Wednesday, March 25, 2015
How far have we come with feminism since August Strindberg was writing in the 1880s? “About halfway,” said Polly Toynbee on Monday night at Trafalgar Studios, in the first of a series of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:03AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
I had a curious but highly enjoyable afternoon this past Friday, when I dropped in on lovely chappies Tim McArthur and Nathan Matthews, presenters of the weekly Curtain Up show on London rad…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:13AMMonday, March 23, 2015
Last year, Tooting Arts Club’s site-specific Sweeney Todd – staged in Harrington’s, one of London’s oldest pie shops – topped myriad critics ‘best of #theatre2014’ lists. A…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:45AMFriday, March 20, 2015
For the last General Election, on 6 May 2010, I went to a party at the Paramount Club at the top of Centrepoint. All night we waited up, for no dramatic climax, no result. This time round, I…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:10AMThursday, March 19, 2015
In the years that I ran WhatsOnStage, the site’s Discussion Forum, a.k.a. “The Board”, was often the bane of my life. Producers would pull me aside on press nights to complain about it…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:56AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Reporting from Manchester, my guest contributor Glenn Meads recently met up with director-producer James Baker, who is making waves at The Kings Arms in Salford. Londoners, take note. Great …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:06PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
For all the planning and preparation I’ve been doing with Mark Shenton over the past few months, even I am a little taken aback by the response to our launch yesterday of MyThea…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:13AMMonday, March 16, 2015
I was touched and heartened by the outpouring to the news last week that I finally won my unfair dismissal claim against the new owners of WhatsOnStage. Amongst many of those responses was a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
It’s been 455 days since I was walked out of the offices of WhatsOnStage, the company that I co-founded. And today I can finally officially and publicly say: I did nothing wrong and sh…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:42PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
I offered my own take on yesterday’s 2015 Laurence Olivier nominations yesterday. But my view is only one, of course. The shortlists announcement was live-streamed across myriad platfo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:47PMMonday, March 9, 2015
The biggest surprise for me at today’s Olivier nominations event at the ritzy Rosewood London hotel was just how much this event has grown in a few short years. Celebrating nominees: you�…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:01PMThursday, March 5, 2015
I just love a good post-show Q&A and, frankly, I miss doing them as often as I used to in my WhatsOnStage days. My firm belief is that a well-run Q&A can not only give theatregoers g…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:38AMMonday, March 2, 2015
On St David’s Day, Sunday 1 March 2015, Welsh actor Michael Sheen gave the performance of his life. Not at the National Theatre or any of the world stages (and screens) that he has gra…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:42PMThe Off-West End play has very much been the thing for me in the past few weeks of theatregoing. Here are five (four of them brand-new plays) worth squeezing into your theatregoing calendar …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:51AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Two-time Tony Award-winning bio-musical Beautiful, based on the early life and career of singer-songwriter Carole King, received its West End premiere at the Aldwych Theatre last night. What…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:39AMThursday, February 19, 2015
If I had a bigger flat with lots of nice empty walls, I’d be ringing Hampstead Theatre and putting my name on a waiting list for some of the props in the current production of Peter Souter…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:38AMIf I had a bigger flat with lots of nice empty walls, I’d be ringing Hampstead Theatre and putting my name on a waiting list for some of the props in the current production of Peter Souter…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:38AMMonday, February 16, 2015
I’m getting just a tad excited about this revival of David Mamet‘s 1977 classic American Buffalo. In this interview trailer, star Damian Lewis talks more about Mamet, the play, h…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:23AMSunday, February 15, 2015
According to Caitlin Moran, people are divided according to “two diametrically opposite sets of belief” about how to load a dishwasher. But what about those of us who don’t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:34PMFriday, February 13, 2015
My former Northwest Editor at WhatsOnStage.com, Glenn Meads, recently met up with Willy Russell, whose iconic play Educating Rita has “come home” to Liverpool Playhouse this month to cel…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:34AMThursday, February 12, 2015
I’m a little embarrassed for Caitlin Moran this week, and quite a bit embarrassed for The Times newspaper overall. Let me explain… So it’s week eight of my blog challenge to respond to…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:43AMFriday, February 6, 2015
The infinite variety of theatre in London means you can be laughing at the theatre one night, crying the next night. Or, when it’s really powerful, alternating between both on the same…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:53PMIf you follow me on Twitter, you know I’m a sucker for memorable #quotes. I think that’s one of the reasons I adore theatre so much: great dialogue. Whenever I see a show –…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:30PMI’ve had a heavy schedule of plays over the past few weeks, including quite a few comedies, many of them with deep, dark cores. As usual, I’ve listed productions in closing date orde…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:42AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
It’s week six of my blog challenge to respond to my favourite columnist Caitlin Moran each week. These blogs, unlike 99% of what I write and tweet, are meant to be non-theatrical, but with…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:13PMThursday, January 29, 2015
Since I started writing about theatre in 1996, I’ve had the privilege of attending four world premieres of Tom Stoppard plays – well, actually, six if you break a trilogy into it…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:55AMTuesday, January 27, 2015
If you read my Best of the Best of #theatre2014 round-ups a few weeks ago, you may have been able to predict most of the winners of the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, announced today …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:30AMMonday, January 26, 2015
It’s week five of my non-theatrical blog challenge to respond to my favourite columnist Caitlin Moran each week. And – thank goodness with tax return deadlines looming at the end of the …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:37PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
I caught you up on my new year playgoing earlier this week, now let me turn to some tuners on offer. Though vastly different in scale and subject matter, these three musicals do have two key…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:00AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
It’s week four of my non-theatrical blog challenge to respond to my favourite columnist Caitlin Moran each week. One of the things that makes Caitlin my favourite columnist is that you jus…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:59AMMonday, January 19, 2015
If these first few weeks are anything to go by, 2015 is going to be an entertaining year. Here are four, very different plays that I’ve seen recently and am happy to recommend. As usual, I…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:31AM 
