The golden age of new writing on UK stages

Welcome to the WhatsOnStage Podcast, as we continue our odyssey through the top plays of 21st century!

We hit 2012 and 2013, and the year of the London Olympics and its successor see theatre at a red hot peak. Sarah Crompton and Alex Wood discuss plays from James Graham’s mainstream breakthrough with This House to Lucy Prebble’s The Effect and Lucy Kirkwood’s era-defining Chimerica. Plus The Audience with Helen Mirren and the groundbreaking The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, while a plucky comedy troupe begin world domination in the form of Mischief’s The Play That Goes Wrong!

Crompton and Alex 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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