Catherine Pryor

5 days ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Catherine Pryor

Choreographer Stephanie Lake and composer Robin Fox are partners in work and life, though they come from 'different worlds' artistically. Their latest collaboration is the joyful The Chronicles, which follows the rhythms of a life cycle, from birth to death — or is it renewal? Eddie Perfect's Broadway musical Beetlejuice has received rave reviews for its re-interpretation of Tim Burton's classic 1988 film.

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Catherine Pryor

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.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Catherine Pryor |Timothy James

When Cree-Salteaux theatre-maker Margo Kane started trying out for theatre gigs in Canada in the 1970s, there were so few roles for Indigenous actors, she ended up auditioning for the same part more than once. That all changed when she wrote her own one woman show, Moonlodge that became a classic of Canadian theatre. She's in Australia to show her new one-woman show, and reflect on her career.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Catherine Pryor |Riley Mellis

Playwright Andrea James has researched a story from the 1840s, in which colonial newspapers suggested that a 'white woman' – maybe the survivor of a shipwreck – had been taken captive by Gunaikurnai people in what is now eastern Victoria. Andrea interrogates the legend in a riveting new play called The Black Woman of Gippsland. In 1895 Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two gruelling years in Reading Gaol, for being homosexual.