When does a show deserve five stars?

Welcome to the WhatsOnStage Podcast!

Finally reunited after Alex Wood’s foreign forays, Sarah Crompton runs through her packed fortnight of reviews – featuring Rent with Gaten Matarazzo, Hay Fever with Richard E. Grant and Christine Baranski, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup, James Graham’s new play The Standard of Living and As You Like It with Fisayo Akinade and Jonathan Groff.

The conversation brings up a range of questions about reviewing revivals, the nature of star ratings and whether we should have more music critics reviewing musicals. After that, the pair discuss the new Almeida and Pitlochry seasons, and what audiences might expect from the new Tarantino play.

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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