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4. Is Andrew Lloyd Webber cool now?
With a new production of Starlight Express taking over the Wembley Troubadour and Jamie Lloyd's radical Sunset Boulevard due to open on Broadway, Sar…
1 year, 11 months ago
3. Are musicals manipulative?
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 abou…
1 year, 11 months ago
2. Tonys special: Light in a troubling time for Broadway + Sondheim's supremecy cemented
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 …
1 year, 11 months ago
1. Performing rights, Operation Mincemeat and amateur theatre
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 theat…
1 year, 11 months ago
65. (ATASTTC) And it's goodbye from Nancy
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…
2 years ago
64. (ATASTTC) Tom Holland's Romeo and Ian McKellen's Falstaff
Huge, enthusiastic queues are surrounding the Duke of York's theatre where Tom Holland, famous for Spider-Man is playing Romeo opposite Francesca Ame…
2 years ago
63. (ATASTTC) Food on stage - and guests for the dream dinner party
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 p…
2 years ago
62. (ATASTTC) The secrets of learning lines - plus Machinal and Love's Labour's Lost
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 revea…
2 years, 1 month ago
61. (ATASTTC) Last word on the Oliviers - and two new plays about friendship
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 …
2 years, 1 month ago
60. (ATASTTC) Brian Cox, Patricia Clarkson, the Brontes - and why cutting the creative arts is mad
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 Clarkso…
2 years, 2 months ago