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Audio drama

October 2024

  • Jeevan Braich as Rusty, far right, with the cast of Starlight Express.

    The best theatre to stream this month: Starlight Express, Nye, Beat the Devil and more

  • Sharon Duncan-Brewster stars in The Loved One, an audio drama directed by Lu Kemp.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: James Earl Jones drives Miss Daisy, Ed Harris takes on Sam Shepard

September 2024

  • Andrew Scott in Vanya.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Andrew Scott’s Vanya and an Othello with three Iagos

    The Fleabag star delivers a bravura solo version of Chekhov’s classic, plus new perspectives on Shakespeare and a starry Rodgers and Hammerstein hoedown

July 2024

  • Forensic psychologists Sally Tilt and Kerensa Hocken, who were interviewed for Behind the Crime.

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    The week in audio: Behind the Crime: Liam; The Skies Are Watching; Time of the Week – review

    On Radio 4, the moving story behind one teenager’s prison sentence; a satisfying mystery show; and a pitch-perfect satire inspired by Woman’s Hour

May 2024

  • Ed Larkin and Jonny Amies in The Little Big Things.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: The Little Big Things, David Tennant in Good and more

    Musicals, Shakespeare and multiple versions of Nick Payne’s multiverse drama Constellations are among May’s digital theatre highlights

April 2024

  • Forbes Masson in Original Theatre’s Jekyll & Hyde

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Jekyll & Hyde, Daniel Kitson’s Tree and more

    Forbes Masson stars in Gary McNair’s version of the gothic novella, Tim Key joins Kitson in an Old Vic two-hander and Jason Manford celebrates all musicals great and small

February 2024

  • Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby at Birmingham Hippodrome.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Peaky Blinders, Prima Facie and more

  • Free Your Mind, a large-scale immersive performance based on The Matrix created especially for the official opening of Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International. Directed by Danny Boyle, it features hip hop choreography by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy and, a powerful score from composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante (co-founders of Boy Blue), eye-opening staging from world-leading designer Es Devlin, alongside words from acclaimed writer Sabrina Mahfouz. (Opening 18-10-2023) ©Tristram Kenton 10-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Free Your Mind, Harry Clarke and more

December 2023

  • Toby Jones

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    The week in audio: The Chimes; Uncanny Christmas Special; The Today Podcast – review

    Toby Jones stars in a pitch-perfect Dickens adaptation; it’s all round to Daisy May Cooper’s haunted house; and Esther Rantzen’s frank revelations are an inspiration

November 2023

  • Dive straight in … Mike Birbiglia in The Old Man and the Pool

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: The Old Man and the Pool, Bedbound and more

    Watch Mike Birbiglia’s hit comedy about mortality, Colm and Brenda Meaney in Enda Walsh’s two-hander or choose from a flock of Swan Lakes

October 2023

  • Niamh Cusack stars in That Face.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: That Face, Macbeth and Dance Umbrella

    Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a revival of Polly Stenham’s debut play, London’s international dance festival and Patrick Stewart suffering toil and trouble

August 2023

  • Enchanting … Zubin Varla (left) and Meow Meow (centre) in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe in 2016.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Doctor Who does Shakespeare, and a visit to the nit nurse

    Ncuti Gatwa stars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Zadie Smith relocates Chaucer to Kilburn, plus dance, storytelling and fringe drama

July 2023

  • Flo Dill and Novelist holding spades on Dill's allotment

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    The week in audio: Digging With Flo; Intrigue: Burning Sun; Blum; The Ashes – review

  • Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé in Like Water for Chocolate.

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    The best theatre to stream this month: Like Water for Chocolate, Heart and more

April 2023

  • Emilia Clarke stars in The Seagull

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    The best theatre to stream this month: Emilia Clarke in The Seagull and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes a Big Night of Musicals, You Bury Me and James Earl Jones in King Lear

March 2023

  • Terri White, right, with Mrs Webley, her primary school teacher, at her home in Duckmanton, Chesterfield, for the 5Live programme Finding Britain's Lost Children

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    The week in audio: Terri White: Finding Britain’s Ghost Children; From Gay to Ze; Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?

    White’s emotional investigation into kids in abusive households is a must-hear. Plus, queer parents debunk gender roles and a hilarious return for Radio 4’s spy drama

January 2023

  • ‘The dramas begin with the writers’ thinking processes’ … (L to R) Tonderai Munyevu, Isaac Tomiczek and Maheni Arthur, the writers behind Blaccine: First Dose.

    Blaccine: First Dose review – Black voices speak out about the pandemic

    Three monologues, told from a Black British perspective, tackle subjects ranging from distrust of the medical system to the gentrification of Brixton

December 2022

  • Lauren Laverne and Kirsty Young

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    The week in audio: Desert Island Discs; Today guest editors; The Dark Is Rising; Terry Hall

    The fleeting return of Kirsty Young, a mixed bag of guest editors, some midwinter magic and fond memories of Terry Hall

October 2022

  • Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2017.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Billie Holiday’s blues, McKellen’s Lear and Newsies

    Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a Tony award-winning musical, international dance and a radical dramatisation of the crucifixion story

September 2022

  • Cush Jumbo at the Baftas earlier this summer.

    Gilly Gilly review – Cush Jumbo’s searing play about abuse let down by mundane details

    Delivered with rage, as a woman reckoning with her past, this audio drama written and performed by Jumbo takes too long to get to the point, stalling in domesticity
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