Songs for Nobodies Q&A video and photos: How did Caroline O’Connor motivate Bernadette Robinson?
Songs for Nobodies Q&A video and photos: How did Caroline O’Connor motivate Bernadette Robinson?

Songs for Nobodies Q&A video and photos: How did Caroline O’Connor motivate Bernadette Robinson?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T01:00:27+00:0014 January 2019|Tags: Ambassadors Theatre, Bernadette Robinson, Featured Show, RGM Productions, Songs for Nobodies, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events|

How does it feel to have a one-woman show written especially for you by one of your country's leading writers? Pretty damn good, according to Songs for Nobodies' Bernadette Robinson - though, to be clear, there was nothing passive about this privilege in her case.

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Hot Gay Time Machine Q&A video and photos: Celebrating birthdays, coming out and locker-room cocks
Hot Gay Time Machine Q&A video and photos: Celebrating birthdays, coming out and locker-room cocks

Hot Gay Time Machine Q&A video and photos: Celebrating birthdays, coming out and locker-room cocks

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T22:21:15+00:001 December 2018|Tags: Featured Show, Hot Gay Time Machine, Lucy Moss, Post-show Q&As, Six, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events, Toby Marlow, Trafalgar Studios, Zak Ghazi-Torbati|

You know you're at a different type of theatre experience when you find yourself singing along - loudly - about how much we all love looking at cocks in the locker room. (Even when you've never been in a cocker-room.)

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Fanatical Q&A video and photos: How & when did sci-fi geekery became so cool?
Fanatical Q&A video and photos: How & when did sci-fi geekery became so cool?

Fanatical Q&A video and photos: How & when did sci-fi geekery became so cool?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T22:11:08+00:0021 November 2018|Tags: Fanatical, Grace Taylor, Matt Board, Neil Marcus, New musicals, Perry O'Bree, PJ McEvoy, Playground Theatre, Reina Hardy, Sophie Powles, StageFaves, Stephen Frost, Suanne Braun, Terri Paddock events, The Stable|

One of my favourite reviews of Fanatical, the new British musical currently receiving its world premiere season at London's Playground Theatre, opines: "It will remind you why you love whatever it is that you're a fan of".

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Q&A video and photos: How to Catch a Krampus and celebrate the best of British drag
Q&A video and photos: How to Catch a Krampus and celebrate the best of British drag

Q&A video and photos: How to Catch a Krampus and celebrate the best of British drag

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T22:32:17+00:0016 November 2018|Tags: Ginger Johnson, How to Catch a Krampus, Pleasance Theatre, Sink The Pink, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events|

How much do you know about the British tradition of drag? British drag artists are the "punks of performance", according to Ginger Johnson, who has written, directed, designed and performs in a show that brilliantly illustrates and celebrates this tradition.

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Looking for Gatsby Q&A video and photos: How does F Scott Fitzgerald’s story look from Daisy’s perspective?
Looking for Gatsby Q&A video and photos: How does F Scott Fitzgerald’s story look from Daisy’s perspective?

Looking for Gatsby Q&A video and photos: How does F Scott Fitzgerald’s story look from Daisy’s perspective?

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-26T22:36:11+00:0013 November 2018|Tags: Anton Tweedale, Beth Burrows, Ellen Chivers, Joe Evans, Linnie Reedman, Looking for Gatsby, Matthew Bugg, Megan Armitage, Post-show Q&As, Ruby in the Dust, Sam Veck, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events, The Other Palace|

Swift but swinging! We had less than twenty minutes for last night's post-show Q&A for new musical Looking for Gatsby but - taking a leaf out of this incredible company's book - we made the most of it. It's amazing how much you can ground you can cover when you're up against the clock!

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Midnight Q&A video and photos: What would you do if the secret police knocked on your door?
Midnight Q&A video and photos: What would you do if the secret police knocked on your door?

Midnight Q&A video and photos: What would you do if the secret police knocked on your door?

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T21:50:56+00:0021 September 2018|Tags: Chris Cuming, Debunk Theatre, Fridthjofur Thorsteinsson, Kate Golledge, Laurence Mark Wythe, Midnight, New musicals, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events, Timothy Knapman|

So often with the news these days, parallels are drawn with our turbulent political times and the fascism that swept across Europe in the 1930s, and the question is asked: what would you do if...?

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Unexpected Joy Q&A video and photos: How can we find common ground through musical theatre?
Unexpected Joy Q&A video and photos: How can we find common ground through musical theatre?

Unexpected Joy Q&A video and photos: How can we find common ground through musical theatre?

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T21:57:11+00:0014 September 2018|Tags: Amy Anders Corcoran, Aria Entertainment, From Page to Stage, Gareth Bretherton, Janet Fullerlove, Jodie Jacobs, Katy Lipson, Kelly Sweeney, Melanie Marshall, New musicals, Post-show Q&As, Six, Southwark Playhouse, Terri Paddock events, Unexpected Joy|

Can musical theatre help us find common ground with those with whom we disagree? If so, Unexpected Joy is undoubtedly the musical to do it.

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Six Q&A video and photos: Which other historic female figures should get the musical treatment?
Six Q&A video and photos: Which other historic female figures should get the musical treatment?

Six Q&A video and photos: Which other historic female figures should get the musical treatment?

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T22:04:19+00:0012 September 2018|Tags: Alexia McIntosh, Arts Theatre, Grace Mouat, Jarneia Richard-Noel, Katy Richardson, Lucy Moss, Maiya Quansah-Breed, Marlow & Moss, Millie O'Connell, Natalie Paris, Post-show Q&As, Six, Six The Musical, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events, Toby Marlow|

Adrenaline still pumping as I type this! SIX The Musical was the undisputed hit of this year's Edinburgh Fringe and it's now transferred back to the West End's Arts Theatre for an extended run.

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Knights of the Rose Q&A video and photos: Defining the new ‘rockspeare’ genre and celebrating understudies (sort of)
Knights of the Rose Q&A video and photos: Defining the new ‘rockspeare’ genre and celebrating understudies (sort of)

Knights of the Rose Q&A video and photos: Defining the new ‘rockspeare’ genre and celebrating understudies (sort of)

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T22:26:02+00:0027 July 2018|Tags: Arts Theatre, Chris Cowley, Jennifer Caldwell, Knights of the Rose, Oliver Savile, Post-show Q&As, Racky Plews, Terri Paddock events|

Wednesday afternoon, Jennifer Caldwell was working in the box office at the Arts Theatre. That night, with less than three hours' rehearsal, she was onstage playing one of the female leads.

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Q&A video and photos: Little Voice makes a big impact at the Barn
Q&A video and photos: Little Voice makes a big impact at the Barn

Q&A video and photos: Little Voice makes a big impact at the Barn

By Terri Paddock|2020-02-01T22:30:16+00:0023 July 2018|Tags: Barn Theatre, Featured Show, Gillian McCafferty, Iwan Lewis, Jim Cartwright, Michael Strassen, Post-show Q&As, Sarah Louise Hughes, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events, The Rise & Fall of Little Voice|

Are women punished in drama for liking sex and drink? What has modern classic The Rise and Fall of Little Voice got in common with Greek drama? What's the secret to vocal impressions?

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