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Timothée Chalamet, awards races and the importance of momentum

With the Oscars on Sunday, we reflect on the Olivier Awards nominations, the WhatsOnStage Awards and more

Alex Wood

Alex Wood

Sarah Crompton

Sarah Crompton

| Nationwide |

13 March 2026

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Chumisa Dornford-May in Into the Woods, Timothée Chalamet and Paddington, © Johan Persson, Amy Martin Photography, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons, Danny Kaan

Welcome to the WhatsOnStage Podcast!

On this week’s episode chief critic Sarah Crompton and editor-in-chief Alex Wood discuss the triumphant WhatsOnStage Awards show at the London Palladium, Timothée Chalamet’s recent comments on the arts, some unexpected showings in the Olivier nominations and whether Sinners will enjoy a late Oscars surge.

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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