In the driving seat: Catch up with all your favourite nominees in the #OlivierAwards’ new Facebook series

Stars of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will join Collabro’s Jamie Lambert in Road to the Oliviers, a new four-part series celebrating this year’s #OlivierAwards nominations, launching this week.

Lambert will host the first episode on Friday 16 March at 1pm on the Olivier Awards Facebook page. Studio guests will include Derren Brown, whose show Underground is nominated for Best Entertainment and Family show; John McCrea and Josie Walker from Everybody’s Talking About Jamie who are nominated for Best Actor and Actress in a Musical; The Stage editor, Alistair Smith; and Willy Mukendi, an Olivier Award Be Inspired champion. 

This episode will also feature exclusive backstage footage of the most nominated new play, The Ferryman, and Best Actress for Long Day’s Journey Into Night nominee, Lesley Manville.

Details of the other Road to the Oliviers episodes will be announced in due course via the Olivier Awards social channels. Catherine Tate will host the awards at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 8 April and they will be broadcast to the UK and worldwide. Full broadcast details will be announced at a later date.