Were 2008 and 2009 the best years for playwriting this century?

Welcome to the WhatsOnStage Podcast!

As part of their long-running series exploring the best plays of the century, Alex Wood and Sarah Crompton end the ’00s with a bumper examination of two pivotal years for playwriting this century – with Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, Lucy Prebble’s Enron, John Logan’s Red, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined and so many more to mull over.

But which plays will be Sarah’s top picks? And what have we forgotten from the night before?

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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