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Terri Paddock
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Promoting UK #theatre since 1996. Queen of post-show Q&As. Founded MyTheatreMates, StageFaves, WhatsOnStage. Ex-novelist. Politics geek. Dog lover and owner of world's cutest cockapoo, Lottie.
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NEW Q&As! Join me in Feb for new #OffWestEnd shows.

🐀 Thu 5 Feb - #TheRatTrap at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social

🎶 Thu 12 Feb - @balladlines.bsky.social at @swkplay.bsky.social

A centenary reimagining of a Noel Coward comedy + a homegrown Scottish folk musical.

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Imogen Stubbs will star as Leni Riefenstahl in Wendy Oberman & Jonathan Lewis’ play A Thing of Beauty, about the film icon whose work inspired Steven Spielberg – but who was blighted by her association with the Nazis.

Cahoots Theatre Company’s production will run at the Tabard Theatre 5 Feb-1 Mar.
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
When a Mormon mom joins Grindr… heaven help her gay son!

Jessica Martin will star in the European premiere of Ronnie Larson’s play Grindr Mom, a comedy about faith, family & very unexpected connections. Gerald Armin directs the production which runs at @waterlooeast.bsky.social from 18 Feb-1 Mar.
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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NEW Q&As! Join me in Feb for new #OffWestEnd shows.

🐀 Thu 5 Feb - #TheRatTrap at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social

🎶 Thu 12 Feb - @balladlines.bsky.social at @swkplay.bsky.social

A centenary reimagining of a Noel Coward comedy + a homegrown Scottish folk musical.

terripaddock.com/upcoming-eve...
January 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Lesley Manville, Francesca Mills, Sandra Oh & Letitia Wright lead Indhu Rubasingham’s @nationaltheatre.org.uk programme for 2026.

Multi-award winner Oh makes her NT debut in Martin Crimp’s adaptation of The Misanthrope. Oscar winner Blanchett stars in Electra / Persona.
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Mark Kitto, Kerill Kelly, Matthew Hartley, Claire-Monique Martin, Tom Everatt, Jonathon Nielsen-Keen & Simon Chappell are cast in Savage by Claudio Macor, ‘throwing a cold, harsh light on the horrors of conversion therapy’, running at the White Bear Theatre from 25 Feb-15 Mar @lambco.bsky.social.
January 26, 2026 at 11:42 AM
It Walks Around The House At Night from award-winning theatre company @thickskintheatre.bsky.social creeps into @swkplay.bsky.social Borough from 4-28 Mar for its London premiere.

Tim Foley’s horror features George Naylor & Oliver Baines & is directed by ThickSkin’s artistic director Neil Bettles.
January 22, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Poppy Gilbert & Stuart Thompson will lead the cast in FLYBY, a new musical by Theo Jamieson, directed & co-created by @adamlenson.bsky.social.

Originally developed in 2025 by the @nationaltheatre, the show will have its world premiere at @swkplay.bsky.social Borough from 3 Apr-16 May #FLYBYMusical.
January 20, 2026 at 4:09 PM
House of the Dragon star Abigail Thorn & Stage Debut Award nominee Joe Pitts will star in Blink, the acclaimed 2-hander by Olivier-nominated writer Phil Porter.

Presented by Metal Rabbit Productions, the play is directed by Simon Paris & will run at @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social 19 Feb-22 Mar.
January 19, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Paul Bradshaw’s double bill of tell me straight & the world prem of aggy will feature Bradshaw himself, Buck Braithwaite, Jade Anouka, Imogen Frances, Matthew Jordan, Jean-Luke Worrell & Jack Gittins.

Runs @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social 3-28 Mar, presented by @shprods.bsky.social & telling tales.
January 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Conceived & dir by Nicolas Kent, the Ukraine Unbroken season runs at the @arcolatheatre.bsky.social from 26 Feb-26 Mar.

The featured plays are by David Edgar, Cat Goscovitch, David Greig, Jonathan Myerson & Natalka Vorozhbit (translated by Sasha Dugdale). Co-produced by Nick of Time Productions.
January 15, 2026 at 12:21 PM
LAMBCO Productions presents Savage by Claudio Macor, dir by Robert McWhir, at the White Bear Theatre 25 Feb-15 Mar.

The piece is a harrowing exposé of a flawed medical concept (gay conversion therapy) which ultimately failed but destroyed thousands of lives in the process @lambco.bsky.social.
January 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
NEW Q&As! Join me in Feb for new #OffWestEnd shows.

