Monday, April 7, 2014
The Book of Mormon now has two major contenders for the title of funniest musical in London. But why just coronate one?! Let’s go ahead and give them all crowns (or tiaras, if they prefer)…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:00AMFriday, April 4, 2014
I’ve lived in London for more than 20 years and there are still whole areas I’ve never heard of, let alone been to. Once you factor in the sheer magnitude of things I don’t know about …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:49PMThursday, April 3, 2014
There are two universal truths about modern life (in fact there are more than two, but these are the ones relevant to what I’m going to tell you): Everyone is busy Everyone receives too ma…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:40PMI hate reviewing. There, I said it. Years ago, I reviewed very regularly, and became a member of the Critics’ Circle as a result. But the truth is I’ve always hated doing it. And, the mo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:02AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Today I learned something incredibly important if you’ve just set yourself a public challenge of blogging daily on a particular theme: in WordPress, if you pre-schedule a post to go live a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:10AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
It may be foolish to launch on April Fool’s Day, but please reserve judgment until the 31st. For the month of April 2014, I’ve set myself a challenge: to learn something new every day. T…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:00AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Before we were so rudely interrupted by the weekend and my boyfriend Peter’s demands (schlockily entertaining by the way, even while having to wear 3D glasses), I was recapping “The Mon…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:54AMFriday, March 28, 2014
What an odd feeling not to be able to write or shout about theatre – or indeed see much theatre – for more than a month, which was the unfortunate situation I found myself in ove…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:40PMMonday, February 17, 2014
I came home from the opening night of Headlong’s 1984 at the Almeida Theatre in a foul mood. It’s a brilliant production and a slick adaptation by Robert Icke (@robertwicke) and Duncan M…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:26AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Two things kept coming to mind as I watched The Mistress Contract at the Royal Court. The two-hander, starring Saskia Reeves and Danny Webb, is based on a memoir, authored by the anonymous S…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:33AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
Every subsidised theatre, as well as PR and social media savvy commercial producers, has an audience development agenda. Though the idea, of course, is to make theatre accessible to all, inc…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:30PMI’m a sucker for a good infographic so, in writing about old vs young audiences in my blog about Home Sweet Home, I couldn’t resist dusting off this Ticketmaster infographic from…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:01PMSaturday, February 8, 2014
When a loved actor dies, those of us in the business mourn the person as well as the future performances that we’ll now never see. And we reflect on past performances and, if you’re a jo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:49AMFriday, February 7, 2014
I am late to the blogging game. Well, sort of. I have written columns and occasional editor’s blogs – not to mention countless news, interviews, features and other articles – in previo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:21AM 
