Monday, August 3, 2015
Birth-wise, more than three decades separate The Who’s Tommy and Green Day’s American Idiot, but location-wise, the distance is only three short train stops, from London’s Charing Cro…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:58AMMonday, July 27, 2015
I had ninety, non-stop magic moments at the Menier Chocolate Factory earlier this month at the opening of What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined. Sat on one of the (extremely comfy…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMSaturday, July 25, 2015
If you have never been unlucky enough to find yourself in the middle of a legal dispute, I can almost guarantee you – or, at least, 99% of you – that you can’t afford it. Certainly not…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:39PMSunday, July 19, 2015
I had a life-changing moment on Thursday night. I showed up to an event where I didn’t know anyone and discovered it was exactly where I belonged. Relationships aside, I’ve had t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:07PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Since I got back from my month of remote working in Mallorca, I’ve been lucky enough to pack in lots of trips to the theatre, including this quintuplet of limited season plays that are all…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:41AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Comics were out in force and applauding warmly at last night’s opening of The Mentalists, in which fellow stand-up and The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant made his West End acting debut…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:01AMFriday, July 10, 2015
Have you seen the raft of four-star reviews for our current Featured Show? The House of Mirrors and Hearts, just opened on Tuesday at London's Arcola Theatre, is a haunting new chamber music…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:28AMTuesday, July 7, 2015
The adage – usually attributed to Sondheim – that “musicals aren’t written, they’re rewritten” was central to the post-show discussion that I hosted …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:23AMMonday, July 6, 2015
Shakespeare aside, is there any playwright more quotable than Oscar Wilde? And, of all his plays, is there any more quoted than his 1895 comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest? A…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:08AMFriday, July 3, 2015
Is it all a Blur? That’s a pun you may hear frequently in relation to the musical theatre debut of the seminal 1990s band’s frontman, Damon Albarn, which opened in Manchester last night.…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:23AMWednesday, July 1, 2015
My Theatre Mates co-founder Terri Paddock moved her office to Mallorca for the past month - and got more done. Here she explains how you can do it too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:07PMThursday, June 25, 2015
The reviews are in, and there’s no doubt about it – the West End musical makeover of Bend It Like Beckham has scored big with the critics. Perhaps the show’s impeccable timing – as t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:29AMMonday, June 22, 2015
It’s the last chance this week to catch the French playwright Florian Zeller’s mind-bending play The Father, in which the father of the title (played with heart-rending bluster a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:57AMThursday, June 18, 2015
Terri Paddock today responded to Megan Vaughan's recent article in The Stage on MyTheatreMates's "damaging business practices" - and here she explains why, however fallacious, she welcomes M…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:25AMMost actors don’t read their reviews – or, at least, most actors say they don’t read their reviews. And when it comes to stage acting, I can see their point. Critics review a single pe…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:13AMA few weeks ago, blogger Megan Vaughan wrote a piece for The Stage entitled ‘The long tail of theatre criticism‘. I was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, June 15, 2015
There are few things that excite me more at a party than when I meet someone who says they can do card tricks. I will move heaven and earth to find a playing deck and then trail that person …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:06AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
In my other blog today, I wrote about the “fact” that JM Barrie wrote Peter Pan as a metaphor for World War One. This was a little bit of a fib (explained fully here), but I thought I�…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:37AMPeter Pan is currently enjoying a critically acclaimed but maddeningly short run at the Open Air Theatre. (I understand the logistical reasons behind back-to-back productions in Regent’s P…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:36AMMonday, June 8, 2015
Have you seen the raft of four-star reviews for our Featured Show? The world premiere of Dogs of War, which is now running at London’s Old Red Lion Theatre, has also been nominated fo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:43AMSunday, June 7, 2015
During my visit to the rehearsal rooms of It’s a Wonderful Life on radio, which launches a new UK tour this week, I also got to chat to three of the incredibly hard-working, six-strong e…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:28AMFrank Capra’s 1946 classic It’s a Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart as everyman George Bailey, is probably my favourite film of all time. It’s certainly the one I’ve seen more t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:30AMMonday, June 1, 2015
In my #PressPass round-up today of The Elephant Man, one recent clipping that I did not include is the one that got me, and others, so riled up about yesterday on Twitter. It’s Sunda…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:14AMAfter nearly a week of staggered press performances, and one starry gala evening, the reviews are now out for the West End transfer for The Elephant Man, which is now running for a limited 1…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:28AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
I’ve seen two musicals recently that I’d recommend: Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith and Carrie at Southwark Playhouse. Bugsy Malone is set in Prohibition-era New York City …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, May 25, 2015
In my theatregoing, I like to make connections. Are you the same? There are, of course, the physical connections on the night – between performers and audience, between the other theatrego…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:29AMThursday, May 21, 2015
On Sunday, I attended my first Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Awards (or, the SSSSPOTYs, ‘for short’!). The competition is now in its ninth year R…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:39PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Monsoon is about as close as I get in my day-to-day life to designer fashion – which is to say, I know NOTHING about fashion that I haven’t picked up from The Devil Wears Prada. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:32PMThursday, May 14, 2015
Since producing and hosting a post-show debate last month on “Women in the Arts” at Trafalgar Studios, I’ve been thinking a lot about gender inequality in theatre, and part…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:03AMWednesday, May 13, 2015
Tonight, Antony Sher opens in the West End in the RSC’s transfer of Death of a Salesman. But, as acclaimed as the production is, as important as it is in this centenary year of Arthur …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
Several weeks after the West End press night, I’m still thinking about Oppenheimer, which, after its premiere in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company has transferred to the V…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:30AM 
