Friday, January 2, 2015
In this new year gorgefest of lists, The Stage‘s annually compiled Stage 100 of the top influencers in theatre takes the cake. Launched in January 1997, The Stage 100 is now in its 1…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:16PMThursday, January 1, 2015
Rounding up the best of the best of theatre 2014 highlights got me reflecting on my own year in theatre. Having unexpectedly left WhatsOnStage just before Christmas 2013, the shape and pace …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:45PMWednesday, December 31, 2014
Can you keep up with all the 2014 theatrical year round-ups? I’ve rounded up the round-ups to give you a quick overview. The Guardian went ALL out looking back with a profusion of top 10 l…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:37AMMonday, December 29, 2014
If your brain has started to turn to mush after too much turkey and mash, get yourself along to one of these four plays quick. I can personally recommend each for provoking serious thought, …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:51AMIf your brain has started to turn to mush after too much turkey and mash, get yourself along to one of these four plays quick. I can personally recommend each for provoking serious thought, …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:51AMSunday, December 28, 2014
In April, I set myself a month-long challenge to learn and share something useful every day. (You can read them all in my What I Learned Today series.) Now I’m getting a jump on my New Yea…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:05AMSaturday, December 27, 2014
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:11AMWednesday, December 24, 2014
It’s frightening how prescient Jack Thorne’s Hope is. Just this week, new research released by the Labour Party showed that streetlights are being switched off in three-quarters o…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:49AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
If you want a white Christmas in London, even after the 25th, you may consider stopping in to see Aled Jones and Tom Chambers in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. However, for a thicker sno…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:48AMMonday, December 22, 2014
Less than 24 hours before my scheduled post-show Q&A at the St James Theatre, I had a temperature of over 103° F (39.4° C). My boyfriend tells me I was semi-delirious. He contacted the…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:32AMFriday, December 12, 2014
What a fantastic time to be a kid in Theatreland! Never mind the plethora of pantomimes, and the superlative programming year-round at the Unicorn and Polka Theatres, this holiday season in …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:45PMThursday, December 11, 2014
What’s caught your eye this week? Here are a few pieces and issues that have caught mine and may be worth a longer look for you too. Free tickets, like free lunches, are paid for in go…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:16AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
I am fascinated and slightly bemused by the ongoing battle raging around theatre criticism: i.e. the “death” of serious print critics in favour of bloggers and the Twittersphere, which …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:26PMTuesday, December 2, 2014
I’m playing catch-up. Here are four shows I caught before my turkey-filled escape to the States last week for Thanksgiving. All of which serve up entertaining evenings in the theatre. As u…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:02PMThursday, November 20, 2014
Yesterday was the inaugural #LoveTheatre day. Run in partnership with Twitter UK, Guardian Culture Professionals Network and Culture Themes, it was widely embraced by theatres and theatre lo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:07AMWednesday, November 19, 2014
There are plenty of plays to choose from on London’s fringe and Off-West End. Here are some that I’ve seen recently and am happy to recommend. As usual, I’ve listed them in closing dat…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:57AMTuesday, November 18, 2014
You may not have heard of octogenarian Sondra Lee, but you should have. This petite lady is a legend – and I had the privilege of chairing a Q&A with her along with Peter Tate and …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:43AMThursday, November 13, 2014
A note in the programme for Wildefire, Roy Williams’ new play about the perils of modern-day policing at Hampstead Theatre, deftly summarises the public relations problem that the police f…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:29PMMy partner Peter had vicious man-flu for over a week so it was only a matter of time until I caught the female equivalent, a.k.a the common cold. Yesterday morning, after a no-sleep night, I…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:25AMMonday, November 10, 2014
Most review publications rate shows on a five-star basis. But even full fives across the board from every theatre critic in the country won’t guarantee a hit. So what does? Over his 30-odd…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:26PMThursday, November 6, 2014
On Monday night, I had the pleasure of attending the second official gathering of the London theatre bloggers, an amorphous group of 30-odd who you can follow collectively at #LDNTheatreBlog…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:15AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
My first thought when the folks behind a new musical based on Guy Fawkes tweeted me this morning was: what a great idea for a musical! My second thought was: why hasn’t it been done befor…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:43AMThursday, October 30, 2014
In my Theatre Diary last week, I recommended two new musicals – Urinetown and The Scottsboro Boys, both originated in New York and given UK premiere productions Off-West End before transfe…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:46PMThursday, October 23, 2014
Having escaped back to Mallorca for a week (god, I love that place, my little piece of heaven), there are at least two weeks of theatre I want to catch up with. My must-see list just keeps g…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:45PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
After catching Simon Callow’s latest barn-storming performance in The Man Jesus, which stopped off last night (6 October 2014) at the West End’s Lyric Theatre as part of a national tour,…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:50AMMonday, October 6, 2014
Take me out to the ballgame… There’s a lot of new talent on show in the Landor Theatre’s boisterous revival of 1955 Broadway baseball musical Damn Yankees, but I must declare a per…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:18AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
I voted in the inaugural West End Wilma Awards this morning – and experienced an intense feeling of déjà vu. My own awards past Fourteen years ago, I founded the WhatsOnStage Awards almo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:27AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
Forbidden Broadway was just what the doctor ordered for me the other night – I haven’t laughed so hard in ages. The renowned Broadway institution (going since 1982) has been sl…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:18AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Knowing that my theatregoing – and overall mental and emotional bandwidth – would be going into tailspin this week, I packed in as many shows as I could over the past fortnight. Amongst …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:36PMMonday, September 8, 2014
“Talk about handling a hot potato,” Gabriel Quigley said to me after I chaired a post-show Q&A with her and her co-star Richard Clements following last Thursday’s performance of Sp…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:29PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Four of the nine Festival Highlights shows I worked on in August were solo pieces. And over the years of visiting the Edinburgh Fringe, I estimate that at least 60% of all those shows I’ve…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:22AM 
