Thursday, April 30, 2015
I’m so proud of my friend Mark Jagasia, how could I resist pulling together one of my #PressPass round-ups for his debut play? Clarion premiered to rave reviews (really, see below) las…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
As Rolls Royce productions go, they don’t get much better than this. Homegrown screen and stage star Damian Lewis returning the stage after a six-year absence, and for the first time s…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:50AMMonday, April 27, 2015
The full list of winners are announced today in the inaugural Also Recognised Awards, the new audience-voted, industry accolade set up by the Mates to celebrate lesser-known but equally wort…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:43AMFriday, April 24, 2015
We’re so proud of introducing the UK’s first-ever Award for Best Musical Direction – along with our partners and passionate campaigners, musical director Mike Dixon and And…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:24AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Less than two days after the star-studded gala to bid farewell to Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic, his successor Matthew Warchus is making headlines with an inaugural year-long season and comman…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:32AMOne of the most awkward moments at the Olivier Awards last week came during Kevin Spacey‘s acceptance of his Special Award – when he forgot the name of his successor. “As n…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:13AMMonday, April 20, 2015
This morning, producers confirmed that – on the back of a shedload of new five-star reviews from last week’s West End opening – Jonathan Kent‘s Chichester Festival pr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:23PMIs Imelda Staunton the best Momma Rose ever? She’s absolutely the best Momma Rose I’ve ever seen – but, then again, she’s also the only Momma Rose I’ve never se…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:08PMFriday, April 17, 2015
Just days after Kevin Spacey gave his (literal) swansong when accepting his Special Award at the Oliviers, our own homegrown Hollywood star has announced his plans to take over a West End th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:15AMThursday, April 16, 2015
At a recent post-show panel I hosted at The Father on the subject of “Women in the Arts”, Act for Change campaigner Stephanie Street shared a statistic that shocked me: currently…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:14PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
The most moving moment for me every year at the Olivier Awards ceremony is the tribute sequence, during which the industry remembers colleagues who have passed away during the previous 12 mo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:00AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
What were your red carpet memories from this year’s Laurence Olivier Awards? A week before this year’s event on Sunday 12 April 2015, having been quietly dropped from the media invitatio…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:54AMMonday, April 13, 2015
This afternoon I caught up with the ITV highlights programme of last night’s Olivier Awards. While quite entertaining, it’s no surprise that the telecast missed out a lot of good…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:42PMThursday, April 9, 2015
As a way of raising the glamour stakes ahead of this Sunday’s Laurence Olivier Awards, last Saturday’s Times Magazine‘s cover story was a five-star effort. For the piece, t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:57AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
All good things must come to an end. Last night was the third and final post-show panel discussion in the series that I’ve programmed and hosted around Jagged Fence’s new product…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:04AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
In today’s other blog post, I’ve been raving about the OTHER current offering of A View From the Bridge on at the moment: Stephen Unwin‘s production for Tour…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:21PMIn case you didn’t know it, 2015 marks the centenary of Arthur Miller‘s birth, and what a ripe old time it is for this giant of 20th-century American drama here in Britain. After…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:13PMFriday, April 3, 2015
When Margaret Thatcher died on 8 April 2013, she remained alive and well in two West End characterisations, neither particularly flattering. In Billy Elliot The Musical, during the “Me…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:49AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
I’m still reeling after the thrillingly heated and thought-provoking panel discussion I hosted last night at Trafalgar Studios 2. This was the second in a series of post-show events I’ve…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:01AMMonday, March 30, 2015
Taking over from Paul Kerryson as the new artistic director at the Curve in January, Nikolai Foster is causing waves not only in Leicester but up and down the country thanks to two simultane…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:09AMFriday, March 27, 2015
The inaugural #LoveTheatre day back in November caused quite a stir. Theatre – and more specifically #lovetheatre – was trending up and down the country. Now, here we are today, the 54th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:04AMThursday, March 26, 2015
Last summer, Jamie Lloyd‘s Trafalgar Transformed production of Richard III attracted negative press for the alleged bad behaviour of young Sherlock fans come to (loudly and at inapprop…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:48AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
How far have we come with feminism since August Strindberg was writing in the 1880s? “About halfway,” said Polly Toynbee on Monday night at Trafalgar Studios, in the first of a series of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:03AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
I had a curious but highly enjoyable afternoon this past Friday, when I dropped in on lovely chappies Tim McArthur and Nathan Matthews, presenters of the weekly Curtain Up show on London rad…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:13AMMonday, March 23, 2015
Last year, Tooting Arts Club’s site-specific Sweeney Todd – staged in Harrington’s, one of London’s oldest pie shops – topped myriad critics ‘best of #theatre2014’ lists. A…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:45AMFriday, March 20, 2015
For the last General Election, on 6 May 2010, I went to a party at the Paramount Club at the top of Centrepoint. All night we waited up, for no dramatic climax, no result. This time round, I…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:10AMThursday, March 19, 2015
In the years that I ran WhatsOnStage, the site’s Discussion Forum, a.k.a. “The Board”, was often the bane of my life. Producers would pull me aside on press nights to complain about it…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:56AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Reporting from Manchester, my guest contributor Glenn Meads recently met up with director-producer James Baker, who is making waves at The Kings Arms in Salford. Londoners, take note. Great …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:06PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
For all the planning and preparation I’ve been doing with Mark Shenton over the past few months, even I am a little taken aback by the response to our launch yesterday of MyThea…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:13AMMonday, March 16, 2015
I was touched and heartened by the outpouring to the news last week that I finally won my unfair dismissal claim against the new owners of WhatsOnStage. Amongst many of those responses was a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
It’s been 455 days since I was walked out of the offices of WhatsOnStage, the company that I co-founded. And today I can finally officially and publicly say: I did nothing wrong and sh…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:42PM 
