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The WhatsOnStage Podcast

The WhatsOnStage Podcast

Sarah Crompton & Alex Wood

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Tv & Film

Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 146

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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. From musicals, to plays, to immersive shows, to interviews with the biggest stars, there's something for everyone!

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    29/07/2025
    #4

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    29/07/2025
    #32

  • 🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts

    29/07/2025
    #92

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    28/07/2025
    #4

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    28/07/2025
    #34

  • 🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts

    28/07/2025
    #75

  • 🇺🇸 USA - performingArts

    28/07/2025
    #80

  • 🇬🇧 Great Britain - performingArts

    27/07/2025
    #4

  • 🇬🇧 Great Britain - arts

    27/07/2025
    #20

  • 🇩🇪 Germany - performingArts

    27/07/2025
    #61
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What are the unmissable shows this autumn?

vendredi 30 août 2024 • Duration 39:14

After a summer of Scottish trips, Sarah and Alex are now back and ready for the start of the autumn. What a season to look forward to! With shows across the nation piquing their interest, here's what can't be missed for theatre fans up and down the UK over the course of the next few months – including productions in Sheffield, Leeds, Chichester, the West End and beyond.

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Special guest Francesca Moody talks Fleabag, Fringe and the secret to stage success

vendredi 23 août 2024 • Duration 34:55

In this special episode recorded from both sides of the Scottish border, Alex and Sarah talk to special guest producer Francesca Moody as she completes another bumper season at the Edinburgh Fringe, all while also transferring smash-hit musical Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder to the West End.


With shows like Fleabag and Baby Reindeer to her name, Moody spills the beans on why she’s so keen to stage work at the festival every year.

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

mardi 18 juin 2024 • Duration 33:04

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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Performing rights, Operation Mincemeat and amateur theatre

vendredi 14 juin 2024 • Duration 29:21

In their brand new podcast the chief theatre critic of WhatsOnStage and the managing editor Alex Wood talk about the ties that bind them to the theatrical world. And to Coventry. Plus their plans going forward.

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(ATASTTC) And it's goodbye from Nancy

samedi 8 juin 2024 • Duration 32:54

After 60 episodes, Nancy's going to leave As the Actress Said to the Critic - but Sarah is launching a new podcast with WhatsOnStage. They talk about what has surprised them, what they've learnt - and plans for going forward. Stay subscribed for new adventures.

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(ATASTTC) Tom Holland's Romeo and Ian McKellen's Falstaff

jeudi 30 mai 2024 • Duration 34:37

Huge, enthusiastic queues are surrounding the Duke of York's theatre where Tom Holland, famous for Spider-Man is playing Romeo opposite Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as Juliet. Next door, veteran actor and star of Lord of the Rings, Ian McKellen is performing Falstaff for his own adoring fans. In this week's episode Nancy and Sarah discuss the two productions and what it shows us about Shakespeare - and about the new generation of actors.

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(ATASTTC) Food on stage - and guests for the dream dinner party

lundi 20 mai 2024 • Duration 44:46

Nancy and Sarah discuss their attitudes to food on stage and off. Does Nancy eat before a show? Does Sarah write hungry or stuffed? And are there perilous foodstuffs that you might want to avoid on stage? Plus: who would they both invite to their dream dinner parties?

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(ATASTTC) The secrets of learning lines - plus Machinal and Love's Labour's Lost

vendredi 3 mai 2024 • Duration 38:38

Nancy and Sarah discuss terrific new productions of Love's Labour's Lost at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Machinal at the Old Vic and Nancy reveals the secrets of memorising long parts - and why the writers whose words are hard to learn aren't always the ones that you'd expect.

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(ATASTTC) Last word on the Oliviers - and two new plays about friendship

samedi 20 avril 2024 • Duration 35:52

Sarah and Nancy have been watching the Oliviers on screen - and wondering why it's so difficult for television to catch the spirit of theatre. Plus Nancy has been to see An Actor Convalescing in Devon at Hampstead Theatre and Sarah has watched The Comeuppance at the Almeida which prompts a conversation about two great American writers - Richard Nelson and Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins - and how they find ways into examining friendship, illness, death and the human condition.

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(ATASTTC) Brian Cox, Patricia Clarkson, the Brontes - and why cutting the creative arts is mad

dimanche 7 avril 2024 • Duration 47:02

Sarah and Nancy talk about a new compelling new production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, starring Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson, and the new play Underdog: the other, other Bronte - both stories that lay bare the rivalries and difficulties of family life. And what is the UK government thinking about with its latest plan to cut funding for creative arts courses at universities? Plus more praise for Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers, and tributes to Adrian Schiller and Trevor Griffiths.

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