STAGES Episode 646: SIMON PARRIS & IAN PHIPPS - GLOBAL THEATRE ROUNDUP

STAGES with Peter Eyers · Oct 28, 2026 · 56m

Reviewer and devoted theatre enthusiast Simon Parris — better known to many as Man in Chair — and uber publicist and theatre aficionado Ian Phipps return to the podcast to give us an insight into the shows currently playing in global theatres.

They’ve each recently undertaken their annual theatrical pilgrimages to London and New York, where they’ve been filling their days — and presumably their notebooks, phones and heads — with the sights, sounds and sensations of what’s currently playing on some of the world’s great stages.

And there’s plenty to talk about: the productions that dazzled…