Monday, September 27, 2021
There's a line in The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown's semi-autobiographical musical two-hander about a relationship breakdown, that gets me every time.
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 23, 2021
We are back on for brand-new biting black comedy Snowflakes, for which I was originally due to chair a post-show Q&A in April 2020. The inaugural play from Dissident Theatre Company now …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 17, 2021
Wildly funny new musical The Pleasure Garden takes a peek through the bushes to discover the bawdy history of Vauxhall's history as a hedonistic playground. It premieres at Vauxhall's own Ab…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 13, 2021
While London has had to wait a long time for Disney's own screen-to-stage adaptation, its September arrival makes it feel as if Christmas has come early to the West End.
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 11, 2021
Having two separate casts reduces the risk of Covid cancellations, but what other creative benefits does it bring for Proforca's Lately at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre?
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 2, 2021
How far are you willing to go to get what you most desire? That's the question at the bloody heart of Salome. And it's a question that so fascinates Lazarus Theatre that they're now having a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:07AM[SHARE]Monday, August 30, 2021
Every theatremaker has faced high hurdles to get their shows on over the past 18 months, but the challenges faced by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella have been especially high-profile hurdle…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:49AM[SHARE]Monday, August 23, 2021
If it weren't for Covid-19, we probably wouldn't have Jersey Boys back in the West End. But we probably would still have original Four Season Tommy DeVito.
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 22, 2021
Five spine-tingling ghost stories are woven into the action on one stormy night in When Darkness Falls. I discussed them and more things to make you jump with the writer-director and cast at…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 15, 2021
After fascinating discussions around Feel and At Last, Terri Paddock is back with Proforca Theatre company to discuss Lately, a third new play by James Lewis as well as exciting future plans…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 12, 2021
Testing this. Let's hope it works!
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Timothy Sheader's revival of Carousel at the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park has made me reconsider the musical, and the ways difficult subjects can be repositioned, but it hasn't made me lov…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 4, 2021
As much as I was looking for any excuse to return to Southwark, it was the show that lured me back. Or to be more precise, Rachel Tucker starring in the show, musical two-hander John & J…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AM[SHARE]Monday, August 2, 2021
Lockdown Zoom hit Doing Shakespeare, one of the Northern Comedy Theatre's multi-award-winning Doing series, comes to hilarious life onstage, with a London run at the Bridewell Theatre in Nov…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 1, 2021
When you book to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, you are guaranteed not only a joyful night out at the London Palladium but also a time-travel ticket to your childhood.
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:28PM[SHARE]Monday, July 19, 2021
Following the 7.30pm performance on Thursday 4 November 2021, My Theatre Mates founder Terri Paddock will be talking to the cast and creatives at Southwark Playhouse about the 21st-century p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 12, 2021
Post-lockdown, Lazarus Theatre returns to the stage with a revival of their 2019 gender-twist version of Oscar Wilde's Salome, in a limited season at London's Southwark Playhouse. Having cha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 10, 2021
Well done to the Be More Chill company. This new musical had just had its successful UK premiere and announced a lengthy extension at The Other Palace when Covid shut it down in March 2020.
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:27PM[SHARE]Friday, June 25, 2021
I've never watched Keeping up with the Kardashians and only have a vague sense of who Kylie Jenner " I certainly couldn't pick her out of a line-up.
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:57AM[SHARE]Friday, June 18, 2021
I have become obsessed with where the money goes in The Money. If you suddenly received a few hundred pounds, how would you spend it?
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 3, 2021
For the show to lure a nervous (but now fully vaccinated " yay!) me back to the theatre after nearly 15 months, it's hard to imagine more soothing fare than Amelie The Musical.
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 2, 2021
I know every person out there has their own version of how this pandemic has changed their life trajectory. This is mine.
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SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Fans of new British musicals will be familiar with The S&S Award, the prize that set out to find and give a professional life to the country's best new unproduced musical. After years of…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2021
New British musical The Sorcerer's Apprentice has been five years in the making and, like all new musicals, has overcome myriad obstacles. Covid threw down an additional hurdle shortly befor…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2021
In April 2020, I was due to chair a post-show Q&A at The Other Palace for new British musical CASES. Of course, that run was cancelled due to Covid, but when composer-lyricist Dominic Po…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On continues its theatre lockdown weekly schedule with the rescheduled stream of Peter Pan Live!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 12, 2020
Wales Millennium Centre has announced that the venue will remain closed until at least January 2021, due to the devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the theatre industry. Produc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2020
My packed post-show Q&A schedule came to an abrupt halt in mid-March when theatres across London closed. But I'm adapting and learning to use my skills in new ways in lockdown - and so, …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Tuesday 17 March 2020. One of the last theatre performances -for the foreseeable future - in the theatre capital of the world took place at London's Old Red Lion Theatre. A historic, soberin…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2020
The UK government's current coronavirus advice is that, with theatres, the show should still go on. I was certainly glad One Jewish Boy, British dramatist Stephen Laughton's brilliant play, …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2020
Poet Christopher Reid wrote A Scattering after the death of his wife, actress Lucinda Gane, in 2005. Actor Robert Bathurst came across the book while he was grieving for a fatally ill friend…
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