Meeting the right person and starting a new relationship is hard enough, but when you also have to do it in rhyming couplets while searching for the meaning of your life... in Woking - well,…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:37AMAs part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion for the world premiere of Jo & Sam Find Themselves in Woking at London's Hen & Chick…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe spark of an idea for award-winning new two-hander Bacon, now in its extended world premiere season at London's Finborough Theatre, came when playwright Sophie Swithinbank, then working a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:12AMWildcard Theatre promises "Shakespeare like you have never experienced it before", and they deliver in spades with this new gig-style reinvention of The Tempest in the perfect setting of the…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:15AMAs part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion for the premiere production of Sophie Swithinbank's award-winning new play Bacon at London's…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AMAs part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion at Wildcard Theatre's radical reimagining of Shakespeare classic The Tempest at the Pleasanc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMRosie Day's wonderful rollercoaster ride of a debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, which she also performs, ends with the by-then 16-year-old protagonist writing a letter of adv…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:56PMI have a sneaking suspicion that we have not seen the last of this little musical gem, which is - incredibly - inspired by a real-life World War II espionage episode demonstrating British pl…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:24PMAs part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion at Instruction for a Teenage Armageddon at London’s Southwark Playhouse on Tuesday 15 Febr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMark St Germain's play Freud's Last Session, first seen Off-Broadway in 2010 and now receiving its European premiere at London's King's Head Theatre, pits two of the 20th-century greatest th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:36AMI love Christmas. But for the past several years, I have struggled to summon the Christmas cheer that used to kick in for me the day after Thanksgiving (or, after so many years in the UK, by…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMI was fascinated by the story behind the play telling the story behind the film. The Shark Is Broken is the brainchild of Ian Shaw who co-wrote it and stars as his own late father Robert Sha…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:38AMAt my last Christmas Q&A at the Pleasance Theatre, for sci-fi spoof Escape from Planet Trash way back in December 2019, Ginger Johnson shared a tantalising teaser about her idea for her …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:25PMJunior doctor turned multi-award-winning writer and comedian Adam Kay returns to the stage this festive season with a reminder to spare a thought for the hard-working staff of the NHS as we …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMHere's the brutal truth about many of our rights: we only really have them if we have the wherewithal to fight for them when they're trampled on. That's certainly the case when it comes to e…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:33PMAfter How to Catch a Krampus and Escape from Planet Trash, Ginger Johnson and her merry band of drag queens return to The Pleasance with a new alternative Christmas show, Dog Show. And I'm b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMHere's a sobering statistic: 2,000 pubs closed during lockdown. Lost forever. The scale of that loss really struck me when I heard performer and (brilliant) poet Ben Norris recite it during …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:21AMThere are some shows with modest beginnings that seem to have all of the industry behind them, willing them to succeed. Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) is one of them. The post Pride &…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:00PMMore than four centuries after William Shakespeare died in 1616, aged 52 on his own birthday (23 April), questions remain about the authorship of his prodigious output - including nearly for…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:47AMAs much as it was possible for anyone the arts, Northern Comedy Theatre had a very good pandemic. When all performing arts venues closed, rather than wrap up their work, they ramped up. The …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:57AMThe big moral question at the heart of Indecent Proposal is: what are you willing to do for $1 million? More specifically: would you have sex for a stranger if they paid you $1 million? The …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:42AMAnton Chekhov is, of course, best known for his "big five" classic plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. None of which, though the author himself lab…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:25PMThe premise of The Picture of Dorian Gray has become so much a part of our culture that most people will recognise the reference even if they've never read Oscar Wilde's original 1890 novell…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:41PMAs part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion following the evening performance of James Woolf's new play Empty in Angel at London's Old R…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAs part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion following the performance of Lidless Theatre's tenth-anniversary revival of Philip Ridley's …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released details of its Spring 2022 activity including Shakespeare returning to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage and the announcement of a ground-b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMAs part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion following the performance of Mercurius Theatre's revival of Anton Chekhov's Vaudevilles, ada…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMates founder Terri Paddock will chair a post-show discussion for the London premiere of The Tragedy of Dorian Gray, Blue Devil Theatre's updating of Oscar Wilde's classic, at the Drayton Ar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMaximus Polling reprises his titular performance as the ever-youthful Dorian in Blue Devil Theatre's award-winning adaptation, transferring to Drayton Arms Theatre from 19 October.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMHow far would you go to right a wrong? Terri Paddock discussed with the cast and creatives of Robert Boulton’s debut play Snowflakes after a performance at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThis is not a project born of outsiders wanting to cash in, but rather a long-held ambition, some 16 years in the making, of Back to the Future's creators. The post Back to the Future: Nosta…
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