The WhatsOnStage Podcast

By: Sarah Crompton & Alex Wood
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  • WhatsOnStage managing editor Alex Wood and chief theatre critic Sarah Crompton host a weekly podcast on all things theatrical. News, views, frank exchanges and lists offer an unmissable guide to what’s happening on stage (and in film and on television) now, in the past and in future.

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Episodes
  • 164 years, 70 characters. Three actors. Three hours

    164 years, 70 characters. Three actors. Three hours
    Nov 22 2024
    Since its premiere in 2018, The National Theatre’s production of The Lehman Trilogy has enjoyed extraordinary success around the world. As it arrives back in London Sarah meets the current cast John Heffernan, Aaron Krohn and Howard W. Overshown to find out how they get to grips with playing so many characters, what it’s like to tell an epic story - and why everyone walks into the glass.

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    28 mins
  • Special guest Mason Alexander Park on The Tempest, The Sandman and The Emcee

    Special guest Mason Alexander Park on The Tempest, The Sandman and The Emcee
    Nov 15 2024
    Ahead of starring as Ariel in Jamie Lloyd's new Shakespeare production of The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Mason Alexander Park took time out of rehearsals to discuss their second West End role – the first being a fan-favourite spell as the Emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. They also reflect on the rollercoaster world of filming hit series The Sandman and performing in Cabaret at the same time.

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    31 mins
  • Noël Coward was an angry young man

    Noël Coward was an angry young man
    Nov 8 2024
    On the eve of A Marvellous Party, a star-filled gala to celebrate Noël Coward, Sarah Crompton talks to producer Julian Bird and Coward’s biographer Oliver Soden about Coward’s importance today. They discuss the range of his talent as a playwright, songwriter, screen writer, diarist and poet and why the image of him as a comfortable man in a dressing gown couldn’t be further from the truth. Did you know that he coined the word gay or that there were people storming out of his plays because he was so shocking? It’s all part of realising that he is more relevant and necessary than ever.

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    33 mins

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