Friday, December 22, 2017
As 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 06:00AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Does 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 05:40AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Another 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 11:39AMFriday, December 1, 2017
Three 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 03:00AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
It 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 07:47AMFriday, November 10, 2017
A 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 03:00AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Understandably, 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 07:10AMMonday, November 6, 2017
As 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 08:00AMFriday, November 3, 2017
Can 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 09:55AMMonday, October 30, 2017
How 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 06:59PMMonday, October 23, 2017
I 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 04:58AMThursday, October 19, 2017
As 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 09:00AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
How 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 04:30AMThursday, October 5, 2017
I’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 04:07PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
If, 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…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:40AMMonday, October 2, 2017
Living in SE1 in London, I’m absolutely spoilt for theatres. The South Bank powerhouses of the National Theatre, Old Vic and Young Vic, Shakespeare’s Globe, and, as of later this…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:59AMSaturday, September 30, 2017
Both stories centre on Promethean ambitions: scientists who, like the Greek Titan who created mankind, seek to crack the code of life and consciousness itself.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, September 29, 2017
As part of her ongoing event series, on 26 October 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer, director, producer and cast of Metal Rabbit's critically acclaimed Fishskin T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, September 28, 2017
There are only a few days left to catch Che Walker‘s new in-the-round production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, which finishes at London’s Southwark Playhouse this Satur…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:39AMThere was a moment I’ll never forget from the Q&A I hosted after last night’s performance of Stephen Clark‘s Le Grand Mort at Trafalgar Studios. Julian Clary, who is of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:17AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 surged by a staggering 9,500% after the election of Donald Trump to become Amazon’s biggest seller. Orwell himself died, at the age of 46, in Jan…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 27 September 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to Julian Clary, his co-star and director of Le Grand Mort, the new…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, September 7, 2017
I had my own Godotesque moment to start last night’s Waiting for Godot Q&A. The stage was bare. Where were the chairs? Was anyone bringing chairs? How long would we be waiting for…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:34AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
What do you need to know about Dominic Cooke‘s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at the National Theatre? It’s a great big, sumptuous, stellar hit. I was lucky enough t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:48PMSunday, September 3, 2017
On 10 October 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the company of Chris Hannan's What Shadows, inspired by Enoch Powell's infamous 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech, now receiving i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:01PMDid you get lucky in the ticket ballot for #RADAHamlet, which on Twitter has also gained the predictable #HiddleHamlet hashtag thanks to its title star, Tom Hiddleston? The fundraising produ…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:20AMFriday, September 1, 2017
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the stars of Patrick Marber's THE RED LION, "a Premiere League play about non-league football" (Gary Lineker), now receiving its West End debut, o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe plays may have been written 420-odd years apart, but I was really struck by how many parallels there were between the discussion I hosted last week, to the European premiere of Jordan …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AM 
