Curtain Call Podcast

Cedering 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 world’s finest contemporary authors. Theatre talents such as Olivia Williams, Damien Lewis, Elizabeth McGovern, Rae Dawn Chong, Rashan Stone, Gemma Chan, Maureen Lipman, Zachary Quinto, Danny Sapani and a hundred more! Word Theatre Website: https://wordtheatre.org/ Insta: @wordtheatre Twitter @wordtheatre John Schwab Twitter and Insta: @johnschwab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This 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 gone through it ourselves. Sanders isn’t new to London and UK theatre, with his work being seen in London and the Edinburgh Fringe.He’s also worked with Maybe, Probably’s director Lydia Parker.AND…it turns out that one of the cast members was coincidentally in Sander’s first play. I sat down with Sanders and Parker, as well as cast members Christy Meyer, Maria Teresa Creasey, and Lance Fuller.They spoke of the joys of returning to the theatre, especially in a comedy and the process of discovering just what they could bring to the production for their personal experiences. For Tickets and Info, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cottage 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 makeup - no matter what sexual preference one might have. Cottage’s playwight, Ben Willows, sat down with me, in separate rooms becuase he’s already in Edinburgh performing in a show, to talk about where the idea came for the play and it’s journey so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Earlier 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 Durham Uni. One of the stand out plays was Em Oliver’s “Beautiful Nothing”.A one-woman show bringing into sharp focus how evil the internet can be towards women and the pitfalls that lie therein.It was a great piece of theatre and I wasn’t at all surprised to hear that it was going to the Fringe Festival this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director 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 actor Ronan Summers, was the next to follow in some pretty big footsteps in taking on the role of BOTH…yes, BOTH, of the Kray Twins in the film. Appearing in this episode Ronan Summers, Actor. Ben Mole, Director John Schwab, Host. Krays: Code of Silence is on DVD and digital from 27thDecember (101 Films) (Digital includes.iTunes, Amazon, Sky Store and Virgin) Curtain Call Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

in 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 BishopSound - is a fascinating first guest in our Pioneer Series.I do mention in this episode that I could have spoken with him for at least another hour or two. He has amazing stories that only scratch the surface of his experience in the live events sector. BishopSound Website Curtain Call Website WeMakeEvents Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex 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 the iconic Royal Albert Hall.Sunset Boulevard is perhaps on of ALW’s most beloved scores, and in my opinion the most complete musical in his canon.And this concert version promises to be a BLAST with Mazz Murray as Norma Desmond, Ramin Karimloo playing Joe Gillis.And a musical wouldn’t be complete without a Strallen sister, so Zizi steps in to play Betty Shaefer.AND, get this, with a 40...that is right, 40-piece orchestra. Luminaire Orchestra Website Curtain Call Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew 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 open up, and when he’d ever get back to see the people he loved and worked with...he felt he needed to do something to both get creative, express himself and serve as a catharsis to acknowledge and work through the feelings he and his fellow professionals were experiencing. His book When The Lights Are Bright Again started as a little seed of an idea and grew into a book with stunning photography from Broadway photographer Matthew Murphy and over 200 contributions from theatre veterans, theatregoers, theatre dreamers, ushers, designers, creatives...they’re all in there. When The Lights Are Bright Again Website Curtain Call Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 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 us through the journey of the verbatim play Screen 9 so far, and how they’re looking forward to their run at The Pleasance Theatre in London. Official Site for Screen 9 at The Pleasance Curtain Call Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 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 small, rural community on a Canadian Island came to be involved in a musical that transformed one of the most tragic days in human history into one of the biggest shows in modern times. In this episode you’ll meet cast members: Alice Fearn Kate Graham Jonathan Andrew Hume. Gemma Knight Jones Harry Morrison Sam Oladeinde Come From Away Official Site Broadway Podcast Network Official Site Curtain Call Official Site T: @curtaincall I: @curtaincall F: CurtainCall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices