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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 suggested that a 'white woman' – maybe the survivor of a shipwreck – had been tak ...  Show more

Best of The Stage Show: Pamela Rabe + a kid's point of view on stage

It’s one of those roles which great actors have on their to-do list: Winnie in the play Happy Days by Samuel Beckett. Winnie starts the play buried up to her waist in dirt. In Act 2 she’s buried up to her neck! Acclaimed actor Pamela Rabe tell us what makes this such an iconic pl ...  Show more

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