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The Stage Show
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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Episodes

In 'Lazarus', a playwright resurrects a living legend

John Harding, a founder of Ilbijerri Theatre Company and veteran playwright, recorded 20 hours of Taungurung elder Uncle Larry Walsh recounting... more

31 Mar 2025 · 54 minutes
Ruby Wax dives deep (with whales) in her comedy + Eliza Scanlen on Oscar Wilde

Comedian and writer Ruby Wax tells Michael about how she recently found herself in a mental health clinic, after searching for... more

24 Mar 2025 · 54 minutes
How Anaïs Mitchell wrote the hit musical Hadestown

This episode of The Stage Show is about love that doesn't end well! The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold... more

17 Mar 2025 · 54 minutes
The story that brought Leah Purcell back to the stage

Actor, director and writer Leah Purcell has been telling us her own stories and the stories of people close to her since... more

10 Mar 2025 · 54 minutes
Actor Stephen Rea in Krapp's Last Tape + the soul of Butoh

We meet Irish screen and theatre actor Stephen Rea, who talks about meeting Samuel Beckett early in his career. Rea... more

03 Mar 2025 · 54 minutes
Turning the late Ryuichi Sakamoto into mixed reality

Shortly before he died, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto performed a piano concert called Kagami – which was filmed and recorded with... more

24 Feb 2025 · 54 minutes
Dancing in the street with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

As a teenager in Belgium, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui  grew up dancing with his friends in the street. He’s now a... more

17 Feb 2025 · 54 minutes
Robyn Nevin on Agatha Christie's 'dark side' + a play about Julian Assange

Australian theatre legend Robyn Nevin is directing And Then There Were None, a classic murder mystery by Agatha Christie. She... more

10 Feb 2025 · 54 minutes
Emma Rice's dark, rollicking Wuthering Heights

UK director Emma Rice thinks the classic novel Wuthering Heights has many contemporary resonances, particularly around the origins of the... more

03 Feb 2025 · 54 minutes
How do you tell the world's longest tale 'Mahabharata', in five hours?

The Hindu epic Mahabharata is the longest poem in the world, a tale where gods and mortals dance around each other... more

27 Jan 2025 · 54 minutes