Terence Ian Shuttleworth (born 6 July 1963 in Belfast, UK) is a retired Northern Irish theatre critic and author.
He was one of the senior theatre critics for the Financial Times May 2007- March 2019, and editor and publisher of Theatre Record magazine from 2004 until 2016.
Educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution with a double first class degree in English literature from Queens' College, Cambridge,[1] he wrote reviews for the Financial Times, and occasionally The Sunday Times, The Guardian, London Evening Standard, The Observer, The Independent, Daily Mail, The Sun, The Scotsman, The Stage, Stagebill, Plays & Players, Screen International, Broadcast, OK!, and City Life.
His 1994 book Ken & Em (Headline Books, 1994), is an unauthorised biography of Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson.
He also made a contribution to the book Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel (Tauris Parke, 2001).