The Stage Show

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

The Wrong Gods weighs the cost of 'progress' on a mother and daughter
Apr 22, 2025 – 0:54:05
100 years of La Boite: a little theatre with big ambitions
Apr 15, 2025 – 0:54:05
'We're very scared when we're on stage': comedy sisters Flo & Joan
Apr 8, 2025 – 0:54:05
In 'Lazarus', a playwright resurrects a living legend
Apr 1, 2025 – 0:54:06
Ruby Wax dives deep (with whales) in her comedy + Eliza Scanlen on Oscar Wilde
Mar 25, 2025 – 0:54:06
How Anaïs Mitchell wrote the hit musical Hadestown
Mar 18, 2025 – 0:54:04
The story that brought Leah Purcell back to the stage
Mar 11, 2025 – 0:54:04
Actor Stephen Rea in Krapp's Last Tape + the soul of Butoh
Mar 4, 2025 – 0:54:05
Turning the late Ryuichi Sakamoto into mixed reality
Feb 25, 2025 – 0:54:06
Dancing in the street with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Feb 18, 2025 – 0:54:06
Robyn Nevin on Agatha Christie's 'dark side' + a play about Julian Assange
Feb 11, 2025 – 0:54:03
Emma Rice's dark, rollicking Wuthering Heights
Feb 4, 2025 – 0:54:04
How do you tell the world's longest tale 'Mahabharata', in five hours?
Jan 28, 2025 – 0:54:04
'I think the rock swallowed them up': Ian Michael takes on an Australian classic
Jan 21, 2025 – 0:54:04
The surprising history of Shakespeare in a divided America
Jan 14, 2025 – 0:54:04
Why Eric Idle always looks on the bright side of life
Jan 7, 2025 – 0:54:03
The story of the groundbreaking Warumpi Band
Dec 31, 2024 – 0:54:05
Giacomo Puccini 100 years on
Dec 24, 2024 – 0:54:03
'I know what I'm doing' — Why Miriam Margolyes courts controversy
Dec 17, 2024 – 0:54:03
William Yang — A life in a slide show
Dec 10, 2024 – 0:54:05
How an accident redefined the possibilities of dance
Dec 3, 2024 – 0:54:05
Can Kiss Me, Kate be tamed?
Nov 26, 2024 – 0:54:04
Broadway writer Rick Elice, the theatre boy who wouldn't grow up
Nov 19, 2024 – 0:54:04
The star of Prima Facie plots the next stage of her brilliant career
Nov 12, 2024 – 0:54:07
Olympic gold medallists Torvill & Dean take one last dance
Nov 5, 2024 – 0:54:04
Why Monty Python's Eric Idle laughs at death
Oct 29, 2024 – 0:54:04
A director's career-long effort to empower everyone in the room
Oct 22, 2024 – 0:54:04
Dear Evan Hansen comes to Australia
Oct 15, 2024 – 0:54:04
A cabaret lover's journey from sheep farm to Spiegeltent mastermind
Oct 8, 2024 – 0:54:04
The secrets and stagecraft of magic
Oct 1, 2024 – 0:54:04
School's out — Matthew Whittet explores the dreams of our youth
Sep 24, 2024 – 0:54:04
A creative life undimmed by a devastating diagnosis
Sep 17, 2024 – 0:54:07
Shakespeare in a divided America
Sep 10, 2024 – 0:54:04
How a writing class with James Baldwin inspired this Tony and Pulitzer winner
Sep 3, 2024 – 0:54:06
Noni Hazlehurst trades teddy bears for torment in Mother
Aug 27, 2024 – 0:26:17
Wherefore, Shakespeare? 06 | Tragedy
Aug 26, 2024 – 0:28:12
Wherefore, Shakespeare? 05 | Nationalism
Aug 26, 2024 – 0:28:12
Wherefore, Shakespeare? 04 | Race
Aug 26, 2024 – 0:28:12
Wherefore, Shakespeare? 03 | Horror
Aug 26, 2024 – 0:28:12
Wherefore, Shakespeare? 02 | Gender
Aug 26, 2024 – 0:28:12
Wherefore, Shakespeare? 01 | Comedy
Aug 26, 2024 – 0:28:12
A circus performer's journey from Albury to the Arsenale
Aug 20, 2024 – 0:54:04
'Welcome to Splott' — A Welsh playwright's local stories go global
Aug 13, 2024 – 0:54:05
Ray Lawler and 'The Doll' forever changed Australian theatre
Aug 6, 2024 – 0:54:05
Australia's Hamilton has been in the role longer than Lin-Manuel Miranda
Jul 30, 2024 – 0:26:28
A Western Sydney playwright revisits his regional roots
Jul 23, 2024 – 0:54:04
Bohème, Butterfly and beyond — Giacomo Puccini, 100 years on
Jul 16, 2024 – 0:54:04
Charting the legacy of the First Nations theatrical canon
Jul 9, 2024 – 0:54:05
A playwright reconceives the undoing of Lady Macbeth
Jul 2, 2024 – 0:54:04
A Pulitzer Prize-winning play counts the Cost of Living
Jun 25, 2024 – 0:26:21