Friday, March 6, 2020
As part of her ongoing post-show talk series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock chairs a special post-show discussion at the West End transfer of Stephen Laughton's One Jewish Boy, written as a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, March 5, 2020
I'm excited to raise a toast to Robert Bathurst and the team behind poetry-inspired Love, Loss & Chianti - and to pay my first visit to the new, purpose-built home for iconic London arts…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock heads to London's Omnibus Theatre tomorrow (6 March 2020) for the premiere of Can I Help You?, the final play …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Are you superstitious? The most famous theatrical superstition is, of course, the one about "The Scottish play". Do the cast of Lazarus Theatre's new ensemble production believe in curses?
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:29AMSunday, March 1, 2020
I saw Brian Cox and his wife Nicole Ansari acting alongside one another in the premiere of Tom Stoppard's 2006 play Rock 'n' Roll. It was wonderful to talk to them about working together ons…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:47AMSaturday, February 29, 2020
I laughed my head off watching Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, and afterwards, got onto the wonderfully kitsch 1970s set myself to interview stars Joe Pasquale and Sarah Earnshaw and writer-direct…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:30AMFriday, February 14, 2020
As part of her ongoing series of post-show talks, Mates founder Terri Paddock chairs an unmissable event with leading British playwright Simon Stephens following the first revival of his pla…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:40AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
I first fell in love with Once after seeing the original 2007 independent Irish film. Then again when I the Tony Award-winning musical adaptation had its West End premiere in 2013. And now a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:21PMSaturday, February 8, 2020
Have you ever seen Charlie Chaplin's classic film The Great Dictator? Eighty years after it was released, it feels terrifyingly current. We get a glimpse of why with the inclusion of its fin…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:40PMFriday, February 7, 2020
Are you aware of your inherent biases about gender? How much do they affect your judgments about women or men are capable of? What about when it comes to a violent crime?
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:53AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Have you ever been powerfully persuaded by something you've read in a newspaper? Should journalists be held responsibility for the consequences of the articles they write?
The post For the S…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:21AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
It's still January - just - and Mates founder Terri Paddock has some new year advice for theatre bloggers, pulled together with input from several other Mates. Originally written for and pub…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
More than 50 years after they were founded in a Soho basement, the UK's longest-running alternative theatre company, People Show, bring their latest devised piece to London. What can you exp…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:05AMSunday, January 26, 2020
As their episodes of The Goes Wrong Show continue to delight television audiences, I was delighted to continue my series of Mischief Theatre talks with a return to the Vaudeville Theatre to …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:36PMFriday, January 24, 2020
Abracadabra! As their weekly episodes of The Goes Wrong Show continue to delight television audiences, I was delighted to continue my series of Mischief Theatre post-show talks with a return…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:46PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Janice Okoh's new Black history play The Gift juxtaposes a story from Queen Victoria's 19th-century royal circle with the present day. Just opened at Belgrade Theatre, it now transfers to Lo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:58AMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Can you stick to the beat? Looks like it's a prerequisite for the cast of the new beatbox-infused adaptation of Alex Wheatle's award-winning 2016 Young Adults' novel Crongton Knights. Sneak …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:29PMMonday, January 20, 2020
To me, COPS, set in 1950s Chicago, comes across as so authentically period that it feels like it must be a finely minted revival. But it's not: it's a new play. Even more surprising then tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMSaturday, January 18, 2020
To me, COPS, set in 1950s Chicago, comes across as so authentically period that it feels like it must be a finely minted revival. But it’s not: it’s a new play. Even more surprising then…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:32AMFriday, January 17, 2020
After acclaim last year at Manchester's mighty Hope Mill Theatre, RAGS The Musical has transferred to the Park Theatre for a limited season. It's a Broadway musical with a long, chequered hi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:54AMMonday, January 6, 2020
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock escapes to Never Land care of Lazarus Theatre company's new ensemble take on Peter Pan at London's Greenwich T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMThursday, January 2, 2020
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to the Park Theatre for startling new American play Never Not Once. Got any questions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:16PMMonday, December 30, 2019
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock gets to grip with Ibsen care of Lazarus Theatre company's new ensemble take on Hedda Gabler at London's Greenw…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMThursday, December 26, 2019
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock gets bloody with Lazarus Theatre company care of Shakespeare's Macbeth at Greenwich Theatre. Got any questions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMMonday, December 23, 2019
As part of her ongoing post-show talk series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock catches the premiere of a brand-new play about legend of the silver screen, the Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin. Go…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMFriday, December 20, 2019
As part of her ongoing post-show talk series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to Southwark Playhouse for the official opening night of the UK premiere of COPS. Got any questions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
As part of her ongoing post-show talk series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to the Park Theatre for Aria Entertainment's Hope Mill Theatre transfer of Stephen Schwartz's RAGS The Mu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMTuesday, December 17, 2019
As part of her ongoing post-show talk series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks to the writer/director and cast of new political drama For the Sake of Argument at London's Bridewell Theat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMMonday, December 16, 2019
Curtains, the murder mystery musical comedy by Chicago and Cabaret creators Kander & Ebb, had its Broadway premiere in 2007 in a production starring Frasier‘s David Hyde Pierce. Why ha…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:35AMThursday, December 12, 2019
After Tania Amsel’s new play Blood Orange the night before, I returned to the Old Red Lion Theatre for Paragon Theatre’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ ghost story The Signalman. Dicke…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:30AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
How worried are you about the myriad pressures on the NHS today? Will you be thinking about the future of the NHS when you go to the ballot box?
The post <em>Blood Orange</em> po…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:33AM 
