Heather Penny
@reelofthe51st.bsky.social
Arts & social media bookshop volunteer. Tennis, theatre, fashion, dance, NZ Sauv. Big earrings. Bob. Chocoholic. Terrible cook. Remoaner. Herts/London
Great night out at #EricMorecambeCentre at #AnnabelCroft speaking tour (plus she danced with #JamesCutler too!). Must be a lot of #tennis and #Strictly lovers in #Harpenden (guilty!) as it was packed. Annabel is a fabulously engaging speaker with so much to say and every word was interesting💃🕺🎤 🎤
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Great night out at #EricMorecambeCentre at #AnnabelCroft speaking tour (plus she danced with #JamesCutler too!). Must be a lot of #tennis and #Strictly lovers in #Harpenden (guilty!) as it was packed. Annabel is a fabulously engaging speaker with so much to say and every word was interesting💃🕺🎤 🎤
#RoyalBallet Triple Bill #Perspectives at #RoyalOperaHouse yesterday afternoon. Loved the #Balanchine, loved the #JustinPeck and 2 out of 3 ain't bad! 🩰 🩰
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
#RoyalBallet Triple Bill #Perspectives at #RoyalOperaHouse yesterday afternoon. Loved the #Balanchine, loved the #JustinPeck and 2 out of 3 ain't bad! 🩰 🩰
Well #Blackpool #Strictly is going to be just brilliant with the return of these 4 fabulous past contestants. Particularly looking forward to seeing #JayMcGuiness because I almost bankrupted myself voting for him to win💃🕺 #StrictlyComeDancing
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Well #Blackpool #Strictly is going to be just brilliant with the return of these 4 fabulous past contestants. Particularly looking forward to seeing #JayMcGuiness because I almost bankrupted myself voting for him to win💃🕺 #StrictlyComeDancing
Lego & lights, bells & baubles! #CoventGardenChristmas comes to life! 🎄 🦌 🎅 🔔
November 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Lego & lights, bells & baubles! #CoventGardenChristmas comes to life! 🎄 🦌 🎅 🔔
Thursday night at the #LinburyTheatre at the #RoyalBalletAndOpera to watch one of my very favourite #RoyalBallet superstars #NataliaOsipova. Her second #OsipovaLinbury showcase this year & I had much better seats this time to fully appreciate the delightful #TheExhibition with #ChristopherAkrill 👏
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Thursday night at the #LinburyTheatre at the #RoyalBalletAndOpera to watch one of my very favourite #RoyalBallet superstars #NataliaOsipova. Her second #OsipovaLinbury showcase this year & I had much better seats this time to fully appreciate the delightful #TheExhibition with #ChristopherAkrill 👏
The beautifully traditional #PaulSmith #ChristmasTree in the #PaulHamlynHall at the #RoyalBalletAndOpera 🎄 My show started 15 minutes after the main house so a virtually empty hall and lots of time for a close-up nose 😊
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The beautifully traditional #PaulSmith #ChristmasTree in the #PaulHamlynHall at the #RoyalBalletAndOpera 🎄 My show started 15 minutes after the main house so a virtually empty hall and lots of time for a close-up nose 😊
#Christmas comes to #WestfieldLondon
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
#Christmas comes to #WestfieldLondon
Sunday afternoon catching up with #RoyalBallet #Perspectives Insight including #CathyMarston's new work #AgainstTheTide set to #BenjaminBritten's Violin Concerto 🎻 🩰 Looking forward to seeing it live next weekend.
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sunday afternoon catching up with #RoyalBallet #Perspectives Insight including #CathyMarston's new work #AgainstTheTide set to #BenjaminBritten's Violin Concerto 🎻 🩰 Looking forward to seeing it live next weekend.
