The Stage Show

What performing arts events were staged near the battlefield by and for the troops and the soldiers who took their stories on the road in travelling variety shows after their return to Australia.

Voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson returns to The Hub on Stage to introduce us to the accent of the Southern United States.

Victorian Opera's world premiere of Lorelei reimagines the myth of the water spirit who lured sailors to their deaths.

Actress Eryn Jean Norvill has told a court her older female colleagues in a Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear "enabled" alleged harassment by Geoffrey Rush.

The Melbourne Theatre Company's Astroman introduces us to a young video game wiz in 1980s Geelong, Victorian Opera's world premiere of Lorelei reimagines the myth of the water spirit who lures sailors to their deaths, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson helps us with the accent of the Southern United States, and as part of Armistice 100 on RN we look at some of the performing arts events staged near the battlefield during WWI.

The Melbourne Theatre Company's Astroman introduces us to a young video game wiz in 1980s Geelong.

The Melbourne Theatre Company's Astroman introduces us to a young video game wiz in 1980s Geelong, Victorian Opera's world premiere of Lorelei reimagines the myth of the water spirit who lures sailors to their deaths, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson helps us with the accent of the Southern United States, and as part of Armistice 100 on RN we look at some of the performing arts events staged near the battlefield during WWI.

In 2012, Richard Gill was the musical director of a Victorian Opera production of The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky. Michael Cathcart met Richard Gill during rehearsals.

We meet Perci Moeketsi who plays Nelson Mandela in Madiba — a stage musical celebrating Mandela's life, we pay tribute to Richard Gill who has died at the age of 76, Elena Carapetis's The Gods of Strangers takes us to Port Pirie in 1947 where southern European immigrants seek refuge after WWII, we discuss the importance of Indigenous Australians telling their own stories on stage, and we dive into the archives to hear Richard Gill in conversation about the Victorian Opera production of The Rake's Progress in 2012.

We meet Perci Moeketsi who plays Nelson Mandela in Madiba — a stage musical celebrating Mandela's life, we pay tribute to Richard Gill who has died at the age of 76, Elena Carapetis's The Gods of Strangers takes us to Port Pirie in 1947 where southern European immigrants seek refuge after WWII, we discuss the importance of Indigenous Australians telling their own stories on stage, and we dive into the archives to hear Richard Gill in conversation about the Victorian Opera production of The Rake's Progress in 2012.