The London Theatre Review podcast is live!
The London Theatre Review podcast is live!
We've made honest critics of each other at last
I’m so happy to be able to tell you that the independent theatre podcast I’ve been cooking up with my pals the Nicks (Clark and Curtis, both of whom I worked with at the Standard) has GONE LIVE!
It’s a very simple format, with the three of us reviewing two shows every week (we don’t always like stuff, and we definitely don’t always agree), plus a big interview in the middle, and a bit of theatre chat around the edges.
We worked together, all three of us, for the last two years that I was Culture Editor at the Standard (Nick Curtis is still the Chief Theatre Critic there, and Nick Clark is the Head of Culture, rather an elevated title from when I was there).
Since we enjoyed nothing more than sitting around nattering about the plays that we’d seen, we decided to make honest critics of each other and start a podcast, inevitably.
In this first episode, we review Oedipus at Wyndhams, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, and Waiting for Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati, and Nick Curtis interviews Rufus Norris, the outgoing artistic director of the National Theatre, about his time at the helm, his final season, and why he won’t be running another building any time soon thanks very much.
You can find it anywhere that you get podcasts, or here, so please do have a listen and subscribe, review (nicely) and let us know what you think. We might be a bit rusty at first - it’s been a while since we had our previous award-nominated podcast together at the Standard - but we’ll be in the swing of it in no time.