This week, the gang gets to grips with economics, ballet and the Bloomsbury set as James Graham’s new play The Standard of Living comes to the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Rory Kinnear plays John Maynard Keynes, with star ballerina Natalia Osipova as his wife Lydia Lopokova. Producer Tim joins Nancy and Nick Curtis for the review, but does it all add up?


Then it’s back to nineties New York for Rent at the Tom Stoppard Theatre, 30 years on from Jonathan Larson’s musical taking Broadway by storm. Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo stars, with Paddington director Luke Sheppard bringing the show to life.


Nick Curtis talks to another Stranger Things star, Linnea Berthelsen, about making her stage debut in Darkling at the Bush Theatre, a one-woman show set around the Bhopal disaster. They discuss leaving drama school for a Netflix phenomenon, giving everything on stage and having an emotional climax interrupted by a packet of crisps.


And Jamel Westman answers our five questions as he stars in Table 17 at the Kiln, including what happens when you forget your words in Hamilton and have to improvise...


Our first Marquee TV watch party is coming on Wednesday and it's the Donmar’s Macbeth with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo. Keep an eye out on the feed. There are more watch parties to come: get one month free at marquee.tv/ltr or use the code LTR at checkout.


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