Audience members sit facing a brightly lit stage set with a bar sign and furnished room backdrop.

Jermyn Street Theatre2023

Stage Door Jonny Live: With Sir Simon Russell Beale & Sir Nicholas Hytner

The Production

A one-night live edition of Jonathan Cake’s theatre podcast, with Cake in conversation with Sir Simon Russell Beale and Sir Nicholas Hytner about their long actor–director collaboration and life in the theatre.

20 photographs in the curated edit

Photography: Steve Gregson

A group of people talk in a backstage bar area lit by a purple neon sign.

An older bearded man sits beneath a neon bar sign while a man in a suit stands looking down at his hands.

An older bearded man gestures from a chair as a man in a blue suit stands facing him in a backstage room.

Two men sit opposite each other in a dressing room with illuminated mirrors and one man pointing as he speaks.

Three men sit in a dressing room with mirrors, costume rails and water bottles visible behind them.

A person writes on a printed programme in an auditorium while blurred figures stand in the background.

A man in a blue suit stands on a living-room stage set and speaks to an audience.

A man in a blue suit speaks with both hands raised in front of a furnished stage wall.

A man in a blue suit stands and applauds between two seated men on a stage set.

Three men sit on chairs on a living-room stage set while one man in a blue suit gestures.

A seated bald man in a dark jacket speaks with both hands open on the stage set.

A man in a blue suit sits beside an older bearded man in black on the stage set.

Three seated men smile and laugh during an onstage conversation.

An older bearded man points with both hands while a man in a blue suit sits blurred behind him.

Three seated men react with smiles and laughter during the onstage discussion.

An older bearded man laughs while two men stand beside him in low stage light.

Two men stand on the stage while seated people and an orange sofa are visible in dim light.

A bald man and an older bearded man stand side by side smiling on the stage set.

Three men stand shoulder to shoulder and face the camera on a furnished stage set.

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