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Everything you didn’t see at the Olivier Awards

Plus why we have to start treating musicals with more respect

Alex Wood

Alex Wood

Sarah Crompton

Sarah Crompton

| London |

11 April 2025

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button performs at the Olivier Awards, © Danny Kaan
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button performs at the Olivier Awards, © Danny Kaan

Welcome to the latest episode of the WhatsOnStage Podcast!

Managing editor Alex Wood returns from sabbatical to report from behind the scenes at the Olivier awards where Giant, Fiddler on the Roof, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Years were among the big winners. He and chief critic Sarah Crompton discuss what the prizes reveal about London theatre, the artistic directors making waves – and announce a couple of shows that might be in the running for awards next year!

Crompton and Wood present 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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