Tuesday, 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 backg…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:29PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 02:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 07:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 03:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 know then …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2017
The best antidote to hopelessness has got to be action. That’s what IÂ have kept reminding myself over the past few months, and what I recited almost mantra-like on Friday afternoon …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:06PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 versi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 04:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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: Li…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 events.…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 04:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:58PM[SHARE]It’s taken 35 years, but Broadway hit Dreamgirls, inspired by the story of The Supremes, finally received its West End premiere last night (14 December) at the Savoy Theatre. Was it wo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2016
I have become even more spoilt for choice for theatre on my doorstep with the arrival of my SE1 neighborhood's newest venue, The Bunker. This subterranean black box is so close to another on…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2016
I saw two two-hander musical gems this past weekend: Her Aching Heart at the Hope Theatre in Islington and, on the opposite side of town, Another Night Before Christmas at the Bridge Hous…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:02AM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2016
What does Sam Shepard's 1978 play Buried Child have to tell us about America after the presidential election of Donald Trump? The West End transfer of the New Group's production, first seen …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
A new musical " especially one not based on a film and/or arrived from Broadway trailing Tony Awards " is always a risky proposition. One received way of establishing a level of recognition …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2016
What a treat to pay my first visit to London’s newest venue – The Bunker, carved out of a carpark beneath the Menier Chocolate Factory – to host this post-show Q&A for …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2016
There’s something in the water with The Beggar’s Opera at the moment. Lazarus Theatre’s new, modern-dress, 80-minute version at Brockley Jack Studio Theatre is the th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Here’s everything you need to know about last night’s West End premiere of School of Rock: The Musical in a nutshell: Andrew Lloyd Webber has a monster hit on his hands; the s…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2016
In the days before this year’s US presidential election, Donald Trump predicted that the result would be “Brexit-plus-plus-plus”. Â For me personally, “Brexit-plus-…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:27PM[SHARE]Everyone’s on drugs at the Park Theatre, I tweeted last Monday night. For a theatre that consistently impresses with the diversity of its received productions, it’s interesting t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:27AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2016
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of the long-awaited UK premiere of Broadway comedy LUV on Thursday 15 December 201…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2016
As I prepared to head to the St James Theatre last night to catch Jason Robert Brown‘s own production of his painfully semi-autobiographical two-hander The Last Five Years, I sent out …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2016
The (new) Union Theatre and Southwark Playhouse are always a pleasure to visit " not least because both venues are practically on my doorstep, within a ten-minute walk. At the moment, they'r…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:03PM[SHARE]As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to award-winning playwright Philip Ridley about his explosive new one-man play TONIGHT WITH DONNY STIXX on …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2016
My first gut response to yesterday's news that Emma Rice was leaving Shakespeare's Globe, announced after less than a year " and only one summer season in post " was simply "Oh my God!". In …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2016
What an astonishing way to make your playwriting debut. Theresa Ikoko‘s first full-length play GIRLS was a Verity Bargate finalist and winner of both the Alfred Fagon Award (for …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:23PM[SHARE] 
