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 06:00AMTuesday, 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 Ya…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:03AMMonday, 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 09:00AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:57AMThursday, 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, inc…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:30PMFriday, 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 09:06AMWednesday, 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-sellin…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:57PMThursday, 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 06:00AMMonday, 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 11:29AMWednesday, 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 10:00AMHow 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 rather R…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:03AMMonday, 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 06:21AMThursday, 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 09:00AMJust 11 months after I chaired my first post-show talk for Jon Brittain's Rotterdam - then at Trafalgar Studios for its West End premiere - and so much has changed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:25AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the creators and star of new "one-dad" musical Superhero, premiering at London's Southwark Playhouse, af…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMSaturday, June 10, 2017
What’s the most important lesson in a prison ‘education’? HELD is a hard-hitting new British prison drama exploring the broken lives of five inmates, including two young of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:13PMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the author, director and stars of uncompromising prison tale HELD at London's Tristan Bates Theatre on Saturday 10 June 2017. Got any questions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMThursday, May 11, 2017
I was recently hired by the producer of Waiting for God to interview the show’s stars and writer as it embarks on a major UK tour. Here’s the first in a three-part series. Wait…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
I had a hunch that this would be an especially amusing post-show Q&A and the company and audience of American hillbilly comedy Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Rd., now transferred to the W…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:34PMI was recently hired by the producer of Waiting for God to interview the show’s stars and writer as it embarks on a major UK tour. Here’s the first in a three-part series. Wait…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMMonday, May 8, 2017
I was recently hired by the producer of Waiting for God to interview the show’s stars and writer as it embarks on a major UK tour. Here’s the first in a three-part series. Wait…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:00AMSunday, May 7, 2017
A string of hits, a cast of two, ‘Forever Plaid’ meets ‘I Do, I Do’. James Hindman‘s 2000 Off-Broadway musical two-hander Pete ‘n’ Keely gets its European premiere at Trist…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:21AMTuesday, May 2, 2017
James Shirley‘s 1641 tragic masterpiece THE CARDINAL, one of the last plays staged in England before Oliver Cromwell’s ban on theatre, this month receives its first major product…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:57PMThursday, April 27, 2017
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host a post-show panel discussion on feminism and misogyny onstage following Lazarus Theatre's re-imagining of S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, April 24, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and stars of the European premiere of Off-Broadway musical comedy after the matinee on Saturday 2 May 2017. Got any questions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMHere’s a round-up of productions I’ve seen it recent weeks which I haven’t already covered in Press Passes (do please dance your way as soon as you can into seeing both An …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:30AMSunday, April 23, 2017
As a Twitter geek, one of the things I enjoyed most about David Baddiel‘s latest one-man show My Family: Not the Sitcom, which is now enjoying its second West End run at the Playhouse …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:35PMThursday, April 20, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the author and star of cult hit American comedy Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Rd. and other company members on Tuesday 9 May 2017. Got any questio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, April 16, 2017
One little postcode in New York City has been attracting a lot of stage real estate in London in recent years: the blocks around Times Square. The area is, of course, well known to theatre l…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:11AMFriday, April 14, 2017
What a great way to get the Bank Holiday weekend off with a swing. Last night, I hosted a post-show Q&A at MISS NIGHTINGALE. This original British musical is now in its sixth iteration &…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:48AMThursday, April 13, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and company of rarely seen 17th-century tragic masterpiece THE CARDINAL on Thursday 23 February 2017. Got any questions? Book tickets…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM 
