The London Theatre Review
Episodes
Summerfolk, Lisa Spirling, ROI, Beatrice Penny-Touré
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week Nancy and the Nicks head to Hampstead Theatre for Aaron Loeb’s ROI (Return on Investment), where cancer has potentially been cured, and th...
Matt Willis, Marie and Rosetta, The Holy Rosenbergs
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With Nancy in Mexico on the trail of Frida Kahlo, producer Tim steps in to join the Nicks as they discuss The Holy Rosenbergs at the Menier Chocolate ...
Our Town with Michael Sheen, Broken Glass, Bridgerton's Gracie McGonigal, Monique Touko
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Sheen's first production for his new company Welsh National Theatre is Our Town, the classic American play by Thornton Wilder transposed to Wa...
Maggie Siff, Nancy Carroll, Bird Grove and Evening All Afternoon
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week the gang review Bird Grove, the George Eliot origin story that nobody was quite sure they needed. How did Mary Ann Evans become one of the m...
Cynthia Erivo in Dracula, Hugh Bonneville in Shadowlands, Jenna Russell, Laurie Kynaston
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest show of the year so far has finally opened, with puns about sucking and biting in full flow. Yes it's Cynthia Erivo's one-woman Dracula, a...
Harold Fry, Man and Boy, Chadwick Boseman's hip hop play
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week the gang is talking about walking as they make a pilgrimage to Theatre Royal Haymarket for new musical The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry...
Arcadia, Keala Settle, American Psycho the Musical
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A few months on from his death, Tom Stoppard's dazzling play Arcadia comes to the Old Vic and puts the brains of Nancy, Nick and Nick to the test - th...
Paranormal Activity, Arty Froushan, Guess How Much I Love You, Fiona Button
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Boo!! This week Nancy and the Nicks are cowering behind their large, slightly warm glasses of chardonnay as they experience the stage adaptation of su...
Oh Mary! Oh High Noon! Oh Rosie Sheehy!
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With pistols drawn and chaps on, Nancy and the Nicks review the stage version of classic Western film High Noon. It's been adapted by the legendary Ho...
Into the Woods, Woman in Mind, Mason Alexander Park and Denise Gough
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What better way to start the new season than with an absolutely jam-packed episode full of the most exciting things in theatre right now? Nancy, Nick ...
A Christmas present just for you...
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The latest season of the podcast may be over, but 'tis the season for things like presents and surprises - so here is both! Just in time for Christmas...
Awards! Paddington! Spies! And The End of the Season!
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another season of the London Theatre Review comes to an end with a HUGE episode in which we unveil the inaugural London Theatre Review Awards: our pic...
Tom Stoppard tribute, All My Sons, David Eldridge's End, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than a decade after his stupendous production of A View From The Bridge, director Ivo Van Hove returns to Arthur Miller with All My Sons starring...
Porn Play, Coven, Paapa Essiedu and Jackie Clune
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bit of a shambles this week as cancellations and illness got in the way of reviews but here, nevertheless, are reviews of the hotly anticipated new ...
The Hunger Games reviewed, Saskia Reeves from Slow Horses, Toby Stephens and Fatherland
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Durrant, Nick Clark, and Nick Curtis offer themselves as tributes this week to review The Hunger Games at the new and massive Troubadour Ca...
Toby Jones and David Harewood in Othello plus Pearl Chanda and Hiran Abeysekera
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy’s back from her holidays to join Nick Curtis and Nick Clark for a packed episode of reviews, interviews, and theatre gossip, including their t...
Matthew Rhys wets himself? Plus Andy Nyman, Peter Pan and The Line of Beauty
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Nancy away (possibly raving in Ibiza), producer Tim Bano steps into the co-hosting chair alongside Nicks Clark and Curtis for a packed episode. T...
Tamzin Outhwaite, Nicola Walker in The Unbelievers, Yerin Ha in The Maids, Jasper Talbot
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the team review Nicola Walker’s searing performance in Nick Payne’s The Unbelievers at the Royal Court, and Kip Williams’ dazzlingly ...
Munya Chawawa, Yerin Ha, Joe Locke in Clarkston, Ragdoll and more
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the team review Samuel D. Hunter’s Clarkston at Trafalgar Theatre, starring Heartstopper’s Joe Locke, and Katherine Moar's gripping Rag...
