Episodes

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

    Special guest Francesca Moody talks Fleabag, Fringe and the secret to stage success
    Aug 23 2024

    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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    35 mins
  • Our favourite musical revivals

    Our favourite musical revivals
    Aug 16 2024
    Finally, a reunion! Alex and Sarah are back in the same room after many weeks apart to catch up on their latest theatre outings - to the Almeida, Chichester Festival Theatre, the London Palladium, the Edinburgh Fringe and beyond. Then, down to business: the duo pick their favourite musical revivals from across the years.

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    32 mins
  • Who wins at Edinburgh?

    Who wins at Edinburgh?
    Aug 9 2024

    Alex reports from the Edinburgh Festival where there's an American invasion, a lot of producers trying out new shows, a few rising stars, and not many vegetables. But who is making a killing and who is losing out? Plus, Sarah visits the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for a fabulous production of Fiddler On the Roof which makes the most of the variables of theatre outside.




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    40 mins
  • Bernadette Peters: the Broadway legend on Sondheim, solo concerts and sharing a dressing room with dames

    Bernadette Peters: the Broadway legend on Sondheim, solo concerts and sharing a dressing room with dames
    Aug 2 2024
    This week Alex had a virtual sit down with musical legend Bernadette Peters ahead of her eagerly anticipated solo concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 12 August. Their discussion ranged from Sondheim to West End audiences, working with musical directors who know the difference between singing and making noise and Broadway Barks.

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    27 mins
  • From Edinburgh Fringe to world domination?

    From Edinburgh Fringe to world domination?
    Jul 26 2024

    As the Edinburgh Festival begins, Sarah and Alex talk about their memories of festivals past - from great shows such as Fleabag!, Six and Baby Reindeer, to disasters, miseries and the rain.

    Is the Edinburgh Festival still really a hotbed for new talent or are prices and rents simply too high for the truly unknown to thrive? And what part did the Fringe play in the end of Alex's career as a playwright


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    35 mins
  • Is Death of England the great state of Britain play? Ft Roy Williams and Clint Dyer

    Is Death of England the great state of Britain play? Ft Roy Williams and Clint Dyer
    Jul 19 2024
    In this guest episode, Sarah talks to playwright Roy Williams and the National Theatre's deputy artisitc director Clint Dyer about the three plays they wrote together that seem to sum up the spirit of the times. As Michael, Delory and Closing Time are performed together for the first time at Soho Place, the writers discuss what promted the plays, their struggles with illness, Covid and sheer bad timing to get them to the stage, and the impact their work has had. Plus why you can be deadly serious and very funny at the same time.

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    33 mins
  • What happens when a show loses its star?

    What happens when a show loses its star?
    Jul 12 2024
    In a week of shock substitutions Alex and Sarah talk about James Corden at the Old Vic, Justine Mitchell at the Almeida and the way that history of theatre is filled with understudies who become the star.

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    33 mins
  • 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