Before I attended King Kong, Daniel Clarkson‘s bonkers stage parody of the 1933 film classic, last week at The Vaults, I never knew there was such a thing as a nose flute. Now I will n…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:29AMMates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the author, director and stars of Lee Tannen's hit bio-play I LOVED LUCY, returning for a third London season by popular demand, after the perform…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMHow many creatives does it take to make a one-man musical? The answer can be “quite a few”. And that it is in the case of SUPERHERO, the British one-man – or rather R…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:03AMMy theatre week last week started and ended with musicals. My partner Peter and I rushed back from our – rather too work-filled – fortnight in Mallorca just in time for West End …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:21AMMates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the author, director and cast of this world premiere comedy stage adaptation of KING KONG at London's Vaults Theatre on Wednesday 12 July 2017. Go…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMJust 11 months after I chaired my first post-show talk for Jon Brittain's Rotterdam - then at Trafalgar Studios for its West End premiere - and so much has changed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:25AMAs part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the creators and star of new "one-dad" musical Superhero, premiering at London's Southwark Playhouse, af…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMWhat’s the most important lesson in a prison ‘education’? HELD is a hard-hitting new British prison drama exploring the broken lives of five inmates, including two young of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:13PMMates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the author, director and stars of uncompromising prison tale HELD at London's Tristan Bates Theatre on Saturday 10 June 2017. Got any questions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMI was recently hired by the producer of Waiting for God to interview the show’s stars and writer as it embarks on a major UK tour. Here’s the first in a three-part series. Wait…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMI had a hunch that this would be an especially amusing post-show Q&A and the company and audience of American hillbilly comedy Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Rd., now transferred to the W…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:34PMI was recently hired by the producer of Waiting for God to interview the show’s stars and writer as it embarks on a major UK tour. Here’s the first in a three-part series. Wait…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMI was recently hired by the producer of Waiting for God to interview the show’s stars and writer as it embarks on a major UK tour. Here’s the first in a three-part series. Wait…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:00AMA string of hits, a cast of two, ‘Forever Plaid’ meets ‘I Do, I Do’. James Hindman‘s 2000 Off-Broadway musical two-hander Pete ‘n’ Keely gets its European premiere at Trist…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:21AMJames Shirley‘s 1641 tragic masterpiece THE CARDINAL, one of the last plays staged in England before Oliver Cromwell’s ban on theatre, this month receives its first major product…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:57PMAs part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host a post-show panel discussion on feminism and misogyny onstage following Lazarus Theatre's re-imagining of S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and stars of the European premiere of Off-Broadway musical comedy after the matinee on Saturday 2 May 2017. Got any questions?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMHere’s a round-up of productions I’ve seen it recent weeks which I haven’t already covered in Press Passes (do please dance your way as soon as you can into seeing both An …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:30AMAs a Twitter geek, one of the things I enjoyed most about David Baddiel‘s latest one-man show My Family: Not the Sitcom, which is now enjoying its second West End run at the Playhouse …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:35PMMates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the author and star of cult hit American comedy Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Rd. and other company members on Tuesday 9 May 2017. Got any questio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMOne little postcode in New York City has been attracting a lot of stage real estate in London in recent years: the blocks around Times Square. The area is, of course, well known to theatre l…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:11AMWhat a great way to get the Bank Holiday weekend off with a swing. Last night, I hosted a post-show Q&A at MISS NIGHTINGALE. This original British musical is now in its sixth iteration &…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:48AMMates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and company of rarely seen 17th-century tragic masterpiece THE CARDINAL on Thursday 23 February 2017. Got any questions? Book tickets…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAfter successes with Sunset Boulevard and Sweeney Todd, English National Opera continues its annual headline-grabbing foray into musical theatre with Rodgers & Hammerstein’s C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:14AMThe second massive New York import in less than a month, 42nd Street brought its lullaby of Broadway to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane last night. In addition to their transatlantic journeys, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:06AMWhen: April 13, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Where: The Vaults (Launcelot Street entrance), Leake St, Lambeth, London SE1 7NN, UK Homegrown musical MISS NIGHTIN…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMIf you’re seeking life affirmation, celebrations of female solidarity (of a quintessentially British variety) and general uplift, my two current West End recommendations that tick all …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:14PMWhat would Bertolt Brecht have made of Donald Trump? Brecht’s “epic theatre” was sparked by the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. Many pundits have likened the political per…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:25PMI’m pleased that the Old Vic has added a week to the run of its 50th anniversary production of Tom Stoppard‘s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, now booking until 6 May R…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:38AMHere’s what London is crying out for: an escape to Paris. And not the Paris of Marine Le Pen or any other modern foes and woes, but the sumptuous Hollywood Golden Age version now burst…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:52AMAs part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host a post-show panel discussion on political theatre following Lazarus Theatre's acclaimed production of Brech…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM