The Stage Show

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

Episode Date
The writer of The Whale makes a case for the existence of God
Mar 25, 2024
Wherefore, Shakespeare? 01 | Comedy
Mar 24, 2024
Why Miriam Margolyes courts controversy — 'I know what I'm doing'
Mar 18, 2024
Andrew Scott's one-man Uncle Vanya
Mar 11, 2024
Extreme action, dreaming stories and theatrical theft in Adelaide
Mar 04, 2024
Need help getting opera singers to soar? Add puppets
Feb 26, 2024
Sam Mendes's five precepts for The Lehman Trilogy still inspire Es Devlin
Feb 19, 2024
At the Perth Festival, stories from home inspire new work
Feb 12, 2024
Griffin marks the end of an era with a Louis Nowra triple bill
Feb 05, 2024
'We have to learn to listen again' — Akram Khan's reimagined Jungle Book
Jan 29, 2024
Why Groundhog Day's Australian debut is healing for Tim Minchin
Jan 22, 2024
Sunday — The woman who shaped Australian art
Jan 15, 2024
Joanna Murray-Smith — a playwright in demand
Jan 08, 2024
The Tina Turner story on stage
Jan 01, 2024
Theatre healed Heather Mitchell
Dec 25, 2023
How Eddie Perfect and Gillian Cosgriff make musical theatre
Dec 18, 2023
If your show needs a lift, 'Send for Nellie!'
Dec 11, 2023
The Warumpi Band story comes to the Sydney Festival
Dec 04, 2023
A Ring Cycle for our part of the world
Nov 27, 2023
A Game of Thrones villain finds redemption in A Christmas Carol
Nov 20, 2023
From a caravan in WA to the mainstage — The McElhinneys venture out
Nov 13, 2023
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part II)
Nov 06, 2023
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part I)
Oct 30, 2023
How Chicago became a hit musical — 'We wrote fast and tore up fast'
Oct 23, 2023
Bridal laments and vanishing vultures inspire new work at OzAsia
Oct 16, 2023
Hamilton maestro reworks the music of Sting
Oct 09, 2023
Taylor Mac's queer rock opera adds to 'the library of the deviant theme'
Oct 02, 2023
When asked to adapt a classic, Nakkiah Lui chose Showgirls
Sep 26, 2023
Broome's complex history and culture inspire an award winner
Sep 19, 2023
How the stage needs to change
Sep 12, 2023
Kate Miller-Heidke's new musical, and Wicked returns
Sep 05, 2023
Bangarra Dance Theatre enters a new era
Aug 29, 2023
'I didn't know any better' — How David Lang redefined opera
Aug 22, 2023
Is there something wrong with Debra Oswald?
Aug 15, 2023
Helen Morse never sought the spotlight
Aug 08, 2023
After 10 years, Anthony LaPaglia returns to the stage
Aug 01, 2023
The radical innovations of Caryl Churchill
Jul 25, 2023
A high-camp provocateur treads unfamiliar territory: real life
Jul 18, 2023
Michelle Law's latest play contests Chinese values
Jul 11, 2023
Wesley Enoch honours the elders of First Nations performing arts
Jul 04, 2023
In his 90th year, Michael Frayn's plays still make noise
Jun 27, 2023
Once Upon a Mattress composer Mary Rodgers was anything but shy
Jun 20, 2023
Andrew Bovell comes home
Jun 13, 2023
Eddie Perfect and Gillian Cosgriff show us how to make a musical
Jun 06, 2023
'It's been a slog' — Jacky debuts at the Melbourne Theatre Company
May 30, 2023
Is the stage the right place to talk about climate change?
May 23, 2023
Why Tina Turner was 'adamant' that the violence of her past be put on stage
May 16, 2023
A 114-year-old Australian novel in Chinese becomes a play for today
May 09, 2023
'It was such a balm' — How theatre healed Heather Mitchell
May 02, 2023
Lano and Woodley set sail in search of Moby Dick
Apr 25, 2023
A Pulitzer winner serves social justice and sandwiches in Clyde's
Apr 18, 2023
A satirical One Woman Show skewers the Fleabag generation
Apr 11, 2023
Nureyev's Don Quixote recreated on stage
Apr 04, 2023
Why dance in a museum?
Mar 27, 2023
After 50 years at La Mama, a legend passes the torch
Mar 20, 2023
The book that brought us Macbeth
Mar 13, 2023
Verdi's Messa da Requiem pulses with life in Adelaide
Mar 06, 2023
A Little Life on stage — Ivo van Hove adapts the 'cruel' bestseller
Feb 27, 2023
'Cabaret is the original punk' — Reuben Kaye at WorldPride
Feb 20, 2023
New works take flight at a cosmic Perth Festival
Feb 13, 2023
Tim Minchin takes comedy seriously
Feb 06, 2023
The woman who shaped modern Australian art
Jan 30, 2023
'The future is Blak' — How fatherhood changed Bangarra's head designer
Jan 23, 2023
Dorian Gray's visionary director revitalises another classic
Jan 16, 2023
An Australian play on Broadway
Jan 09, 2023
'It was time they had a blackfella at the top' — A new era for ADT
Jan 02, 2023
90 years of performing arts on your ABC
Dec 26, 2022
Finding true love at the barre
Dec 19, 2022
Michael Sheen returns to Amadeus as a different man
Dec 12, 2022
'Sharing a mad moment together' — Chaplin's grandson's ode to theatre
Dec 05, 2022
The forgotten ballets of Australia
Nov 28, 2022
Andrew Lloyd Webber's go-to director
Nov 21, 2022
Sandi Toksvig has reasons to be cheerful
Nov 14, 2022
'We are here, we belong' — Uniting communities through the arts
Nov 07, 2022
Matilda and A Christmas Carol director keeps The Old Vic young
Oct 31, 2022
A manifesto for dance of a different kind
Oct 24, 2022
From chook farmer to change maker
Oct 17, 2022
A comedian's debut play inspired by the on-field drama of footy
Oct 10, 2022
Finding true love at the barre
Oct 03, 2022
Les Misérables and Miss Saigon creators take centre stage
Sep 27, 2022
Remembering Uncle Jack Charles
Sep 20, 2022
Straight lines and stillness — New work from two theatre giants
Sep 13, 2022
New plays light up the Brisbane Festival
Sep 06, 2022
Brett Dean's Hamlet triumphs at The Met
Aug 30, 2022
Dorian Gray's visionary director revitalises another classic
Aug 23, 2022
Hairspray brings back a Broadway legend
Aug 16, 2022
Being an opera singer saved her life
Aug 09, 2022
Diablo Cody found her dream collaborator in Alanis Morissette
Aug 02, 2022
Catherine McClements is looking for a challenge
Jul 26, 2022
First London, next Broadway — An Australian playwright on the rise
Jul 19, 2022
'It became very woke' — An Asian Australian director embraces 'elder' status
Jul 12, 2022
'It was time they had a blackfella at the top' — A new era for ADT
Jul 05, 2022
90 years of performing arts on your ABC
Jun 28, 2022
The Tony-winning creator of Broadway's 'big, black and queer' Best Musical
Jun 21, 2022
Tina Arena on the intimacy and vulnerability of cabaret
Jun 14, 2022
At RISING, the arts take the chill off winter
Jun 07, 2022
Lea Salonga — a trailblazing star of the stage
