Articles by Mark Ludmon

About Mark Ludmon

Mark Ludmon has been a journalist for over 20 years, specialising in theatre, hospitality and drinks after starting in regional daily newspapers. He has an MA in early modern literature and history, focusing on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and a theatre studies MA from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. He is a former panellist for the Olivier Awards. He tweets at @MarkLudmon.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, London Palladium review ✭✭✭

3 July 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

Review of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast the musical which is now running at the London Palladium […]

New Bollywood musical leads Belgrade Theatre’s new season

22 April 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

Belgrade Theatre in Coventry has announced its autumn/winter season including new musical Bollywood Superstar […]

West End stars line up for UK’s first musical theatre convention

22 April 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

West End stars will come together this October at the UK’s first musical theatre convention, Musical Theatre Con, in London […]

Sutton Foster among nominees in National Dance Awards

21 April 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

Anything Goes star Sutton Foster has been nominated alongside some of the world’s greatest ballet dancers in the National Dance Awards […]

National Theatre to re-imagine The Odyssey across England

20 April 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

The Odyssey will be re-imagined by the National Theatre in shows in Doncaster, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Wiltshire and London […]

Royal Court to stage thriller by first-time writer ‘Dave Davidson’

20 April 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

The Royal Court has announced a “slippery new thriller”, That Is Not Who I Am, by a new writer named as Dave Davidson […]

Awards announced for the best in British panto

20 April 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

Alexandra Burke, Rob Rinder and Joe Tracini were among winners in the 2022 Pantomime Awards […]

New Young Vic season features musical about Nelson Mandela

14 April 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

The Young Vic Theatre’s summer and autumn 2022 season includes a musical about Nelson Mandela and Ivo van Hove’s Who Killed My Father […]

Sad, Omnibus Theatre, London review ✭✭✭

12 April 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

Review of Victoria Willing’s new comedy, Sad, at Omnibus Theatre in Clapham in London […]

Cast set for Marina Carr’s new play Girl on an Altar at Kiln Theatre

12 April 2022 Mark Ludmon Comments Off

Casting has been announced for the premiere of Marina Carr’s new play, Girl on an Altar, at Kiln Theatre in London […]