Today is my Auntie Elizabeth and Uncle Noel's #RubyWedding Anniversary. Congratulations to them on 40 years of marriage 🍾 🥂 💒 👰 🤵 Remembering those hooped frilly peach dresses, flat white pumps from Faith, a dodgy perm and wedding photos in the pouring rain in Wardown Park #itwasacceptableinthe80s
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Today is my Auntie Elizabeth and Uncle Noel's #RubyWedding Anniversary. Congratulations to them on 40 years of marriage 🍾 🥂 💒 👰 🤵 Remembering those hooped frilly peach dresses, flat white pumps from Faith, a dodgy perm and wedding photos in the pouring rain in Wardown Park #itwasacceptableinthe80s
In the summer of 1987 I played my cassette of #FLM on a loop so it was back to the 80s on Thursday night with #KimAppleby of #MelAndKim in conversation at #victoriaandalbertmuseum. So many fabulous stories to tell about #1980s music, fashion, photography....and those dance routines! 🎶 🎵 🎤🕺👏
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
In the summer of 1987 I played my cassette of #FLM on a loop so it was back to the 80s on Thursday night with #KimAppleby of #MelAndKim in conversation at #victoriaandalbertmuseum. So many fabulous stories to tell about #1980s music, fashion, photography....and those dance routines! 🎶 🎵 🎤🕺👏
To @barbicancentre.bsky.social to watch live relay of #RoyalBallet in La Fille mal gardée...Saw it from the not-actually-that-cheap cheap seats at #RoyalBalletAndOpera a couple of weeks ago, great to see a different cast up close. Great fun & a really appreciative, receptive cinema audience 🩰👏🐓🐔🌾🐴☂️
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
To @barbicancentre.bsky.social to watch live relay of #RoyalBallet in La Fille mal gardée...Saw it from the not-actually-that-cheap cheap seats at #RoyalBalletAndOpera a couple of weeks ago, great to see a different cast up close. Great fun & a really appreciative, receptive cinema audience 🩰👏🐓🐔🌾🐴☂️
Tuesday night at the Members' New Season Preview @sadlerswells.bsky.social 💃🩰🕺
Particularly pleased #ScottishBallet #MaryQueenOfScots is coming. Lots of brilliant things in the programme....Will be hard to pick what to see 😊
Particularly pleased #ScottishBallet #MaryQueenOfScots is coming. Lots of brilliant things in the programme....Will be hard to pick what to see 😊
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Tuesday night at the Members' New Season Preview @sadlerswells.bsky.social 💃🩰🕺
Particularly pleased #ScottishBallet #MaryQueenOfScots is coming. Lots of brilliant things in the programme....Will be hard to pick what to see 😊
Particularly pleased #ScottishBallet #MaryQueenOfScots is coming. Lots of brilliant things in the programme....Will be hard to pick what to see 😊
The multi, multi award-winning play with music #Stereophonic at #DukeOfYorksTheatre had been on our 'must-see' list for a long time and last Friday we finally saw it. Brilliant seats, brilliant costumes (original 70s), brilliant set, brilliant performances, brilliant show 🎶 🎵 🎤 👏
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The multi, multi award-winning play with music #Stereophonic at #DukeOfYorksTheatre had been on our 'must-see' list for a long time and last Friday we finally saw it. Brilliant seats, brilliant costumes (original 70s), brilliant set, brilliant performances, brilliant show 🎶 🎵 🎤 👏
Love taking friends to #victoriaandalbertmuseum with my Membership. Who doesn't want to spend an afternoon gawping at some truly gobsmacking #Cartier bling? 💎
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Love taking friends to #victoriaandalbertmuseum with my Membership. Who doesn't want to spend an afternoon gawping at some truly gobsmacking #Cartier bling? 💎
The Odyssey St Albans was a beautiful venue to watch a fabulous @nationaltheatre.org.uk #NTLive performance of #GeorgeBernardShaw's play #MrsWarrensProfession last weekend. Brilliant performances from #ImeldaStaunton and her real-life daughter #BessieCarter as mother and daughter 🎭 👏
November 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The Odyssey St Albans was a beautiful venue to watch a fabulous @nationaltheatre.org.uk #NTLive performance of #GeorgeBernardShaw's play #MrsWarrensProfession last weekend. Brilliant performances from #ImeldaStaunton and her real-life daughter #BessieCarter as mother and daughter 🎭 👏
The brilliant @driverminnie.bsky.social in the equally brilliant #EveryBrilliantThing at #SohoPlace last Friday night. Just a fabulous performance 🎭 and yes, 'Friendly cats' 🐈 was one of the things on the list. Hard agree! Just go and see it and leave creating your own list 👏
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The brilliant @driverminnie.bsky.social in the equally brilliant #EveryBrilliantThing at #SohoPlace last Friday night. Just a fabulous performance 🎭 and yes, 'Friendly cats' 🐈 was one of the things on the list. Hard agree! Just go and see it and leave creating your own list 👏
