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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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Best of The Stage Show: Pamela Rabe + a kid's point...

The Stage Show ·

2026/01/05

It’s one of those roles which great actors have on their to-do list: Winnie in the play Happy Days by Samuel Beckett. Winnie starts the play buried up to her waist in dirt. In Act 2 she’s buried up to her neck! Acclaimed actor Pamela Rabe tell us what makes this such an iconic play and how she approached it as both co-director and star of Happy Days for the Sydney Theatre Company in 2025.In the play POV (Point of View), 11-year-old Bub directs a pair of adult actors on stage, to

0:54:06

Best of The Stage Show: How Anais Mitchell wrote...

The Stage Show ·

2025/12/29

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold in the hit folk musical Hadestown. It's won Tonys, Grammys and is now in Australia. We speak to the singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell, who wrote Hadestown as a concept album, before touring it around in an old bus and then turning it into a remarkable stage show with the Broadway director Rachael Chavkin. First broadcast March 18.Back stage... The make up artist. Meet the veteran head of WHAM (that's wardrobe, hair and make-up) Fiona

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Best of The Stage Show: Stephen Rea + the soul of Butoh

The Stage Show ·

2025/12/22

More highlights from The Stage Show. We meet Irish screen and theatre actor Stephen Rea, who talks about meeting Samuel Beckett early in his career. Rea so wanted to perform Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape, he had the foresight to record his youthful self reading it. In his production at Adelaide Festival, the audience got to hear those recordings.We head Back Stage to the hat maker's studio! In fiction there are lots of characters who are famous for their hats. Robin Hood

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Best of The Stage Show: Robyn Nevin and Patricia...

The Stage Show ·

2025/12/15

In 2025 Australian theatre legend Robyn Nevin directed And Then There Were None, a classic murder mystery by Agatha Christie. She talks to Michael about the darkness in Christie's stories, her view on changing acting styles and how Robyn finds her 'inner clown'. Playwright Patricia Cornelius explains why she had five actors playing the world's most famous hacker — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in her 2025 play TRUTH. She's joined by director Susie Dee.And you’ll discover a

0:54:04

Farewell friends: Denise Scott, Bernadette Robinson...

The Stage Show ·

2025/12/08

Michael Cathcart and the team farewell you from The Stage Show. In front of a studio audience, Michael interviews the remarkable Denise Scott, who's about to tour her new comedy show ; songstress Bernadette Robinson (with pianist Mark Jones) gives us a taste of the grand dames who sang at Carnegie Hall. Theatre director and actor Rachael Maza reflects on her 18 years at the helm of the groundbreaking Ilbijerri Theatre Company. And singer and pianist Ian Andrew brings it home with

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A look back at Michael Cathcart's 25 years on air

The Stage Show ·

2025/12/01

For 25 years Michael Cathcart has been presenting arts and culture shows on Radio National, bringing listeners stories and conversations with writers, performers, musicians, poets and playwrights, from across Australia and the world. On our second-final ever Stage Show, Michael revisits some of his most memorable interviews. From authors Salman Rushdie and Esther Freud, to playing the organ at the Melbourne Town Hall, Philip Glass, Genevive Lacey, Audra McDonald, a special

0:48:02

West End's Alfie Boe + Meow Meow puts on The Red Shoes

The Stage Show ·

2025/11/24

Cabaret star Meow Meow interprets Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales in inimitable style. Returning with her brilliant show The Red Shoes, about a girl possessed by a pair of vivid red shoes that won't stop dancing. Meow Meow explains why the story resonated with Andersen and discusses some of her favourite female performers from the era of the Weimar republic.The Glass Menagerie is perhaps one of the most visceral and intimate plays from Tennessee Williams and is about to open

0:54:04

Three moods of William Shakespeare hit our stages

The Stage Show ·

2025/11/17

On this episode it’s all about Shakespeare. A comedy. A tragedy. And a tale of utter savagery. The many moods of William Shakespeare – starting in a happy place with actors Alison Bell and Faysal Bazzi, and Shakespeare specialist Mark Wilson, who directs them in a tale of love and mischief – Much Ado About Nothing at the Melbourne Theatre Company. Original music excerpted is by composer and sound Designer Joe Paradise Lui.Then the Prague Shakespeare Company teams up with local

0:53:04

Danielle de Niese's journey to the heart of Carmen

The Stage Show ·

2025/11/10

Danielle de Niese started life in suburban Melbourne, appearing on Young Talent Time at the age of nine before pursuing singing in the US. She is now a star soprano, performing many of opera's most famous roles and married into a famous opera-loving family — with their own opera house! She's back in Australia to perform the character Opera Australia are billing as “the most dangerous women in opera” — Carmen. In the musical play Cowbois, a sleepy wild west town populated by women

0:53:57

The couple performing theatre's worst marriage +...

