Podcasts by The Stage Podcast: Seven Stages

Seven Stages: Episode 8 – Es Devlin from 2020-07-10T08:00

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 p...

Seven Stages: Episode 7 – Paul Chahidi from 2020-06-26T09:00

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 p...

Seven Stages: Episode 6 – Alan Ayckbourn from 2020-06-12T11:15:35

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 p...

Seven Stages: Episode 5 – Noma Dumezweni from 2020-05-29T00:01

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 p...

Seven Stages: Episode 4 – Arlene Phillips from 2020-04-03T11:59

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 p...

Seven Stages: Episode 3 - David Lan from 2020-03-19T23:05

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 p...

Seven Stages: Episode 2 - Paule Constable from 2020-03-06T00:05

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 ...

Seven Stages: Episode 1 - Ian McKellen from 2020-02-21T05:05

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 p...

Musical theatre company SpitLip and Ian Charleson Award-winning actor Bally Gill from 2019-06-19T17:02:25

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, wartim...

Magician Ben Hart on secret stage effects, plus meet some of the West End's animal stars from 2019-03-27T19:03:32

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.<...

Vault Festival, Lyn Gardner and Tim Bano's top picks for 2019 and learn improv with The Showstoppers from 2019-01-31T11:27:16

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 i...

Pantomime special: Sharon D Clarke, Susie McKenna and Lyn Gardner plus find out how to be a panto dame from 2018-12-03T12:04

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 a...

The Stage Podcast: Stephen Sondheim's Company, comedian Tom Allen, understudies and circus skills from 2018-10-26T10:25:37

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 backs...

The Stage Podcast: Antony and Cleopatra starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo from 2018-09-28T09:59:12

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 th...

The Stage Podcast Edinburgh Festival Fringe episode 3 with Lyn Gardner and Tim Bano from 2018-08-23T12:49:52

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 ...

The Stage Podcast: Edinburgh Festival Fringe episode 2 with Lyn Gardner and Tim Bano (August 16, 2018) from 2018-08-16T12:31:07

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 ...

The Stage Podcast: Edinburgh Festival Fringe episode 1 with Lyn Gardner and Tim Bano (August 9, 2018) from 2018-08-09T10:30:53

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. ...

The Stage Podcast: Mark Thomas, interviewed by Thom Dibdin from 2018-07-13T15:22:12

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 deal...

The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 6 from 2018-07-13T15:21:34

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 ...

The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 5 from 2018-07-13T15:20:49

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...

The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 4 from 2018-07-13T15:19:43

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 fi...

The Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 3 from 2018-07-13T15:18:47

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 Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, part 2 from 2018-07-13T15:16:40

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 Stage Podcast, Edinburgh Fringe 2016 (part 1) from 2018-07-13T13:07:32

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.