Latest Curtaincall Podcast Episodes
178 - Guys & Dolls Revival at The Bridge...Cast Change Special with Jonathan Andrew Hume
Curtain Call Podcast - March 15, 2024 12:19 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsToday, we have both a returning guest and a returning show…although not what you’d expect. Listeners of this podcast will remember Jonathan Andrew Hume from the original London Cast of the Olivier Award winning best musical “Come From Away” as one of the Kevins. He was brilliant in that show…and ...
177 - The Wrong Cat Died with Mike Abrams
Curtain Call Podcast - February 27, 2024 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis is PART ONE of a TWO-PARTER. Listen to The Wrong Cat Died via the links below for the companion episode to this episode. Mike Abrams is the creator and host of the theatre podcast “The Wrong Cat Died’. Originally conceived as a 10-part mini series, he’s now over 150 episodes in and going st...
176 - Same Day Plays with Markus Flannagan
Curtain Call Podcast - February 20, 2024 10:11 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis is an attempt to answer the age old theatre questions; “Is it possible to remove expectations and worry over results and create theater that is pure execution? Is there a way to insure that every artist works only from their instinct in creating a play?” Hmm… So what if an evening was create...
175 - Anoushka Lucas. Star of U.Me: The Complete Musical
Curtain Call Podcast - February 13, 2024 15:49 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week, i chat to Olivier Award nominee Anoushka Lucas - actree, playwright, singer, songwriter, composer...I mean, she's defining multi-hyphenate We first had Anoushka on the podcast in 2016 when she starred in Jesus Christ Superstar at Regents Park Open Air Theatre - a critically acclaimed ...
174 - 1979 at the Finborough Theatre
Curtain Call Podcast - January 16, 2024 09:35 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsTo kick off 2024, and what seems like a year of non-stop elections…USA Presidential elections, General Election here in the UK as well as a Russian Election (if you can actually call it that)...less of that, the better, I watched 1979 at the Finborough Theatre. A scathing satire of the Canadian p...
Annual Christmas Episode #5
Curtain Call Podcast - December 20, 2023 16:59 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week, we bring you another dose of cheer in the form of our annual Christmas podcast. In the past, I have asked some of my theatrical friends to read out a classic Christmas story, with past readers such as West End stalwart Siobhan Harrison and The Walking Dead star Eleanor Matsura. This ye...
172 - untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play & Lourdes Faberes
Curtain Call Podcast - October 04, 2023 06:51 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week I’m chatting with a dear friend of mine Lourdes Faberes. You may have seen Lourdes in Sandman or The Power or No Time to Die or Good Omens or…I could go on!!!! She’s an incredible actor. Lourdes is currently appearing in untitled f**k m*ss s**gon play at The Young Vic in London. Kimber...
171 - A Strange Loop
Curtain Call Podcast - August 25, 2023 08:59 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week, I sat down with Sharlene Hector, who plays Thought 1. But you may recognize the voice as Sharlene is the lead vocalist for the band Basement Jaxx and appeared in the West End production of Hairspray.. But Sharlene can also be heard providing backing vocals for artists such as Alicia Ke...
170 - Akta Photography's Charlie Frances
Curtain Call Podcast - June 29, 2023 18:02 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week I am talking to a photographer who really is changing the game when it comes to headshots and self-tapes. When I came across Charlie Frances and his AKTA photography, that is A-K-T-A and their model of a “pay what you can” for those who see a professional headshot as a barrier to entry...
169 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A New Musical
Curtain Call Podcast - June 13, 2023 09:54 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThere’s a new show in town, but born a few years ago… pretty much like the main character in this astonishing musical. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is currently playing at the Southwark Playhouse: Elephant (not to be confused with the Southwark Playhouse Borough) . First appearing in Londo...
168 - Word Theatre's Founder and Artistic Director, Cedering Fox
Curtain Call Podcast - May 18, 2023 18:14 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCedering Fox is an internationally accomplished voice over artist. However, her most incredible achievement is Founding Word Theatre way back in 2003. Along with Kirsty Peart here in the UK, Word Theatre and Cedering have been casting top film, TV and theatre actors in readings of works by the wo...
167 - Maybe, Probably - UK Premiere
Curtain Call Podcast - September 20, 2022 10:38 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week, I’m chatting with cast and some of the creative team behind the world premiere of Eric Henry Sanders’ play Maybe Probably - a play about two couples as they navigate the hilarious waters of preparing to have a baby, or recently having one. We’re all either the product of this or have g...
166 - Cottage
Curtain Call Podcast - August 11, 2022 13:28 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCottage is a gripping comic drama that has so many themes bubbling underneath the facade of two men meeting up in a public toilet. It goes beyond a queer story and commands the audience’s attention and asks questions of the viewer’s thoughts into human relationships and their deeply complicated m...
165 - Beautiful Nothing
Curtain Call Podcast - August 09, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEarlier in the year, i was honoured to be asked to judge the 2022 Durham Drama Festival at Durham University in the UK. It was an incredible 3 days of workshops, talks, networking events…but most importantly new theatre written, directed and performed by the incredible talent pool of students at ...
