869 stories by "Terri Paddock"
What’s most absurd about absurdist comedy LUV? That it’s virtually unknown in this country – despite an incredible pedigree. Long before he wrote the screenplay for the …
It’s taken 35 years, but Broadway hit Dreamgirls, inspired by the story of The Supremes, finally received its West End premiere last night (14 December) at the Savoy Theatre. Was it wo…
I have become even more spoilt for choice for theatre on my doorstep with the arrival of my SE1 neighborhood's newest venue, The Bunker. This subterranean black box is so close to another on…
I saw two two-hander musical gems this past weekend: Her Aching Heart at the Hope Theatre in Islington and, on the opposite side of town, Another Night Before Christmas at the Bridge Hous…
What does Sam Shepard's 1978 play Buried Child have to tell us about America after the presidential election of Donald Trump? The West End transfer of the New Group's production, first seen …
A new musical " especially one not based on a film and/or arrived from Broadway trailing Tony Awards " is always a risky proposition. One received way of establishing a level of recognition …
What a treat to pay my first visit to London’s newest venue – The Bunker, carved out of a carpark beneath the Menier Chocolate Factory – to host this post-show Q&A for …
There’s something in the water with The Beggar’s Opera at the moment. Lazarus Theatre’s new, modern-dress, 80-minute version at Brockley Jack Studio Theatre is the th…
Here’s everything you need to know about last night’s West End premiere of School of Rock: The Musical in a nutshell: Andrew Lloyd Webber has a monster hit on his hands; the s…
In the days before this year’s US presidential election, Donald Trump predicted that the result would be “Brexit-plus-plus-plus”. Â For me personally, “Brexit-plus-…
Everyone’s on drugs at the Park Theatre, I tweeted last Monday night. For a theatre that consistently impresses with the diversity of its received productions, it’s interesting t…
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the director and cast of the long-awaited UK premiere of Broadway comedy LUV on Thursday 15 December 201…
As I prepared to head to the St James Theatre last night to catch Jason Robert Brown‘s own production of his painfully semi-autobiographical two-hander The Last Five Years, I sent out …
The (new) Union Theatre and Southwark Playhouse are always a pleasure to visit " not least because both venues are practically on my doorstep, within a ten-minute walk. At the moment, they'r…
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to award-winning playwright Philip Ridley about his explosive new one-man play TONIGHT WITH DONNY STIXX on …
My first gut response to yesterday's news that Emma Rice was leaving Shakespeare's Globe, announced after less than a year " and only one summer season in post " was simply "Oh my God!". In …
What an astonishing way to make your playwriting debut. Theresa Ikoko‘s first full-length play GIRLS was a Verity Bargate finalist and winner of both the Alfred Fagon Award (for …
Two rarely seen short plays by Steven Berkoff are professionally performed together for the first time in this much-anticipated West End premiere. LUNCH and, written 20 years later, its sequ…
If you have to work on your birthday, this is just the kind of work you want. After watching the wonderful Amanda Muggleton rip through her 90-minute one-woman comedy The Book Club on Friday…
I'm delighted to be able to deputise for my friend and My Theatre Mates co-founder Mark Shenton for two dates of his weekly West End chat show in October. Coq-Tales and Conversations takes p…
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to actor-turned-director Nigel Harman along with Emily Bruni and Shaun Dooley, the stars of his just-opened…
As part of her post-show Q&A series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to award-winning author Theresa Ikoko and the cast of Mates-acclaimed GIRLS at London's Soho Theatre after …
At Crazy Coqs on Friday 28 October 2016 at 4.30pm, I'll be chatting to a trio of talents from the 25th anniversary revival of Moby Dick! The Musical, which opens this month at the Union Thea…
As a vehicle for the combined – and considerable talents – of Kerry Ellis, Ramin Karimloo, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt and Norman Bowman, Murder Ballad is made to order. In this su…
Mart Crowley's seminal play, The Boys in the Band, premiered in New York in 1968, just 14 months before the Stonewall riots that ignited the gay rights movement. Long before the likes of Mar…
