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  • Who wins at Edinburgh?

    Who wins at Edinburgh?
    2024/08/09

    Alex reports from the Edinburgh Festival where there's an American invasion, a lot of producers trying out new shows, a few rising stars, and not many vegetables. But who is making a killing and who is losing out? Plus, Sarah visits the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for a fabulous production of Fiddler On the Roof which makes the most of the variables of theatre outside.




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    40 分
  • Bernadette Peters: the Broadway legend on Sondheim, solo concerts and sharing a dressing room with dames

    Bernadette Peters: the Broadway legend on Sondheim, solo concerts and sharing a dressing room with dames
    2024/08/02
    This week Alex had a virtual sit down with musical legend Bernadette Peters ahead of her eagerly anticipated solo concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 12 August. Their discussion ranged from Sondheim to West End audiences, working with musical directors who know the difference between singing and making noise and Broadway Barks.

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    27 分
  • From Edinburgh Fringe to world domination?

    From Edinburgh Fringe to world domination?
    2024/07/26

    As the Edinburgh Festival begins, Sarah and Alex talk about their memories of festivals past - from great shows such as Fleabag!, Six and Baby Reindeer, to disasters, miseries and the rain.

    Is the Edinburgh Festival still really a hotbed for new talent or are prices and rents simply too high for the truly unknown to thrive? And what part did the Fringe play in the end of Alex's career as a playwright


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    35 分
  • Is Death of England the great state of Britain play? Ft Roy Williams and Clint Dyer

    Is Death of England the great state of Britain play? Ft Roy Williams and Clint Dyer
    2024/07/19
    In this guest episode, Sarah talks to playwright Roy Williams and the National Theatre's deputy artisitc director Clint Dyer about the three plays they wrote together that seem to sum up the spirit of the times. As Michael, Delory and Closing Time are performed together for the first time at Soho Place, the writers discuss what promted the plays, their struggles with illness, Covid and sheer bad timing to get them to the stage, and the impact their work has had. Plus why you can be deadly serious and very funny at the same time.

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    33 分
  • What happens when a show loses its star?

    What happens when a show loses its star?
    2024/07/12
    In a week of shock substitutions Alex and Sarah talk about James Corden at the Old Vic, Justine Mitchell at the Almeida and the way that history of theatre is filled with understudies who become the star.

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    33 分
  • Is Andrew Lloyd Webber cool now?

    Is Andrew Lloyd Webber cool now?
    2024/07/05
    With a new production of Starlight Express taking over the Wembley Troubadour and Jamie Lloyd's radical Sunset Boulevard due to open on Broadway, Sarah and Alex ask whether the British composer is having a renaissance. Plus: does the seat you sit in change your feelings about a show?

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    33 分
  • Are musicals manipulative?

    Are musicals manipulative?
    2024/06/28
    Alex has been singing along to Taylor Swift and Sarah has been on a musical theatre adventure with London Theatre at Sea. Which got us thinking about the power of song and how it makes people feel. Why does that make musicals such a potent force and are our emotions being played on - with special reference to Ghost Quartet, Dear Evan Hansen and Next to Normal

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    28 分
  • Tonys special: Light in a troubling time for Broadway + Sondheim's supremecy cemented

    Tonys special: Light in a troubling time for Broadway + Sondheim's supremecy cemented
    2024/06/18
    In the second WhatsOnStage podcast, Sarah is literally all at sea but still finds time to talk to Alex about the most significant awards in American theatre - and how new thinking and some British input is changing Broadway.

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    33 分