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Are retooled classics muscling out new plays?

Plus we reflect on the Olivier Awards!

Alex Wood

Alex Wood

Sarah Crompton

Sarah Crompton

| London |

17 April 2026

A Dolls House 2
Thalissa Teixeira and Romola Garai in A Doll’s House, © Marc Brenner

Welcome to the WhatsOnStage Podcast!

A new version of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House gets Sarah Crompton and Alex Wood thinking about new writing versus retooled classics. Plus a stage musical of Thelma and Louise has been announced. How will that work? And a final mop up on the Oliviers as the dust settles on the biggest night in the London theatre calendar.

Chief critic Crompton and editor-in-chief Wood host a weekly series on all things theatrical. News, views, frank exchanges and lists offer an unmissable guide to what’s happening on stage (and in film and on television) now, in the past and in future.

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