The Stage Show is your guide to what's happening on stages across the country and beyond. We'll bring you the latest from the worlds of theatre, dance, comedy, opera and musicals.
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Tuesday 28 May 2019
Legendary stage and screen performer Uncle Jack Charles has been awarded this year's Red Ochre Award at the National Indigenous Arts Awards.
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The hit musical will open in Sydney in February 2021.
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Cassie Tongue reviews Suzie Miller's new play Prima Facie at Griffin Theatre Company.
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Vietnamese circus company Nouveau Cirque du Vietnam are bringing their show À Ố Làng Phố to the Sydney Opera House.
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A listener shares memories of being taught Shakespeare at a Sydney high school by one of Australia's most famous thinkers — Germaine Greer.
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We go behind the scenes with stage manager Khym Scott to find out how the black-clad figures in the wings keep our stage productions on track.
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Tuesday 21 May 2019
One of David Bowie's last major projects before his death was the Off-Broadway musical Lazarus. It's now come to Australia.
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For the next in our High School Playlist series, we lay our scene in fair Verona and meet the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet.
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The theatre on Brisbane's South Bank is expected to host 260 performances a year.
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To mark one year since the fire that destroyed Melbourne's iconic La Mama Theatre, we visit the site with artistic director Liz Jones and company manager Caitlin Dullard.
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Tuesday 14 May 2019
Operagoers in Australia tend towards a narrow and privileged demographic, so how might we see greater diversity? We find an answer in Berlin.
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The film star and singer has died at the age of 97.
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Historical boundaries for Aboriginal people are revisited and tested in Co3's new dance work THE LINE.
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NORPA take over the historic Bangalow A&I Hall to summon the hall's ghosts of memories and dreams with their show Dreamland.
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Tuesday 7 May 2019
20 years since it last appeared on their stage, Tim Winton's Cloudstreet returns to the Malthouse Theatre under the direction of artistic director Matthew Lutton.
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It's been nominated for eight Tony Awards, but what do the critics make of the musical adaptation of Beetlejuice?
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Theatre critic Tim Byrne reviews Sydney Theatre Company's new production of the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Aboriginal Australian performers Vicki Van Hout and Joel Bray use humour (and powdered sugar) to wrestle with their Indigenous heritage at this year's Yirramboi Festival.
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Ahead of a revival season of her plays LOVE and SHIT, award-winning playwright Patricia Cornelius shares the Best Advice she ever got.
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Tuesday 30 Apr 2019
UK writer and director Javaad Alipoor's play The Believers Are but Brothers unpacks extremism in the age of the internet.
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The Australian literary giant and poet has died at the age of 80.
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Award-winning lighting designer Richard Vabre takes us behind the scenes to explain the key elements of his craft.
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Fleur Kilpatrick and David Finnigan discuss whether the spectre of climate change is destined to become a common theme on our stages.
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Tuesday 23 Apr 2019
In her cabaret show Rendezvous with Marlene, Ute Lemper shares the story of a three-hour phone conversation she had with an ailing Marlene Dietrich in 1988.
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The Ripples Before the New Wave documents the lasting impact of the University of Sydney’s flourishing drama scene in the late 1950s and early 60s.
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UK comedian James Acaster has taken out the very first Melbourne International Comedy Festival award.
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The idea of "audience participation" makes many people queasy, but these two performers have invited their audience members onto the stage and into the story.
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Acclaimed Taiwanese playwright and director Stan Lai shares the poem, song, play and film that have inspired his journey as an artist.
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Tuesday 16 Apr 2019
In My Urrwai, currently on tour across Australia, theatre maker, dancer and comedian Ghenoa Gela reflects on life as 'Torres Strait mainlander'.
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It's believed the playwright penned Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream while living in the London house.
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Theatre critic Fiona Blair reviews the National Theatre's radically stripped-back production of The Tragedy of King Richard the Second by William Shakespeare.
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Whether swallowing swords, risking their necks on the trapeze or challenging gender expectations, circus performers have a history of being transgressive. But does circus still challenge us in the same way?
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A new production of the hit Australian musical Muriel's Wedding is playing some of our biggest theatres this year.
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Tuesday 9 Apr 2019
The touring stage production of West Side Story is directed by Joey McKneely, a man whose history with the production goes back 30 years to his first encounter with Jerome Robbins.
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We take a close look at the plays being studied in schools around Australia, starting with Louis Nowra's Così which will this year be revived at the MTC and STC.
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The play The Inheritance has picked up four prizes at this year's Olivier awards.
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With Single Asian Female playing now at the Arts Centre Melbourne, playwright Michelle Law drops by to share the Best Advice she ever got.
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Mimma, an ambitious new musical about the casualties of war is about to open in Perth.
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Tuesday 2 Apr 2019
Cuban dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta's production of Don Quixote for The Royal Ballet will soon screen in Australian cinemas as part of The Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season.
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The Green Room Awards celebrate the best works on Melbourne's stages in the last year.
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We meet members of the first cohort of Intersect, a peer mentorship and knowledge exchange program for creatives in the UK and Australia from culturally diverse backgrounds.
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We look at two vastly different approaches to presenting the work of William Shakespeare at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Tuesday 26 Mar 2019
With the Melbourne International Comedy Festival opening this week, we meet three young up-and-coming comedians in this year's line-up: Larry Dean, Sarah Keyworth and Catherine Bohart.
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Sydney Dance Company turn 50 this year. We discuss their history and their 2019 season with artistic director Rafael Bonachela and former SDC dancers Shane Carroll and Sheree Zellner (formerly da Costa).
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The pop star's reworking of the song, My Favourite Things, has been a global hit.
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Cassie Tongue reviews Opera Australia's Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production of West Side Story.
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We discuss Kate Mulvany's new play The Mares. Its world premiere is at the Tasmanian Theatre Company as part of Ten Days on the Island.
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