The Stage Show Podcast
1) Best of The Stage Show
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...Show More
2) Best of The Stage Show: Pamela Rabe + a kid's point of view on stage
Itâs one of those roles which great actors have on their to-do list: Winnie in the play Happy Days by Samuel Beckett. Â Winnie starts the play buried up to her waist in dirt. In Act 2 sheâs buried up t...Show More
3) Best of The Stage Show: How Anais Mitchell wrote Hadestown
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...Show More
4) Best of The Stage Show: Stephen Rea + the soul of Butoh
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 Las...Show More
5) Best of The Stage Show: Robyn Nevin and Patricia Cornelius
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...Show More
6) Farewell friends: Denise Scott, Bernadette Robinson and Love Actually? the musical
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 Tickety Boo; song...Show More
7) A look back at Michael Cathcart's 25 years on air
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, fro...Show More
8) West End's Alfie Boe + Meow Meow puts on The Red Shoes
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 w...Show More
9) Three moods of William Shakespeare hit our stages
On this episode itâs all about Shakespeare. A comedy. A tragedy. And a tale of utter savagery. The many moods of William Shakespeare â starting in a happy place with actors Alison Bell and Faysal Bazz...Show More
10) Danielle de Niese's journey to the heart of Carmen
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 fa...Show More