Hamlet at the National Theatre, Susan Sarandon in Mary Page Marlowe, David Shields in Punch
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the LTR gang dive into Robert Hastie’s fresh and funny Hamlet at the National Theatre, with Hiran Abeysekara as a manic, compelling Princ...
The Importance of Being Earnest, Entertaining Mr Sloane and Rosy McEwen
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the gang have been to see The Importance of Being Earnest as it transfers to the West End, with Olly Alexander and Nathan Stewart Jarrett st...
The Weir, The Bacchae and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Durrant, Nick Clark and Tim Bano head to the National for Indhu Rubasingham’s first production as its new artistic director, Nima Taleghani’...
The London Theatre Review LIVE with Ambika Mod and David Byrne
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off our new season in style with The London Theatre Review's first ever LIVE episode, recorded at the Royal Court Theatre on Saturday 20th Sep...
Minisode: Buy tickets for our very exciting live recording at the Royal Court in September!
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yes we're on a summer break but we need to tell you that our live show at the Royal Court on September 20th at 12pm is selling fast and if you want to...
Burlesque, Jeevan Braich from Starlight Express, Inter Alia
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the big, sexy season finale the gang review Burlesque the Musical at the Savoy Theatre. Are the rumours about its troubled previews true? Susie Mil...
Michael Sheen in Nye, Beth Steel, The Merry Wives of Windsor
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Sheen returns to the National Theatre to reprise his role as NHS founder Aneurin Bevan. Nancy, Nick and Nick give their verdict. They also hea...
Noughts and Crosses, Stereophonic's Zachary Hart, Til The Stars Come Down
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zachary Hart from hit play Stereophonic - about a 70s rock band recording their second album - tells Nancy what it's like to play a drug-addicted, alc...
Evita, Janie Dee and Intimate Apparel...but mostly Evita
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've been in the crowds on Argyll Street to watch the balcony scene, and now we've been inside the Palladium too and finally the LTR team are ready t...
Zizi Strallen, Emma Kingston, Hercules, A Moon For The Misbegotten
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For some reason, Nancy decided to abandon theatre for a few days and instead take to a tent in a field in Somerset for some big music festival...but n...
Ruth Wilson, Stereophonic and 4.48 Psychosis
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Star of His Dark Materials, Luther and so much other stuff, the incredible Ruth Wilson, talks to Nick Curtis about starring in a very little-revived E...
Live Aid Musical, Anoushka Lucas, Miss Myrtle's Garden
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Profane rockstars, metaphorical elephants and childish innuendoes - don't say we don't bring the variety on LTR. This week, with Mr Clark away, produc...
Fiddler, Spies and Heartstopper's Tara
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the gang review Fiddler on the Roof at the Barbican, The Comedy About Spies at the Noel Coward, and Nick Curtis chats to Heartstopper's Cori...
Mrs Warren's Profession, After the Act and John O'Farrell
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter (from Bridgerton) take to the stage together in George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs Warren's Profession? How do mother an...
Kevin McHale from Glee takes on Frogs
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A cornucopia of corn puns awaits as the gang review hit Broadway musical Shucked! at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, and Slow Horses star Jack Lowden ...
Why Sondheim Matters, Beverley Knight, and 1536
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the last time ever, it's a brand new musical from Stephen Sondheim. Here We Are has just opened at the National Theatre, the show Sondheim was wor...
The Big Friendly Season Three Opener
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a lovely break, thanks for asking, the gang have taken their seats in the stalls once again to bring you the best (and sometimes the less than b...
The Big Oliviers Season Finale With Billy Porter And Marisha Wallace
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've reached the end of the second season, and to celebrate we're dropping a day early with a bumper Olivers special edition so that you can listen t...
Julie Hesmondhalgh, Retrograde, The Women of Llanrumney
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The warm, wise and completely wonderful Julie Hesmondhalgh talks to Nancy about playing Joan Scourfield, the woman whose son was killed with a single ...
Clueless The Musical, Tom Burke, Dracula A Comedy Of Terrors
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another iconic 90s movie gets the musical treatment as KT Tunstall and Amy Heckerling turn Clueless into a stage show. Nancy and the Nicks review. And...
