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Opinion and news

LouReviews is a place where I like to chat about the arts, and sometimes talk about my personal mental health. Here are links to the articles I have published so far.

The original Avenger: a tribute to Ian Hendry

The rescue of the “Hitchcock 9”

How can anyone who loves music hate musicals?

Letting go of your DVD collection?

Publishing a book: a cautionary tale

Scarlett O’Hara’s leading men

The sad fate of single television plays

Why is archive TV not widely regarded?

Remembering England’s great eccentric, Vivian Stanshall

Classic Corrie: back to the 80s

Tearjerkers in musical theatre

On black dogs, red mists, and blue Mondays

Why theatre is therapy for me

My best decision

Six months later: my life as a theatre blogger

It’s … fifty years of Monty Python

Why I don’t use star ratings

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Coming to @edfringe, Austin Jennings Boykin's A Gay Masseur's Guide to Happy Endings promises to be darkly funny and brutally honest.
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