Friday, December 7, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, after the matinee next Saturday 15 December 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to Soho Theatre for the world premiere of new rock …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMSaturday, December 1, 2018
You know you’re at a different type of theatre experience when you find yourself singing along – loudly – about how much we all love looking at cocks in the locker room. (E…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:37PMFriday, November 23, 2018
Sisters really are doing it for themselves! As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Friday 18 January 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks to the all-female company behind…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:30AMThursday, November 22, 2018
Populism, patriotism, political theatre, predictions for Brexit and the fast-paced nature of life-imitating-art-imitating-life were amongst the topics covered in an incredibly good-natured d…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:31PMWednesday, November 21, 2018
One of my favourite reviews of Fanatical, the new British musical currently receiving its world premiere season at London’s Playground Theatre, opines: “It will remind you why yo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:33AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
The Acting Gymnasium, founded by Gavin McAlinden, runs weekly creative performance workshops that help individuals develop their acting skills, build confidence, exercise their imagination, …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:47PMFriday, November 16, 2018
How much do you know about the British tradition of drag? British drag artists are the “punks of performance”, according to Ginger Johnson, who has written, directed, designed an…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:30AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story The Pit & the Pendulum in 1842, inspired by the idea of a political prisoner tormented during the Spanish Inquisition. In this new version, written…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 16 January 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is back at Trafalgar Studios again for the West End transfer of the King's Head…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMSwift but swinging! We had less than twenty minutes for last night’s post-show Q&A for new musical Looking for Gatsby but – taking a leaf out of this incredible company’…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AMSunday, November 11, 2018
Federico Garcia Lorca spent three months in Cuba in 1930 – six years before he was assassinated (aged just 38) by Franco nationalists in his native Spain. He fell in love with the Cari…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:08AMSaturday, November 10, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 29 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to Trafalgar Studios for the West End premiere of Hot Gay Time Machine …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, November 9, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 21 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz writer and activist Michael McManus, plus special guests from Westmi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMA part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 15 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will meet international drag collective Sink the Pink to learn How to Catch a Kr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMMonday, November 5, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 20 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the writer and cast of new British sci-fi musical Fanatical. Got any q…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMSunday, November 4, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Friday 16 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the director and cast of Acting Gymnasium’s new Irish production of c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMSaturday, November 3, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 13 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the creators of Creation Theatre's sonic-immersive new adaptation of E…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMFriday, November 2, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Monday 12 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writers behind new F Scott Fitzgerald-inspired musical Looking f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:30AMThursday, November 1, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Friday 9 November 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the director and cast of the Spanish Theatre Company's new production of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:15PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
Does a soldier ever stop being a soldier? “No!” shouted several from the audience at last night’s post-show discussion for Soldier On at The Other Palace. The play, dubbed …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:52PMMonday, October 22, 2018
The night after they faced the press, the team behind the European premiere production of A Guide for the Homesick faced a packed audience, most of whom stayed on to take part enthusiastical…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:45AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Last week I received a mysterious invite. "Please join us on 24 October 2018 for drinks to celebrate the launch of a radical new platform for theatre criticism," it read. That's intriguing, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:08AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
The Wider Earth is billed as one of the theatre events of the year – and, on this occasion, that’s no exaggeration. What a privilege for me to play a small part in helping to lau…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:39AMSunday, October 7, 2018
This weekend, I got to enter the boxing ring at London’s Southwark Playhouse to chair a post-show Q&A at Troupe Theatre’s world premiere production of Joy Wilkinson’s…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:24PMThursday, October 4, 2018
When a show has as many twists and turns as Glenn Chandler‘s KIDS PLAY, there are special challenges in live-streaming and live-tweeting a post-show discussion. Last night, Chander, …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:02PMSaturday, September 29, 2018
How much do you know about the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)? Who fought on the side of the Republicans and who for the Nationalists? What happened to those who got caught in the middle, suc…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:41PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 9 October 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will quiz the creators (and the puppets?) behind one of the biggest theatrical eve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:05AMMonday, September 24, 2018
Should country of birth define your identity or determine where you end up? Set in the near-future, Stand and Be Counted Theatre’s highly political new play Where We Began imagines a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMFriday, September 21, 2018
So often with the news these days, parallels are drawn with our turbulent political times and the fascism that swept across Europe in the 1930s, and the question is asked: what would you do …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:04PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
The pub beneath the Finborough Theatre, where Proud Haddock’s revival of Tony Harrison’s Square Rounds, is currently closed for refurbishment. So what does Proud Haddock artisti…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:46PMFriday, September 14, 2018
Can musical theatre help us find common ground with those with whom we disagree? If so, Unexpected Joy is undoubtedly the musical to do it. Set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Unexpected Joy�…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:50AM 
