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Podcasts from The Stage cover the UK theatre scene and analysis of the performing arts. Seven Stages, the latest podcast series from The Stage, asks leading actors and creatives about the seven productions that are most important to them including: what was the first show you ever saw? Your biggest theatre regret? And which production would you choose to watch on a loop for eternity?
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What was the first show you ever saw? Your biggest theatre regret? And which production would you choose to watch on a loop for eternity? These questions and more make up Seven Stages, the new podcast from The Stage, sponsored by Audible. Our eight episode features designer Es Devlin and was released on Friday, July 10, 2020. From fringe theatres t…
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What was the first show you ever saw? Your biggest theatre regret? And which production would you choose to watch on a loop for eternity? These questions and more make up Seven Stages, the new podcast from The Stage, sponsored by Audible. Our seventh episode features actor Paul Chahidi and was released Friday, June 26, 2020. Actor Paul Chahidi has …
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What was the first show you ever saw? Your biggest theatre regret? And which production would you choose to watch on a loop for eternity? These questions and more make up Seven Stages, the new podcast from The Stage, sponsored by Audible. Our sixth episode features playwright Alan Ayckbourn and was released this Friday, June 12, 2020. Alan Ayckbour…
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What was the first show you ever saw? Your biggest theatre regret? And which production would you choose to watch on a loop for eternity? These questions and more make up Seven Stages, the new podcast from The Stage, sponsored by Audible. Our fifth episode features Olivier award-winning actor Noma Dumezweni and was released this Friday, May 28, 202…
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Seven Stages: Episode 4 – Arlene Phillips
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What was the first show you ever saw? Your biggest theatre regret? And which production would you choose to watch on a loop for eternity? These questions and more make up Seven Stages, the new podcast from The Stage, sponsored by Audible. The fourth episode featuring choreographer Arlene Phillips is released this Friday, April 3, 2020. Choreographe…
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What was the first show you ever saw? Your biggest theatre regret? And which production would you choose to watch on a loop for eternity? These questions and more make up Seven Stages, the new podcast from The Stage, sponsored by Audible. The third episode featuring playwright and director David Lan is released this Friday, March 20, 2020. David La…
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Seven Stages: Episode 2 - Paule Constable
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The second episode of Seven Stages featuring multi-award winning lighting designer Paule Constable What was the first show you ever saw? Your biggest theatre regret? And which production would you choose to watch on a loop for eternity? These questions and more make up Seven Stages, the new podcast from The Stage, sponsored by Audible. In 2005 Paul…
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What was the first show you ever saw? Your biggest theatre regret? And which production would you choose to watch on a loop for eternity? These questions and more make up Seven Stages, the new podcast from The Stage, sponsored by Audible. The first episode is released this Friday, February 21, 2020, featuring Ian McKellen. Ian McKellen topped The S…
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Musical theatre company SpitLip and Ian Charleson Award-winning actor Bally Gill
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In our June episode, Tim Bano meets the four members of exciting musical theatre troupe Spitlip, who tell him how they created their first full-length show Operation Mincemeat – a madcap, wartime espionage thriller that recently opened to five-star raves at the New Diorama Theatre in London. Meanwhile, Ian Charleson Award-winning actor Bally Gill t…
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Magician Ben Hart on secret stage effects, plus meet some of the West End's animal stars
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In our March episode, Tim Bano talks to magician Ben Hart about making heads spin in The Exorcist and how he summoned up Marley's ghost in The Christmas Carol for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Meanwhile, Desmond Jordan from Performing Pets tells our roving reporter Fergus Morgan about his trials with pigs, goats and pooing Corgis, and tries to tra…
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Vault Festival, Lyn Gardner and Tim Bano's top picks for 2019 and learn improv with The Showstoppers
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In our January episode, critics Tim Bano and Lyn Gardner reveal their top picks of of 2019 ranging from major West End musicals to emerging fringe shows and with shows across the UK. We interview Vault Festival's head of theatre and performance Gillian Greer about this year's programme and the London fringe festival's huge growth in recent years. M…
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Pantomime special: Sharon D Clarke, Susie McKenna and Lyn Gardner plus find out how to be a panto dame
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In our sparkly pantomime special, Doctor Who star Sharon D Clarke and her wife, panto expert Susie McKenna, discuss their enduring love for the art form and recall how they first met on a show at the Hackney Empire 20 years ago. Lyn Gardner and Tim Bano try to convince Christmas grinch Rosemary Waugh to embrace her inner Buttons. Plus, after a fail…
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The Stage Podcast: Stephen Sondheim's Company, comedian Tom Allen, understudies and circus skills
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In our October episode, critics Tim Bano and Lyn Gardner discuss Marianne Elliott's new gender-swapped production of Company by Stephen Sondheim with comedian Tom Allen. Plus, we go backstage to talk to Steph Parry, the 42nd Street understudy who made headlines when she stepped in to save Mamma Mia! in the West End. Meanwhile, after last month's fa…
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The Stage Podcast: Antony and Cleopatra starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo
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The Stage critic Tim Bano and associate editor Lyn Gardner discuss the National Theatre's latest major opening – Antony and Cleopatra starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo – with Time Out theatre editor Andrzej Lukowski. What was the highlight: Fiennes, Okonedo, the live snake? We recap on The Stage Debut Awards and hear from some of the great …
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The Stage Podcast Edinburgh Festival Fringe episode 3 with Lyn Gardner and Tim Bano
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In the third and final of our weekly podcasts from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, The Stage critic Tim Bano and associate editor Lyn Gardner discuss all the big shows and key issues of the festival. In episode 3, they are joined by cabaret star Le Gateau Chocolat, The Stage reviews editor Natasha Tripney and critic and theatremaker Ben Kulvich…
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The Stage Podcast: Edinburgh Festival Fringe episode 2 with Lyn Gardner and Tim Bano (August 16, 2018)
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In the second of our weekly podcasts from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, The Stage critic Tim Bano and associate editor Lyn Gardner discuss all the big shows and key issues of the festival. In episode 2, they are joined by actor Julie Hesmondhalgh and reviewer Fergus Morgan, plus Helen Monks, who shares some stories of Edinburgh Fringe disaste…
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The Stage Podcast: Edinburgh Festival Fringe episode 1 with Lyn Gardner and Tim Bano (August 9, 2018)
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In the first of our weekly podcasts from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, The Stage critic Tim Bano and associate editor Lyn Gardner discuss all the big shows and key issues of the festival. In episode 1, they are joined by theatremakers Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin, actor and playwright Yolanda Mercy and The Guardian reviewer Kate Wyver. Fin…
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The Stage Podcast: Mark Thomas, interviewed by Thom Dibdin
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As he collects The Stage Special Award, part of The Stage Edinburgh Awards 2016, Mark Thomas talks to Thom Dibdin about discovering Brecht, the difference between comedy and theatre, how he deals with phones in the auditorium and his show at the Traverse Theatre, The Red Shed.By thestage
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 6
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In our sixth Edinburgh episode, we catch up with Sarah-Louise Young, who is juggling three shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. How does she do it? "My day is boringly military." The cabaret performer – who is appearing in Cabaret Whore Presents... La Poule Plombee, Roulston and Young: Songs for Lovers (and Other Idiots) and Royal Vauxhall, as w…
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 5
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In our fifth Edinburgh-specific podcast episode, Mark Thomas talks about his show The Red Shed at the Traverse Theatre, and how his work has increasingly moved from stand-up towards theatre in a bid to reflect the truth. He also talks about performance, journalism, audience participation and why he nearly voted Leave in the EU referendum. Meanwhile…
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 4
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In episode four of The Stage Podcast's Edinburgh 2016 series, we catch up with Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen, aka RashDash. The company has returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time in four years with Two Man Show. In this podcast, they discuss gender, feminism, men and masculinity, plus the practical benefits of getting naked …
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 3
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As we hit the mid-point of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Glasgow-based theatremaker Kieran Hurley talks about storytelling, sound design and the apocalypse. Plus Stewart Pringle takes to the critics' sofa to discuss his picks of the fringe. Daniel Kitson, Breach Theatre and Forest Fringe are all on his radar. Tim Bano presents.…
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 2
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New Zealander Tim Carlsen talks about his Edinburgh show, One Day Moko, and about the challenges of bringing a piece of theatre from the other side of the world to a new city for the first time. The answer? Three large suitcases, Skyping the director, government grants and crowdfunding, apparently. Plus Tim Bano and Stewart Pringle talk about which…
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Fringe 2016 (part 1)
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The Stage Podcast is back for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016. Tim Bano hosts a series of six shows interviewing theatremakers and critics at the world's biggest trade show for theatre. In this episode, Tim talks to Kill the Beast about its new show, Don't Wake the Damp, which Stewart Pringle has called the company's best work in his review for …
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The Stage Podcast: Mark Thomas, interviewed by Thom Dibdin
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As he collects The Stage Special Award, part of The Stage Edinburgh Awards 2016, Mark Thomas talks to Thom Dibdin about discovering Brecht, the difference between comedy and theatre, how he deals with phones in the auditorium and his show at the Traverse Theatre, The Red Shed.By The Stage
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 6
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In our sixth Edinburgh episode, we catch up with Sarah-Louise Young, who is juggling three shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. How does she do it? "My day is boringly military." The cabaret performer – who is appearing in Cabaret Whore Presents... La Poule Plombee, Roulston and Young: Songs for Lovers (and Other Idiots) and Royal Vauxhall, as w…
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 5
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In our fifth Edinburgh-specific podcast episode, Mark Thomas talks about his show The Red Shed at the Traverse Theatre, and how his work has increasingly moved from stand-up towards theatre in a bid to reflect the truth. He also talks about performance, journalism, audience participation and why he nearly voted Leave in the EU referendum.Meanwhile,…
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 4
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In episode four of The Stage Podcast's Edinburgh 2016 series, we catch up with Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen, aka RashDash. The company has returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time in four years with Two Man Show. In this podcast, they discuss gender, feminism, men and masculinity, plus the practical benefits of getting naked …
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 3
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As we hit the mid-point of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Glasgow-based theatremaker Kieran Hurley talks about storytelling, sound design and the apocalypse.Plus Stewart Pringle takes to the critics' sofa to discuss his picks of the fringe. Daniel Kitson, Breach Theatre and Forest Fringe are all on his radar.Tim Bano presents.…
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 2
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New Zealander Tim Carlsen talks about his Edinburgh show, One Day Moko, and about the challenges of bringing a piece of theatre from the other side of the world to a new city for the first time. The answer? Three large suitcases, Skyping the director, government grants and crowdfunding, apparently.Plus Tim Bano and Stewart Pringle talk about which …
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The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 1
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The Stage Podcast is back for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016. Tim Bano hosts a series of six shows interviewing theatremakers and critics at the world's biggest trade show for theatre.In this episode, Tim talks to Kill the Beast about its new show, Don't Wake the Damp, which Stewart Pringle has called the company's best work in his review for T…
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The Stage Podcast – Brighton festivals, part three
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In Episode 3 of The Stage Podcast we're back in Brighton and talking to Matt Adams (Blast Theory) and Jem Wall (Hydrocracker) about making Operation Black Antler, the controversial immersive theatre piece in which audience members 'became' undercover police for the duration.Also, Tim Crouch speaks to Orla Flanagan about reviving Adler and Gibb in E…
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