Latest Curtaincall Podcast Episodes
140 - Grace Blackman, Working Actor
Curtain Call Podcast - November 07, 2019 14:33 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsGrace Blackman is a shining example of how you don’t have to go to drama school to make a living as an actor. She a true grafter, in every sense of the word. When she’s not working on feature film set or a short film set or on stage, she’s working tackling strangers in an escape room or she’s wor...
139 - Sound Designer, Richard Brooker
Curtain Call Podcast - October 29, 2019 09:54 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsRichard Brooker has been involved in theatre for his entire life. From working on the New London Theatre production of Cats, he worked his way up to Sound No. 1 and mixed shows for a dozen years before he started designing. He’s now one of the country’s top sound designers working on shows such a...
138 - Florian Zeller's "The Son"
Curtain Call Podcast - October 22, 2019 09:28 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsMichael Longhurst’s production is a hard-hitting brutal play about teen depression, broken relationships, new relationships and stressed loyalties. But there is so, so much more in this play to discover. We had the opportunity to sit down with the principals in the cast just before warm up - Amak...
137 - House of Kittens, Immersive Erotic Theatre
Curtain Call Podcast - October 15, 2019 10:32 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSophie Cohen, founder of House of Kittens, an erotic immersive theatre company sat down to chat with me about her new show Amatory Asylum. The audience will find themselves transported into a world of sensual theatre to experience a unique, immersive journey embracing the surreal, the dramatic an...
136 - It's The Bard, Jim...
Curtain Call Podcast - October 11, 2019 10:31 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe’re going off-piste this week. This week, we’re going to give you a three of the bard’s finest works as you have never heard them before. A colleague of mine many years ago in the Reduced Shakespeare Company - Mikey O’Connor - well, we started a little project taking classic literature and turn...
135 - Ken Davenport, Broadway Producer
Curtain Call Podcast - October 01, 2019 08:56 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsKen Davenport is a multiple-Tony Award-winning Broadway producer whose work spans around the globe. Ken is also busy giving back as much as he can to the theatre community at large. In that vein, he puts on a conference - The Producer’s Perspective Super Conference - every year where the world’s ...
134 - David Malloy, Ghost Quartet
Curtain Call Podcast - September 24, 2019 09:29 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThere’s a new theatre in London. And there’s a London debut to mark its opening. The Boulevard Theatre, right-smack-bang-in-the-middle of Soho, is London’s most technologically advanced theatre with a capacity of up to 165, and featuring a full revolving balcony and auditorium! David Malloy chats...
133 - More "Evita"
Curtain Call Podcast - September 20, 2019 08:05 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEarlier in the week, we brought you Samantha Pauly, Trent Saunders and Ektor Rivera as they got ready to go on stage. But I thought that just wasn’t going to be enough to really show you backstage before a show. Hopefully you’ll get a feel of what it’s like to be part of a company as I go from ro...
132 - Open Air Evita
Curtain Call Podcast - September 17, 2019 09:19 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe were back at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre this week - one of our favourite places to do our Curtain Call visits. It was a welcome return for us to see not only a Jamie Lloyd production, but following the sell-out success of Jesus Christ Superstar two years ago, another Andrew Lloyd Webbe...
131 - What's in a Name?
Curtain Call Podcast - September 10, 2019 09:18 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week, we talk to The Inbetweeners Joe Thomas, Olivier Award nominees Summer Strallen and Alex Gaumond, as well as Bo Poraj and Laura Patch about their new dark comedy "What's in a Name?", in which a dinner party gets wildly out of hand when a father-to-be suggests his son just might given th...
130 - Shure Microphone's John Born
Curtain Call Podcast - September 03, 2019 09:38 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsShure have come up with a microphone that is hitting the theatre world by storm. Smaller, lighter, better response and performance along with a body back that is far less conspicuous than those they have released before. I had the pleasure of talking to the Senior Product Manager, Microphones at ...
129 - Dominic Dromgoole is Making Noise Quietly
Curtain Call Podcast - July 23, 2019 10:57 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAs Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on London’s South Bank, Dominic Dromgoole oversaw 10 successive and extremely successful seasons at the Bard’s theatre. And now, Dominic Dromgoole is turning his hand to film directing, with his feature film debut “Making Noise Quietly” - screen...
128 - The Actor's Nightmare
Curtain Call Podcast - July 16, 2019 09:14 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe Actor's Nightmare, a collection of Christopher Durang's short plays, is having it's World Premiere this week at the Park Theatre here in London. I sat down in their rehearsal room with director Lydia Parker, and pretty much all of the company to talk about getting their heads around playing m...
127 - "Yesterday"'s Himesh Patel
Curtain Call Podcast - June 25, 2019 09:56 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhen we were covering People, Places & Things in New York for Curtain Call, and Matt was busy taking some beautiful photographs, I was backstage chatting to the company. That is where I met Himesh Patel. Now, you may not have heard of his name yet, but you most certainly will have seen him on you...
126 - Darren Raymond and Othello: Remixed
Curtain Call Podcast - June 11, 2019 13:26 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn 2008, actor Darren Raymond became Artistic Director of Intermission Youth Theatre. It couldn’t have come at a better time for Darren who had recently finished a run of Othello. He took charge with just four young people in that first season. Since that day, more than 100 16-25 year olds have p...
