What were the greatest stage disasters?

Welcome to the weekly WhatsOnStage Podcast!

Chief critic Sarah Crompton and managing editor Alex Wood look back at some terrible theatrical fails and ask what they have in common. What unites Peter O’Toole’s Macbeth and Shōgun: The Musical? Are there lessons that can prevent shows failing? And what did Anthony Hopkins learn from an early nightmare?

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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