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Photos and podcast: Remembering Stephen Clark with Julian Clary & co at Le Grand Mort
Photos and podcast: Remembering Stephen Clark with Julian Clary & co at Le Grand Mort

Photos and podcast: Remembering Stephen Clark with Julian Clary & co at Le Grand Mort

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T15:48:17+00:0028 September 2017|Tags: Christopher Renshaw, Danielle Tarento, James Nelson-Joyce, Julian Clary, Le Grand Mort, Stephen Clark, Terri Paddock events, Trafalgar Studios|

There was a moment I'll never forget from the Q&A I hosted after last night's performance of Stephen Clark's Le Grand Mort, starring Julian Clary at the West End's Trafalgar Studios.

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Press Pass: Everything you need to know about Follies at the National
Press Pass: Everything you need to know about Follies at the National

Press Pass: Everything you need to know about Follies at the National

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:45:41+00:007 September 2017|Tags: Dawn Hope, Di Botcher, Dominic Cooke, Follies, Imelda Staunton, Janie Dee, Josephine Barstow, National Theatre, Peter Forbes, Philip Quast, StageFaves, Stephen Sondheim|

Sondheim's Follies is a monster hit at the National Theatre What do you

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#HiddleHamlet is a ★★★★ success (for the few lucky critics who got tickets)
#HiddleHamlet is a ★★★★ success (for the few lucky critics who got tickets)

#HiddleHamlet is a ★★★★ success (for the few lucky critics who got tickets)

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:45:49+00:003 September 2017|Tags: #HiddleHamlet, #RADAHamlet, Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh, RADA, Shakespeare, Tom Hiddleston|

Tom Hiddleston stars as Hamlet at RADA until 23 September 2017 Did you

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Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?
Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?

Q&A podcast and photos: What does Marlowe’s Edward II tell us about identity and gay rights?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T16:07:26+00:001 September 2017|Tags: Angels in America, Christopher Marlowe, classics, Edward II, Elizabethan drama, Gay plays, gay theatre, Lazarus Theatre, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Mark Woolgar, queer theatre, Ricky Dukes, Terri Paddock events, Tristan Bates Theatre, Zack Polanski|

The plays may have been written 420-odd years apart, but I was really struck by how many parallels there were between the discussion I hosted last week, to the European premiere of Jordan Tannahill's Late Company, and the one I hosted last night, to Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century classic Edward II.

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Q&A podcast and photos: Confronting bullies with the Late Company cast
Q&A podcast and photos: Confronting bullies with the Late Company cast

Q&A podcast and photos: Confronting bullies with the Late Company cast

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T16:16:48+00:0024 August 2017|Tags: Alex Lowe, Bullying, CALM, David Leopold, Finborough Theatre, Jordan Tannahill, Late Company, Lisa Stevenson, Lucy Robinson, Male suicide, Michael Yale, Stage Traffic, Terri Paddock events, Todd Boyce, Trafalgar Studios|

Having heard so many of My Theatre Mates raving about Late Company following its European premiere earlier this year at the Finborough, I was really looking forward to seeing it at Trafalgar Studios. And yet, I still came under-prepared: I didn't bring enough tissues.

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My (non-Edinburgh) theatre diary: Salad Days, Mrs Orwell, Boom and Cowboy Rufus
My (non-Edinburgh) theatre diary: Salad Days, Mrs Orwell, Boom and Cowboy Rufus

My (non-Edinburgh) theatre diary: Salad Days, Mrs Orwell, Boom and Cowboy Rufus

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-08T09:55:47+00:0022 August 2017|Tags: Announcement Productions, Boom, Bryan Hodgson, Cameron Mackintosh, Cressida Brown, Donald Trump, Jimmy Walters, Joanne McShane, Julian Slade, King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe, London Theatre Workshop, Old Red Lion Theatre, Patrick Kennedy, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, Proud Haddock, Richard Foreman, Salad Days, Sienna Miller, StageFaves, Theatre503, Tony Cox, Union Theatre|

Clockwise from top left: Mrs Orwell, Salad Days, Boom and King Cowboy Rufus Rules

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Is London the real festival city in August? InMotion & other capital offerings
Is London the real festival city in August? InMotion & other capital offerings

Is London the real festival city in August? InMotion & other capital offerings

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T12:46:06+00:0022 August 2017|Tags: #EdFringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Edward II, Fall Out, From Page to Stage, Grimeborn, InMotion Festival, King's Head Theatre, Old Kent Road, Opera in the City Festival, Queer Festival|

London's many festivals this August I'm in the slightly odd position this month

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From Page to Stage Q&A podcast and photos: How is the international scene changing for new musicals?
From Page to Stage Q&A podcast and photos: How is the international scene changing for new musicals?

From Page to Stage Q&A podcast and photos: How is the international scene changing for new musicals?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T17:00:35+00:0015 August 2017|Tags: Amy Anders Corcoran, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aria Entertainment, Chicken Little, From Page to Stage, Katy Lipson, New musicals, Paul Taylor Mills, T Rob Brown, Terri Paddock events, The Other Palace, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Wolfgang Adenberg|

Two years ago, I chaired the opening night discussion at the third annual From Page to Stage festival of new musicals founded by Aria Entertainment's Katy Lipson. The central question on that occasion was "are we doing enough to nurture new musicals?" And the central answer was no.

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