As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 29 March 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the creator and company of original British musical MISS NIGHTINGALE,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMI’ve been raving about Julius Caesar to everyone over the past few weeks, and particularly the experience of seeing it in the pit of the staggeringly versatile Bridge Theatre. This sec…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMIn November 2016, a week after the election of Donald Trump, I chaired a post-show Q&A at Philip Ridley’s Tonight with Donny Stixx. That one-man show, which follows a would-be magician…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:14AMWhat’s the point of philosophy? According to Ludwig Wittgenstein, as portrayed in Ron Elisha’s moving and thought-provoking two-hander The Soul of Wittgenstein now running at Clapham Om…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:00PMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 9 June 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of new British musical San Domino, inspired by a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Saturday 21 April 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of the European premiere of award-winning US dr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Sunday 11 March 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer, director and cast of world premiere play After the Ball. Go…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A programme, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host a series of three discussions during the course of the world premiere run of Philip Ridley's ANG…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThe Jewish story must continue to be told, Sheldon Harnick told me and a packed house at London’s Park Theatre after Tuesday night’s performance of Rothschild & Sons, for whi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:30AMIt’s natural that your reactions to shows are filtered through the prism of the current social and political climate. And savvy theatres, of course, seek to judge the mood and programme ac…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:01AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 15 February 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and stars of new play The Soul of Wittgenstein, which…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWhat an incredibly brave, brilliant and inspiring woman Iris Chang was. What an unimaginably horrific atrocity the Nanking Massacre was. How ashamed I am to have known next to nothing about …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:32PMI feel incredibly privileged to have been “in the room where it happens” to see the European premiere of HAMILTON last night at the West End’s Victoria Palace Theatre. …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:52PMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 30 January 2018 at London’s Park Theatre, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to legendary Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harni…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 10 January 2018 at London’s Finborough Theatre, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of Christop…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMDoes this count as a vlogmas? Probably not, but here’s my attempt at a theatre diary vlog in any case, which includes two Christmas shows! The emphasis is on Off-West End musicals I…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:40AMAnother fascinating rediscovery from Troupe Theatre. J.M. Barrie is best known, of course, for Peter Pan (and there are no shortage of revivals and spin-offs of that around Theatreland at th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:39AMThree Off-West End musicals I’ve seen in the past few weeks – well, two musicals and a play with music – have served up slices of modern history to entertaining effect. The…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:00AMIt was a packed house – including many therapy professionals – for last night’s performance of Matthew Campling‘s new play The Secondary Victim at the Park Theatre. W…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:47AMA cheeky Twitter follower (yes, I’m talking about you Johnny Fox) requested that I ask the three stars of Patrick Marber‘s locker room drama The Red Lion – Stephen Tompkin…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:00AMUnderstandably, as theatremakers and audiences try to make sense of our turbulent times, political plays are de rigueur – and it’s not just ones written by James Graham either. …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:10AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 5 December 2017 at London's Southwark Playhouse, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to director Jonathan O'Boyle and his Tr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMCan we love someone whose belief system we fundamentally disagree with? If we love someone, can we denounce what we believe just to please them? Family and faith compete in thoughtful three…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:55AMHow much can a landscape shape a person’s identity? How much can a landscape shape a play’s plot? In answer to the latter question, in the case of Elizabeth Kuti’s Fishsk…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:59PMI can’t get out of my mind the idea of touring two new, one-act plays I’ve seen recently – Jane Upton‘s All The Little Lights and Kieran Knowles‘ 31 Hours …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:31AMIn the past month, two musicals have got me up on my feet and dancing all the way out to the bar. At Five Guys Named Moe, I joined a conga line at the interval after attempting to singalong…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:58AMIn the past month, two musicals have got me up on my feet and dancing all the way out to the bar. At Five Guys Named Moe, I joined a conga line at the interval after attempting to singalong…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:58AMAs part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 2 November 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of the critically acclaimed European premiere…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMHow do we talk to those that we hate? How do we speak across the anger that divides us? Those are the opening lines in Chris Hannan‘s provocative new play, What Shadows – and …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMI’ve had a rich few weeks for playgoing. In addition to productions I’ve already written about elsewhere – including, of those still running, Arrows and Traps’ Frankenstein at Brockl…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:07PMIf, like me, you're stuck at your desk today and can't follow the National Theatre 2018 season press briefing quite as closely as you'd like to, I've rounded up all today's key announcements…
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