The Stage Show ·

2025/11/03

Why would two actors, who are married in real life, pretend to eviscerate each other night after night in the emotionally brutal play Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Kat Stewart and David Whitely first performed this Edward Albee classic on the small, indy stage of Melbourne's Red Stitch Theatre and it was a hit. Now it's being remounted by Sydney Theatre Company.Composer, musician and director Lamine Sonko is a guewel, a traditional custodian of cultural knowledge in West Africa

0:54:04

Why Eddie Perfect wrote a musical for his alma mater

The Stage Show ·

2025/10/27

The new musical Tivoli Lovely is Eddie Perfect’s return to the grand days of what was known across Australia as the Tivoli Theatre circuit. He's written it especially for second and third year music theatre students at WAAPA, his alma mater. He joins Michael along with director Dean Bryant, who's made a string of entertaining shows as a director and writer, including writing the lyrics for the 2024 hit musical My Brilliant Career.This Halloween, academics and dancers are gathering

0:51:46

Broadway star Bernadette Peters + reviving The Shiralee

The Stage Show ·

2025/10/20

Bernadette Peters is the Tony award winning actress who has reigned on Broadway for decades. She is famous for originating roles in Stephen Sondheim musicals -- like the witch in Into The Woods and she's coming to Brisbane for the Melt Festival of Queer arts and culture.The Shiralee is the story of the tough, itinerant labourer Macauley and his equally tough young daughter Buster, who loves him fiercely. Together they endure drought and flood and often sleep on the ground. Kate

0:54:05

Shining a new light on 'Rebecca', a gothic tale of...

The Stage Show ·

2025/10/13

Rebecca is a 1938 gothic suspense story by Daphne Du Maurier that's never been out of print. It's also a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock. Now it's a play starring Nikki Shiels as the unnamed Young Woman and Pamela Rabe, in the iconic role of Mrs Danvers. How does this story of dark infatuation translate to the stage, and how does Melbourne Theatre Company treat its complicated romance?Phar Lap is a new electro-swing musical with no puppetry or SFX, just talented people hoofing it

0:57:16

A Filipino-Australian story in the shadow of a...

The Stage Show ·

2025/10/06

In 1986, Filipinos launched a peaceful revolution to overthrow their president, Ferdinand Marcos. In the new play Malacañang Made Us, these events live on in the memories of two brothers who were in the crowd that flooded the palace. Jordan Shea is the playwright behind this show, which won the Qld Premier’s Drama Award – and which is about to open at Queensland Theatre.The Village Square is an enchanting place where eccentric souls meet to tell their stories and make music

0:54:03

Suzie Miller's new play 'Inter Alia' delves into...

The Stage Show ·

2025/09/30

The Stage Show is back from sabbatical! On this episode, star playwright Suzie Miller speaks to Michael about Inter Alia, her gripping new play that takes you into the mind of a feminist judge, who’s also a mother, forced to confront a terrible reality. It’s just wound up a big season at London’s National Theatre, starring Rosamund Pike.Lisa Pellegrino is part of a family that migrated from Italy and Scotland to Australia and recorded everything. From having funerals professionally

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The Stage Show

The Stage Show ·

2025/08/12

Your guide to what's happening on stages across the country and beyond.

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Jazz Legends: Keith Jarrett

The Stage Show ·

2025/08/05

Pianist Keith Jarrett is one of the most captivating and controversial musicians of the last 50 years. He's a rare breed - a musician who has mastered the art of jazz improvisation and a fine classical player too. It’s been 50 years since the Köln Concert, which became the best-selling piano and solo jazz album of all time. But as we find out, that concert nearly didn't happen! You’ll hear all the back stories to this iconic artist in our tribute to Keith Jarrett. This episode was

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Jazz Legends: Charles Mingus

The Stage Show ·

2025/07/29

Much like Duke Ellington before him, Charles Mingus' output was prolific. Over his near four-decade career, Mingus was behind a number of jazz firsts: he composed and recorded arguably the first jazz ballet - labelling his iconic LP 'The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady' as "ethnic folk-dance music." He also brought together elements of swing, bebop and R&B in ways that had never been heard before. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Mingus never shied away from his roots in

0:54:06

Jazz Legends: Billie Holiday

The Stage Show ·

2025/07/22

This week we're honouring the late, great Billie Holiday. From her early ascendancy as a weaver of song in the 30s to her outspoken truth telling with records like 'Strange Fruit' to her downfall and decline in the 1950s, her tale is one of the more captivating in jazz. Across this episode, we recount Billie's life, and you'll hear from Lady Day herself from various archival interviews.

0:54:06

Jazz Legends: Quincy Jones

The Stage Show ·

2025/07/15

If you were to put together a list of jazz’s most influential names, then it’d be hard to look past Quincy Jones’s contributions. He was a giant of the music industry, with an influence that spanned from the bop era right up to modern music today.

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