Everything Theatre Reviews, interviews and news for theatre lovers, London and beyond
Everything Theatre is a real group effort, how else could we review so many shows? Each and every person who writes for us is an important cog in the big wheel that keeps us running. Since we started in 2010, we’ve had more than 160 people write for us, and we hope to see that number continue to grow in the future. Some of our team have been with us since the very early days, others may only stay for a short while, but we appreciate each and every one of them for their contributions.
Whilst we are a fully volunteer run group, we do obviously need a few people running the show, and that’s what we call our Exec Team, those people who give up a little additional time to ensure things run as smoothly as they do. You can find out who those people are below.
Of course, the heart of everything we do is reviewing, we simply wouldn’t exist without reviewers. You can find out who our current reviewing team is here.
You can also see everyone who has ever written for us here. We’re appreciative of everyone person who has ever contributed, even if it was just one or two reviews, each and every one has helped us become what we are today.
And finally, whilst every reviewer is equally special to us, we decided that those who have ben around long enough to have raked up at least 50 reviews should get a special mention. So we decided to call them our Senior Reviewers – it was easier to give them an important sounding title than it was to pay them! You can see which of our team have achieved that honour further down the page here.
If you want to become part of our wonderful team, we’re always looking for new contributors. It doesn’t even have to be reviewing, we are keen to hear form you if you wanted to get involved with some feature writing, interviews and even editing. You can find out more about this here.
The ET Exec Team
Rob Warren
Chief Dogsbody
Rob joined the reviewing team in 2016. When ET’s original founders stepped down the year after, he offered to help out a little. That ‘little’ has grown quite a lot since then. Nowadays Rob is the one you’re most likely to hear from if you contact us about anything. He’s also the one who comes up with most of the mad ideas that others have to dissuade him from persuing.
Mary Pollard
Head Editor
Mary joined the team at the end of 2019 to help out with editing. Since then she has become invaulable in keeping things on track. Her (usually) sensible approach ensures we don’t go too wild with some ideas – so yes, she is usually the one telling Rob that his latest suggestion really isn’t that good!
Mary is also our resident expert on anything puppetry – what she doesn’t know about Zippy, (including the dark days he doesn’t like to mention) isn’t worth knowing.
Sidonie Ferguson
Social Media Guru
Sidonie has been helping out since 2018. She is our go-to person for all things social media, and has been a big reason why you will see us so much more active on Twitter, Facebook and, more recently, Instagram. She is also the one of our go-to people for anything West End musicals.
Clare Annamalai
Consulting Editor
Clare took over the reins in 2016 and has helped keep things afloat since. Whilst not quite so hands on at the moment due to two teenage daughters taking up most of her spare time, she is still the person whose calm and sensible head acts as a great mentor when needed.
Lily Middleton
Head of Recruitment
Whilst we may be all volunteers, we still take our recruitment of new reviewers seriously. After all, without a team of great reviewers, we’d not exist! And that’s where Lily comes in. She’s first point of contact if you want to come and write for us, leading you through our onboarding process and ensuring you are made to feel as welcome as possible. Oh and she’s the other go-to person for musicals, it’s a bun fight between her and Sidonie!
Dave Bushe
The Man With No Portfolio
Dave joined us at the start of 2022, and has quickly become another helpful cog in the wheel. In-between seeing more shows than is surely healthy, he assists with lots of behind the scenes admin and support to make our lives a whole lot easier. Basically, we give him the tasks no one else wants to do (just don’t tell him that).
Charlotte Boreham
Digital Creative
As much as we all think we know all the lingo and in’s and out’s of social media, let’s be honest, some of us are a little too long in the tooth to know how best to make use of some of it. So what better than some younger eyes to cast over such things, and that’s where Charlotte comes in. She’s been charged with the task of making us all look young and trendy. Which for some of us could be a hard sell.
Alan Harbottle
Admin Assistant
Alan joined as a reviewer in 2023 and volunteered to do more at the beginning of 2024. He regularly updates content for the website and promotes them on social media. Recently he’s been connecting with theatre groups who want to have an interview. Basically, if Rob needs some admin done, Alan usually ends up doing it.
Senior Reviewers
We don’t rank our reviewers but our Senior Reviewers have published more than 50 reviews for Everything Theatre and we’d like to take a small moment here to recognise and thank them for their contributions.
