Wildcard Theatre promises "Shakespeare like you have never experienced it before", and they deliver in spades with this new gig-style reinvention of The Tempest in the perfect setting of the…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:15AM[SHARE]As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion for the premiere production of Sophie Swithinbank's award-winning new play Bacon at London's…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:30AM[SHARE]As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion at Wildcard Theatre's radical reimagining of Shakespeare classic The Tempest at the Pleasanc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Rosie Day's wonderful rollercoaster ride of a debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, which she also performs, ends with the by-then 16-year-old protagonist writing a letter of adv…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:56PM[SHARE]I have a sneaking suspicion that we have not seen the last of this little musical gem, which is - incredibly - inspired by a real-life World War II espionage episode demonstrating British pl…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:24PM[SHARE]As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion at Instruction for a Teenage Armageddon at London's Southwark Playhouse on Tuesday 15 Februa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Mark St Germain's play Freud's Last Session, first seen Off-Broadway in 2010 and now receiving its European premiere at London's King's Head Theatre, pits two of the 20th-century greatest th…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:36AM[SHARE]I love Christmas. But for the past several years, I have struggled to summon the Christmas cheer that used to kick in for me the day after Thanksgiving (or, after so many years in the UK, by…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AM[SHARE]I was fascinated by the story behind the play telling the story behind the film. The Shark Is Broken is the brainchild of Ian Shaw who co-wrote it and stars as his own late father Robert Sha…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:38AM[SHARE]At my last Christmas Q&A at the Pleasance Theatre, for sci-fi spoof Escape from Planet Trash way back in December 2019, Ginger Johnson shared a tantalising teaser about her idea for her …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:25PM[SHARE]Junior doctor turned multi-award-winning writer and comedian Adam Kay returns to the stage this festive season with a reminder to spare a thought for the hard-working staff of the NHS as we …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Here's the brutal truth about many of our rights: we only really have them if we have the wherewithal to fight for them when they're trampled on. That's certainly the case when it comes to e…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:33PM[SHARE]After How to Catch a Krampus and Escape from Planet Trash, Ginger Johnson and her merry band of drag queens return to The Pleasance with a new alternative Christmas show, Dog Show. And I'm b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Here's a sobering statistic: 2,000 pubs closed during lockdown. Lost forever. The scale of that loss really struck me when I heard performer and (brilliant) poet Ben Norris recite it during …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:21AM[SHARE]There are some shows with modest beginnings that seem to have all of the industry behind them, willing them to succeed. Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)Â is one of them. The post Pride &a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:00PM[SHARE]More than four centuries after William Shakespeare died in 1616, aged 52 on his own birthday (23 April), questions remain about the authorship of his prodigious output - including nearly for…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:47AM[SHARE]As much as it was possible for anyone the arts, Northern Comedy Theatre had a very good pandemic. When all performing arts venues closed, rather than wrap up their work, they ramped up. The …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:57AM[SHARE]The big moral question at the heart of Indecent Proposal is: what are you willing to do for $1 million? More specifically: would you have sex for a stranger if they paid you $1 million? The …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:42AM[SHARE]Anton Chekhov is, of course, best known for his "big five" classic plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. None of which, though the author himself lab…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:25PM[SHARE]The premise of The Picture of Dorian Gray has become so much a part of our culture that most people will recognise the reference even if they've never read Oscar Wilde's original 1890 novell…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:41PM[SHARE]As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion following the evening performance of James Woolf's new play Empty in Angel at London's Old R…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion following the performance of Lidless Theatre's tenth-anniversary revival of Philip Ridley's …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released details of its Spring 2022 activity including Shakespeare returning to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage and the announcement of a ground-b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion following the performance of Mercurius Theatre's revival of Anton Chekhov's Vaudevilles, ada…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a post-show discussion for the London premiere of The Tragedy of Dorian Gray, Blue Devil Theatre's updating of Oscar Wilde's classic, at the Drayton Ar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Maximus Polling reprises his titular performance as the ever-youthful Dorian in Blue Devil Theatre's award-winning adaptation, transferring to Drayton Arms Theatre from 19 October.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]How far would you go to right a wrong? Terri Paddock discussed with the cast and creatives of Robert Boulton's debut play Snowflakes after a performance at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]This is not a project born of outsiders wanting to cash in, but rather a long-held ambition, some 16 years in the making, of Back to the Future's creators. The post Back to the Future: Nosta…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:17AM[SHARE]How far would you go to right a wrong? Robert Boulton's debut play Snowflakes explores how public outrage might spiral into not just violent vigilantism but also a digital goldrush. The post…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:44AM[SHARE]Apart from it being a charming public park and one of my dog's favourite destinations for our daily walks, I have always been fascinated by history of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, near my home…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:11AM[SHARE]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. The post The Last Five Years: Th…
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