Sunday, April 1, 2018
When I chaired my first post-show Q&A at Miss Nightingale a year ago, I thought its home then was ideal: The Vaults, in its labyrinth beneath Waterloo Station, so like an air raid shelte…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:28PMSaturday, March 31, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 8 May 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to Spanish playwright Guillem Clua - as well as director and stars - about t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
I’ve always been squeamish about needles. And I’m not much better with graphic drug-taking by any other method either. I first saw Harry Gibson’s stage adaptation of Irvine…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:02PMFriday, March 16, 2018
I’m pretty certain that my event last night at SOLDIER ON was my largest-ever panel for a post-show Q&A: in total, there were 19 of us, including me. Thank goodness the Playgr…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:03PMMonday, March 12, 2018
When you hold a post-show Q&A on Mothering Sunday, it’s awfully helpful to have a mother of one of the show’s stars in the cast. (Though I do hope After the Ball cast member …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:52PMFriday, March 9, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 15 March 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer/director Jonathan Guy Lewis (Our Boys) and members of the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMThursday, March 8, 2018
MyTheatreMates co-founder Terri Paddock hosted a series of three post-show Q&As following packed-out performances of the current run of Philip Ridley's ANGRY at London's Southwark Playh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
If an elderly relative in enormous physical pain begged you to help them to die, would you? Would you ever ask the same of someone else? What is a ‘decent death’? Should we all have the …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:08AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 29 March 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the creator and company of original British musical MISS NIGHTINGALE,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMMonday, February 26, 2018
I’ve been raving about Julius Caesar to everyone over the past few weeks, and particularly the experience of seeing it in the pit of the staggeringly versatile Bridge Theatre. This sec…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMThursday, February 22, 2018
In November 2016, a week after the election of Donald Trump, I chaired a post-show Q&A at Philip Ridley’s Tonight with Donny Stixx. That one-man show, which follows a would-be magician…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:14AMThursday, February 15, 2018
What’s the point of philosophy? According to Ludwig Wittgenstein, as portrayed in Ron Elisha’s moving and thought-provoking two-hander The Soul of Wittgenstein now running at Clapham Om…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:00PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 9 June 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of new British musical San Domino, inspired by a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 13, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 21 April 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of the European premiere of award-winning US dr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, February 12, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Sunday 11 March 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer, director and cast of world premiere play After the Ball. Go…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A programme, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host a series of three discussions during the course of the world premiere run of Philip Ridley's ANG…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, February 1, 2018
The Jewish story must continue to be told, Sheldon Harnick told me and a packed house at London’s Park Theatre after Tuesday night’s performance of Rothschild & Sons, for whi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:30AMSaturday, January 27, 2018
It’s natural that your reactions to shows are filtered through the prism of the current social and political climate. And savvy theatres, of course, seek to judge the mood and programme ac…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:01AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 15 February 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and stars of new play The Soul of Wittgenstein, which…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, January 11, 2018
What an incredibly brave, brilliant and inspiring woman Iris Chang was. What an unimaginably horrific atrocity the Nanking Massacre was. How ashamed I am to have known next to nothing about …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:32PMSaturday, December 23, 2017
I feel incredibly privileged to have been “in the room where it happens” to see the European premiere of HAMILTON last night at the West End’s Victoria Palace Theatre. …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:52PMFriday, December 22, 2017
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 30 January 2018 at London’s Park Theatre, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to legendary Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 10 January 2018 at London’s Finborough Theatre, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of Christop…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Does this count as a vlogmas? Probably not, but here’s my attempt at a theatre diary vlog in any case, which includes two Christmas shows! The emphasis is on Off-West End musicals I…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:40AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Another fascinating rediscovery from Troupe Theatre. J.M. Barrie is best known, of course, for Peter Pan (and there are no shortage of revivals and spin-offs of that around Theatreland at th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:39AMFriday, December 1, 2017
Three Off-West End musicals I’ve seen in the past few weeks – well, two musicals and a play with music – have served up slices of modern history to entertaining effect. The…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:00AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
It was a packed house – including many therapy professionals – for last night’s performance of Matthew Campling‘s new play The Secondary Victim at the Park Theatre. W…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:47AMFriday, November 10, 2017
A cheeky Twitter follower (yes, I’m talking about you Johnny Fox) requested that I ask the three stars of Patrick Marber‘s locker room drama The Red Lion – Stephen Tompkin…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:00AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Understandably, as theatremakers and audiences try to make sense of our turbulent times, political plays are de rigueur – and it’s not just ones written by James Graham either. …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:10AMMonday, November 6, 2017
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 5 December 2017 at London's Southwark Playhouse, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to director Jonathan O'Boyle and his Tr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 3, 2017
Can we love someone whose belief system we fundamentally disagree with? If we love someone, can we denounce what we believe just to please them? Family and faith compete in thoughtful three…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:55AM 