164 - Kray Kray! Code of Silence, with actor Ronan Summers and Director Ben Mole
Curtain Call Podcast - December 21, 2021 10:36 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsDirector Ben Mole has put together an incredible ensemble cast for his latest project, "Code of Silence" - a feature film surrounding the events that led to the arrest and incarceration of the legendary London gangland bosses, the Kray Twins, Imagine my shock at hearing good friend, the American ...
Curtain Call Pioneers: Andrew Bishop, BishopSound
Curtain Call Podcast - December 07, 2021 13:20 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsin our Pioneer series, we’re going to be highlighting the companies that are getting the live events industries back to business and who’ve been supporting the freelancers and professionals that found themselves unable to make a living in the sector due to the pandemic. Andrew Bishop - of Bishop...
163 - Sunset Boulevard at the Royal Albert Hall / Stephen Sondheim Tribute
Curtain Call Podcast - November 30, 2021 10:39 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAlex Parker is a musical director, composer, conductor...you name it, if it has anything to do with music or musicals, Alex is all over it..and now he has his own orchestra, to boot! Alex is the musical director on a massive concert presentation of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical Sunset Boulevard in...
162 - When The Lights Are Bright Again
Curtain Call Podcast - November 23, 2021 11:07 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAndrew Norlen is a New York-based artist and performer, most recently on stage in the national touring company of Broadway’s Kinky Boots. During lockdown, when Andrew was at a loss as to what his performing career was going to look like when things opened up, if indeed they were ever going to ope...
161 - Screen 9, Pleasance Theatre
Curtain Call Podcast - October 05, 2021 06:06 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn July 2012, a gunman opened fire on a cinema audience that had just sat down to watch a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora Colorado killing 12. Writer/Director Kate Barton, actors Hannah Schunk-Hockings, David Austin Barnes as well as original designer Matthew Jennings take u...
Welcome to the Rock - Anniversary Special
Curtain Call Podcast - September 28, 2021 13:52 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Come From Away team didn’t want to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the events of September 11th 2001, without sitting down with the current West End company and really drilling down into their personal experiences of that day. Come From Away tells the story of how the inhabitants of a s...
Welcome to the Rock - Ep 2
Curtain Call Podcast - September 11, 2021 06:56 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings“Welcome to the Rock!” is a behind the curtain peek of the multi-award winning musical Come From Away - and what it takes to get a show from a seed of an idea all the way to a Broadway hit and beyond. In this episode, meet the real inhabitants of Gander, Newfoundland and the Come From Away’s that...
Welcome to the Rock - Ep 1
Curtain Call Podcast - September 10, 2021 07:32 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings“Welcome to the Rock!” is a behind the curtain look at the musical hit Come From Away. Listen to the incredible real-life story of the passengers from all over the world that were grounded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland in the wake of the events of 9/11. In the first episode, the creat...
160 - Grace Aki, Actress, Comedienne, Podcaster
Curtain Call Podcast - September 08, 2021 12:20 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsListeners to Broadway Radio’s “Today on Broadway” will recognise Grace, as she has recently joined the line up alongside Matt Tamanini and Ashley Stevens. Grace Aki is an actress, stand up comedienne and podcaster in her own right - you can find her podcast “Tell Me on a Sunday” on all good strea...
159 - The Wardrobe Esnsemble
Curtain Call Podcast - August 03, 2021 08:29 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week’s guests are Bristol's The Wardrobe Ensemble - a group of young theatre makers who met whilst studying drama. They create new pieces that explore modern themes through intimate storytelling, with the Wardrobe Ensembles’ nine core members garnering praise up and down the country for thei...
Ghost Shows: Episode 4 - Restoration
Curtain Call Podcast - May 18, 2021 06:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratings2021 had felt like a beacon of hope, and the new year promised the restart we were all waiting for. But as the year ticked over, shows programmed for the new year, for Spring for Summer even well into the future that started to feel uncertain, then impossible, and inevitably, they were cancelled ...
Ghost Shows: Episode 3 - Hope
Curtain Call Podcast - April 20, 2021 05:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn the attempt to resurrect live theatre while navigating constantly shifting terrain, how far can hope get you? How do you make theatre when the world keeps changing, when time keeps collapsing, when the earth beneath your feet keeps sinking into bog? And how do you communicate with a government...
Ghost Shows Call Out
Curtain Call Podcast - April 08, 2021 10:31 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhile we wait for Episode 3 to drop (20th April 2021), we'd like to know if you were taking part in a "Ghost Show" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Easter Trailer
Curtain Call Podcast - March 30, 2021 10:29 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEnjoy your Easter Holiday. Stay safe. Be kind. Listen next week for details on how you can get involved in a very special episode of Ghost Shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ghost Shows: Episode 2 - Lockdown
Curtain Call Podcast - March 23, 2021 10:16 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsGhost Shows follows the shows that were conceived, programmed and even rehearsed in 2020 but were closed down before they’d even opened. This is not a historical document - this is an emotional record of the first few months of lockdown. This is our untold story. If you haven’t listened to the ...
Ghost Shows: Episode 1 - 16 March, 2020
Curtain Call Podcast - March 16, 2021 14:14 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA year on from theatres closing their doors, ‘Ghost Shows’ asks what happened to the shows that were created, rehearsed and tech'ed but never lived in front of audiences? Presented by freelance opera director, Adele Thomas, the series features interviews with freelance performers, stage technici...
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