As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A programme, and the third in a monthly Mischief Theatre series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to the Duchess Theatre for the show that starte…
We were all madly checking our phones for news in the bars afterwards, but while much of last night's Westminster drama was going on, at Wilton's Music Hall, we were getting to glorious grip…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A programme, and the second in a monthly Mischief Theatre series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks to the cast and creatives for brand-new show Gro…
I've seen Rufus Norris' multi-award-winning revival of Kander & Ebb's Broadway musical classic Cabaret twice before in the West End: when it first opened at the Lyric Theatre in 2006 …
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is back at The Vaults for the major revival of David Hare's 2003 play The Permanent Way. Got any questions for…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A programme, and the first in a monthly Mischief Theatre series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to the Criterion Theatre for smash-and-grab hit…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is back at London's Trafalgar Studios on 7 October for the hotly anticipated West End revival Peter Nichols' A…
I'm delighted to return to the Cervantes Theatre, London's home of Spanish and Latin American drama, for my second of three post-show Q&As in the 2019 season. After new play The Reality …
Michael John LaChiusa was on his way back to the States by the time I chaired my post-show Q&A at the West End (and UK) premiere of his musical Queen Of The Mist " but I wonder if his…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 3 September 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks comic masterminds behind The Crown parody, The Crown Dual. Got any question…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 29 August 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock heads to Bromley for the start of Cabaret's new tour, starring John Partridge as t…
Can we ever really know what happened between two people behind closed doors? That's the question at the heart of Anna Zeigler's provocative new two-hander Actually, and one the company, aud…
A weekend in Suffolk at the HighTide Festival is a treat. An even bigger treat? Combining it with this opportunity to chair an event with one of the country's leading directors, of whom I've…
After my Q&A at Feel, the first production at the newly relaunched Lion & Unicorn Theatre, earlier this year, I'm delighted to return for this next in-house production from the same …
After last week's runaway success with The Girl on the Train post-show Q&A, director Anthony Banks and I had to squeeze in another one together to his second current hit, Games for Lo…
A quick show of hands at last night's Q&A at the Park Theatre bore out my suspicion: most people, even left-leaning people, have not heard of Howard Zinn. Like those in the audience, bef…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, this Friday 9 August 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks to Actually stars Yasmin Paige and Simon Manyonda. We've got plenty to talk a…
I had just enough time to wipe away my tears " I was sobbing " at the end of The View Upstairs before jumping up after the curtain call to announce this post-show Q&A at Soho Theatre.…
What is it about a great whodunnit thriller? What makes us keep turning the page? How does that inquisitive excitement translate onstage? As modern thrillers go, they don't get much more suc…
I'm a firm believer that one of the best means of ensuring a long career is an ability to create your own work. Patrick Bayele has honed this skill very early on… and, after seeing w…
After chairing events for London transfers of Creation Theatre's The Pit and The Pendulum and Dracula, I was chuffed to be invited to see them on their 'home turf' in Oxford and host a post-…
How many different ways can one play be interpreted? The company of Equus were very keen not to impose their opinions but the audience at last night's post-show Q&A at Trafalgar St…
How did New Old Friends come to adapt Anthony Horowitz's 1986 children's novel The Falcon's Malteser into a hit family stage show? How has a new gender-equal, four-strong cast brought it to …
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 1 August 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is in the West End for the transfer of Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train, starri…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 31 July 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock visits Hackney's Studio 9294 for the first time for the premiere of Chekhov-inspire…