Sunday, January 22, 2017
The best antidote to hopelessness has got to be action. That’s what I have kept reminding myself over the past few months, and what I recited almost mantra-like on Friday afternoon as…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:06PMMonday, January 16, 2017
Stage shows based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 narrative poem The Wild Party are like buses. Ahead of next month’s much-anticipated UK premiere of the Michael John LaChiusa’s musical…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:00AMSunday, January 15, 2017
Last week I was more on schedule with rounding up lists of critics’ tips for the best theatre coming up this year. But in truth, as I’ve been organising the Critics’ Circle…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:11PMSunday, January 8, 2017
What are the hottest shows coming up this year? Based on the ones that are most likely to appear on top picks’ lists in my round-up of commentators’ round-ups, they are: Lin-Ma…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:33PMThursday, December 29, 2016
Ahead of rounding up various publications #theatre2016 highlights, I’m taking a moment to reflect on my own theatregoing year and my favourite plays, musicals, performances and other event…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:13PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
The National Theatre used to be one of my favourite theatregoing destinations, but I’ve only been a handful of times in recent years. This hasn’t been an intentional omission on …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:34PMThursday, December 15, 2016
What’s most absurd about absurdist comedy LUV? That it’s virtually unknown in this country – despite an incredible pedigree. Long before he wrote the screenplay for the hi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:58PMIt’s taken 35 years, but Broadway hit Dreamgirls, inspired by the story of The Supremes, finally received its West End premiere last night (14 December) at the Savoy Theatre. Was it wo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:51AMTuesday, December 13, 2016
I have become even more spoilt for choice for theatre on my doorstep with the arrival of my SE1 neighborhood’s newest venue, The Bunker. This subterranean black box is so close to another …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:30AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
I saw two two-hander musical gems this past weekend: Her Aching Heart at the Hope Theatre in Islington and, on the opposite side of town, Another Night Before Christmas at the Bridge House …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:02AMMonday, December 5, 2016
What does Sam Shepard’s 1978 play Buried Child have to tell us about America after the presidential election of Donald Trump? The West End transfer of the New Group’s production, first s…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:06AMThursday, December 1, 2016
A new musical – especially one not based on a film and/or arrived from Broadway trailing Tony Awards – is always a risky proposition. One received way of establishing a level of recognit…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:31AMThursday, November 17, 2016
What a treat to pay my first visit to London’s newest venue – The Bunker, carved out of a carpark beneath the Menier Chocolate Factory – to host this post-show Q&A for …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:36PMWednesday, November 16, 2016
There’s something in the water with The Beggar’s Opera at the moment. Lazarus Theatre’s new, modern-dress, 80-minute version at Brockley Jack Studio Theatre is the third …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:56AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Here’s everything you need to know about last night’s West End premiere of School of Rock: The Musical in a nutshell: Andrew Lloyd Webber has a monster hit on his hands; the sho…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:36AMSunday, November 13, 2016
In the days before this year’s US presidential election, Donald Trump predicted that the result would be “Brexit-plus-plus-plus”. For me personally, “Brexit-plus-pl…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:27PMEveryone’s on drugs at the Park Theatre, I tweeted last Monday night. For a theatre that consistently impresses with the diversity of its received productions, it’s interesting t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:27AMFriday, November 4, 2016
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of the long-awaited UK premiere of Broadway comedy LUV on Thursday 15 December 201…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:45AMThursday, 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 09:04PM 
