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Hosted by Adrian and Olivia Polglase · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 14 episodes
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A & O Review the Show is a theatre review podcast from an American theatre obsessive & an award winning British investigative journalist, recording from London, the world’s theatrical capital.Olivia Polglase works with emerging producers across the West End and UK theatre scene with Stage One. Adrian Polglase is an investigative journalist at BBC Panorama, asking the difficult questions & uncovering truths.Here they head to a show & bring you smart and sharp reviews of West End musicals to the bold new writing of new plays. All with a transatlantic twist & just the right amount of insight.
Adrian and Olivia Polglase hosts A & O Review the Show, a arts show with 14 episodes published.
This week, we head to London's West End for Oh, Mary!, the award-winning comedy that imagines the final weeks of Mary Todd Lincoln as you've definitely never seen them before. We discuss whether this wildly irreverent Am
This week, we head to London’s Old Vic Theatre for Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of ruthless salespeople, corporate ambition, and enough fast-talking to make your estate agent blush. We
This episode, Adrian & Olivia saddle up for War Horse at London’s National Theatre. In this theatre review, they discuss the breathtaking puppetry, the emotional journey of Joey and Albert, and why this First World War e
Adrian & Olivia head to the Young Vic for Care, a moving and deeply human new play by Alexander Zeldinthat shines a light on life inside a care home. In this theatre review, they discuss the powerful performances, the st
Adrian & Olivia are back for London’s West End gloriously chaotic production of Avenue Q, the puppet-filled musical where adulthood is confusing, the internet is questionable, and absolutely nothing is suitable for child
Adrian & Olivia head to London’s West End for John Proctor is the Villain, the acclaimed new play inspired by The Crucible that’s been turning heads on both sides of the Atlantic. Set in a small-town American high school
This week, Adrian & Olivia swap the West End for the National Theatre, stepping into the seductive and scandalous world of Les Liaisons Dangereuses where manipulation is an art form and romance is anything but innocent.
This week, Adrian & Olivia head to London’s West End for Operation Mincemeat, the wild musical turning one of Britain’s strangest wartime schemes into a brilliantly bonkers night at the theatre. In this theatre review, t
This week, Adrian & Olivia venture Into the Woods in London’s West End, where fairy tales collide, wishes come true… and then everything goes slightly, spectacularly wrong. In this theatre review, they take on Stephen So
This week, Adrian & Olivia dive headfirst into the deliciously outrageous world of Mel Brooks’ The Producers. A film that got turned into a musical, that got turned into a film. From over the top performances to jokes th
Adrian & Olivia head to one of the West End’s biggest stages for one of Disney’s biggest new musicals: Hercules. Bringing the beloved animated film to life on stage, it promises gods, monsters, and plenty of gospel-inspi
Adrian & Olivia return to a true West End institution Les Misérables, the longest-running musical in town. They soak up the soaring score, the sweeping drama and, of course, the unapologetic Frenchness of it all. Does it
In their second episode, Olivia & Adrian head back into the West End to revisit Oliver! - the beloved classic based on Dickens’ tale, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart.They dive into the music, the storytelling, and t
In their debut pilot episode, Olivia & Adrian head to the West End to review My Neighbour Totoro, the acclaimed stage adaptation of the beloved film from Studio Ghibli brought to life by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Wi
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