The 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 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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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 35
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Gina McKee, Harmony Rose-Bremner, The Years, Play On
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…
Greek Week! Oedipus, Elektra, Jade Anouka
It's Greek Week on the podcast as Nick Clark, Nancy Durrant and Producer Tim (making a special on-mic appearance while Nick Curtis soaks up some Maldives sun) review Sophocles two ways: Oedipus at th…
Inside No. 9 Stage Fright, Cymbeline, Lauren Drew's Celine Dion
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 …
Brian Cox and Nicole Ansari-Cox, Kyoto, The Lonely Londoners
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…
Oliver! Titanique! And Lucie Jones!
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-f…
Review of 2024, The Tempest, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Anne-Marie Duff
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 T…
Ballet Shoes, The Little Foxes, Tracy-Ann Oberman
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,…
The Devil Wears Prada, Sharon D Clarke, The Lightning Thief
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 mu…
Mathew Baynton, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Purists
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 …
Simon Russell Beale, A Christmas Carol, All's Well That Ends Well
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 Tho…
The Lion King, Wolves On Road, The Lehman Trilogy cast
Benjamin Button, Why Am I So Single, Greta Scacchi
Dr Strangelove, Barcelona, Six writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss
Lucian Msamati, The Duchess (Of Malfi), The Other Place