May 31, 2022
Mr Producer — How Cameron Mackintosh rebuilt an industry
May 24, 2022
Truth-telling in the theatre — Why Andrea James ditched law for the arts
May 17, 2022
Theatre icon Geraldine Turner reveals her off-stage struggles
May 10, 2022
'Wagner belongs to humanity's treasure' — Confronting a contentious classic
May 03, 2022
Big plays in a tiny room — Red Stitch turns 21
Apr 26, 2022
Power and ethics in playwriting
Apr 19, 2022
Imagination will help young people 'sort out the mess' left by grown-ups
Apr 12, 2022
Blind and vision-impaired artists rewrite Tchaikovsky's final opera
Apr 05, 2022
Lano and Woodley set sail in search of Moby Dick
Mar 28, 2022
An Englishman in New York takes on An American in Paris
Mar 21, 2022
A reimagined Yentl and a play about race and privilege in education hit home for director
Mar 14, 2022
GoPros, spray bottles and a fake language — Making theatre with The Last Great Hunt
Mar 07, 2022
A gay hate crime that became a watershed moment for reform revisited in song
Feb 28, 2022
Girl from the North Country — How 'pure ignorance' of musical theatre led to a hit
Feb 21, 2022
'We're making space for ourselves' — How Zindzi Okenyo is changing theatre
Feb 14, 2022
Youth in trouble — Chunky Move's dance for the end of days
Feb 07, 2022
Six the Musical's journey from student theatre to worldwide smash
Jan 31, 2022
A Palawa playwright on 'the biggest issue' his people are fighting today
Jan 24, 2022
David McAllister and Wesley Enoch start a new chapter
Jan 17, 2022
Tom Stoppard's life examined
Jan 10, 2022
David Williamson shares some home truths
Jan 03, 2022
'Who's afraid of the truth?' — An Indigenous director tackles an American classic
Dec 27, 2021
The room where Hamilton happened
Dec 20, 2021
From the ashes — the lessons a reborn La Mama can share with Australia
Dec 13, 2021
Elaine Crombie will calm you down before she punches you in the guts
Dec 06, 2021
Diablo Cody found her dream collaborator in Alanis Morissette
Nov 29, 2021
'Artists with disability should be treated like any other' — 30 years of Restless Dance
Nov 22, 2021
Dear Evan Hansen creator revives the show that came before Rent
Nov 15, 2021
'An accident of the theatre' brought Sondheim back to Broadway
Nov 08, 2021
How one of Australia's top directors discovered the power of telling our stories
Nov 01, 2021
Why the writer of The Vagina Monologues now has climate change in her sights
Oct 25, 2021
The accountant who became an opera star
Oct 18, 2021
What regional Australia offers artists and audiences
Oct 11, 2021
David Williamson shares some home truths
Oct 04, 2021
Animal Farm in the age of Trump
Sep 28, 2021
Audra McDonald and Tony Sheldon's Broadway
Sep 21, 2021
'Fragility is okay, limits are okay' — Why the way we make art should change
Sep 14, 2021
'Who's afraid of the truth?' — An Indigenous director tackles an American classic
Sep 07, 2021
Spectacular, spectacular! The music of Moulin Rouge
Aug 31, 2021
Juliet Stevenson is drawn to danger
Aug 24, 2021
Theatre dorks Zoë Coombs Marr and Anne-Louise Sarks get serious
Aug 17, 2021
Why Hugo Weaving and Paula Arundell act
Aug 10, 2021
Kate Champion and Paula Arundell — finding family and fantasy on stage
Aug 03, 2021
Neil Armfield and Kate Champion — dancing into a perfect partnership
