Theatre podcast YOU’RE ON TONIGHT returns for a second series on Wednesday 23 September 2026, with new episodes released weekly across all major podcast platforms.
Hosted by actors and presenters Kara Alberts-Turner and Liam Horrigan, the series continues to uncover the untold stories of West End understudies, alongside the perspectives of the casting directors and creatives who work with them.
Hosts Kara Alberts-Turner and Liam Horrigan describe understudies as skilled, fully prepared performers ready to step in at a moment’s notice – not simply an “insurance policy” for a production, but fearless performers in their own right.
YOU’RE ON TONIGHT is an independent theatre podcast uncovering the stories of West End understudies, swings and covers, alongside insights from the casting directors and creatives who work with them.
Series One featured guests including Eddie Marsan, Strictly Come Dancing champion and Coronation Street star Ellie Leach, and Clive Marlowe, described as the world’s longest-serving understudy.
Since launching, the podcast has reached No. 8 on the Apple Podcasts Performing Arts chart in its first month, with its launch trailer gaining more than 60,000 views in 48 hours. YOU’RE ON TONIGHT has been featured in The Times, The Sunday Times and The Economist, and has amassed more than 1.3 million views across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts in the past month alone.
YOU’RE ON TONIGHT is recorded and produced by The Sound Company in London.
Kara Alberts-Turner and Liam Horrigan are the actors and presenters behind YOU’RE ON TONIGHT, bringing their own experience of life on and around the West End stage to every episode as they speak to understudies, swings, casting directors and creatives about the parts of theatre that rarely make it into the spotlight.
Series Two guests are still under wraps, but YOU’RE ON TONIGHT has teased appearances from an Olivier Award-winning West End leading lady, a co-founder, writer and leading performer from a well-known British comedy company, a leading casting duo behind more than 100 productions, and a performer whose theatre-to-theatre dash to save a performance has become theatre folklore.
Series Two of YOU’RE ON TONIGHT launches on Wednesday 23 September 2026, with new episodes released weekly on all major podcast platforms.
Series One is available to listen to now via Linktree.
YOU’RE ON TONIGHT is an independent podcast, launched in 2026. Series One guests included Eddie Marsan, Ellie Leach and Clive Marlowe. The podcast focuses on the experiences of West End understudies alongside the casting directors and creatives who work with them.
