Sunday, November 29, 2015
On Friday night, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn emailed me and other grassroots members of the Labour Party asking what I think Britain should do about the civil war in Syria, our national secu…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:22PMThursday, November 26, 2015
A year ago I was gorging myself on turkey and pumpkin pie and basking in family love in Huntsville, Alabama. It was my first time back to the States for Thanksgiving in over 20 years and it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:07AMSunday, November 22, 2015
In case it escaped your notice, the second annual #LoveTheatreDay (that’s opposed to last year’s #LoveTheatre Day, for the record) took place last Wednesday. I’d had it marked in my ca…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:28PMMonday, November 16, 2015
I usually prefer to spend Sunday nights in winter holed up at home, but I was glad to make an exception – especially thanks to the considerately early start time of 5.30pm – last…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:59AMFriday, November 13, 2015
I’ve been thinking a lot about new musicals recently. That’s not meant to be a blatant plug for my new website Stage Faves. Apart from the small detail that #StageFaves’ covers revival…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:52PMThursday, November 12, 2015
People who see me in the theatre no doubt assume I’m always armed with my little notebook and scrambling for the pen that always seems to have fallen to the bottom of my bag because I’m …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AMMonday, November 9, 2015
There’s nothing like a major theatre event to warm the cockles on a winter’s day. And the opening of Kenneth Branagh’s return to the West End with a year-long season as actor-manager w…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:58AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Maybe I’m just an old softie. Okay, yes, let’s admit it, I am. I’m also a lifelong believer in the restorative power of Christmas music which, like Katrina and the Waves’ “Walk…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:35PMThursday, November 5, 2015
Featuring Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Tom Hiddleston, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Baz Luhrmann, Mark Rylance, Fiona Shaw, James Earl Jones, Rita Dove, Sandy Foster, H…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:03PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), the underground theatre group routinely censored and persecuted in its state-controlled homeland, is celebrating its tenth birthday this month. Founded by human r…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMMonday, November 2, 2015
The play Pig Farm, which is currently receiving its UK premiere at London’s St James Theatre, is written by American Greg Kotis, who also wrote the book for the Urinetown, the musical whic…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:16PMThursday, October 29, 2015
Regular readers of this blog will know that, a few weeks ago, I was blown away by Tooting Arts Club’s revival of Barbarians, Barrie Keeffe‘s 1977 modern classic about disaffecte…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:53AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
What an honour! Last night I had the privilege of helping to open the third annual From Page to Stage season of new musicals. From Page to Stage is the brainchild of Katy Lipson of Aria Ente…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:34AMSunday, October 25, 2015
This week the AULTP bloggers discuss two Measure for Measures, at the Globe versus the Young Vic, Trevor Nunn's revival of Shakespearean epic The Wars of The Roses, and new comedy Dinner wit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:06PMSaturday, October 24, 2015
Obviously I go to the theatre a lot: but last night truly was special. I had the huge privilege of attending a premiere, at the White Bear Theatre, that marked the playwriting debut of a de…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:06AMThursday, October 22, 2015
The new play’s the thing, even when it’s very old…. Here are four I’ve seen over the past few weeks, three of which I haven’t managed to squeeze yet into sepa…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:00PMMonday, October 19, 2015
Richard, one of the central characters in Daniel Dingsdale's debut play Dark Tourism (like me) has a thing for quotations. The irony is that he's a peddler of lowest common denominator cultu…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:34AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Next weekend, the 85th birthday of American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim will be marked (albeit, somewhat belatedly – his actual birthday was on 22 March) in grand, celebrato…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:46AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Tonight should have been the night that Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s new Out of Joint play Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, inspired by the last woman in England to be charged with witchcraft in…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AMMonday, October 12, 2015
I’m not the only theatre person who was focused on the Conservative Party Conference last week. Though she may not have anticipated quite the extent of the spitting, pig mask wearing p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:41AMI wish I could have been in Manchester last week for the Conservative Party annual conference. Not because I’ve suddenly gone “true Blue” and definitely not because I wanted to spit at…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:30AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
How well do you know the work of composer-lyricist Leslie Bricusse? How many songs can you name by this living legend… apart from “Pure Imagination” (and the “Oompa Loompa” theme) …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:17AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
On this Sunday’s Andrew Marr Show on BBC One, in amongst an interview with David Cameron and other reports from this year’s Conservative Party conference in Manchester, I was delighted t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:16AMMonday, October 5, 2015
I’ve known the Showstoppers for many years, both the company and its producers (James Seabright and Suzanna Rosenthal), and over that time, I’ve seen the show many times – …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:22AMMonday, September 28, 2015
Playwright Barney Norris has followed his award-winning debut Visitors with Eventide, which is now running at London’s Arcola Theatre before touring until 15 November 2015, c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, September 25, 2015
I’ve been looking forward to Barney Norris‘ new play ever since I caught his acclaimed four-hander Visitors at the Bush Theatre last year. The play, which centred on an elderly …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:24AMHave you seen the raft of rave reviews for our Featured Show? The European premiere of Harvey Fierstein‘s Casa Valentina, which is now running at London’s Southwark Playhouse, ha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:24AMMonday, September 21, 2015
Off-West End, out of town and out of this world. I’ve seen a few shows recently that have left me feeling distinctly disquieted… for their visions of the future, their distortion…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:29PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
This morning I’m delighted to be in agreement with most of the overnight critics awarding a slew of four stars to last night’s opening: the London premiere of another New York im…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:15AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
I love it when I disagree with the critics. No, really I do. I’m fascinated that we can all have such widely variant opinions on the same thing – and I’m very happy for min…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:21AMSunday, September 13, 2015
I’ve witnessed at first-hand two regime changes over the past few days and curiously they have a man in common: Ed Miliband. The political regime change, the announcement of Jeremy Cor…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29PM 
