Stage Door Jonny

By Jonathan Cake

Hosted by actor Jonathan Cake, Stage Door Jonny is a podcast about theatre ... and life ... and life in the theatre. Jonathan has appeared in countless plays around the world - and made a fair few cel... more

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June 27, 2023 Laura Linney (Act II)
In Act II of Jonny’s chat with Laura Linney, we discover who her ideal man is; what seminal experience of festive female empowerment pushed her along the path of being an actor; what happened when she got stage fright; what was said to her at the Moscow Art theatre that unlocked a door; her relationship to fear; and what advice she would give a fourth year Juilliard drama student if that student happened to be Jonny.
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29min
June 26, 2023 Laura Linney (Act I)
Who better to kick off the Summer Season of Stage Door Jonny than the wonderful Laura Linney? Want to know what work she does to make all her performances on stage and screen so full and lived in? Want to know what she thinks the secret weapon of the theatre is? Ever heard of a delightmare? Want to know why Joanne Woodward wanted to meet Laura in her car? Who her favourite director is? All is revealed during the first part of Jonny’s conversation with Laura in her Broadway dressing room.
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59min
June 23, 2023 Stage Door Jonny Returns!
He's back, loitering by the stage door, angling for chats with some of the finest theatre artists of this (or any) generation. Find out who's coming up in our Summer Season, coming very, very soon. Please subscribe so as not to miss an episode, and leave us a rating and review.
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4min
March 06, 2023 Sir Simon Russell Beale (Act II)
There are no second acts in American lives but there are in Stage Door Jonny. In the last act of conversation for this series of the podcast, Sir Simon Russell Beale tells Jonny about playing Hamlet for his mum and the challenge of grieving onstage, who he fixates on in his audience about once every couple of months, the actor he thinks is the top dog of his generation, improvising Ibsen and the bastard who invented the matinee. He also manages to beautifully articulate what might actually be the manifesto for this podcast: an actor onstage at a particular high water mark of feeling and an audience who understands in the same moment that they are that character too. Simon definitely says it better.

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37min
March 06, 2023 Sir Simon Russell Beale (Act I)
Enter the Ur-Guest, the man who’s performance in Lehman Trilogy made Jonny fall back in love with theatre, the OG inspiration for Stage Door Jonny and one of the undisputed greats of the modern stage- Sir Simon Russell Beale. It feels entirely fitting to end this inaugural series of SDJ with a chat with SRB, an actor who has performed more great roles than even Wikipedia can count. If you want to know how palatial his dressing room at The Bridge theatre was while he was playing the title role in John Gabriel Borkman, whether he has sacrificed love for his career, who made his very first costume, the role of sniffing in his famous collaborations with Sam Mendes, how many pints can get him to bed before most of the audience and how certain parts get him to a magical place beyond caring, this is the episode for you.
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52min
March 01, 2023 Martha Plimpton (Act II)
Take your seats for Act II of Jonny’s chat with Martha and hear how she feels about the first day of rehearsal, what noise the first stagger through of a play elicits in her and the effect it has on her bowels. We hear how The Coast of Utopia changed her life, what was special about the curtain call on the days when they did all three plays in that trilogy consecutively, why she still has beef with Ethan Hawke and what happened when a beloved cast mate had a heart attack in front of them onstage. We hear what to do if you behave badly at the technical rehearsal, plus the unedifying story of Jonny being told to cover his nudity at Lincoln Centre, the search for a great play about reproductive rights and how playing Jaques in London may be the first step in a line of traditionally male roles for Martha.
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42min
February 28, 2023 Martha Plimpton (Act I)
Ladies and gentlemen, Martha Plimpton. Martha was all but born in the theatre - literally. She was onstage in the original Broadway production of Hair in her mum’s tum, then held by her as a tiny baby and a host of impromptu babysitters night after night as they sang “Let the Sunshine In”. The theatre was her formative play-space and so it remains. In the first part of their chat she and Jonny discuss trying to learn lines for another gig when you’re doing a play, the perils of falling in love with a cast mate, how our brains sometimes don’t get the memo that this is a fiction and her extraordinary childhood,
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51min
February 21, 2023 Toby Stephens (Act II)
In Act II of Jonny's chat with Toby, we hear his nightmare of not being able to squeeze into Coriolanus's breast-plate, his unsexy take on Hamlet but some of that audience's sexy take on him, the role of chemistry onstage and which legendary actress didn't want the audience to laugh at her character, the efficacious role of pissing about in rehearsal, how thrilling it is to enter a flow state on stage, his problem with issue plays and his search for the real thing.
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48min
February 21, 2023 Toby Stephens (Act I)
For Jonathan's pal Toby Stephens, acting is very much the family business. His mother is Dame Maggie Smith, and his father was bravura actor and legendary hellraiser Sir Robert Stephens. Here he speaks with great frankness, insight and humour about his parents and the influence they had on his own path towards a brilliantly successful career on stage and screen. He shares memories of failing to recognise the actress playing Peter Pan the first time he saw a play (it was his mum), discovering a passion for drama through Wilfred Owen’s great anti-war poem, and seeing his dad reduce an entire audience to tears with his rendition of King Lear. We also hear further tales of the dark arts of Laurence Olivier, something of a recurring theme on this podcast ...
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44min
February 13, 2023 Willem Dafoe (Act II)
Ever wondered what Willem is thinking about when he throws his yoga mat out every morning? Well, wonder no more, as we bring you the second part of Jonny's conversation with him on his farm outside Rome. We also find out how his time with The Wooster Group has informed his work as a screen actor, what he still craves from the theatre, and why actors should maybe sometimes just let the work do the talking.

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33min

FAQs about Stage Door Jonny:

How many episodes does Stage Door Jonny have?

The podcast currently has 91 episodes available.