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In-depth conversations with the world's top directors, performers and writers for the stage.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Stage Show is hosted by ABC. The show has published 247 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Best of The Stage Show" (12 January 2026, 54 minutes), "Best of The Stage Show: Pamela Rabe + a kid's point of view on stage" (5 January 2026, 54 minutes), and "Best of The Stage Show: How Anais Mitchell wrote Hadestown" (29 December 2025, 54 minutes).
The Stage Show publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 54 minutes across 247 episodes.
Booking probability for The Stage Show is 26%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Stage Show requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Stage Show's contact route on record: verified email.
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ABC hosts The Stage Show, an arts podcast with 247 episodes published.
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The Stage Show with Michael Cathcart has wound up after eight years on air. In this highlights of 2025 episode: Playwright Andrea James researched a story from the 1840s, in which colonial newspapers suggested that a...
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...
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold in the hit folk musical Hadestown . It's won Tonys, Grammys and is now in Australia. We speak to the singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell, who wrote Hadestown as a concept album...
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More highlights from The Stage Show. We meet Irish screen and theatre actor Stephen Rea, who talks about meeting Samuel Beckett early in his career. Rea so wanted to perform Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape, he had the...
In 2025 Australian theatre legend Robyn Nevin directed And Then There Were None , a classic murder mystery by Agatha Christie. She talks to Michael about the darkness in Christie's stories, her view on changing acting...
Michael Cathcart and the team farewell you from The Stage Show. In front of a studio audience, Michael interviews the remarkable Denise Scott, who's about to tour her new comedy show ; songstress Bernadette Robinson...
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For 25 years Michael Cathcart has been presenting arts and culture shows on Radio National, bringing listeners stories and conversations with writers, performers, musicians, poets and playwrights, from across Australia...
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Cabaret star Meow Meow interprets Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales in inimitable style. Returning with her brilliant show The Red Shoes , about a girl possessed by a pair of vivid red shoes that won't stop dancing...
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On this episode it’s all about Shakespeare. A comedy. A tragedy. And a tale of utter savagery. The many moods of William Shakespeare – starting in a happy place with actors Alison Bell and Faysal Bazzi, and Shakespeare...
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Danielle de Niese started life in suburban Melbourne, appearing on Young Talent Time at the age of nine before pursuing singing in the US. She is now a star soprano, performing many of opera's most famous roles and...
Why would two actors, who are married in real life, pretend to eviscerate each other night after night in the emotionally brutal play Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf ? Kat Stewart and David Whitely first performed this...
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The new musical Tivoli Lovely is Eddie Perfect’s return to the grand days of what was known across Australia as the Tivoli Theatre circuit. He's written it especially for second and third year music theatre students at...
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Bernadette Peters is the Tony award winning actress who has reigned on Broadway for decades. She is famous for originating roles in Stephen Sondheim musicals -- like the witch in Into The Woods and she's coming to...
Rebecca is a 1938 gothic suspense story by Daphne Du Maurier that's never been out of print. It's also a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock. Now it's a play starring Nikki Shiels as the unnamed Young Woman and Pamela...
In 1986, Filipinos launched a peaceful revolution to overthrow their president, Ferdinand Marcos. In the new play Malacañang Made Us , these events live on in the memories of two brothers who were in the crowd that...
The Stage Show is back from sabbatical! On this episode, star playwright Suzie Miller speaks to Michael about Inter Alia , her gripping new play that takes you into the mind of a feminist judge, who’s also a mother...
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Your guide to what's happening on stages across the country and beyond.
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Pianist Keith Jarrett is one of the most captivating and controversial musicians of the last 50 years. He's a rare breed - a musician who has mastered the art of jazz improvisation and a fine classical player too. It’s...
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Much like Duke Ellington before him, Charles Mingus' output was prolific. Over his near four-decade career, Mingus was behind a number of jazz firsts: he composed and recorded arguably the first jazz ballet - labelling...
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This week we're honouring the late, great Billie Holiday. From her early ascendancy as a weaver of song in the 30s to her outspoken truth telling with records like 'Strange Fruit' to her downfall and decline in the...
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