Cathy Pryor

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How to make it on Broadway, plus a twisted tale challenges these actors

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Cathy Pryor |Tim James

What does it take to write a Tony-winning musical? Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty are the friends and songwriting team behind big Broadway musicals like RagtimeandAnastasia. They're also voting members for New York City's famous theatre industry prize, the Tony Awards. They join us as Tony Awards season takes off. Back stage... The make up artist.
Getting under the skin of Edith Piaf with Nathalie Lermitte

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Cathy Pryor |Carey Dell

Legendary French singer Edith Piaf was a firecracker of emotion. Gutsy and seductive, while underneath -- an intense fragility. That’s the legend. But what’s it like to play a legend, show after show, year after year? Cabaret singer Nathalie Lermitte has been inhabiting the icon Piaf for well over a decade. Top Shelf with Josh Piterman. Josh Piterman is an Australian musical theatre star who’s used to donning all kinds of masks, especially as the Phantom of the Opera on London's West End.
100 years of La Boite: a little theatre with big ambitions - ABC listen

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Cathy Pryor |Riley Mellis

We mark the 100th Birthday of Australia's oldest continuously run theatre — Brisbane's iconic La Boite. A little theatre that's had a huge influence on the theatre and politics of Brisbane and on building a theatre culture which is distinctively Australian. La Boite's Artistic Director Courtney Stewart and former AD David Berthold (current director-in-residence at NIDA) take us through the eras, the challenges and the triumphs. Back Stage: the lighting designer.
'We're very scared when we're on stage': comedy sisters Flo & Joan - ABC listen

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Cathy Pryor |Tim Jenkins

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has taken over the city. Comedians from across Australia and around the world are here including the UK's Nicola And Rosie Dempsey, as dead-pan singing sisters Flo and Joan.
How Anaïs Mitchell wrote the hit folk musical Hadestown

Mar 17, 2025 | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Cathy Pryor |Riley Mellis

This episode of The Stage Show is about love that doesn't end well!The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold in a hit folk musical called Hadestown. It's won Tonys, Grammys and is now in Australia. We speak to the singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell, who wrote Hades Town 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.
The story that brought Leah Purcell back to the stage

Mar 10, 2025 | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Cathy Pryor

Actor, director and writerLeah Purcell has been telling us her own stories and the stories of people close to her since the 1990s. Now Leah’s back – as the adaptor and director of the true tale of Aunty Ruth Hegarty, which take us into the heart of Australia’s post-colonial history, a powerful two-person play calledIs that you, Ruthie? on at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC). The life of a performer on the road can be tough, but think about the partner who’s left back at home.
Dancing in the street with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - ABC listen

Feb 17, 2025 | abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Cathy Pryor |Carey Dell

As a teenager in Belgium, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui grew up dancing with his friends in the street. He’s now a renowned choreographer with his own company and the director of the National Ballet of Flanders, choreographing everything from pop music videos to the new show MANIFEST at Perth Festival - where members of the public can train alongside his dancers for a performance in the city’s Forrest Place. Can love exist between two people on opposite sides of the nuclear debate?
What the fork? A cook's tour of cutlery

Jan 24, 2025 | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Zoe Ferguson |Zoë Ferguson |Kim Jirik |Cathy Pryor |Angela Grant | +1 more

Is there anything you take more for granted in your kitchen than the cutlery drawer? We hardly give a second thought to the humble tools that carry food from plate to mouth. But maybe we should. There's history here, and stories of changing preferences and assumptions within cultures. Fork or fingers? Cut or tear? They say you are what you eat, but it turns out how you eat matters, too.