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]There was a moment I’ll never forget from the Q&A I hosted after last night’s performance of Stephen Clark‘s Le Grand Mort at Trafalgar Studios. Julian Clary, who is of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2017
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 surged by a staggering 9,500% after the election of Donald Trump to become Amazon’s biggest seller. Orwell himself died, at the age of 46, …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2017
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 27 September 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to Julian Clary, his co-star and director of Le Grand Mort, the new…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2017
I had my own Godotesque moment to start last night’s Waiting for Godot Q&A. The stage was bare. Where were the chairs? Was anyone bringing chairs? How long would we be waiting f…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 6, 2017
What do you need to know about Dominic Cooke‘s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at the National Theatre? It’s a great big, sumptuous, stellar hit. I was lucky enough t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 3, 2017
On 10 October 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the company of Chris Hannan's What Shadows, inspired by Enoch Powell's infamous 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech, now receiving i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]Did you get lucky in the ticket ballot for #RADAHamlet, which on Twitter has also gained the predictable #HiddleHamlet hashtag thanks to its title star, Tom Hiddleston? The fundraising produ…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:20AM[SHARE]Friday, September 1, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the stars of Patrick Marber's THE RED LION, "a Premiere League play about non-league football" (Gary Lineker), now receiving its West End debut, o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]The plays may have been written 420-odd years apart, but I was really struck  by how many parallels there were between the discussion I hosted last week, to the European premiere of Jorda…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer and director of MRS ORWELL, as the sell-out play transfers from the Old Red Lion Theatre to Southwark Playhouse, on Wednesday 13 Septem…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2017
Having heard so many of My Theatre Mates raving about Late Company following its European premiere earlier this year at the Finborough, I was really looking forward to seeing it at Trafal…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2017
On Tuesday 21 November, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer-director and cast of The Secondary Victim, which receives its world premiere at London's Park Theatre, where it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2017
It’s not just umbrella festival programmes, as I blogged earlier, that keep myself and other London theatregoers busy in August. Here’s a round-up of some of the other plays and …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:30AM[SHARE]I’m in the slightly odd position this month of working on an Edinburgh show while not being in Edinburgh at all. (Mind you, I have seen the show, in China in May, so can knowledgeably …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the company of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece WAITING FOR GODOT, as the play returns home to the stage where it had its English-language premiere 62…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Two years ago, I chaired the opening night discussion at the third annual From Page to Stage festival of new musicals founded by Aria Entertainment’s Katy Lipson. The central questi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:29AM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2017
Most of nights last week was devoted to just one play, Preethi Nair’s Sari: The Whole Five Yards, which I’m trying to help find a future life. But I have managed a few memorable …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:48AM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the stars and director of the European premiere of Jordan Tannahill's LATE COMPANY, transferring from the Finborough Theatre to the West End's Tra…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
My plays diary this week isn’t terribly varied. I’m spending most nights at the Tristan Bates Theatre, all in aid of one production: Preethi Nair‘s Sari: The Whole Five …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:03AM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
As part of her post-show event series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host an expert panel discussion on gay theatre pre- and post-decriminalisation 50 years ago, following Lazarus Thea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2017
The King's Head Theatre attracted widespread coverage this week for its announcement that it is moving out of the King's Head pub on Upper Street in Islington, north London, its home for the…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2017
I've had issues with sleep " or rather lack of sleep " since I was a teenager. I won't be an insomnia bore and tell you ALL of the so-called remedies I've tried over the years, including sev…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:30PM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2017
Is Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew inherently misogynistic? Particularly with its treatment of spirited Kate, the Shrew of the title, who is starved and mentally tormented (gasli…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
It’s always a real privilege to have the playwright involved when you’re chairing a post-show Q&A. But when the play is also based on the playwright’s own best-se…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2017
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will help open the fifth annual From Page to Stage season of new musicals with an opening night panel debate …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2017
Before I attended King Kong, Daniel Clarkson‘s bonkers stage parody of the 1933 film classic, last week at The Vaults, I never knew there was such a thing as a nose flute. Now I will n…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the author, director and stars of Lee Tannen's hit bio-play I LOVED LUCY, returning for a third London season by popular demand, after the perform…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]How many creatives does it take to make a one-man musical? The answer can be “quite a few”. And that it is in the case of SUPERHERO, the British one-man – or rathe…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:03AM[SHARE]Monday, July 3, 2017
My theatre week last week started and ended with musicals. My partner Peter and I rushed back from our – rather too work-filled – fortnight in Mallorca just in time for West End …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the author, director and cast of this world premiere comedy stage adaptation of KING KONG at London's Vaults Theatre on Wednesday 12 July 2017. Go…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE] 