Jul 27, 2021
Mark Howett and Neil Armfield reach out to a new generation
Jul 20, 2021
Kylie Bracknell and Mark Howett — Leading lights of the West
Jul 13, 2021
Wesley Enoch and Kylie Bracknell on language, culture and connection
Jul 06, 2021
David McAllister and Wesley Enoch start a new chapter
Jun 29, 2021
Tom Stoppard's life examined
Jun 22, 2021
Eddie Perfect turns introspective
Jun 15, 2021
For playwright Jen Silverman, theatre became the answer to any question
Jun 08, 2021
Alan Cumming is not acting his age
Jun 01, 2021
Deborah Cheetham opera heralds a new dawn
May 25, 2021
How a dancer overcame a spinal injury to shine on the international stage
May 18, 2021
'I had a lot of rage' — David Ireland tries to make sense of trauma with art
May 11, 2021
'Bill, that's a pirouette' — William Forsythe's unconventional rise to the top
May 04, 2021
Mark Ravenhill wants you to argue over his plays
Apr 27, 2021
Joanna Murray-Smith wrestles with hedonism and history in Berlin
Apr 20, 2021
Mark Trevorrow on life as the Prince of Polyester, Bob Downe
Apr 13, 2021
'It took me to some very dark places' — The tour that broke Daniel Sloss
Apr 06, 2021
'We need to be valued' — Changing how First Nations work is made and seen
Mar 29, 2021
A comedian with a turbulent past finds his voice in the footlights
Mar 22, 2021
The room where Hamilton happened
Mar 15, 2021
John Bell and Shakespeare
Mar 08, 2021
Meyne Wyatt's star, and eyebrow, rises
Mar 01, 2021
Patricia Cornelius and Susie Dee make theatre for runts
Feb 22, 2021
'This is a warning play' — The role Robyn Nevin had to take on
Feb 15, 2021
Eddie Perfect — from Brunswick to Broadway and back again
Feb 08, 2021
How a first-timer wrote Fangirls — 'I learned everything I know off YouTube'
Feb 01, 2021
Wesley Enoch doesn't want to be the only Indigenous artist in the room
Jan 25, 2021
Li Cunxin — dancing through the darkness
Jan 18, 2021
Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair — the extended interview
Jan 11, 2021
A hit Australian musical revived and the Noongar language in the spotlight
Jan 04, 2021
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part II)
Dec 28, 2020
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part I)
Dec 21, 2020
Where to from here?
Dec 14, 2020
Pamela Rabe's path from the Yukon wilds to Helpmann glory
Dec 07, 2020
Band of outsiders — a new take on Oklahoma!
Nov 30, 2020
'It was not proper for a boy to do ballet' — David McAllister's struggle to the top
Nov 23, 2020
Nancye Hayes — fearless in the footlights
Nov 16, 2020
The deep roots and spreading branches of Indigenous performance
Nov 09, 2020
Why democracy needs theatre
Nov 02, 2020
The story thief
Oct 26, 2020
How OzAsia's director went from chook farmer to change maker
Oct 19, 2020
'I didn't know any better' — how David Lang redefined opera
Oct 12, 2020
Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair side by side on stage
Oct 05, 2020
Opening doors — why this director wants her debut to mean more
Sep 29, 2020
The theatrical making of Malcolm Turnbull
Sep 22, 2020
'The stage was my lifeline' — how the arts emboldens young people
Sep 15, 2020
The man who lives with Shakespeare
Sep 08, 2020
Animal Farm in the age of Trump
Sep 01, 2020
Do the critics make or break a Broadway show?
