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The London Theatre Review

London Theatre Review

Nick, Nick and Nancy are on hand with the latest news, honest reviews and big name interviews from the world of London theatre. Nancy Durrant is the former Culture Editor of the Evening Standard and before that an arts editor at The Times for many years. She is the creator of The London Culture Edit on Substack and writes across culture for The Times, Sunday Times, Observer, W Magazine, Opera Now and more, and appears regularly on Times Radio and BBC Radio 4 Front Row.Nick Clark was Head of Culture

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31:58

Kevin McHale from Glee takes on Frogs

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/05/25

A cornucopia of corn puns awaits as the gang review hit Broadway musical Shucked! at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, and Slow Horses star Jack Lowden reprises his role in David Ireland's Alcoholics Anonymous play The Fifth Step alongside Martin Freeman. Plus, Kevin McHale, best known for his role as Artie in hit musical TV series Glee, talks to Nick Curtis about playing the assistant to a Greek god in Stephen Sondheim's weird and wonderful musical The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse. Hosted on Acast

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41:52

Why Sondheim Matters, Beverley Knight, and 1536

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/05/18

For the last time ever, it's a brand new musical from Stephen Sondheim. Here We Are has just opened at the National Theatre, the show Sondheim was working on for almost a decade, and which he finished with writer David Ives and director Joe Mantello just before he died in 2021. Nick, Nick and Nancy give their verdict on the absurdist plight of rich Americans trying to get brunch. Plus, Nick Clark has a chat with Sondheim's biographer David Benedict about who Sondheim was, and why he matters. The

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42:58

The Big Friendly Season Three Opener

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/05/11

After a lovely break, thanks for asking, the gang have taken their seats in the stalls once again to bring you the best (and sometimes the less than best) that London theatre has to offer. To kick off the new season, it's a Roald Dahl special as Nick, Nick and Nancy review Giant in the West End, an award-winning play starring John Lithgow as Dahl which looks at the fallout of an antisemitic book review written by the children's author. The play's writer Mark Rosenblatt also talks to Nick Curtis

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46:20

The Big Oliviers Season Finale With Billy Porter And...

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/04/05

We've reached the end of the second season, and to celebrate we're dropping a day early with a bumper Olivers special edition so that you can listen to this episode before the Olivier Awards ceremony on Sunday 6th April. As well as insight, analysis and predictions from Nancy and the Nicks, we've also got a chat with special guest THE Billy Porter talking about what we can expect as he co-hosts the awards on Sunday night (there will be singing and there will be outrageous costumes), as well as his

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37:57

Julie Hesmondhalgh, Retrograde, The Women of Llanrumney

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/03/30

The warm, wise and completely wonderful Julie Hesmondhalgh talks to Nancy about playing Joan Scourfield, the woman whose son was killed with a single punch in 2011, in James Graham's incredibly moving play Punch.And the smell of whiskey and cigar smoke hang in the air as the gang give their views on the West End transfer of Ryan Calais Cameron's play Retrograde, a snappy period thriller in which the actor Sidney Poitier meets a TV lawyer in an office in 1950s New York and is asked to denounce his

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33:31

Clueless The Musical, Tom Burke, Dracula A Comedy Of...

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/03/23

Another iconic 90s movie gets the musical treatment as KT Tunstall and Amy Heckerling turn Clueless into a stage show. Nancy and the Nicks review. And there have been more than 200 adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula - but there's always room for one more. The gang visit high-camp comedy Dracula: A Comedy Of Terrors at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Plus, Nancy talks to Tom Burke, currently playing Trigorin in The Seagull at the Barbican.Thanks to Art of London for sponsoring the podcast. Find out

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37:50

Cate Blanchett in The Seagull, James Graham's Punch,...

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/03/16

As Thomas Ostermeier's very starry Seagull hits the Barbican - Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke, Emma Corrin and more! - Nancy and Producer Tim give their opinions. Nick Clark and Nick Curtis join Nancy to review James Graham's devastating play Punch at the Young Vic. And Nancy talks to Ivanno Jeremiah as he prepares to reprise his role as Sidney Poitier in the West End transfer of Ryan Calais Cameron's play Retrograde. Thanks to Art of London for sponsoring the podcast. Find out about brilliant things to

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32:35

The Score, Alterations, Arinzé Kene

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/03/09

The great Brian Cox transforms himself into Johann Sebastian Bach for Oliver Cotton's play The Score at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Music to our ears, or a bum note? Nick, Nancy and Producer Tim give their views. We've also got a review of the National Theatre production of Michael Abbensetts's seminal play Alterations, set in a tailoring shop in 1970s London, plus Nick Curtis pulls himself away from his poolside holiday to speak to its star, the brilliant Arinzé Kene.Thanks for Art of London for

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38:36

Jonathan Bailey in Richard II, KT Tunstall, Backstroke

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/03/02

From dashing prince to hopeless king, Jonathan Bailey leaves the world of Wicked behind - for a few months at least - as he takes on one of Shakespeare's trickier tyrants in Richard II at the Bridge Theatre. Nancy, Nick and Nick give their verdicts. Two national treasures hit the Donmar stage this month: Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig play a mother and daughter dealing with the consequences of a stroke in Anna Mackmin's new play Backstroke. And Nancy chats to KT Tunstall about her musical adaptation

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34:34

Much Ado About Nothing, Unicorn, Omari Douglas from...

