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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.
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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.
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2 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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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.
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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.
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1 month 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.
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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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
