Wednesday, 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 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 06:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 08:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 acco…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 03:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 T…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:52PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Harnick…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]As 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 Christophe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 05:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:39AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 07:47AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Tompk…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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.Â…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:10AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 thr…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:55AM[SHARE]Monday, October 30, 2017
How much can a landscape shape a person’s identity? How much can a landscape shape a play’s plot? In answer to the latter question, in the case of Elizabeth Kuti’s Fi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:59PM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2017
I can’t get out of my mind the idea of touring two new, one-act plays I’ve seen recently – Jane Upton‘s All The Little Lights and Kieran Knowles‘ 31 Hours…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:31AM[SHARE]In the past month, two musicals have got me up on my feet and dancing all the way out to the bar. At Five Guys Named Moe, I joined a conga line at the interval after attempting to singalo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:58AM[SHARE]In the past month, two musicals have got me up on my feet and dancing all the way out to the bar. At Five Guys Named Moe, I joined a conga line at the interval after attempting to singalo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 2 November 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of the critically acclaimed European premiere…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
How do we talk to those that we hate? How do we speak across the anger that divides us? Those are the opening lines in Chris Hannan‘s provocative new play, What Shadows –…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2017
I've had a rich few weeks for playgoing. In addition to productions I've already written about elsewhere " including, of those still running, Arrows and Traps' Frankenstein at Brockley Jack …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2017
If, like me, you're stuck at your desk today and can't follow the National Theatre 2018 season press briefing quite as closely as you'd like to, I've rounded up all today's key announcements…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:40AM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2017
Living in SE1 in London, I’m absolutely spoilt for theatres. The South Bank powerhouses of the National Theatre, Old Vic and Young Vic, Shakespeare’s Globe, and, as of later this…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 30, 2017
Both stories centre on Promethean ambitions: scientists who, like the Greek Titan who created mankind, seek to crack the code of life and consciousness itself.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 29, 2017
As part of her ongoing event series, on 26 October 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer, director, producer and cast of Metal Rabbit's critically acclaimed Fishskin T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2017
There are only a few days left to catch Che Walker‘s new in-the-round production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, which finishes at London’s Southwark Playhouse this Sat…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:39AM[SHARE] 
