Thursday, 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 10:22AMWednesday, September 3, 2014
I’m excited to attend the gala opening tonight of Michael Flatley’s revamped Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games. I got a sneak peek recently when a few extracts were performed at a previ…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:23AMTuesday, September 2, 2014
When the Daily Telegraph announced yesterday that Charles Spencer is retiring after 25 years as the newspaper’s theatre critic, there was an outpouring of appreciation for Charlie on Twitt…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:58AMThursday, August 28, 2014
As I mentioned in my Theatre Diary today, I cannot recommend Benjamin Scheuer’s The Lion highly enough. This is a beautiful one-man musical about a boy and his father and how that boy beca…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:15PMEdinburgh aside, my August theatregoing has been sporadic, but here are a few shows I’ve seen recently that are worth catching if you can, especially now that the late summer sunshine seem…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:12AMFriday, August 15, 2014
When Mark Shenton was dismissed as critic from the Sunday Express last December, it was the talking point of the theatre industry, particularly after he blogged for The Stage about the sensa…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:40AMThursday, August 14, 2014
Any chance of dieting this month went out the window with the arrival of this beautiful care package of Sweet Theatre’s Shakespeare’s Leading Ladies chocolate bars. Sweet Theatre is the …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:09AMMonday, August 11, 2014
As part of my recent Festival Highlights Challenge, I had the pleasure of meeting – and, for 24 hours, effectively stalking – Sarah Quinney at the Edinburgh Fringe. Sarah is a Technical …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:41AMFriday, August 8, 2014
What a turnout! After a Twitter RT frenzy with the cast of Therese Raquin yesterday, every single one of them joined me for a post-show Q&A after their sensational performance last night…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:14AMWhat chutzpah! Producer David Johnson’s reaction to a request from ATG, the UK’s largest theatre owning group, for complimentary tickets to his production of Fascinating Aida…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:07AMMonday, August 4, 2014
I had photographer company in the form of other half Peter Jones for part of my Festival Highlights visit to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. If a photo is worth a thousand words, youR…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:23PMThis year, I’m returning from Edinburgh just at the time I would normally be heading up… And that’s not the only difference in my festival going. 2014 has been a year of many Fringe fi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:38PMWednesday, July 30, 2014
In London, five shows a week is a serious haul. In Edinburgh, that’s small fry. When I was reviewing in Edinburgh, I could easily do twice that in a day. This year, this week, I’m experi…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:55AMTuesday, July 29, 2014
I’m really doing well for play choices in July. Don’t let the warm weather put you off catching these compelling productions, which scale great heights and depths of emotion. (Apart from…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:06AMMonday, July 28, 2014
Have you lost count how many times a mobile has gone off when you’re at the theatre? I have. And I marvel at the timing. Doesn’t it always seem to be at a quiet, crucial moment of perfor…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:41PMFriday, July 11, 2014
When the production shots for Richard III were first released earlier this week, showing that director Jamie Lloyd had located the Bard’s bloody history play in a 1970s office block, my in…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:45AMFriday, July 4, 2014
I had a great time last night (3 July 2014) hosting the post-show Q&A at the hilarious new “two-woman comedy about putting on a one-woman show”, The Frida Kahlo of Penge West…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:47PMThursday, July 3, 2014
Despite the considerable distractions of the World Cup, Wimbledon and my own much-talked about (!) triathlon debut in Wales – I’m a sucker for a sporting spectacle – I have been lucky …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:58AMThursday, June 26, 2014
Clint Eastwood eat your heart out. While the Jersey Boys big screen release has received lukewarm reviews, I’m giving a massively big thumbs-up to a small screen release featuring the stag…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:00AMWednesday, June 25, 2014
The News of the World phone hacking trial may have ended yesterday, but the drama continues at the National Theatre where, less than 24 hours after the end of the eight-month trial at the Ol…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:45AMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Do you have a small, confident, South-East Asian-looking child? If so, Jo Hawes is looking for you. My interest was piqued when I attended Miss Saigon recently at the West End’s Prince Edw…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:16AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
I haven’t read them all but a glance at the headlines as they whizzed by in my Twitter feed alerted me that the UK premiere of Anne Washburn’s “post-electric play” Mr Bu…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:24PMMonday, June 9, 2014
Every theatregoer has their own story about what and who turned them on to theatre. For me, growing up in the United States, it all started with Andrew Lloyd Webber. Years later, after movin…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:24AMThursday, June 5, 2014
Maybe it’s because I’m considering trying my own hand at producing and the universe is sending me encouragement, but everywhere I look at the moment, I see female producers. On Sunday ni…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:37AMFriday, May 30, 2014
There’s been a lot of media attention around the Globe’s Titus Andronicus. Once again, Lucy Bailey’s production – which starred Douglas Hodge in its first 2006 outing and now has Wil…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:51PMDavid Curl, company manager of Urinetown at St James Theatre, recalls the challenges of working with so much stage blood. The show is now aiming for a West End transfer, venue still to be an…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:30PMBetween my father’s illness, coursework and a month in Mallorca (sigh), I was out of show-going circulation for six weeks. Social media monitoring is fine for staying in the openings, clos…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:46AMTuesday, May 27, 2014
“Julius Caesar rocked my world,” says Donmar artistic director Josie Rourke. She isn’t talking about the play alone, but rather Phyllida Lloyd’s acclaimed all-female production, whic…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:30AMSunday, May 18, 2014
I officially finished my one-month blog challenge on 9 May 2014. And to celebrate, I set myself a new learning challenge: to film and edit my first-ever video blog, in which I grade my progr…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:10PMThursday, May 15, 2014
You only have three more weeks to catch Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre. Michael Blakemore’s production – and, more specifically, Angela Lansbury’s performance in it as dotty clai…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:33PMFriday, May 9, 2014
This is it, folks: I’ve reached the – slightly extenuated – end of my month-long daily learning blog challenge. And I wanted to finish with one to keep you happy! Let me set a scene. Y…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:15PM 
