Wednesday, September 21, 2016
After a run in New York and a short UK regional tour, Sean Mathias‘ much-anticipated production of Harold Pinter‘s 1975 play No Man’s Land officially opened in the West End…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:38AMFriday, September 16, 2016
Is it pure coincidence that many of the plays I’ve seen recently feature actors as characters? And, consequently, a range of views on the life of actors and the nature of acting, which go…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
What if everything you’re ever known was thrown into question? And everything you ever trusted was subjected to doubt? When San Diego housewife Karen Ruiz’s husband is accused of being a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:35PMMonday, September 12, 2016
I made my HighTide Festival debut this weekend and what a privilege. Over the course of the weekend at this ten-day annual event, held in the beautiful Suffolk coast town of Aldeburgh and no…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:05AMThursday, September 8, 2016
A New York artistic commune in the early 1940s – occupied by British exiles Benjamin Britten, WH Auden, American novelist Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) and stripper G…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:44PMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Starting out as cheerleaders: Lauren Samuels, Ashleigh Gray and Lizzy Connolly in Vanities at Trafalgar Studios. © Pamela Raith Cheerleaders generally get a bad rap. When I went back to the…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:59PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
This instalment of my theatregoing recommendations could be called not just my musicals diary but my musicals-on-my-doorstep diary. All three shows – Children of Eden, Allegro and Groundho…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:52PMTwo hapless understudies on a production of Waiting for Godot occupy their time backstage, trying to understand art, life, theatre and their precarious existence within it. Dave Hanson‘…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Are there any stage taboos left? John Ford‘s 17th-century romantic thriller ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE, centring on an incestuous relationship between brother and sister Giov…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:05AMThursday, August 18, 2016
If the line “Laughter through tears is my favourite emotion” makes you nod your head, then you must see the play from which it comes: Robert Harling‘s Steel Magnolias, now …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:48PMTuesday, August 16, 2016
Could the dream team behind multi award-winning, all-over-the-globe hit Matilda – director Matthew Warchus, composer and lyricist Tim Minchin, choreographer Peter Darling and designer Rob …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:38PMFriday, August 5, 2016
July was a big month for Q&As for me so I’ve been a little pre-occupied by follow-up blogs on those. But in addition to musicals I’ve hosted events at – I’m Getti…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:49AMThursday, July 28, 2016
What a treat it was to not only see Jon Brittain‘s Rotterdam again last night, but to be able to question this hugely talented young writer about his bittersweet comedy, which ranked…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:15AMTuesday, July 26, 2016
Ahead of the double-show gala day at the West End’s Palace Theatre this Saturday, a galaxy of stars have already turned out for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. And I’m not jus…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:36AMFriday, July 22, 2016
I first – and last – saw Neil LaBute‘s Some Girl(s) in its world premiere in the West End in 2005, in a production that starred Friends‘ David Schwimmer along with &#…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:28AMWednesday, July 20, 2016
What does The Trial of Jane Fonda, concerning the actor-activist’s controversial protests during the Vietnam War (in which the UK did not support our US allies), have to tell us about…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:24AMThursday, July 14, 2016
I first saw – and adored – Through the Mill when it premiered at the London Theatre Workshop (then above a pub in Fulham) last year. I was delighted when the show, which revolves…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:49AMMonday, July 11, 2016
Last seen in London in 1981, when its premiere production ran at the West End’s Apollo Theatre after success Off-Broadway, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road h…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:05AMThursday, July 7, 2016
Most theatregoers will have only learned about Carl Peter Værnet from watching Claudio Macor‘s new play Savage, now running upstairs at the Arts Theatre. But the Nazi doctor from Den…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:14AMWednesday, July 6, 2016
Has anyone else had difficulty getting back into their theatregoing after the results of the EU Referendum? The two – excellent – plays I have managed to see since the UK vo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:44PMThursday, June 16, 2016
The first-night bookers could never have imagined that the timing of Aladdin‘s West End opening could feel so incongruous with what’s happening in the real world. For producers D…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:09AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past two months campaigning on behalf of Britain Stronger in Europe and Labour In for Britain. In these final days leading up to the EU Referendum ne…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:00PMThursday, June 9, 2016
Character portraits aren’t just for Harry Potter. Photographer Darren Bell gained access to the new cast of Buckland Theatre’s revival of Neil LaBute’s Some Girl(s) to sna…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:44AMTuesday, June 7, 2016
I thought I knew Theatreland pretty well… not so! As I found out when I downloaded the Official London Theatre Audio Tour with Ian McKellen. Here are seven interesting titbits I lea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:11AMFriday, June 3, 2016
In my years of covering theatre, I’ve seen a lot of Hollywood stars make their West End debuts, but I’ve rarely, if ever, seen it done with quite so much aplomb. Jesse Eisenberg and Kuna…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:43AMThursday, June 2, 2016
I’ve long been a fan of Katy Lipson at Aria Entertainment and have followed her fast-growing career with great interest. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to physically follow h…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:51AMCelebrity photographer Charlie Gray has shot three sets of exclusive character portraits of the grown-up characters from JK Rowling‘s Harry Potter series, along with the next generatio…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:55AMWednesday, June 1, 2016
Did you know that Sideways was an unpublished novel – rejected, like the efforts of the character Miles in the story, some 66 times – when the film rights were first picked up? …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:28PMTuesday, May 24, 2016
Having never met him before, in less than a week, I’ve crossed paths with Jon Lansman, chair of Momentum, twice. Last Thursday, he attended the monthly meeting of my constituency Labour pa…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:44PMMonday, May 23, 2016
I took slight umbrage with arts journalist Richard Brooks the other week. “You have probably not heard of Barney Norris,” started one of Brooks’ item in his weekly column in the Sunday…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:11AMSunday, May 22, 2016
When Monster Raving Loony was announced a few months ago, I got a bashing on Twitter when I cheekily asked dramatist James Graham if he’d considered writing his next political play about t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:31PM 
