Friday, January 8, 2016
The 2016 West End season got off to a rollicking start this week with Wednesday’s opening of Guys and Dolls, the latest Chichester Festival transfer to the Savoy Theatre, which follows…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:56AMSunday, January 3, 2016
After rounding up various publications’ #theatre2015 highlights yesterday, it’s time to reflect on my own year in the stalls (well, mainly in the stalls, occasionally in the dress circle…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:18PMSaturday, January 2, 2016
If you know me at all well, you’ll know that I’m a Twitter addict – which includes a love for all sorts of nerdy things to do with Twitter management and monitoring. And th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:29PMAfter my two-week Christmas roadtrip in the US, I’m finally back at my desk and able to catch up on all the 2015 UK theatrical year round. Have you been keeping up in my absence? Fear not …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:29PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
After Anna Francolini on Monday and the Judy Garlands yesterday, I’m going for a hat trick of blogs about amazing women today so that I can tell you this: if you haven’t yet seen Linda a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:00AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Take your pick of Judy Garlands. On the London stage this week alone, you’ve got a choice of three – Helen Sheals, Belinda Wollaston and Lucy Penrose – in Ray Rackham’s brilliant…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:00AMMonday, December 14, 2015
“Who are you?” It’s the only real question, according to wonder.land via Lewis Carroll. But the main question that kept running through my mind while watching the Damon Albarn musical …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:10PMFriday, December 11, 2015
I have tried as much as possible to ignore the press around Jeremy Corbyn’s attendance of the Stop the War organisation’s Christmas do this week. Frankly, I just didn’t want to get mys…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:44PMHave you seen the rave reviews for our Featured Show? After five years away, The Blues Brothers have returned to the West End for a limited season at the Arts Theatre with a festive special …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:34PMWhen wonder.land premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July, reviews were decidedly mixed. National press who made the trip north were underwhelmed, bestowing a raft of three…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:19AMMonday, December 7, 2015
When news of the Park Theatre’s pantomime, Rapunzel, came through earlier this year, I remember clocking the name of the hero character Prince Corbyn – names are never a coincide…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:35AMThursday, December 3, 2015
In musical theatre happenings, the big news last night was London’s first major revival of Jule Styne’s Broadway classic Funny Girl. The big question: could Sheridan Smith lay to rest th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:52AMSunday, November 29, 2015
On Friday night, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn emailed me and other grassroots members of the Labour Party asking what I think Britain should do about the civil war in Syria, our national secu…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:22PMThursday, November 26, 2015
A year ago I was gorging myself on turkey and pumpkin pie and basking in family love in Huntsville, Alabama. It was my first time back to the States for Thanksgiving in over 20 years and it …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:07AMSunday, November 22, 2015
In case it escaped your notice, the second annual #LoveTheatreDay (that’s opposed to last year’s #LoveTheatre Day, for the record) took place last Wednesday. I’d had it marked in my ca…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:28PMMonday, November 16, 2015
I usually prefer to spend Sunday nights in winter holed up at home, but I was glad to make an exception – especially thanks to the considerately early start time of 5.30pm – last…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:59AMFriday, November 13, 2015
I’ve been thinking a lot about new musicals recently. That’s not meant to be a blatant plug for my new website Stage Faves. Apart from the small detail that #StageFaves’ covers revival…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:52PMThursday, November 12, 2015
People who see me in the theatre no doubt assume I’m always armed with my little notebook and scrambling for the pen that always seems to have fallen to the bottom of my bag because I’m …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AMMonday, November 9, 2015
There’s nothing like a major theatre event to warm the cockles on a winter’s day. And the opening of Kenneth Branagh’s return to the West End with a year-long season as actor-manager w…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:58AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Maybe I’m just an old softie. Okay, yes, let’s admit it, I am. I’m also a lifelong believer in the restorative power of Christmas music which, like Katrina and the Waves’ “Walk…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:35PMThursday, November 5, 2015
Featuring Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Tom Hiddleston, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Baz Luhrmann, Mark Rylance, Fiona Shaw, James Earl Jones, Rita Dove, Sandy Foster, H…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:03PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), the underground theatre group routinely censored and persecuted in its state-controlled homeland, is celebrating its tenth birthday this month. Founded by human r…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMMonday, November 2, 2015
The play Pig Farm, which is currently receiving its UK premiere at London’s St James Theatre, is written by American Greg Kotis, who also wrote the book for the Urinetown, the musical whic…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:16PMThursday, October 29, 2015
Regular readers of this blog will know that, a few weeks ago, I was blown away by Tooting Arts Club’s revival of Barbarians, Barrie Keeffe‘s 1977 modern classic about disaffecte…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:53AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
What an honour! Last night I had the privilege of helping to open the third annual From Page to Stage season of new musicals. From Page to Stage is the brainchild of Katy Lipson of Aria Ente…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:34AMSunday, October 25, 2015
This week the AULTP bloggers discuss two Measure for Measures, at the Globe versus the Young Vic, Trevor Nunn's revival of Shakespearean epic The Wars of The Roses, and new comedy Dinner wit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:06PMSaturday, October 24, 2015
Obviously I go to the theatre a lot: but last night truly was special. I had the huge privilege of attending a premiere, at the White Bear Theatre, that marked the playwriting debut of a de…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:06AMThursday, October 22, 2015
The new play’s the thing, even when it’s very old…. Here are four I’ve seen over the past few weeks, three of which I haven’t managed to squeeze yet into sepa…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:00PMMonday, October 19, 2015
Richard, one of the central characters in Daniel Dingsdale's debut play Dark Tourism (like me) has a thing for quotations. The irony is that he's a peddler of lowest common denominator cultu…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:34AMThursday, October 15, 2015
Next weekend, the 85th birthday of American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim will be marked (albeit, somewhat belatedly – his actual birthday was on 22 March) in grand, celebrato…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:46AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Tonight should have been the night that Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s new Out of Joint play Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, inspired by the last woman in England to be charged with witchcraft in…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:00AM 
