After my Q&A at Feel, the first production at the newly relaunched Lion & Unicorn Theatre, earlier this year, I’m delighted to return for this next in-house production from the sam…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMAfter last week’s runaway success with The Girl on the Train post-show Q&A, director Anthony Banks and I had to squeeze in another one together to his second current hit, Games for Lo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:03AMA quick show of hands at last night’s Q&A at the Park Theatre bore out my suspicion: most people, even left-leaning people, have not heard of Howard Zinn. Like those in the audience, b…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:37AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, this Friday 9 August 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks to Actually stars Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda. We've got plenty to talk a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMI had just enough time to wipe away my tears – I was sobbing – at the end of The View Upstairs before jumping up after the curtain call to announce this post-show Q&A at Soho Theatr…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:00AMWhat is it about a great whodunnit thriller? What makes us keep turning the page? How does that inquisitive excitement translate onstage? As modern thrillers go, they don’t get much more s…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:58AMI’m a firm believer that one of the best means of ensuring a long career is an ability to create your own work. Patrick Bayele has honed this skill very early on… and, after seeing wha…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:00AMAfter chairing events for London transfers of Creation Theatre’s The Pit and The Pendulum and Dracula, I was chuffed to be invited to see them on their ‘home turf’ in Oxford and host a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMHow many different ways can one play be interpreted? The company of Equus were very keen not to impose their opinions but the audience at last night’s post-show Q&A at Trafalgar Stud…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:06AMHow did New Old Friends come to adapt Anthony Horowitz’s 1986 children’s novel The Falcon’s Malteser into a hit family stage show? How has a new gender-equal, four-strong cast brought …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 1 August 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is in the West End for the transfer of Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train, starri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 31 July 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock visits Hackney's Studio 9294 for the first time for the premiere of Chekhov-inspire…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMAfter their current summer hit with One Giant Leap, Arrows & Traps will return to Brockley Jack Theatre in September when, as part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-found…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 20 July 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to The Vaults for New Old Friends' acclaimed adaptation of Anthony Horowitz'…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMHow much do you know about Nina Simone? Guaranteed: after you see Black Is the Color Of My Voice, the one-woman play with music written by and starring young American theatremaker Apphia Cam…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:44AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 3 August 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to Soho Theatre for the European premiere of Max Vernon's acclaimed Off-Bro…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 22 August 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is at Charing Cross Theatre for Michael John LaChiusa's award-winning Off-Broadway …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 23 July 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is at the West End's Trafalgar Studios for the acclaimed new production of Peter Shaf…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMDylan Coburn Gray’s Citysong won the 2017 Verity Bargate Award for new and emerging playwrights and now receives its world premiere in this acclaimed co-production between Dublin’s Abbey…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:26PMHow fitting to hold a post-show Q&A for The Starry Messenger during Loneliness Awareness Week. Kenneth Lonergan’s beautifully delicate play considers the torment of, as New York Tim…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:47AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, next Saturday 22 June 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is at Soho Theatre for the premiere of Citysong, transferred direct from Dublin's …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Friday 26 July 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is heading to Oxford to take to the streets with Creation Theatre for an immersive Sha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMPhilip Ridley’s Vincent River was premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2000 and has been revived fairly regularly in the intervening years, including this production which was first seen at …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:51PMRemember D:Ream’s “Things Can Only Get Better”? I was bopping along in my seat to that New Labour anthem and so many other chart-topping hits from my youth before curtain up at Educat…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:19PMI closed out #MischiefMay, celebrating the world-dominating achievements of the comedy masters at Mischief Theatre, with my second of two post-show Q&As to the company’s two current We…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:07PMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 4 June 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock hosts a special post-show discussion on homophobia and hate crime at Philip Ridley's V…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:15AMMy recent theatre trips have included Dante or Die's User Not Found and Blueprint Medea, written and directed by Julia Pascal. Here's a round-up of my on-the-night reactions to each.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:20AM#MischiefMay is all about celebrating the world-dominating success of the comedy genius of Mischief Theatre onstage (running on all continents except Antarctica) and, increasingly, onscreen.…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:58AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 7 July 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will be celebrating the life and legacy of Nina Simone at Black Is the Color of My Voi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMAfter The Tempest and Lord of the Flies, my last of three post-show Q&As with Lazarus Theatre company for their 2019 season at Greenwich Theatre was last night to their new version of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:29AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series and this month's #MischiefMay celebrations, on Thursday 30 May 2019, a week after her The Play That Goes Wrong event, Mates co-founder Terri P…
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