Exploring the turbulent love affair between critics and creatives

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Awards season is trundling along with the Standard Theatre Awards and the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards all happening in the same week. If that’s not enough to keep Alex Wood and Sarah Crompton busy, they’ve also been trekking to Stratford-upon-Avon and a soggy Manchester, but found enough time to mull over the implications of the decision not to let national critics into the world premiere of One Day the Musical at the Edinburgh Lyceum.

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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