Jon Dryden Taylor
@jondrytay.bsky.social
I will either think of or say things for money. Columnist for The Stage. Currently in: Kinky Boots UK tour
‘The dirty cranky lefties who told me exactly who he was from the start were right, but since I just sneered at them I am going to pretend that didn’t happen’
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
‘The dirty cranky lefties who told me exactly who he was from the start were right, but since I just sneered at them I am going to pretend that didn’t happen’
So if you dutifully bought the books the papers told you to in the 90s and 00s you end up with a bookshelf where two transphobes sandwich a violent racist.
September 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
So if you dutifully bought the books the papers told you to in the 90s and 00s you end up with a bookshelf where two transphobes sandwich a violent racist.
Bad, bad news.
September 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Bad, bad news.
AI is fucking useless, isn't it? Googled Christian Borle's character in The Good Fight and they confidently tell me he was in an episode of ER.
August 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
AI is fucking useless, isn't it? Googled Christian Borle's character in The Good Fight and they confidently tell me he was in an episode of ER.
Never has a single T-shirt proclaimed the words I AM ABOUT FIFTY so loudly
July 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Never has a single T-shirt proclaimed the words I AM ABOUT FIFTY so loudly
Also your theatre is fit.
July 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Also your theatre is fit.
Might not be at Pride cos matinee in Nottingham, but my warmup clothes are.
July 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Might not be at Pride cos matinee in Nottingham, but my warmup clothes are.
Never change, Facebook.
June 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Never change, Facebook.
oh no someone accidentally captured me being iconic
June 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
oh no someone accidentally captured me being iconic
When it’s your birthday and your glorious castmates know you can’t eat flour or sugar ❤️
May 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
When it’s your birthday and your glorious castmates know you can’t eat flour or sugar ❤️
Don’t mess with Aja
May 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Don’t mess with Aja
You and your so-called red and your theoretical top floor.
May 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
You and your so-called red and your theoretical top floor.
There’s something quintessentially lockdown about the careful little mise-en-place of this 2021 pic I just found.
(Real ones will also be able to spot which fantastic @nigella.bsky.social recipe I was making)
(Real ones will also be able to spot which fantastic @nigella.bsky.social recipe I was making)
April 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
There’s something quintessentially lockdown about the careful little mise-en-place of this 2021 pic I just found.
(Real ones will also be able to spot which fantastic @nigella.bsky.social recipe I was making)
(Real ones will also be able to spot which fantastic @nigella.bsky.social recipe I was making)
Love the show merch but it also means I have to be LOVELY at all times when in public because it literally says who I am and where I work
April 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Love the show merch but it also means I have to be LOVELY at all times when in public because it literally says who I am and where I work
FBPE/ People’s Vote types were utterly played and used as pawns, and they would all die rather than admit it.
April 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
FBPE/ People’s Vote types were utterly played and used as pawns, and they would all die rather than admit it.
Oh, nothing much to see here, just the EHRC telling gay and lesbian people who we are allowed to admit into our organisations. The colossal fucking nerve.
April 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Oh, nothing much to see here, just the EHRC telling gay and lesbian people who we are allowed to admit into our organisations. The colossal fucking nerve.
We usually have a progress Pride flag in our finale.
Today we didn’t.
Today we didn’t.
April 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We usually have a progress Pride flag in our finale.
Today we didn’t.
Today we didn’t.
May probably have to do something about all this fuzz before I go back on stage tonight in, you know, the drag musical.
April 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
May probably have to do something about all this fuzz before I go back on stage tonight in, you know, the drag musical.
This tribute to the Vivienne at her old bar in Gran Can is lovely.
April 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This tribute to the Vivienne at her old bar in Gran Can is lovely.
Casey, Keyes, Thorogood, Hussey, Billingham. That is quality holiday reading right there.
April 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Casey, Keyes, Thorogood, Hussey, Billingham. That is quality holiday reading right there.
I’m not going to say that I was in the *best* musical revival of 2024, but I am going to let the Oliviers say that for me.
April 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’m not going to say that I was in the *best* musical revival of 2024, but I am going to let the Oliviers say that for me.
Ready for the green carpet at the Oliviers nbd hbu?
April 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ready for the green carpet at the Oliviers nbd hbu?
This makes me boggle at the poverty of our public discourse every time I’m reminded of it. Six years ago today, a prominent political editor treating as a terrifying fiendish plot the idea that… the leader of the opposition was trying to get elected Prime Minister.
April 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This makes me boggle at the poverty of our public discourse every time I’m reminded of it. Six years ago today, a prominent political editor treating as a terrifying fiendish plot the idea that… the leader of the opposition was trying to get elected Prime Minister.
Thinking about all the centrist types who didn’t vote Labour in 2019 because ‘they didn’t trust them on Brexit’ and wondering how that turned out.
April 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Thinking about all the centrist types who didn’t vote Labour in 2019 because ‘they didn’t trust them on Brexit’ and wondering how that turned out.
Thank you Wales Millennium Centre you big beautiful beast! On to Brighton next, where I understand there will be several gentlemen who enjoy some of the themes of our musical.
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Thank you Wales Millennium Centre you big beautiful beast! On to Brighton next, where I understand there will be several gentlemen who enjoy some of the themes of our musical.