Dance Day Part 2...To the Lilian Baylis Studio and my first time watching a performance by #CompanyOfElders, @sadlerswells.bsky.social resident performance group for non-professional dancers aged 60 and over. Hugely enjoyable and uplifting 👏 💃🕺
October 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Dance Day Part 2...To the Lilian Baylis Studio and my first time watching a performance by #CompanyOfElders, @sadlerswells.bsky.social resident performance group for non-professional dancers aged 60 and over. Hugely enjoyable and uplifting 👏 💃🕺
Saturday was a double dance day. First up a solo date to see the #RoyalBallet in #LaFillemalgardée at #RoyalBalletAndOpera. The Royal Ballet hasn't performed this ballet for 10 years but it's perfect to bring it back now....Silly, funny, light-hearted escapism, just what we need right now 🩰
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Saturday was a double dance day. First up a solo date to see the #RoyalBallet in #LaFillemalgardée at #RoyalBalletAndOpera. The Royal Ballet hasn't performed this ballet for 10 years but it's perfect to bring it back now....Silly, funny, light-hearted escapism, just what we need right now 🩰
Thanks to #LondonBalletCircle I joined a tour of the new #SadlersWellsEast theatre #Eastbank last week including backstage areas, dressing rooms, dance studios, costume repair & maintenance area and balconies and roof gardens which have stunning views over #QueenElizabethOlympicPark Thank you!
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Thanks to #LondonBalletCircle I joined a tour of the new #SadlersWellsEast theatre #Eastbank last week including backstage areas, dressing rooms, dance studios, costume repair & maintenance area and balconies and roof gardens which have stunning views over #QueenElizabethOlympicPark Thank you!
Lovely lunch on Sunday at #DovecliffHallHotel Gorgeous food, venue and company! 💕💕😋
October 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Lovely lunch on Sunday at #DovecliffHallHotel Gorgeous food, venue and company! 💕💕😋
Last Friday night watching #EnglishNationalBallet R:evolution @sadlerswells.bsky.social Four choreographers (George Balanchine, Martha Graham, William Forsythe, David Dawson), four fabulous #ballets ranging from 1947 to 2023 🩰🍷
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Last Friday night watching #EnglishNationalBallet R:evolution @sadlerswells.bsky.social Four choreographers (George Balanchine, Martha Graham, William Forsythe, David Dawson), four fabulous #ballets ranging from 1947 to 2023 🩰🍷
The incredible courage of the titular librarians in @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social @bbciplayer.bsky.social #Storyville in the face of unimaginable abuse & threats is inspirational. Tempting to watch & think 'Well, this is crazy....it could never happen here...' But it's also a warning 😥 #BannedBooks
October 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The incredible courage of the titular librarians in @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social @bbciplayer.bsky.social #Storyville in the face of unimaginable abuse & threats is inspirational. Tempting to watch & think 'Well, this is crazy....it could never happen here...' But it's also a warning 😥 #BannedBooks
Monday @nicolescherzy.bsky.social @royalalberthall.bsky.social 🎤 🎶 I got a cheap last-minute seat & it was worth it to hear her sing #SunsetBoulevard numbers as didn't manage to see her in that (💰). As a performer she's outstanding....but It was an experience 🙄...and poorly handled by the venue.
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Monday @nicolescherzy.bsky.social @royalalberthall.bsky.social 🎤 🎶 I got a cheap last-minute seat & it was worth it to hear her sing #SunsetBoulevard numbers as didn't manage to see her in that (💰). As a performer she's outstanding....but It was an experience 🙄...and poorly handled by the venue.
An incredibly moving true story which asks all kinds of questions about rehabilitation and forgiveness @nimaxtheatres.bsky.social #ApolloTheatre #PunchThePlay
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
An incredibly moving true story which asks all kinds of questions about rehabilitation and forgiveness @nimaxtheatres.bsky.social #ApolloTheatre #PunchThePlay
Last night I got a sneak preview of #EnglishNationalBallet R:evolution programme which opens tonight @sadlerswells.bsky.social. Dress rehearsal was fabulous & will be back next week to watch a performance 👏 👏 🩰
October 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Last night I got a sneak preview of #EnglishNationalBallet R:evolution programme which opens tonight @sadlerswells.bsky.social. Dress rehearsal was fabulous & will be back next week to watch a performance 👏 👏 🩰