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Ballad Lines post-show video and photos: Expressing female empowerment via folk music
Ballad Lines post-show video and photos: Expressing female empowerment via folk music

Ballad Lines post-show video and photos: Expressing female empowerment via folk music

By Terri Paddock|2026-03-07T23:01:04+00:0015 February 2026|Tags: Aria Entertainment, Ballad Lines, Katy Lipson, Southwark Playhouse, Southwark Playhouse Elephant, Tania Azevedo|

When director Tania Azevedo and composer Finn Anderson were first commissioned to write a new musical, they decided to follow two parallel lines of exploration.

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Marie Curie: A new musical
Marie Curie: A new musical

Marie Curie: A new musical

By Terri Paddock|2024-04-21T17:43:25+01:0021 April 2024|Tags: Aria Entertainment, Charing Cross Theatre, Katy Lipson, Marie Curie, Musicals, New musicals, Post-show Q&As, Sarah Meadows|

A hit in Asia, this sweeping new musical inspired by the life, and moral choices, of ground-breaking scientist Marie Curie, gets its English-language premiere in a new production, directed by Sarah Meadows.

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Flowers for Mrs Harris
Flowers for Mrs Harris

Flowers for Mrs Harris

By Terri Paddock|2023-09-01T14:43:36+01:0019 August 2023|Tags: Aria Entertainment, Flowers for Mrs Harris, Jenna Russell, Katy Lipson, Riverside Studios|

Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee Jenna Russell takes the title role in new musical Flowers For Mrs Harris, which finally gets its London premiere at Riverside Studios after critical acclaim at Sheffield Crucible and Chichester Festival Theatre.

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The Last Five Years: The piano is the new star in Jason Robert Brown’s two-hander
The Last Five Years: The piano is the new star in Jason Robert Brown’s two-hander

The Last Five Years: The piano is the new star in Jason Robert Brown’s two-hander

By Terri Paddock|2021-09-27T11:09:49+01:0027 September 2021|Tags: Aria Entertainment, Garrick Theatre, Jason Robert Brown, Jonathan O'Boyle, Katy Lipson, Molly Lynch, Musicals, Oli Higginson, Southwark Playhouse, The Last Five Years, West End|

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.

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

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

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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Lizzie Q&A podcast and photos: Why axe murderer Lizzie Borden is a feminist icon
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Lizzie Q&A podcast and photos: Why axe murderer Lizzie Borden is a feminist icon

Lizzie Q&A podcast and photos: Why axe murderer Lizzie Borden is a feminist icon

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T18:52:15+00:0024 February 2017|Tags: Aria Entertainment, Bjorg Gamst, Bleu Woodward, Eden Espinosa, Fredericia Teater, Jodie Jacobs, Katy Lipson, Lizzie, Podcasts, StageFaves, Terri Paddock events|

The American gothic rock musical Lizzie, which is now receiving its UK premiere in a limited season at London's Greenwich Theatre, opens and closes with a nursery rhyme I memorised in my own American youth about the real-life 19th-century crime.

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