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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 at The London Standard, covering the cultural landscape in the capital, and was previously features editor of The Stage and the arts correspondent of The Independent.


Nick Curtis is Chief Theatre Critic of The London Standard and has written about theatre since 1989. Also a feature writer, editor and an award-winning interviewer, his work has appeared in most major British newspapers, as well as Radio Times, GQ, Harpers & Queen and Tatler, among others.


Produced by Tim Bano


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Episodios
  • Kevin McHale from Glee takes on Frogs

    Kevin McHale from Glee takes on Frogs
    May 25 2025
    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.

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    32 m
  • Why Sondheim Matters, Beverley Knight, and 1536

    Why Sondheim Matters, Beverley Knight, and 1536
    May 18 2025

    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 brilliant Beverley Knight natters to Nick Curtis about playing the godmother of rock and roll Sister Rosetta Tharpe in new play Marie and Rosetta.


    And the gang review Ava Pickett's debut play 1536 at the Almeida Theatre in which three ordinary Tudor women find out about the death of Anne Boleyn.


    Plus we have five questions for Stella Powell-Jones, artistic director of Jermyn Street Theatre.

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    42 m
  • The Big Friendly Season Three Opener

    The Big Friendly Season Three Opener
    May 11 2025

    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 about why he chose this highly charged subject, and what it's been like to win so many awards for his first ever play.


    And Ewan McGregor returns to the stage for the first time in 17 years in a new play called My Master Builder, based on Ibsen's The Master Builder, by Lila Raicek. He's made his name playing louche Parisian artists, drug addicts and Jedi Knights. How does he fare in his toughest role yet: arrogant architect?


    Tell us what you've been seeing by emailing thelondontheatrereview@gmail.com or following us on Insta @thelondontheatrereview.

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    43 m
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