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The Stage Show brings you in-depth conversations with the world's top directors, performers and writers for the stage.

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

Choreographer Johan Inger's first narrative work is a radically contemporary take on Carmen, which employs Bizet's famous score but draws on the confronting violence of Mérimée's original novella for its story.

Published: MonMon 15 Apr 2024 at 3:00pmwith Michael Cathcart

On stage, a woman in a red dress squeezes the juice of an orange into the mouth of a man sitting on the floor.

Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

Wherefore, Shakespeare?

Wherefore, Shakespeare? 01 | Comedy

Wherefore, Shakespeare? is a new series that explores the dilemmas, conflicts, and controversies in Shakespeare's major plays. In our first instalment, we tackle Shakespeare's comedies.

A composite image William Shakespeare with a winking eye. The text 'Wherefore, Sheakespeare? Comedy' is superimposed.

Duration: 28 minutes 12 seconds

Published: 27 Mar 2024Wed 27 Mar 2024 at 2:55amwith Michael Cathcart

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Es Devlin has designed sets for Beyoncé, Adele and U2 — and now you can see her work in Sydney

Acclaimed set designer Es Devlin takes us behind the scenes of Sam Mendes's blockbuster production of The Lehman Trilogy, now playing in Sydney.

A woman with long dark hair, wearing a black blazer and white dress, standing in a spiral of white card printed with black text

Published: 14 Mar 2024Thu 14 Mar 2024 at 3:02amby Nicola Heath

Chicago is about to tour Australia – meet the 96-year-old composer behind the Broadway smash-hit

He's one-half of the musical writing duo that helped launch Liza Minelli's career and turn murder suspects into Vaudevillian stars, and John Kander is not done yet.

A brunette white woman and a blonde white woman in tight black dresses stand either side of a white bald man in a tuxedo

Published: 23 Nov 2023Thu 23 Nov 2023 at 1:26amby Anna Freeland

Magic, nudity, dark satire: 'Unstageable' Russian literary masterpiece brought to life in Sydney

Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is notoriously difficult to adapt. But that hasn't stopped one Sydney theatre company staging a new production of the Russian literary masterpiece.

Two female actors performing on stage; one on the right wears a fake moustache and is holding a microphone to her mouth

Published: 27 Nov 2023Mon 27 Nov 2023 at 1:02amby Nicola Heath

Rainbow Chan on her evocative new show exploring grief rituals of arranged marriages in Hong Kong

The multidisciplinary artist and musician has been on an epic journey to connect with her ancestral culture, learning folksongs from the all-but-forgotten brides of pre-colonial Hong Kong.

A Chinese Australian in her 30s with long dark hair wears a silver dress and performs in front of pink-lit beaded curtain.

Published: 23 Oct 2023Mon 23 Oct 2023 at 3:01amby Anna Freeland

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