An Actors Guide to Twitter: Who to follow – Journalists & Critics

Actor Hub Guide to Twitter - Who to follow

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A list of Journalists, Arts Editors and Newspapers on Twitter

@andrew_girvan

Deputy editor at Whatsonstage.com and social media cleverclogs.
@andydickson

The Guardian’s theatre editor.
@artspro

The UK’s leading arts management magazine, tweeting news, features and more.
@carolinemcginn

Time Out’s theatre editor.
@carriesparkle

Carrie Dunn is an academic and journalist writing about theatre and lots of other things.
@chiggi

Charlotte Higgins, chief arts writer at The Guardian.
@domcavendish

Theatre and comedy critic at The Telegraph.
@fionalondonarts

Theatre critic for the Evening Standard.
@ftlifeandarts

Arts stories from the Financial Times.
@GuardianCulture

Culture news, reviews and multimedia from the Guardian in a world of broadsheet cultural ignorance.
@GuardianStage

Its what Lyn Gardner and Michael Billington say, but on Twitter. You should read it. It should be your bible.
@henryhitchings

Theatre critic for The Evening Standard.
@ianshutters

Ian Shuttleworth is a theatre critic for the Financial Times and editor of Theatre Record.
@louise_jury

The Evening Standard’s chief arts correspondent.
@LynGardner

Guardian theatre critic and columnist. Has added her voice to the support of some great young companies including Belt Up and Dumbshow.
@markffisher

Journalist writing about Scottish theatre.
@matttrueman

Freelance writer and critic, writing for The Guardian, The Stage, Time Out and plenty more.
@mrlukowski

Andrzej Lukowski is a journalist who writes about theatre and music for publications including Time Out.
@nosheeniqbal

Journalist and editor, formerly of The Guardian.
@NYTimesTheater

Does what it says on the tin: The theatre section of New York’s Paper of record. Great for features on productions, people and for news.
@scottm

Scott Matthewman is online editor and digital project manager at The Stage.
@Shentonstage

As well as links to Mark Shenton’s daily blog entry for The Stage you also get the musings of the man himself. Always insightful and never far away from the world of the stage.
@smithalistair

Alistair Smith is deputy editor at The Stage.
@susanelkinjourn

Freelance journalist and The Stage’s education editor, tweeting about training and theatre for children and young people.
@TelegraphTheatr

Theatre news from The Telegraph newspaper. Critics Charles Spencer, Mark Monahan, Sarah Crompton and Dominic Cavendish.
@theartsdesk

Daily arts coverage from this online publication.
@theatremagazine

Tweets from the high-brow online theatre magazine.
@theindyarts

Arts news, features, interviews and reviews from the arts pages of The Independent.
@theobosanquet

Deputy editor and Off-West End editor at Whatsonstage.com
@TheStage

Nearly always first with big news in the UK theatre and entertainment space. News, blogs, jobs and features which hits the news stands on Thursdays.
@TimeOutTheatre

News, recommendations and opinion from what is still London’s top listings magazine.

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