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Best of The Stage Show

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Best of The Stage Show: Pamela Rabe + a kid's point of view on stage

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Best of The Stage Show: How Anais Mitchell wrote Hadestown

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Best of The Stage Show: Stephen Rea + the soul of Butoh

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Best of The Stage Show: Robyn Nevin and Patricia Cornelius

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Farewell friends: Denise Scott, Bernadette Robinson and Love Actually? the musical

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A look back at Michael Cathcart's 25 years on air

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West End's Alfie Boe + Meow Meow puts on The Red Shoes

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Three moods of William Shakespeare hit our stages

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Danielle de Niese's journey to the heart of Carmen

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The couple performing theatre's worst marriage + Lamine Sonko

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Why Eddie Perfect wrote a musical for his alma mater

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Broadway star Bernadette Peters + reviving The Shiralee

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Shining a new light on 'Rebecca', a gothic tale of infatuation

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A Filipino-Australian story in the shadow of a revolution

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Suzie Miller's new play 'Inter Alia' delves into uncomfortable truths

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The Stage Show

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Jazz Legends: Keith Jarrett

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Jazz Legends: Charles Mingus

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Jazz Legends: Billie Holiday

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Jazz Legends: Quincy Jones

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Jazz Legends: Joni Mitchell

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Jazz Legends: Sonny Rollins

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Jazz Legends: Nina Simone

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Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part II)

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Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part I)

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Dancing with life and death + the spooky joy of Beetlejuice

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Pamela Rabe tackles an iconic role + a kid's point of view on stage

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How to make it on Broadway, plus a twisted tale challenges these actors

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Getting under the skin of Edith Piaf with Nathalie Lermitte

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Meet Margo Kane, a legend of Canadian theatre + a hit Spanish movie on stage

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The Black Woman of Gippsland flips the script on a Victorian mystery

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The Wrong Gods weighs the cost of 'progress' on a mother and daughter

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100 years of La Boite: a little theatre with big ambitions

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'We're very scared when we're on stage': comedy sisters Flo & Joan

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In 'Lazarus', a playwright resurrects a living legend

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Ruby Wax dives deep (with whales) in her comedy + Eliza Scanlen on Oscar Wilde

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How Anaïs Mitchell wrote the hit musical Hadestown

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The story that brought Leah Purcell back to the stage

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Actor Stephen Rea in Krapp's Last Tape + the soul of Butoh

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Turning the late Ryuichi Sakamoto into mixed reality

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Dancing in the street with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

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Robyn Nevin on Agatha Christie's 'dark side' + a play about Julian Assange

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Emma Rice's dark, rollicking Wuthering Heights

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How do you tell the world's longest tale 'Mahabharata', in five hours?

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'I think the rock swallowed them up': Ian Michael takes on an Australian classic

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The surprising history of Shakespeare in a divided America

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Why Eric Idle always looks on the bright side of life

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The story of the groundbreaking Warumpi Band

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Giacomo Puccini 100 years on

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'I know what I'm doing' — Why Miriam Margolyes courts controversy

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William Yang — A life in a slide show

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How an accident redefined the possibilities of dance

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Can Kiss Me, Kate be tamed?

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Broadway writer Rick Elice, the theatre boy who wouldn't grow up

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The star of Prima Facie plots the next stage of her brilliant career

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Olympic gold medallists Torvill & Dean take one last dance

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Why Monty Python's Eric Idle laughs at death

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A director's career-long effort to empower everyone in the room

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Dear Evan Hansen comes to Australia

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A cabaret lover's journey from sheep farm to Spiegeltent mastermind

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The secrets and stagecraft of magic

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School's out — Matthew Whittet explores the dreams of our youth

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A creative life undimmed by a devastating diagnosis

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Shakespeare in a divided America

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How a writing class with James Baldwin inspired this Tony and Pulitzer winner

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Noni Hazlehurst trades teddy bears for torment in Mother

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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 06 | Tragedy

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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 05 | Nationalism

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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 04 | Race

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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 03 | Horror

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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 02 | Gender

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Wherefore, Shakespeare? 01 | Comedy

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A circus performer's journey from Albury to the Arsenale

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'Welcome to Splott' — A Welsh playwright's local stories go global

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Ray Lawler and 'The Doll' forever changed Australian theatre

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Australia's Hamilton has been in the role longer than Lin-Manuel Miranda

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A Western Sydney playwright revisits his regional roots

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Bohème, Butterfly and beyond — Giacomo Puccini, 100 years on

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Charting the legacy of the First Nations theatrical canon

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A playwright reconceives the undoing of Lady Macbeth

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning play counts the Cost of Living

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Come hear the music play at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival

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'We are here, we belong' — The unifying impact of Counting and Cracking

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Jonathan Biggins is closing the book on Keating and The Wharf Revue

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Bangarra looks to the horizon for its first cross-cultural collaboration

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'I've had this career against all odds' — Bonachela's twisted path to Sydney Dance

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From Europe to the USA, this Australian theatre company keeps on winning

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Audra McDonald & Jason Robert Brown — Tony-winning Broadway icons

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Simon Burke's wonderful (and Wicked) 50 years in the footlights

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After a celebrated Ring Cycle, a director ventures to Lammermoor

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'I didn't want sangría and bulls' — A timeless and brutal Carmen

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Angus Cerini delivers an Australian gothic trilogy

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West Side Story comes to Sydney Harbour

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The writer of The Whale makes a case for the existence of God

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Why Miriam Margolyes courts controversy — 'I know what I'm doing'

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Andrew Scott's one-man Uncle Vanya

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Extreme action, dreaming stories and theatrical theft in Adelaide

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Need help getting opera singers to soar? Add puppets

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Sam Mendes's five precepts for The Lehman Trilogy still inspire Es Devlin