The Standard Theatre Podcast

Feb 17 2024 55 ep. 34 mins
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The theatre-goer’s essential guide to what – and who – is on the London Stage. Hear huge (and up-and-coming) names talk about their shows and catch the full reviews from our influential culture team before the theatres stick the quotes on their posters. Brought to you by the Evening Standard.
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Creators of Six on Why Am I So Single? and our pick of the top shows to see this year…

Feb 17 2024 40 mins  
Joining us from the launch of their new musical, Why Am I So Single?, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow talk to our chief theatre critic Nick Curtis.Nick and Nancy Durrant line up the shows they’re really excited about this year, and the ones you should totally be booking or pinning in your diary…In news they discuss the hot topics of the week: Tickets for Jamie Lloyd’s Romeo and Jul

Felicity Huffman on Hir; Our Hills of California review, Tom Holland & Cara Delevingne news

Feb 10 2024 37 mins  
Our chief theatre critic Nick Curtis meets former Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman to discuss her role in Hir at the Park Theatre.They also discuss:-Why she chose a play at one of London’s smallest theatres-Her early career, Desperate Housewives, and studying at RADA-Living in London again, how the city has changed since Huffman’s twenties, spotting celebrities-What s

Plaza Suite, Till The Stars Come Down, Ola Ince on Othello

Feb 03 2024 38 mins  
🍰Happy birthday to The Standard Theatre Podcast! Coming up in this very special first anniversary episode, we review Plaza Suite at the Savoy theatre, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick (who also tell us about what they discuss post-show).Our chief theatre critic meets director Ola Ince at The Globe for her new revival of Othello and she tells him why she decide

Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical, Six the musical, Charlie Josephine on Cowbois

Jan 27 2024 35 mins  
Packed with Nineties hit music, we review the musical take on Cruel Intentions at The Other Palace, which is based on the 1999 blockbuster movie that starred Reece Witherspoon and Buffy actress Sarah Michelle Gellar.Plus, we revisit Six the musical as the show celebrates its sixth year on stage, and is now on at the Vaudeville theatre.Hear Nancy’s interview with writer Charlie Jo

Anaïs Mitchell on Hadestown's return to London [plus music]; Cowbois & The Good John Proctor reviews

Jan 20 2024 45 mins  
Anaïs Mitchell, the creator of Hadestown, joins us to chat the musical's return to London. In a very special first for our podcast, Mitchell plays two songs from the show: Way Down Hadestown and We Raise Our Cups.Saddle up as Nancy and the Nick's ride into town (well Sloane Square) to review Cowbois at the Royal Court, and The Good John Proctor at the Jermyn Street Theatre.Elsewhe

The Enfield Haunting and Kagami reviews; the West End's best post-show pubs

Jan 13 2024 36 mins  
The Enfield Haunting, starring Catherine Tate and David Threlfall. Does this story of things that go bump in the night have the audiences screaming, or just the critics?The Evening Standard’s going out editor, David Ellis, pops in to tell us about the pubs you can find near West End theatres.Nick, Nick and Nancy also discuss the latest news, including Prince’s Purple Rain being

Stranger Things, Tuppence Middleton on playing Elizabeth Taylor, David Tennant's Macbeth

Jan 06 2024 39 mins  
From the Noël Coward Theatre, we join Tuppence Middleton to chat about her role as Elizabeth Taylor in The Motive and the Cue, directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes. Middleton, who stars opposite Johnny Flynn and Mark Gatiss, tells us about being in a play about putting on a play (Hamlet on Broadway in the Sixties), her experiences with obsessive compulsive disorder, and her new mem

The best of London theatre in 2023, and what to expect in 2024!

Dec 23 2023 36 mins  
Indulge us please, as we look back at a year of amazing London theatre. From Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard to Andrew Scott in Vanya, plus Guys & Dolls and Crazy for You. And of course, Joseph Fiennes in Dear England, as well as The Motive and the Cue, A Streetcar Named Desire...just to name a few.Plus, we talk about the West End shows arriving in 2024, that we are very

Jared Harris & Joe Cole for The Homecoming. Plus, our reviews of Ulster American and Cold War

Dec 16 2023 38 mins  
This episode discusses themes some listeners may find distressing.Jared Harris (Mad Men, Chernobyl) and Joe Cole (Gangs of London, Peaky Blinders), join us at the Young Vic to talk about their time in Harold Panter’s The Homecoming, directed by Matthew Dunster.For our reviews this week it’s Ulster American at Riverside Studios, by David Ireland and directed by Jeremy Herrin, st

Hattie Morahan for Ibsen’s Ghosts - plus The Homecoming & Infinite Life reviews!

Dec 09 2023 36 mins  
We’re joined by Hattie Morahan at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Hattie stars in Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins. This play is a first for Shakespeare’s Globe...And our reviews this week are:Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, directed by Matthew Dunster and stars Jared Harris (Chernobyl, Mad Men), Joe Cole (Gangs of London, Peaky Blinde