Clint Eastwood eat your heart out. While the Jersey Boys big screen release has received lukewarm reviews, I'm giving a massively big thumbs-up to a small screen release featuring the stage …
The News of the World phone hacking trial may have ended yesterday, but the drama continues at the National Theatre where, less than 24 hours after the end of the eight-month trial at the Ol…
Do you have a small, confident, South-East Asian-looking child? If so, Jo Hawes is looking for you. My interest was piqued when I attended Miss Saigon recently at the West End's Prince Edwar…
I haven't read them all but a glance at the headlines as they whizzed by in my Twitter feed alerted me that the UK premiere of Anne Washburn’s “post-electric play” Mr Bu…
Every theatregoer has their own story about what and who turned them on to theatre. For me, growing up in the United States, it all started with Andrew Lloyd Webber. Years later, after movin…
Maybe it's because I'm considering trying my own hand at producing and the universe is sending me encouragement, but everywhere I look at the moment, I see female producers. On Sunday night,…
There's been a lot of media attention around the Globe's Titus Andronicus. Once again, Lucy Bailey's production " which starred Douglas Hodge in its first 2006 outing and now has William Hou…
David Curl, company manager of Urinetown at St James Theatre, recalls the challenges of working with so much stage blood. The show is now aiming for a West End transfer, venue still to be an…
Between my father's illness, coursework and a month in Mallorca (sigh), I was out of show-going circulation for six weeks. Social media monitoring is fine for staying in the openings, closin…
"Julius Caesar rocked my world," says Donmar artistic director Josie Rourke. She isn't talking about the play alone, but rather Phyllida Lloyd's acclaimed all-female production, which Rourke…
I officially finished my one-month blog challenge on 9 May 2014. And to celebrate, I set myself a new learning challenge: to film and edit my first-ever video blog, in which I grade my progr…
You only have three more weeks to catch Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre. Michael Blakemore's production " and, more specifically, Angela Lansbury's performance in it as dotty clairvoyan…
This is it, folks: I've reached the " slightly extenuated " end of my month-long daily learning blog challenge. And I wanted to finish with one to keep you happy! Let me set a scene. You mee…
My partner's sister Carry was in a tizz the other day as she related her airport tale of woe. She and her husband were travelling with their two thirsty children and had made the mistake of …
Twelfth Night is generally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, but last week it officially became a history play as well, after its phenomenal haul in this year's Tony Awards nomina…
I've decided to squeeze in a special request before the official end of my #WhatILearnedToday daily blog challenge. If you follow me on Twitter (@TerriPaddock), you may have noticed " as kee…
Learning meditation is one of those things I've had on my life to-do list for years. I have several friends who swear by it and who have been to multiple escape-way-out-of-London retreats wh…
Have you been Myers-Brigged? I first heard of this "personality inventory" test in a psychology course at university, and first encountered it in the real world in my late twenties when work…
Composing yesterday's blog about my recent experience with Hopi ear candles, first evangelising and then debunking them, provided me with a reminder lesson opportunity about confirmation bia…
I first came across Hopi ear candles about 15 years ago at a new age festival at Alexandra Palace in London where an exhibitor was selling, for my pocket, far-too-pricey therapy sessions. Sh…
With all the blood and gore " and fantastically poetic staging care of director John Tiffany and choreographer Steven Hoggett " Morse code may not be the first thing you associate with the N…
Even if you're not a great reader of it, you will know that your body language communicates volumes to others. First impressions are formed in less than ten seconds and, overall, the actual …
Having tweeted copiously about the sudden closure announcement of I Can’t Sing! over the weekend, as I started to write this blog this morning, a link to the much-faster Mark Shento…
I'm currently holed up in a small seaside village in Mallorca " no Starbucks or any other type of coffee chain round here " and my live-in barista Peter is about to abandon me to return to t…
The past two blogs have been pretty serious " and long! " so here's a shorter one for a change of pace. Ever run into someone you know but haven't seen in awhile. You know you know them, you…