As part of her ongoing event series, on 26 October 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer, director, producer and cast of Metal Rabbit's critically acclaimed Fishskin T…
There are only a few days left to catch Che Walker‘s new in-the-round production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, which finishes at London’s Southwark Playhouse this Sat…
There was a moment I’ll never forget from the Q&A I hosted after last night’s performance of Stephen Clark‘s Le Grand Mort at Trafalgar Studios. Julian Clary, who is of…
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 surged by a staggering 9,500% after the election of Donald Trump to become Amazon’s biggest seller. Orwell himself died, at the age of 46, …
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 27 September 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to Julian Clary, his co-star and director of Le Grand Mort, the new…
I had my own Godotesque moment to start last night’s Waiting for Godot Q&A. The stage was bare. Where were the chairs? Was anyone bringing chairs? How long would we be waiting f…
What do you need to know about Dominic Cooke‘s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at the National Theatre? It’s a great big, sumptuous, stellar hit. I was lucky enough t…
On 10 October 2017, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the company of Chris Hannan's What Shadows, inspired by Enoch Powell's infamous 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech, now receiving i…
Did you get lucky in the ticket ballot for #RADAHamlet, which on Twitter has also gained the predictable #HiddleHamlet hashtag thanks to its title star, Tom Hiddleston? The fundraising produ…
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the stars of Patrick Marber's THE RED LION, "a Premiere League play about non-league football" (Gary Lineker), now receiving its West End debut, o…
The plays may have been written 420-odd years apart, but I was really struck  by how many parallels there were between the discussion I hosted last week, to the European premiere of Jorda…
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer and director of MRS ORWELL, as the sell-out play transfers from the Old Red Lion Theatre to Southwark Playhouse, on Wednesday 13 Septem…
Having heard so many of My Theatre Mates raving about Late Company following its European premiere earlier this year at the Finborough, I was really looking forward to seeing it at Trafal…
On Tuesday 21 November, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer-director and cast of The Secondary Victim, which receives its world premiere at London's Park Theatre, where it…
It’s not just umbrella festival programmes, as I blogged earlier, that keep myself and other London theatregoers busy in August. Here’s a round-up of some of the other plays and …
I’m in the slightly odd position this month of working on an Edinburgh show while not being in Edinburgh at all. (Mind you, I have seen the show, in China in May, so can knowledgeably …
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the company of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece WAITING FOR GODOT, as the play returns home to the stage where it had its English-language premiere 62…
Two years ago, I chaired the opening night discussion at the third annual From Page to Stage festival of new musicals founded by Aria Entertainment’s Katy Lipson. The central questi…
Most of nights last week was devoted to just one play, Preethi Nair’s Sari: The Whole Five Yards, which I’m trying to help find a future life. But I have managed a few memorable …
Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the stars and director of the European premiere of Jordan Tannahill's LATE COMPANY, transferring from the Finborough Theatre to the West End's Tra…
My plays diary this week isn’t terribly varied. I’m spending most nights at the Tristan Bates Theatre, all in aid of one production: Preethi Nair‘s Sari: The Whole Five …
As part of her post-show event series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will host an expert panel discussion on gay theatre pre- and post-decriminalisation 50 years ago, following Lazarus Thea…
The King's Head Theatre attracted widespread coverage this week for its announcement that it is moving out of the King's Head pub on Upper Street in Islington, north London, its home for the…
I've had issues with sleep " or rather lack of sleep " since I was a teenager. I won't be an insomnia bore and tell you ALL of the so-called remedies I've tried over the years, including sev…
Is Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew inherently misogynistic? Particularly with its treatment of spirited Kate, the Shrew of the title, who is starved and mentally tormented (gasli…