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  • Behind the scenes at Jamie Lloyd’s Evita

    Behind the scenes at Jamie Lloyd’s Evita
    2025/06/13
    As Rachel Zegler prepares to take on the role of Eva Peron in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s ageless classic, Sarah sets out to find out more about the London Palladium production. Plus what was it like working with Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell and how did they cope with the crowds mobbing Sunset Boulevard in New York

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    46 分
  • Bonus episode: What happens when you win a Tony Award? With Sarah Snook, Jak Malone, Andrew Lloyd Webber and more

    Bonus episode: What happens when you win a Tony Award? With Sarah Snook, Jak Malone, Andrew Lloyd Webber and more
    2025/06/11
    Sunday night saw the winners crowned at the Tony Awards in New York. While new musical Maybe Happy Ending may have been the big winner, there were plenty of awards dished out to UK-originating shows, including Operation Mincemeat, Stranger Things: The First Shadow and more! We hear from all of them… while Andrew Lloyd Webber explains why a Sunset Boulevard film may not be happening!

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    16 分
  • Special guest Sonia Friedman talks career-firsts, the hardest shows she's worked on and why Broadway's model is broken

    Special guest Sonia Friedman talks career-firsts, the hardest shows she's worked on and why Broadway's model is broken
    2025/06/06
    Description: With Tony Award-winning record breaker Stereophonic in previews in the West End, chief critic Sarah Crompton and managing editor Alex Wood hopped over to Sonia Friedman Productions offices to talk to Friedman in a wide-ranging interview. Topics included what makes new writing so enticing, why the Broadway model is so hard and why Broadway box office reporting is causing headaches all round. Plus how she's trying to find the next generation of audiences with Hugh Jackman, and why the future of UK theatre concerns her!

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    37 分
  • Bonus episode: A gigantic new London theatre made for musicals, with special guest Rosemary Squire

    Bonus episode: A gigantic new London theatre made for musicals, with special guest Rosemary Squire
    2025/06/04

    In a bonus midweek episode, WhatsOnStage’s editor-in-chief Alex Wood made the trip to the gigantic Olympia event space, home to the new Olympia Theatre. Currently in construction, the Olympia is due to open to the public in 2027. Alex had a word with Rosemary Squire, the co-founder of operator Trafalgar Entertainment, about what theatregoers can expect from the 1575-seat venue: including 100 toilets, a huge playing space and top class amenities.



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    10 分
  • A final theatre season to rule them all

    A final theatre season to rule them all
    2025/05/30
    In the week director Rupert Goold announced his farewell programme at the influential Almeida Theatre, Sarah and Alex talk about why his choices reflect his bold approach - and outline the excitements in store. And as Patti Lupone stirs controversy, can the old-fashioned, no holds barred interview survive?

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    32 分
  • Why British theatres are on the brink of going bust

    Why British theatres are on the brink of going bust
    2025/05/23

    As a new report highlights the crisis in British theatres, Sarah and Alex reveal the depth of the difficulties caused by standstill subsidy and rising costs and in particular the challenges for regional theatre and touring


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    42 分
  • Bonus episode: Special guest Hadley Fraser on juggling a West End show, solo concert and gardening!

    Bonus episode: Special guest Hadley Fraser on juggling a West End show, solo concert and gardening!
    2025/05/21
    In a mid-week bonus episode, West End star Hadley Fraser discusses his array of new endeavours, including a brand new album, a major solo concert at Cadogan Hall and appearing nightly in the West End in The Deep Blue Sea. He also chats about gardening, parenting and his daughter’s reaction to seeing him as a king in Disney’s Snow White.

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    27 分
  • How do you stage an unfinished musical?

    How do you stage an unfinished musical?
    2025/05/16
    Sarah Crompton and Alex Wood dive headfirst into Stephen Sondheim and David Ives' Here We Are, wading through the history and themes of the show as it makes its European premiere at the National Theatre. After that, they swim through a wellspring of topics including the Young Vic's exciting new season (with four of Sarah's favourite directors involved) and Cynthia Erivo's fang-tastic West End return in Dracula.

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    45 分