Aug 25, 2020
A 'border boy' breaks the boundaries of dance
Aug 18, 2020
The suburban dreaming behind Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre
Aug 11, 2020
Dr Jekyll and Mr Wildhorn
Aug 04, 2020
The unusual choreography of dancer Shelley Lasica
Jul 28, 2020
How Yaron Lifschitz transformed an edgy circus troupe into a major company
Jul 21, 2020
Of kings and divas: Shakespearean drama for our times
Jul 14, 2020
Taking on an iconic Australian horror — solo on stage
Jul 07, 2020
The ground on which black theatre companies stand
Jun 30, 2020
Why Tim Minchin's debut album took twenty years to make
Jun 23, 2020
'This is not right and we are going to make things different' — Emma Matthews helps young singers find their voice
Jun 16, 2020
David Henry Hwang renders America's racial tensions as a musical fever dream
Jun 09, 2020
Stephen Page and Hunter Page-Lochard 'draw the energy from the earth'
Jun 02, 2020
Crisis and catharsis — Benedict Andrews' dizzying Streetcar Named Desire
May 26, 2020
Kate Mulvany learns to love the villain
May 19, 2020
Li Cunxin — dancing through the darkness
May 12, 2020
From Kanchanaburi to the Royal Court — Anchuli Felicia King takes on the world
May 05, 2020
Rufus Norris is revolutionising what we see on the mainstage, and how we see it
Apr 28, 2020
'All of us in the arts are primed to take on a pandemic'
Apr 21, 2020
Jeanine Tesori dissects her hit Broadway musicals
Apr 14, 2020
Zoë Coombs Marr leaves Dave behind
Apr 07, 2020
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part II)
Mar 30, 2020
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part I)
Mar 23, 2020
Ben Elton's career kicked off in a Britain at war with itself
Mar 16, 2020
Opera as an antidote for loneliness
Mar 09, 2020
Juliet Stevenson — drawn to danger
Mar 02, 2020
Conchita Wurst and Trevor Ashley — the grand dames of drag
Feb 24, 2020
Michael Keegan-Dolan evokes a god of the dance
Feb 17, 2020
A hit Australian musical revived and the Noongar language in the spotlight
Feb 10, 2020
The play that changed theatre
Feb 03, 2020
Phelim McDermott's journey from Philip Glass superfan to creative partner
Jan 27, 2020
David Williamson prepares to exit stage left
Jan 20, 2020
Cloudstreet returns to the stage and Sondheim's musical reinventions
Jan 13, 2020
Anthem reunites our biggest playwrights and Hofesh Shechter's Grand Finale
Jan 06, 2020
The Stage Show live — at the glamorous Adelaide Cabaret Festival
Dec 30, 2019
Harry Potter's Wizarding World on stage and Hair, 50 years on
Dec 23, 2019
Our enduring fascination with Carmen and 9/11 inspires a musical of hope
Dec 16, 2019
The story of our First Nations first 11 and a celebration of the season
Dec 09, 2019
Black Ties unites cultures across the Tasman and our critics' picks
Dec 02, 2019
Faust and Don Pasquale give us more than we bargained for
Nov 25, 2019
A classic film becomes a radio play and the Women's Circus marches on
Nov 18, 2019
Lea Salonga — a trailblazing star of the stage
Nov 11, 2019
A century of Australian musical theatre and Louis Nowra's new drama
Nov 04, 2019
Starstruck becomes a stage musical and Kathy Lette hosts a girls' night out
Oct 28, 2019
Bonus — Dr Jekyll and Mr Wildhorn
Oct 22, 2019
Circa takes us to the underworld with Orpheus and Eurydice
Oct 21, 2019
Light shone on a famous Australian at OzAsia and opera comes to the Yarra Valley
Oct 14, 2019
Fangirls seize the spotlight and Palestinian performers aim for the stars
Oct 07, 2019
Discovering lost operas and Leith McPherson on the power of voice
Oct 01, 2019
Anthem reunites our biggest playwrights and new work from Back to Back
Sep 24, 2019
Hofesh Shechter's Grand Finale and Brisbane Festival opens conversations
Sep 17, 2019
The world's a stage at Melbourne Fringe and Helena Dix breaks down Casta Diva
Sep 10, 2019
Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change and Shakespeare's bloodiest play
Sep 03, 2019
Jerome Robbins' life in dance and putting The Crucible on trial
Aug 27, 2019
30 years of Bangarra and attracting younger people to theatre
Aug 20, 2019
Making art in the Top End and Sondheim's Sunday in the Park
Aug 13, 2019
Bonus — Remembering Hal Prince
Aug 06, 2019
Health and wellbeing in the performing arts
Aug 06, 2019
Hair, the counterculture musical, 50 years on
Jul 30, 2019