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/02/23

Not even Sigourney Weaver could save Jamie Lloyd's The Tempest from its gloom spiral - but Lloyd is back for the second part of his Shakespeare at Drury Lane season with a Marvel special, turning Loki and Agent Carter (well, Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell) into Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. There's confetti. There are balloons. There are 90s club bangers. So is Lloyd's reputation restored? Nick, Nick and Nancy find out. Room for one more? Mike Bartlett's new play Unicorn at the

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33:35

Gina McKee, Harmony Rose-Bremner, The Years, Play On

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/02/16

It's the show that's had people (mainly men, actually) fainting almost every night...Eline Arbo's adaptation of Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux's book The Years transfers from the Almeida to the West End with a phenomenal cast of Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Deborah Findlay, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner. Nick, Nick and Nancy not only review the show - with full and frank info on *that* now infamous abortion scene - but Nick Curtis also talks to Gina and Harmony about what it's like to be part of

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42:52

Greek Week! Oedipus, Elektra, Jade Anouka

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/02/09

It's Greek Week on the podcast as Nick Clark, Nancy and Durrant and Producer Tim (making a special on-mic appearance while Nick Curtis soaks up some Maldives sun) review Sophocles two ways: Oedipus at the Old Vic starring Oscar-winner Rami Malek, and Elektra at the Duke of York's starring Oscar-winner Brie Larson. Plus Nancy talks to Dune: Prophecy and His Dark Materials star Jade Anouka, who performs in Chris Bush's new play Otherland at the Almeida Theatre. And it's competition time! You can win

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36:47

Inside No. 9 Stage Fright, Cymbeline, Lauren Drew's...

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/02/02

On this week's pod Nick Clark talks to Celine Dion! Well not quite, but pretty close: in fact he talks to Lauren Drew, star of Six the Musical, Legally Blonde, Les Mis and Heathers on stage, and The Voice on the telly, who is tackling her biggest challenge yet as she transforms herself into Celine Dion every night for the brilliant, ridiculous parody musical Titanique.Plus Nick, Nick and Nancy review Inside No. 9: Stage Fright, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's stage farewell to their superb

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34:20

Brian Cox and Nicole Ansari-Cox, Kyoto, The Lonely...

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/01/26

The great Brian Cox, star of Succession and much else besides, alongside his wife Nicole Ansari-Cox join Nick Curtis to talk about playing Mr and Mrs Johann Sebastian Bach in Oliver Cotton's play The Score. Plus it's a fair COP for Nick, Nick and Nancy as they review Kyoto at @sohoplace, from the creators of The Jungle, which turns the diplomatic ins and outs of the first COP conference into a tense political thriller. They also head to the Kiln for Roy Williams's play The Lonely Londoners. Thanks

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33:39

Oliver! Titanique! And Lucie Jones!

The London Theatre Review ·

2025/01/19

By popular demand...we're back! Nancy Durrant, Nick Clark and Nick Curtis kick off season two of The London Theatre Review with a musicals spectacular as they review Titanique, the supercamp, super-funny parody of that famous film - you know, the one with the big iceberg - at the Criterion Theatre. Is it unsinkable, unthinkable, or very very twinkable? And they are reviewing the situation with the new production of Oliver! at the Gielgud. Do they want...more? Plus, West End superstar, the UK's 2017

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44:51

Review of 2024, The Tempest, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof,...

The London Theatre Review ·

2024/12/29

A bumper pod to end a bumper year of theatre! Nick, Nick and Nancy look back at their theatrical highs (and a couple of lows) of 2024. For their final trips of the year, they take in The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane starring none other than Hollywood royalty Sigourney Weaver, and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the Almeida with Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones. Plus, Nancy talks to Bad Sisters star Anne-Marie Duff about The Little Foxes at the Young Vic. The London Theatre Review will return in

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38:22

Ballet Shoes, The Little Foxes, Tracy-Ann Oberman

The London Theatre Review ·

2024/12/22

It's thirties week on the podcast as Nick and Nick and Nancy review the National Theatre adaptation of Noel Streatfeild's beloved 1936 children's book Ballet Shoes (spoiler: there's dancing, fossils, and lots of joy) and Lillian Hellman's savage 1939 drama The Little Foxes starring Anne-Marie Duff. Plus, Nick Curtis talks to Tracy-Ann Oberman about the return to the West End of her acclaimed Shakespeare adaptation, The Merchant of Venice 1936. And our competition winner is revealed

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40:02

The Devil Wears Prada, Sharon D Clarke, The Lightning...

The London Theatre Review ·

2024/12/15

Final chance to enter the LTR competition to win £200 of Theatre Tokens! Plus this week, the Devil's in the Dominion, as The Devil Wears Prada becomes the latest beloved film to receive a West End musical makeover, with music from Elton John and starring Vanessa Williams as fashion editor Miranda Priestly. Nancy and the Nicks give their verdict.They also discuss another musical, based on Rick Riordan's bestselling Percy Jackson books and set to a rock score. So how does The Lightning Thief musical

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37:49

Mathew Baynton, The Importance of Being Earnest, The...

The London Theatre Review ·

2024/12/08

COMPETITION TIME! Listen to this week's episode to find out how you can win £200 of Theatre Tokens...If that's not enough incentive to tune in, writer, actor, ghost, horrible historian and brilliant person Mathew Baynton is here! He talks about playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream for the RSC, running at London's Barbican. [Insert Bottom-related joke here]. Plus the triple Ns do a spot of Bunburying as they assess The Importance of Being Earnest at the National Theatre, starring the best one

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38:15

Simon Russell Beale, A Christmas Carol, All's Well...

The London Theatre Review ·

2024/12/01

Scrooge, carols, parachuting brussels sprouts...it's that time of the year again, as Nick and Nancy and Nick head to the Old Vic to see its annual production of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Jack Thorne and this year starring John Simm as the rotten old miser. Will the three of them keep Christmas in their heart always, or is it a load of humbug? As panto season gets underway, Nick Clark reports back from Aladdin at the Lyric Hammersmith, with a lot of love for Widow Twerky.All's Well That Ends Well

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