Cecil Beaton's Diaries

The fabulous diaries of photographer Sir Cecil Beaton on the New York stage and beyond

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

@NPGLondon
Also Cecil Beaton’s Diaries at @JSTheatre, Sunday 11 January, one performance only!

[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

For us, this portrait is as glam as it gets...

Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World opens today, and we invite you to share artworks or objects that evoke 'Glamour' for the #OnlineArtExchange @artdotorguk.

📸 Audrey Hepburn, 1963. The Cecil Beaton Archive, London © Condé Nast

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

@NPGLondon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ For one performance, Sunday 11 January, 5pm - to tie in with final day of @NPGLondon exhibition Cecil Beaton’s Fashonable World #cecilbeaton - and tickets already selling quickly. @JSTheatre
https://t.co/WF5ZGVprzI

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ For one performance, Sunday 11 January, 5pm - to tie in with final day of @NPGLondon exhibition Cecil Beaton’s Fashonable World #cecilbeaton - and tickets already selling quickly. @JSTheatre
https://t.co/WF5ZGVprzI

[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

“Be daring, be different, be impractical”, and visit Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World 📸

Open today until 11 January 2026.

Plan your visit now: https://t.co/crJKQTWxT8

🎥 Lane + Co

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ For one performance, Sunday 11 January, 5pm - to tie in with final day of @NPGLondon exhibition Cecil Beaton’s Fashonable World #cecilbeaton - and tickets already selling quickly. @JSTheatre
https://t.co/WF5ZGVoTKa

[Richard Stirling @DickieStirling]

Thrilled to be performing @DiariesCecil in Japan this April, on @cunardline @MSQueenElizabe1.
One of Cecil’s great muses @SoAudreyHepburn is still an icon in Japan. Here are some pictures last week near Geneva of her home La Paisible, the bust in the village square and her grave.

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

Here we are @CrazyCoqs @BrasserieZedel @DickieStirling
Words and images by Sir Cecil Beaton!
Wednesday 11 February, 7pm

[Crazy Coqs @CrazyCoqs]

Experience a ground-breaking theatrical event as the diaries of renowned photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton take centre stage for the first time, intertwining with his most iconic images, masterfully performed by Richard Stirling on 21 February at 7:00pm.

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

@crazycoqs @brasseriezedel @DickieStirling - Cecil Beaton's Diaries - Wednesday 21 February, 7pm
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert imaginative vision..."
https://t.co/gHAiQb2zbp

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

@DorchesterArts - here comes Cecil!
Thursday 22 February
The⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brits Off Broadway show
https://t.co/YI2JOiKJ54

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

Sunday 18 February, matinee: the nicest possible venue and time for Cecil: @kentontheatre
https://t.co/8s9UdzMhuF

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

21 February: Cecil is back in town @CrazyCoqs @BrasserieZedel @DickieStirling - sumptuous!
https://t.co/90R1j4Mxae

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

Beaton and Bailey, watching Beaton by Bailey, 1971.
And @DickieStirling is at @OSOArtsCentre from tonight!

[OSO Arts Centre @OSOArtsCentre]

📸 Only two days to go before opening night!!!! 📸

Direct from Jermyn St Theatre, we are so excited to be welcoming Richard Stirling (Bridgerton, The Man Who Came to Earth) to our stage in Cecil Beaton’s Diaries.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Edinburgh Guide

https://t.co/xCNgQIK4rj

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

Thank you, @OSOArtsCentre, for including @DickieStirling in your Spring Season launch last week. Look forward to being with you this week!
📸 Salvatore Sportato
https://t.co/NRZIwplTxU

[OSO Arts Centre @OSOArtsCentre]

Last night we celebrated the launch of our Spring Season! 10 of our fabulous upcoming shows presented 10 minute 'snippets' of what they had instore.

Can you guess the show from the image?

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

Here we are again! Starting the year at lovely @OSOArtsCentre this week, Thursday 18 - Saturday 20.
⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️@DickieStirling does a superlative job’ as Beaton @TalkinBroadway
https://t.co/NRZIwplTxU

[OSO Arts Centre @OSOArtsCentre]

Beaton’s photographs showed his versatility; his diaries exposed the cost.⁠
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For the first time, the diaries of photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton come to the stage, to accompany his most iconic images.⁠
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Book here: https://t.co/eqXAwcP9dc

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

@DiariesCecil begins 2024 with London dates of this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️show, straight from Off Broadway! @DickieStirling 'does a superlative job’ @TalkinBroadway
@OSOArtsCentre Thursday 18 - Saturday 20 January
https://t.co/NRZIwplTxU

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

@SwallowTheatre - a gorgeous start to last year's tour here and @59E59 NY.

[The Swallow Theatre @SwallowTheatre]

@jacksloanart @DiariesCecil - Richard Stirling
Hotel Elsinore - @susannahamnett
The Grandmothers Grimm - @SKOTheatre
The Budapest Cafe Orchestra @bco100
Sense & Sensibility - @HotbuckleProds
Jarman - @MarkFarrellyUK
Grav - @BaleGJ
@TomatoesTried2 - Keith Alessi
...

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

Sir Cecil Beaton lives on! New performances of this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️show! @DickieStirling 'does a superlative job’ @TalkinBroadway
This Sunday, 3pm @PavilionsTQ14
https://t.co/ObUJ7jzy00

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

Thank you to all the lovely theatres which have had us thus far. At sea with the show next month! Thank you to @GarethN16 and @StageStruck13, too! Here is @DickieStirling's very own Beaton: a costume sketch for the Samuel Barber opera Vanessa (1958).

[Cecil Beaton's Diaries @DiariesCecil]

That's a wrap... for now. Thank you, @JSTheatre, for the great time and lovely audiences, and @GarethN16 for the video.