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 taken captive by Gunaikurnai people in what is now eastern Victoria.  Andrea interrogates the legend in a riveting play called The Black Woman of Gippsland. First broadcast April 29, 2025.

Jason Arrow is known to many as the titular character in Hamilton where he had an extraordinary run both in Australia and internationally. In April 2025 he put his breeches and coat tails away and donned a 1950s dapper suit for the character of Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Opera Australia’s Guys and Dolls on Sydney Harbour. He sings for us the showstopper Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat! First broadcast April 1, 2025.

Damien Warren-Smith is the comedian behind Garry Starr, the (increasingly nude) clown who has toured highly successful shows like Garry Starr Performs Everything, Greece Lightning and Classic Penguins, which won rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and won him an award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Garry may be a buffoon, but Damien takes clowning very seriously. First broadcast March 11, 2025.