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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The podcast currently has 104 episodes available.

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July 10, 2023 Dominic West (Act I)
Dominic West, ladies and gentlemen! This week, our superbly entertaining West guest talks wearing a turban doing Tamburlaine with Jonny at the RSC, his family background in amateur dramatics, making his father cry, why his mother didn’t want him to do The Wire, falling off the stage in his first professional gig, wishing he could do Hamlet again, running away to join the circus, getting goosed by hen parties and how you need to leave a gap between you and the character to let the audience in.
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July 04, 2023 John Douglas Thompson (Act II)
The second half of Jonny’s chat with the revered John Douglas Thompson covers their mutual love for the director Arin Arbus, giving up the use of his eyes to do Beckett with an actor John describes as like being onstage with “ a dog, a baby and a genius”, what Eugene O’Neil’s characters say to each other when John engages them in conversation, what pisses him off about the theatre, what is was like to do “the worst Hamlet in America” and some ideas for a John and Jonny collaboration.
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36min
July 03, 2023 John Douglas Thomspon (Act I)
Jonny talks to perhaps the most celebrated classical actor in America today, John Douglas Thompson. No perhaps about it (if you read his reviews), John makes Jonny extremely jealous when he considers the critical raptures that JDT routinely receives. John has played Othello SEVEN times and isn’t done with it yet. But only if a woman directs it. He has trenchant thoughts on critics, won’t do a play that involves the occult, acts like a master pickpocket, honours his parents through performance, never knows if Othello will kill Desdemona tonight or not. All this despite living another successful professional life until he was nearly thirty. Find out which play made him want to be an actor. And the incident that cracked open what it would take to be good at it.
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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

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