Sunday, 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 12:00PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
After successes with Sunset Boulevard and Sweeney Todd, English National Opera continues its annual headline-grabbing foray into musical theatre with Rodgers & Hammerstein’s C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:14AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
The second massive New York import in less than a month, 42nd Street brought its lullaby of Broadway to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane last night. In addition to their transatlantic journeys, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:06AMTuesday, April 4, 2017
When:
April 13, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Where:
The Vaults (Launcelot Street entrance), Leake St, Lambeth, London SE1 7NN, UK
Homegrown musical MISS NIGHTIN…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, April 2, 2017
If you’re seeking life affirmation, celebrations of female solidarity (of a quintessentially British variety) and general uplift, my two current West End recommendations that tick all …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:14PMFriday, March 31, 2017
What would Bertolt Brecht have made of Donald Trump? Brecht’s “epic theatre” was sparked by the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. Many pundits have likened the political per…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:25PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
I’m pleased that the Old Vic has added a week to the run of its 50th anniversary production of Tom Stoppard‘s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, now booking until 6 May R…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:38AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Here’s what London is crying out for: an escape to Paris. And not the Paris of Marine Le Pen or any other modern foes and woes, but the sumptuous Hollywood Golden Age version now burst…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:52AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host a post-show panel discussion on political theatre following Lazarus Theatre's acclaimed production of Brech…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMNot long left to see two Off-West End musicals I can recommend: The Wild Party at The Other Palace and The Sorrows of Satan at Tristan Bates Theatre. The Wild Party has, of course, created …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:09AMSunday, March 19, 2017
Steve Waters’ Limehouse is as much a rallying call as a play: a rallying call for those of us left politically homeless by Jeremy Corbyn’s failed Labour Party. It takes its name from the…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:32AMSunday, March 12, 2017
I’ve never voted Conserative. Indeed, the morning after the 2015 General Election, I was so horrified that, after five years of austerity, the Tories had not only got back in but had done …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:36PMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Two Off-West End plays have recently inspired my other half Peter Jones to compile Spotify playlists of his youth – terribly convenient as I’ve tasked him with providing backgro…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:29PMFriday, February 24, 2017
The American gothic rock musical LIZZIE, which is now receiving its UK premiere in a limited season at London’s Greenwich Theatre, opens and closes with a nursery rhyme I memorised in …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:40PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
In his review this morning, Michael Billington has – to borrow a phrase from Meat Loaf – taken the words right out of mouth. At last night’s West End premiere of The Girls,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, February 18, 2017
What were you doing on 9/11? And, if you were in London, on 7/7? I thought about this recently when watching Stuart Slade’s excellent new play BU21.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:48AMMonday, February 13, 2017
A few thoughts on musical productions I’ve seen recently, with my on-the-night tweet thoughts further below. Promises, Promises Less than a week left to see this rarely seen Broadway m…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:09PMThursday, February 9, 2017
For the post-show Q&A after the evening performance on Thursday 23 February 2017, I’ll be joined by the cast Eden Espinosa, Jodie Jacobs, Bleu Woodward and Bjorg Gamst.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
This week the president of the United States Donald Trump said (or rather tweeted) that those who participated in protests against his administration fell into one of three categories: “p…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:15AMSunday, February 5, 2017
A year ago when blogging about the annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, my headline was “Critics’ Circle Award winners: Are they the only ones that make sense anymore?” I didn’t …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:50PMSunday, January 22, 2017
The best antidote to hopelessness has got to be action. That’s what I have kept reminding myself over the past few months, and what I recited almost mantra-like on Friday afternoon as…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:06PMMonday, January 16, 2017
Stage shows based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 narrative poem The Wild Party are like buses. Ahead of next month’s much-anticipated UK premiere of the Michael John LaChiusa’s musical…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:00AMSunday, January 15, 2017
Last week I was more on schedule with rounding up lists of critics’ tips for the best theatre coming up this year. But in truth, as I’ve been organising the Critics’ Circle…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:11PMSunday, January 8, 2017
What are the hottest shows coming up this year? Based on the ones that are most likely to appear on top picks’ lists in my round-up of commentators’ round-ups, they are: Lin-Ma…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:33PMThursday, December 29, 2016
Ahead of rounding up various publications #theatre2016 highlights, I’m taking a moment to reflect on my own theatregoing year and my favourite plays, musicals, performances and other event…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:13PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
The National Theatre used to be one of my favourite theatregoing destinations, but I’ve only been a handful of times in recent years. This hasn’t been an intentional omission on …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:34PMThursday, December 15, 2016
What’s most absurd about absurdist comedy LUV? That it’s virtually unknown in this country – despite an incredible pedigree. Long before he wrote the screenplay for the hi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:58PM 
