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The Stage Show

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In-depth conversations with the world"s top directors, performers and writers for the stage.

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Jonathan Biggins is closing the book on Keating and...

The Stage Show ·

2024/06/04

Former prime minister Paul Keating was one of the great parliamentary performers. His ruthless wit and self-confidence takes centre stage in Jonathan Biggins' hugely popular tribute to Keating, The Gospel According to Paul. The upcoming season at the Sydney Opera House may be Jonathan's final outing as the boy from Bankstown.Also, with her new show Gurr Era Op coming to RISING, Torres Strait Islander dancer, actor and theatre maker Ghenoa Gela shares the artworks that take pride of

26:31

Bangarra looks to the horizon for its first...

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2024/05/27

Perhaps no dance company has done more to expand the horizons of Australian audiences than Bangarra Dance Theatre. Now they expand those horizons further, presenting their first mainstage cross-cultural collaboration.Horizon includes work choreographed by Deborah Brown, a descendent of the Wakaid Clan and Meriam people in the Torres Strait, with Moss Te Ururangi Patterson, of the Māori Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe in Aotearoa and the artistic director of the New Zealand Dance Company.

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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 03 | Horror

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2024/05/26

William Shakespeare's plays feature witchcraft, murder, ghosts and bloody revenge. Are his displays of blood and gore simply meant to entertain us or do they have more to say about the human condition?Wherefore, Shakespeare? is a series that explores the dilemmas, conflicts, and controversies in Shakespeare's major plays.In our third instalment, we enter Shakespeare's house of horror. We're joined by Professor David McInnis, who teaches Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the

54:04

'I've had this career against all odds' — Bonachela's...

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2024/05/21

A childhood love of dance and a challenging homelife drove Rafael Bonachela to leave his native Spain at just 17 years old and seek his fortune in the dance studios and theatres of London. The celebrated choreographer was then beckoned to Australia, where he has led the Sydney Dance Company since 2009.Also, in The Audition, we meet a group of asylum seekers vying for a new life in Australia. The play was co-written by a group of established playwrights alongside writers with lived

54:04

From Europe to the USA, this Australian theatre...

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2024/05/14

For decades, Australia's Back to Back Theatre has been delighting audiences with shows performed and devised by an ensemble of artists who are neurodivergent or living with a disability. Following their most recent major international award win, we visit the ensemble at their Geelong headquarters as they rehearse their new show: Multiple Bad Things.Also, alongside the stand-up, improv and cabaret at this year's Brisbane Comedy Festival, you can catch a play by one of our top

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Audra McDonald & Jason Robert Brown — Tony-winning...

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2024/05/07

It's Tony season on Broadway and this week we have two major figures of American theatre who have won nine Tony Awards between them: Audra McDonald and Jason Robert Brown.Performer Audra McDonald is currently on a concert tour of Australia. Her first Tony Award came for her breakthrough role in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel and she's added five more Tonys to her collection since then. And the composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown won his first Tony Award for Parade, which

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Simon Burke's wonderful (and Wicked) 50 years in the...

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2024/04/29

Simon Burke is one of Australia's most cherished entertainers. 2024 marks his 50th year performing on stage.He made his professional stage debut at just 12 years old and shortly after won an AFI Award for his performance in Fred Schepisi's film The Devil's Playground.He's since become renowned as a musical theatre performer, having had major roles in Australia and on London's West End.Right now, he's playing the Wizard of Oz in a spectacular new production of Wicked.

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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 02 | Gender

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2024/04/28

What does it mean to defy the conventions and test the boundaries of gender? These are questions posed by some of Shakespeare's most famous characters.Wherefore, Shakespeare? is a series that explores the dilemmas, conflicts, and controversies in Shakespeare's major plays.In our second instalment, we place gender in the spotlight. We're joined by Professor Jane Montgomery Griffiths, an acclaimed actor and the head of the School of Performing Arts at Collarts, Professor David

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After a celebrated Ring Cycle, a director ventures to...

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2024/04/23

Suzanne Chaundy is one of Australia's most in-demand directors of opera. Last year, she had the triumph of a lifetime with her direction of opera's most daunting challenge: Wagner's Ring Cycle. Now she's back with another big opera, Lucia di Lammermoor at the Melbourne Opera. So, what does it take to direct an opera?Also, in Lose to Win, which opens soon at Belvoir Street Theatre, Mandela Mathias recounts his extraordinary journey from displacement in war-torn South Sudan to

54:07

'I didn't want sangría and bulls' — A timeless and...

