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre!

With thanks to the Oliviers, the RSC, and our huge congratulations to Samuel Barnett and Victoria Yeates, Erica Whyman, Mark Ravenhill, and the entire team.

📸 Ellie Kurttz

Great to see @markravenhill.bsky.social's "Ben and Imo" nominated for an Olivier Award: the original RSC production involved some detailed research at the Red House and its Archive so we feel a little reflected glory in its success!

Olivier Awards 2026 – nominees in full See who has landed a big thumbs up from the London theatre scene!

We’ve been nominated for my play Ben and Imo! Thank you judges www.whatsonstage.com/news/olivier...

Great night at the Concert Artists Association in Covent Garden

Come join us at either 7pm or 8.30pm tonight at Museum of Comedy

Lunch time treat: The President’s Cake, an extraordinary Iraqi film that perfectly balances realism with folk tale clarity

Come see this evening of comedy turns which I’ve curated www.museumofcomedy.com/run-at-it-la...

Strauss and burgers

This is a surprising page turner ! I’m tearing through this

Charlie Chaplin The Circus - our Valentine date night in Berlin

BBC Four - Remembers..., Trevor Eve, Juliet Stevenson and David Thacker Remember... A Doll's House Trevor Eve, Juliet Stevenson and David Thacker look back on the 1992 Ibsen adaptation.

Friends, take a look at this and the production - the best Doll’s House ive seen - and l’ve seen many ! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Come see our opera this April ! Read about it hete bachtrack.com/interview-ma...

YouTube video by Qendra Multimedia SO YOU WANT TO BE A PLAYWRIGHT? | PANEL DISCUSSION

SO YOU WANT TO BE A PLAYWRIGHT? // Panel discussion with: Mark Ravenhill, Giannina Carbunariu, Bernhard Studlar and Jibbe Willems @ Kosovo-North Macedonia Theatre Showcase 2025
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Ben and Imo - Greek National Opera “Ben and Imo” at the Greek National Opera's Alternative Stage. A work exploring human connection, imagination and the delicate balance between memory and play.

My play Ben and Imo opens in a new Greek production next week www.nationalopera.gr/en/alternati...

Site visit for the opera (Salome) I’m directing this spring. Know where I am ?

You are not alone .. (I reviewed it for Front Row)

Listening to a conversation behind me yesterday : ‘we’ve been to a recording of the Graham Norton show. There was a comedian with huge teeth, a woman who was in something called Wicked, Chris somebody who’s big in Hollywood and the Vicar of Dibley’. Bliss.

An Ideal Husband | The White Bear Theatre An Ideal Husband comes to the White Bear Theatre. Book your tickets today!

Saw this last night and jit’s BRILLIANT !!

Some tix abailable for today’s matinee

GO !!!!!

www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk//an-ideal-hu...

An Ideal Husband | The White Bear Theatre An Ideal Husband comes to the White Bear Theatre. Book your tickets today!

Saw this last night and jit’s BRILLIANT !!

Some tix abailable for today’s matinee

GO !!!!!

www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk//an-ideal-hu...

Front Row - Jessie Buckley on her starring role in the film Hamnet - BBC Sounds Plus reviews of the novel Palaver by Bryan Washington and Sheridan Smith in Woman in Mind.

My thoughts on this week’s cultural highlights can be heard by clicking on the link ! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I was fortunate enough to see this show in Kosovo. It’s touring internationally. Do catch it if it comes near you

Fackham Hall (in cinemas now) is a glorious vintage cellar stocked full of the oldest puns, sight gags and prat falls. They’ve matured deliciously

Happy New Year from our midnight drinkers !

Theatre 2025 — Dan Rebellato My thoughts on a year of theatregoing.

My review of the theatre year 2025.

Buying a book yesterday and the person working the till says to me :

Are you a poet ?

I consider something like ‘in my own way’ but settle for ‘no’

You look like a poet, she says.

And I had a spring in my step for the rest of the day

Pentabus Young Writers – Local Applications Now Open!
If you’re 18–30 and living in the rural shropshire ? West Midlands? or Wales? this is your chance to develop your voice, your craft, and your confidence as a writer. Don’t miss it — get your application in!

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Michael Aspel (aged 92): ‘when I’m asked why I had such a long career on television I answer : because I was bland’. Acceptance and self knowledge of the old.

Anyone know why Box Hill, novel that’s the source of film Pillion, is out of print ? I’d expected a movie tie in cover or at least a reprint ? It seems to make no sense but there must be a reason. In the absence of Box Hill I read Adam Mars Jones earlier Monopolies of Loss -what an excellent writer