The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson musical is finally in London and what are we talking about? Sunset Boulevard, Wicked and why Percy is everyone's favourite World Book Day costume. This show is currently booking until August so, if you can get to The Other Palace, do it!

We got to see one of the hottest shows of the season on our first trip to the Donmar Warehouse. It may be based on a "complicated Russian novel," but don't worry; we're as silly as usual. So, in amongst incisive analysis of musical styles and the show's prospects of a transfer, we get into My Little Pony while also contemplating whether everyone really was kung fu fighting and possibly making up some 'War and Peace' plot points.

In craziness not witnessed since our Edinburgh Fringe episode, here, we talk about six different shows (one of which, funnily enough, is Six). In amongst the incisive theatrical analysis, you'll be treated to toilet updates, altercations with ushers (not with Usher, although he does get a mention too) and, crucially, recommendations for the best cookie in NYC.

It's back to Broadway for us for a crazy Christmas of theatre. In amongst the usual deep and intellectual discussion of these three new shows, look forward to hand gesture-based discrimination, merch reviews and some nonsense about whether cows can use phones.

As if the eclectic mix of shows being discussed here wasn't enough, we can also offer travel and weather advice, confessions of childhood-lion-crushes, some judgement of our fellow audience members and, as usual, enthusiastic warbling.

In this special episode, we award our favourite shows of the year through complex democratic methods including rock, paper, scissors and glaring at each other. You might think from listening to this that we only saw about 4 things this year, but don't be fooled; we're just very obsessed with very specific things we saw in 2024.

If you're wondering why it's taken us 89 episodes to get to one of the biggest musicals of all time, it's a combination of technical problems and apathy, but the long-awaited movie adaptation blew one of those problems out of the water. So here we are: being weird about Jonathan Bailey, speculating on uniform codes and, crucially, being spoiler-y. If you haven't seen the show and don't want spoilers for Part 2 of the movie, heed our warnings and turn off before we ruin it for you!

We saw Dear Evan Hansen on its current UK tour and now you can hear what we thought about it, via a diversion into super pets and Juno's apparent beef with vibrato. Also, is this actually a show about vampires? Possibly. We also talk about Red Ladder's latest production, Sanctuary, which is definitely not about vampires.