🐀 Thu 5 Feb - #TheRatTrap at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social

🎶 Thu 12 Feb - @balladlines.bsky.social at @swkplay.bsky.social

A centenary reimagining of a Noel Coward comedy + a homegrown Scottish folk musical.

terripaddock.com/upcoming-eve...
January 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Rachel Pickup & Alan Turkington have been cast in Jerome Kilty’s Dear Liar – adapted from the correspondence of George Bernard Shaw & Mrs Patrick Campbell, directed by AD Stella Powell-Jones. The production runs from 5 Feb-7 Mar at London’s @jstheatre.bsky.social.
January 9, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Daniel Abbott, Gina Bramhill, Zoe Goriely & Ailsa Joy join Ewan Miller, Lily Nichol & Angela Sims in Kirsty Patrick Ward’s production of Coward’s The Rat Trap at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social 28 Jan-14 Mar.

Co-produced by Ashley Cook for Troupe, the play has been reimagined by Bill Rosenfield.
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM
What’s Wrong With Benny Hill?, exploring the meteoric rise & lonely fall of one of Britain’s most successful – & now most controversial – comedians will run at @WhiteBearTheatr from 12-24 Jan. Written by Mark Carey the show has original music by Kevin Oliver Jones. Presented by Stratford Theatre Co.
January 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
My first Q&A of 2026 follows the 7pm show of Finn Anderson & Tania Azevedo’s @balladlines.bsky.social on 12 Feb, premiering at @swkplay.bsky.social Elephant 23 Jan-21 Mar.

Presented by Aria Entertainment & KT Producing, Ballad Lines weaves one family’s hopes, sacrifices & songs across generations.
January 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Killian Thomas Lefevre & Yiftach ‘Iffy’ Mizrahi will join Tony Award-winning actor-musician Levi Kreis to complete the cast for the UK premiere of Kreis’ new musical Already Perfect, running at the @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social from 9 Jan-15 Feb, directed by Dave Solomon. Larry Lelli produces.
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The world premiere of Spanish Oranges, the debut play by Alba Arikha, Samuel Beckett’s Goddaughter, directed by Myriam Cyr, will run at The Playground Theatre from 11 Feb-7 Mar.

Star of Bond film The Living Daylights, Maryam D'Abo leads a cast that also includes Jay Villiers & Arianna Branca.
December 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
After a series of sold-out Australian seasons, Yentl, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s acclaimed new adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s story, will make its international premiere at Marylebone Theatre 6 Mar-12 Apr.

The show is presented by Wild Yak Productions in association with Counterminers CIC.
December 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Gabriel Akuwudike, Fiona Button, Angus Cooper, Seamus Dillane, Leila Farzad, Tim Frances, Holly Godliman, Isis Hainsworth, William Lawlor, Colin Mace, Prasanna Puwanarajah & Matthew Steer are cast in @oldvictheatre.bsky.social’s production of the late Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, running 24 Jan–21 Mar.
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
LA–based writer & comedian Sam Morrison’s Sugar Daddy will run at Underbelly Boulevard Soho from 5 Mar-4 Apr.

The new staging of this story of love & loss, seagull attacks, New York muggers & a surprise diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes follows acclaimed runs in Edinburgh, London, New York & more.
December 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The world premiere of 1.17am, or until the words run out by Zoe Hunter Gordon, directed by Sarah Stacey, will run at @finboroughtheatre.bsky.social 10 Feb-7 Mar.

The play, co-produced by ZAVA Productions, arrives at the venue following 3 acclaimed sold-out previews at @theatre503.bsky.social.
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
West End theatres will dim their lights for 2 minutes at 7pm today (2 Dec) in remembrance of the great & good playwright Tom Stoppard

Stoppard, who has died aged 88, won an Academy Award for Shakespeare In Love, 3 Laurence Olivier Awards & 5 Tony Awards

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Sir Tom Stoppard obituary
One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Tony Award-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo will have its European prem at Hampstead Theatre in 2026 alongside 5 new plays & the London stage directing debut of Stanley Tucci (Springwood by Richard Nelson).

Also includes the debut of David Pearson, a graduate of Hampstead’s INSPIRE programme.
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The @the-rsc.bsky.social production of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind will make its West End premiere at @sohoplace (25 Apr-18 Jul) following a run at the Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon (14 Feb-21 Mar).

The cast incs Madeline Appiah, Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, Owen Chaponda, Idriss Kargbo & Sifiso Mazibuko.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM