Thursday, November 3, 2016
As I prepared to head to the St James Theatre last night to catch Jason Robert Brown‘s own production of his painfully semi-autobiographical two-hander The Last Five Years, I sent out …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMWednesday, November 2, 2016
The (new) Union Theatre and Southwark Playhouse are always a pleasure to visit – not least because both venues are practically on my doorstep, within a ten-minute walk. At the moment, they…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:03PMAs part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to award-winning playwright Philip Ridley about his explosive new one-man play TONIGHT WITH DONNY STIXX on …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
My first gut response to yesterday’s news that Emma Rice was leaving Shakespeare’s Globe, announced after less than a year – and only one summer season in post – was simply “Oh my …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, October 23, 2016
What an astonishing way to make your playwriting debut. Theresa Ikoko‘s first full-length play GIRLS was a Verity Bargate finalist and winner of both the Alfred Fagon Award (for Blac…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:23PMMonday, October 17, 2016
Two rarely seen short plays by Steven Berkoff are professionally performed together for the first time in this much-anticipated West End premiere. LUNCH and, written 20 years later, its sequ…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:22PMSunday, October 16, 2016
If you have to work on your birthday, this is just the kind of work you want. After watching the wonderful Amanda Muggleton rip through her 90-minute one-woman comedy The Book Club on Friday…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:11PMI’m delighted to be able to deputise for my friend and My Theatre Mates co-founder Mark Shenton for two dates of his weekly West End chat show in October. Coq-Tales and Conversations takes…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:34AMThursday, October 13, 2016
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to actor-turned-director Nigel Harman along with Emily Bruni and Shaun Dooley, the stars of his just-opened…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:05AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to award-winning author Theresa Ikoko and the cast of Mates-acclaimed GIRLS at London's Soho Theatre after …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:50PMSunday, October 9, 2016
At Crazy Coqs on Friday 28 October 2016 at 4.30pm, I’ll be chatting to a trio of talents from the 25th anniversary revival of Moby Dick! The Musical, which opens this month at the Union Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:10AMSaturday, October 8, 2016
As a vehicle for the combined – and considerable talents – of Kerry Ellis, Ramin Karimloo, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt and Norman Bowman, Murder Ballad is made to order. In this su…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:23PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Mart Crowley’s seminal play, The Boys in the Band, premiered in New York in 1968, just 14 months before the Stonewall riots that ignited the gay rights movement. Long before the likes of M…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:04PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
For the hour-long Coq Tales & Conversation event on Thursday 13 October 2016 at 5.00pm, I’ll be chatting to two incredible West End leading ladies, Anna-Jane Casey and Emma Hatton, bo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:45AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
I experienced frequent flashbacks while watching The Libertine last night at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Here’s another Restoration-set comedy to hit the West End in which much of t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:01AMMonday, September 26, 2016
Critic Matt Trueman described Elinor Cook‘s Pilgrims, about a pair of young mountain climbers, as the “peak of playwriting”. I got to talk mountain climbing, metaphors and…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:42PMSunday, September 25, 2016
Are you in a happy relationship? An unhappy one? Or just a normal one with standard-fare ups and downs? Ever thought about cheating on your partner? Owen McCafferty’s play Unfaithful, now …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:25AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
That Man musical had two performances only at London’s Hippodrome Casino yesterday (20 September 2016) and, after the first one, I chaired a post-show discussion in front of an audienc…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:25AMAfter a run in New York and a short UK regional tour, Sean Mathias‘ much-anticipated production of Harold Pinter‘s 1975 play No Man’s Land officially opened in the West End…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:38AMFriday, September 16, 2016
Is it pure coincidence that many of the plays I’ve seen recently feature actors as characters? And, consequently, a range of views on the life of actors and the nature of acting, which go…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
What if everything you’re ever known was thrown into question? And everything you ever trusted was subjected to doubt? When San Diego housewife Karen Ruiz’s husband is accused of being a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:35PMMonday, September 12, 2016
I made my HighTide Festival debut this weekend and what a privilege. Over the course of the weekend at this ten-day annual event, held in the beautiful Suffolk coast town of Aldeburgh and no…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:05AMThursday, September 8, 2016
A New York artistic commune in the early 1940s – occupied by British exiles Benjamin Britten, WH Auden, American novelist Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) and stripper G…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:44PMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Starting out as cheerleaders: Lauren Samuels, Ashleigh Gray and Lizzy Connolly in Vanities at Trafalgar Studios. © Pamela Raith Cheerleaders generally get a bad rap. When I went back to the…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:59PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
This instalment of my theatregoing recommendations could be called not just my musicals diary but my musicals-on-my-doorstep diary. All three shows – Children of Eden, Allegro and Groundho…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:52PMTwo hapless understudies on a production of Waiting for Godot occupy their time backstage, trying to understand art, life, theatre and their precarious existence within it. Dave Hanson‘…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Are there any stage taboos left? John Ford‘s 17th-century romantic thriller ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE, centring on an incestuous relationship between brother and sister Giov…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:05AMThursday, August 18, 2016
If the line “Laughter through tears is my favourite emotion” makes you nod your head, then you must see the play from which it comes: Robert Harling‘s Steel Magnolias, now …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:48PMTuesday, August 16, 2016
Could the dream team behind multi award-winning, all-over-the-globe hit Matilda – director Matthew Warchus, composer and lyricist Tim Minchin, choreographer Peter Darling and designer Rob …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:38PMFriday, August 5, 2016
July was a big month for Q&As for me so I’ve been a little pre-occupied by follow-up blogs on those. But in addition to musicals I’ve hosted events at – I’m Getti…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:49AMThursday, July 28, 2016
What a treat it was to not only see Jon Brittain‘s Rotterdam again last night, but to be able to question this hugely talented young writer about his bittersweet comedy, which ranked…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:15AM 
