Saturday, July 25, 2026
She has acted alongside Al Pacino, played Gloria Steinem on stage, and spent four decades navigating Hollywood's glass ceilings. And now, Golden Globe, Emmy and Oscar Award winner Christine …
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 09:16AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2026
Two seventeen-year-old boys. An abandoned warehouse. A stolen gun. A phone that won't stop filming. Live from the Warehouse is a dark comic thriller about Gen Z, virality and what it costs t…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2026
When an entire community spoils their ballots triggering a historic by-election, what happens next? In Barney Norris' new play with music Our Public House, the answer is: everyone ends up in…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 10:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2026
Actor-comedian Rosie Holt achieved viral fame during lockdown when she began posting videos posing as a hapless Conservative backbench MP - coincidentally also called Rosie Holt.
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SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2026
It's been nearly four years since I chaired a Q&A for the world premiere of Proforca's Flashbang at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre. Now, after a spring tour, the production is back for …
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 12:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2026
As the marketing material promises, An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo is definitely *not* a gay tragedy. Nor is a coming-out memoir or theatrical porn.
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SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Do women - and men - of a certain mature age stop being seen? When writer Bren Gosling turned 60 himself, it's a question he decided to explore in comedy-drama Invisible Me.
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SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 03:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2026
Liz Truss has kept herself busy since Oxia Theatre's spring 2025 run of the one-woman show chronicling her Westminster rise and fall. A year on, I reunited with the team for this political f…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 06:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 15, 2026
When director Tania Azevedo and composer Finn Anderson were first commissioned to write a new musical, they decided to follow two parallel lines of exploration.
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SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 10:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 8, 2026
Ask a theatregoer to name a Noël Coward play and they're likely to mention Private Lives, Hay Fever or Blithe Spirit. But before those glittering comedies secured his place in theatre his…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 04:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
How do you compete with fireworks going off outside your pub theatre on Bonfire Night? Ensure that the drama onstage is just as explosive. That's what we got last night with Nance Turner's d…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 09:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2025
It's a distinct pleasure to be invited back by a theatre company, even more so to be invited back to witness and celebrate the evolution of a concept. Like this one with the expanding univer…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:43AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2025
Before Lenny Henry or Gary Wilmot, Charlie Williams paved the way as Britain's breakthrough black comedian who became a household name on ITV's stand-up show The Comedians. Chris England's n…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 09:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
Proforca Theatre concludes its tenth anniversary season with a revival of its 2019 dystopian thriller At Last, set in the aftermath of a fascist regime. Six years on, how does this political…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
In 2014, then twenty-something Jake Brunger was commissioned as part of the Old Vic New Voices emerging talent programme to write a "state of the nation gay play". The result was Four Play, …
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 01:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2025
What makes a certain brand of spy so iconic? So quintessentially British? And, if you were in charge of that brand, how far would you go to keep control and protect its legacy?Â
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SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 06:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2025
At a secluded B&B, a couple arrives to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Twenty years later, another couple returns to the same room. What's the connection in the London premiere of Sus…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Have you cracked the code to a happy life yet? Maybe all you need is a three-point plan, an AI-empowered Alexa and the right playlist? That's the approach in Get Happy, written and performed…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 07:16AM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2025
How exercised do you get over the spacing of streetlights? David Shopland wrote his new play Cul de Sac with Londoners in mind, after overhearing an illuminating streetlights conversation be…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2025
In Orthodox Judaism, homosexuality and suicide are both taboo. In American playwright Shimmy Braun's world premiere drama, based on real-life experiences, one leads tragically and inexorably…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 09:37AM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2025
A Q&A first for me last night at the King's Head: an onstage raffle to open post-show proceedings for David O'Brien's SNAP! as part of a benefit performance in aid of the International S…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 06:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2025
Barney Norris' darkly comic reworking of Lorca's 1932 Spanish classic premiered in 2020 at Salisbury Playhouse, near the real-life village hall where his version of the disastrous nuptials o…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2025
"Who knew terminal illness could be such fun?" But fun it is in writer/director Chris Burgess' world premiere musical Supersonic Man, inspired by the true story of a man who tries to fight a…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2025
While a lettuce famously outlasted Liz Truss' 49-day tenure as Prime Minister, Emma Wilkinson Wright easily outperformed the prop iceberg in Oxia Theatre's hit, The Last Days of Liz Truss?, …
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 07:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2025
It's hard to imagine a woman whose life was more defined by grief and loss than Mary Todd Lincoln, as I discovered thanks to American multi-disciplinary artist John Ransom Phillips' intrigui…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 12:18PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2025
At the height of the Red Scare in the US, Congress' House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) targeted Hollywood as a hub of subversive Communist activity and held high-profile hearings …
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
How will the world end? And how will you spend your final moments just before it happens? That's the setting for Proforca Theatre's latest world premiere play, And If The Surface Tension Bre…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 08:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2025
On a Soviet Air Force Base in occupied Estonia in the 1970s, a conscripted private falls in love with a young maverick fighter pilot. The true-life love story that enraged Vladimir Putin now…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 01:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2025
One of the most sobering statistics in Belly of the Beast's programme note comes from The School Report 2017: 84% of trans students, including non-binary individuals, self harmed, and 45% at…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 05:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2024
I first met actor Tony Bell twenty years ago thanks to Propeller Theatre, the hugely successful all-male Shakespearean ensemble. He now returns to the stage in a deeply personal, self-penned…
SOURCE: terripaddock.com at 10:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2024
My friend Raymond Whitaker and I give our reactions to Arthur I Miller's new play about the friendship between psychologist Carl Jung and the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli.
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