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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
  • Is Andrew Lloyd Webber cool now?

    Is Andrew Lloyd Webber cool now?
    Jul 5 2024
    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 mins
  • Are musicals manipulative?

    Are musicals manipulative?
    Jun 28 2024
    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 mins
  • 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
    Jun 18 2024
    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 mins
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