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Jordan Fein talks Into the Woods, Fiddler on the Roof and Broken Glass

The director talks about his amazing theatrical life

Sarah Crompton

Sarah Crompton

| London |

6 March 2026

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Jo Foster, Katie Brayben, Gracie McGonigal, Chumisa Dornford-May and Jamie Parker, © Johan Persson

Welcome to this episode of the WhatsOnStage Podcast!

With Alex Wood in the final days of WhatsOnStage Awards planning, Sarah Crompton talks to hit director Jordan Fein about the importance of community, making audiences feel involved and the difference between making theatre here and in the US. Plus: why he loves Stephen Sondheim and which show he’d like to direct next – after a mammoth 11 Olivier Award nominations for his new staging of Into the Woods. 

Crompton and 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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