Who’s getting married in the morning?

Welcome to the latest edition of the WhatsOnStage Podcast!

It’s wedding season and editor-in-chief Alex Wood is away at one of the numerous celebrations he’s been invited to this summer. Which made him and WhatsOnStage’s lead critic Sarah Crompton think about the way that weddings are used on stage, screen and television. As Beth Steel’s Till the Stars Come Down packs them in in the West End, they look back at plays by writers such as Lorca, Shakespeare and more surprisingly Brecht, who have used the conventions, tensions and hidden dramas of marriage to unpick uncomfortable truths about human nature and how sometimes a wedding ceremony will reveal more than than the bride and groom had bargained for.

Plus: they chose their favourite weddings in musicals from The Sound of Music to Fiddler on the Roof.

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