Cate Blanchett in The Seagull, James Graham's Punch, Ivanno Jeremiah
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Thomas Ostermeier's very starry Seagull hits the Barbican - Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke, Emma Corrin and more! - Nancy and Producer Tim give their op...
The Score, Alterations, Arinzé Kene
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The great Brian Cox transforms himself into Johann Sebastian Bach for Oliver Cotton's play The Score at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Music to our ears...
Jonathan Bailey in Richard II, KT Tunstall, Backstroke
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From dashing prince to hopeless king, Jonathan Bailey leaves the world of Wicked behind - for a few months at least - as he takes on one of Shakespear...
Much Ado About Nothing, Unicorn, Omari Douglas from It's A Sin
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not even Sigourney Weaver could save Jamie Lloyd's The Tempest from its gloom spiral - but Lloyd is back for the second part of his Shakespeare at Dru...
Gina McKee, Harmony Rose-Bremner, The Years, Play On
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the show that's had people (mainly men, actually) fainting almost every night...Eline Arbo's adaptation of Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux's book The...
Greek Week! Oedipus, Elektra, Jade Anouka
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Greek Week on the podcast as Nick Clark, Nancy Durrant and Producer Tim (making a special on-mic appearance while Nick Curtis soaks up some Maldi...
Inside No. 9 Stage Fright, Cymbeline, Lauren Drew's Celine Dion
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's pod Nick Clark talks to Celine Dion! Well not quite, but pretty close: in fact he talks to Lauren Drew, star of Six the Musical, Legall...
Brian Cox and Nicole Ansari-Cox, Kyoto, The Lonely Londoners
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The great Brian Cox, star of Succession and much else besides, alongside his wife Nicole Ansari-Cox join Nick Curtis to talk about playing Mr and Mrs ...
Oliver! Titanique! And Lucie Jones!
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By popular demand...we're back! Nancy Durrant, Nick Clark and Nick Curtis kick off season two of The London Theatre Review with a musicals spectacular...
Review of 2024, The Tempest, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Anne-Marie Duff
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A bumper pod to end a bumper year of theatre! Nick, Nick and Nancy look back at their theatrical highs (and a couple of lows) of 2024. For their final...
Ballet Shoes, The Little Foxes, Tracy-Ann Oberman
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's thirties week on the podcast as Nick and Nick and Nancy review the National Theatre adaptation of Noel Streatfeild's beloved 1936 children's book...
The Devil Wears Prada, Sharon D Clarke, The Lightning Thief
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Final chance to enter the LTR competition to win £200 of Theatre Tokens! Plus this week, the Devil's in the Dominion, as The Devil Wears Prada become...
Mathew Baynton, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Purists
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
COMPETITION TIME! Listen to this week's episode to find out how you can win £200 of Theatre Tokens...If that's not enough incentive to tune in, write...
Simon Russell Beale, A Christmas Carol, All's Well That Ends Well
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scrooge, carols, parachuting brussels sprouts...it's that time of the year again, as Nick and Nancy and Nick head to the Old Vic to see its annual pro...
The Lion King, Wolves On Road, The Lehman Trilogy cast
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can you feel the love tonight? Nancy, Nick and Nick certainly can as they revisit one of London's most successful stage shows of all time, The Lion Ki...
Benjamin Button, Why Am I So Single, Greta Scacchi
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The wizened face of Brad Pitt is finally banished from Nick Clark's mind as he and the gang rave about a new musical adaptation of The Curious Case of...
Dr Strangelove, Barcelona, Six writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's the clash of the Netflix titans as Emily in Paris star Lily Collins and Money Heist man Alvaro Morte hit the West End in new play Barcelona - pro...
Lucian Msamati, The Duchess (Of Malfi), The Other Place
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy and the Nicks review The Duchess (of Malfi) starring Jodie Whittaker at the Trafalgar Theatre and The Other Place starring Emma D'Arcy at the Na...
Oedipus, Waiting For Godot and Rufus Norris
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The London Theatre Review, your essential guide to the best (and worst) of London theatre. To kick things off, what did Nancy and the Nicks...