Monday, 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 05:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 06:25AM[SHARE]Most 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 performa…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:13AM[SHARE]A 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 05:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 09:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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'd m…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:37AM[SHARE]Peter 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 Par…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:36AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:28AM[SHARE]Frank 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 times tha…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:30AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 S…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:14AM[SHARE]After 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 07:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 theatregoer…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 12:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 07:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Vau…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:30AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2015
I’m having trouble shifting my black mood since the 2015 General Election (what would Tony Benn say?!) so why not a suitably dark blog subject to match it? Let’s talk about film …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2015
The Forbidden Broadway actors, winners of the inaugural #AlsoRecognised Award for Best Ensemble Performance, are gifts that keep on giving. First we had Damian Humbley‘s multiple #cert…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
My newfound Tony Benn obsession has also got me thinking anew about the “most dangerous” Labour man in Parliament before him: the Welsh politician and founder of the National Hea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
I knew embarrassingly little of Tony Benn before seeing Andy Barrett’s new play Tony’s Last Tape this past Sunday. (Read my separate blog on the production and interview wit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:15AM[SHARE]After success at Nottingham Playhouse, Tony’s Last Tape has transferred to south London’s new fringe theatre, the Bridgehouse in Penge SE20, for a three-week run in election mont…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2015
On Monday, we announced on MyTheatreMates.com the winners of our inaugural #AlsoRecognised Awards. The first year of these Awards has caught the imagination of the industry, the audience vot…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
In amongst the stellar West End revivals of late " not least "mother of all musicals" Gypsy with Imelda Staunton and David Mamet's American Buffalo starring Damian Lewis and John Goodman " a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:05AM[SHARE]I’m so proud of my friend Mark Jagasia, how could I resist pulling together one of my #PressPass round-ups for his debut play? Clarion premiered to rave reviews (really, see below) las…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
As Rolls Royce productions go, they don’t get much better than this. Homegrown screen and stage star Damian Lewis returning the stage after a six-year absence, and for the first time s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:50AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
The full list of winners are announced today in the inaugural Also Recognised Awards, the new audience-voted, industry accolade set up by the Mates to celebrate lesser-known but equally wort…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:43AM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
We’re so proud of introducing the UK’s first-ever Award for Best Musical Direction – along with our partners and passionate campaigners, musical director Mike Dixon and And…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Less than two days after the star-studded gala to bid farewell to Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic, his successor Matthew Warchus is making headlines with an inaugural year-long season and comman…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:32AM[SHARE] 