125 - Janet Jones, Writer
Curtain Call Podcast - June 04, 2019 08:59 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsScreenwriter and Playwright Janet Jones has had an astonishing career. She’s worked for just about every studio out there and not just as a writer, but that’s just the beginning. She’s written lyrics, poetry, worked as a tour guide for a major Hollywood Studio, writer’s assistant, script editor, ...
124 - BalleyBoyz
Curtain Call Podcast - May 29, 2019 09:43 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBalletBoyz are now in their 19th year and have gone from those two original dancers to nearly a dozen, and they have moved into a fantastic home in Kingston on the outskirts of London. In June, they are bringing their latest show "Them/Us" to the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End, which wil...
123 - Witness for the Prosecution
Curtain Call Podcast - May 22, 2019 07:01 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsToday, we come from a south London rehearsal room where we are talking to two members of the new company of Witness for the Prosecution who are about to join the cast of the site-specific production of the Agatha Christie classic which opened on October 6 2017 at County Hall on London’s South Ban...
122 - Laurence Mark Wythe, Composer
Curtain Call Podcast - April 30, 2019 07:08 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week, I catch up with another friend i haven’t seen for quite some time. Along with his writing partner Timothy Knapman, Laurence Mark Wythe takes the story of The Big Bad Wolf and turn it on its head for the National Youth Musical Theatre. Laurence is an extremely busy man, so I really appr...
121 - Siubhan Harrison - Home, I'm Darling
Curtain Call Podcast - April 16, 2019 13:09 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsOn this episode, we bring you Siubhan Harrison. Siubhan is the real deal. And she’s showing off her comedy chops as well as her dramatic acting prowess in the winner of Best New Comedy at this year’s Olivier Awards, Home, I’m Darling. We sat down in Siubhan’s dressing room for a quick pre-show ch...
120 - Ben Hewis and Emilia
Curtain Call Podcast - April 10, 2019 10:47 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBen Hewis is the guy that goes behind the scenes to bring you behind the scenes of some of the biggest shows hitting london. Recently. Ben has been up to something good. After seeing a production of Emilia (currently running at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End) he’s been using the Twit...
119 - All about Eve
Curtain Call Podcast - April 05, 2019 10:27 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe recently got to sit down with the company of "All About Eve", currently playing at the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End to talk about bringing this classic Hollywood film to the London Stage, and then back to the screen on an NT Live broadcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...
118 - Summer Strallen, Park Theatre
Curtain Call Podcast - April 03, 2019 08:27 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsScarlett, Zizi, Saskia and this week’s guest, the wonderful Summer Strallen have all graced stages across London, the UK and indeed the globe - all the while picking up nominations and awards all over the place. And I had the absolute pleasure to meet, sit down and have a good old chin wag with S...
117 - Oscar® Winner Olivia Colman
Curtain Call Podcast - February 26, 2019 09:42 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis week, it’s a little mini podcast. One that shows just how manic it can be backstage before a show during one of our visits and one that you can listen to in between stations on the London Underground. Just about as long as an Oscar® speech. So why not let us celebrate the genius that is Oliv...
116 - Rachel Tucker Comes From Away
Curtain Call Podcast - February 18, 2019 10:40 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe got the opportunity to talk to Rachel Tucker about her role as “Beverley / Annette and others” in the magnificent "Come From Away". It’s a marvellous track, and we sat down to talk about just what it meant to be part of this amazing story that is SO much more than a 9/11 musical. Learn more ab...
115 - Surviving Actors, Part 2
Curtain Call Podcast - February 15, 2019 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsEarlier this week we brought you the first part of our “Get the Most Out of Your Next Job” panel at Surviving Actors London 2019. I was joined by director Bruce Guthrie, casting director Sarah Jane Price, producer Kimberly Thomas-Currie, movement director Amaia Mugica and lovely actor Sam Marks m...
114 - Surviving Actors 2019 Part 1
Curtain Call Podcast - February 12, 2019 14:09 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCurtain Call had the opportunity to host a panel at Surviving Actors London 2019. If you don’t know about it, Surviving Actors was set up by actors for actors. We thought it would be good to have a panel that discussed how to get the most out of the opportunity you’ve been given. I was joined by ...
113 - Horrible Histories
Curtain Call Podcast - February 05, 2019 10:18 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCurtain Call’s Theo Bosanquet takes the reins this week when he sat down with the Horrible Histories team to talk about their Coventry - City of Culture 2021 project with Director Adam Jenkins, followed by writer Greg Jenna. You’ll then hear from actors Jessica Ransom, Tom Stourton and Javone Pri...
112 - Jenna Russell and John Schwab Talk Musicals
Curtain Call Podcast - January 29, 2019 11:08 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCurtain Call has recently published a couple of pieces about the top Broadway Musical transfers and the top musical revivals for 2019. We thought we would talk to someone who KNOWS about musicals...to go straight to the source…the amazing Jenna Russell. Urinetown, Merrily We Roll Along, Doctor Fa...
111 - Tracie Bennett Returns to Follies and The National Theatre
Curtain Call Podcast - January 22, 2019 09:36 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIf you who didn’t get to see Follies at the National in 2017/18, you’re in luck, because Tracie Bennett is reprising her role of Carlotta Campion this Spring We had the chance to speak to Tracie during the last run about what it means to sing Sondheim’s classic tune "I'm Still Here, holding the s...
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