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2024/04/15

Choreographer Johan Inger's first narrative work is a radically contemporary take on Carmen, which employs Bizet's famous score but draws on the confronting violence of Mérimée's original novella for its story. The ballet earned the Prix Benois de la Danse and is now being presented by The Australian Ballet.Also, Victor Hugo's novel about an orphaned boy whose mouth has been cut into a perpetual grin has been adapted into a musical, The Grinning Man, and we mark the 100th

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Angus Cerini delivers an Australian gothic trilogy

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2024/04/09

Angus Cerini has been writing plays for 25 years, but his recent experiences as a farmer have inspired his latest play, Into the Shimmering World. The acclaimed writer of The Bleeding Tree and Wonnangatta now introduces us to two aging farmers, played by Kerry Armstrong and Colin Friels, struggling against relentless adversity.Also, Wild Dogs Under My Skirt is a published collection of poems written by the Samoan-New Zealander Tusiata Avia. 20 years ago, Tusiata was touring the

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West Side Story comes to Sydney Harbour

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2024/04/01

Opera Australia's annual production on Sydney Harbour is a highlight of the performing arts calendar. This year, the floating stage hosts West Side Story and it stars First Nations soprano Nina Korbe. The musical by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim is Nina's professional debut, but not her first time performing in a spectacular outdoor setting.Also, with the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival underway, we're joined by the comedian Joel Kim Booster. Joel is also the

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The writer of The Whale makes a case for the...

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2024/03/25

A Case for the Existence of God is by the American playwright Samuel D. Hunter. It is a two-hander that explores the unlikely connections between two men unalike in class, race and sexuality. Samuel is also the creator of the very unsettling hit play The Whale, a film adaption of which earned two Academy Awards.Two separate productions of A Case for the Existence of God are being presented in April — one by Outhouse Theatre Co at the Seymour Centre in Sydney and the other by Red

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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 01 | Comedy

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2024/03/24

Wherefore, Shakespeare? is a new series that explores the dilemmas, conflicts, and controversies in Shakespeare's major plays. In our first instalment, we tackle Shakespeare's comedies. Are they funny? And if they are, how is our sense of humour different from what tickled the fancies of the Elizabethan audience?We're joined by Peter Evans, artistic director of Bell Shakespeare, Professor Jane Montgomery Griffiths, an acclaimed actor and the head of the School of Performing Arts at

54:03

Why Miriam Margolyes courts controversy — 'I know...

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2024/03/18

In her memoir Oh Miriam!, the British-Australian actress, writer and comedian Miriam Margolyes shares hugely entertaining stories from her life with her trademark wit and disarming candour. Now, she's bringing those stories — and more — to the stage.Also, 37 is a new play from the funny and vernacular Palawa/Pakana playwright, Nathan Maynard. In the era of AFL footballer Adam Goodes' famous war cry, two Aboriginal footy players in a regional club confront the personal cost of

54:04

Andrew Scott's one-man Uncle Vanya

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2024/03/11

The acclaimed Irish actor Andrew Scott tackles his most challenging stage role yet in a one-man retelling of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. The production, Vanya, was commissioned and directed by Sam Yates, a young British director who was mentored by the likes of Trevor Nunn, Nicholas Hytner and Phyllida Lloyd. Also, opening nights can be stressful under any circumstances, but what do you do when a zombie apocalypse threatens curtain time? We're joined by the team behind Zombie! The

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Extreme action, dreaming stories and theatrical theft...

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2024/03/04

At the 2024 Adelaide Festival, we visit theatre foyers, dressing rooms and the city's famous gardens to meet the artists bringing theatregoers to the edge of their seats.We speak with artistic director Ruth McKenzie, who is delivering her first full program this year, we meet acclaimed choreographer Elizabeth Streb, whose 'Action Hero' performers in Streb Extreme Action will push their bodies to the limit in Time Machine, we visit the Narungga artists and cultural custodians

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A comedian's debut play inspired by the on-field...

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2022/10/10

For nail-biting drama and spectacular performances, many Australians head to a different kind of theatre: the footy field. Andrea Gibbs' debut play, Barracking for the Umpire, unites her passion for the arts and AFL and asks important questions about how much we sacrifice for the love of the game. Also, we speak with Patrick Livesy about Naomi, Patrick's one-person verbatim play about their mother's suicide and we head to Red Stitch to hear a panel discussion about change, activism

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