Laura Wise

Writer. Anglophile. Exile from the southern plains. She/her. Slave to old-school fashion and my dog.

[Sir Noël Coward @NoelCowardSir]

Rest in peace, Dame Maggie Smith

Such a theatre legend, she will be greatly missed

📷 Maggie Smith at Coward's home Firefly, Jamaica in 1970

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

When you read Donald Trump’s 2025 agenda, you will see he intends to cut Social Security and Medicare, give tax breaks to billionaires, end the Affordable Care Act, and more.

We are not going back.

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@ParattiNo1 Wonderful!

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

'Dalgliesh' Gets Season 3 On Acorn TV & Channel 5 With Bertie Carvel Making Directorial Debut https://t.co/JRodhDzFjh

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@shipper_xphi Sending good thoughts. The first without her is hard.

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@ParattiNo1 Local Tories for local people. [shudder]

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@shipper_xphi From context I think it's more serious (he's stopping public events).

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@shipper_xphi Feel better soon!

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@shipper_xphi 61!! This is horrible.

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@ParattiNo1 Hugs.

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@ParattiNo1 Hugs and sorrow

[National Theatre @NationalTheatre]

Congratulations to @Markgatiss who has been awarded the 2023 Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre Award at this year's UKTAwards 🤩

Mark Gatiss plays the role of Sir John Gielgud in @motiveandthecue, which opens at the Noël Coward Theatre from 9 December.

📸 @MarkDouet

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@shipper_xphi I am so sorry. They just permeate the air, don't they. :(

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@shipper_xphi Oh no, so sorry.

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@shipper_xphi Me, going to vote Biden/Kamala Harris in 2024.

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@shipper_xphi Wow.

[ChawtonHouse @ChawtonHouse]

#OTD 1813, Jane Austen wrote to Cassandra: 'We then went to Wedgwoods where my Br [Edward] & Fanny chose a Dinner Set [...] the pattern is a small Lozenge in purple, between Lines of narrow Gold; -- & it is to have the Crest.'

[Laura Wise @LauraWise5]

@ParattiNo1 Hugs

[National Theatre @NationalTheatre]

Name a more iconic duo. We'll wait.

You can watch Alex Jennings and Lyndsey Duncan in Hansard on National Theatre at Home.

📸 Catherine Ashmore

#NationalTheatreAtHome #NationalTheatre #AlexJennings #LyndseyDuncan #NTHansard