STAGES with Peter Eyers

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By: Peter Eyers

STAGES is the podcast that accesses a variety of people whose professional life is about connecting with an audience. A host of creative artists and practitioners reflect on their career, their process and what matters – to them. Some have made the arts a lifetime pursuit, some explain how their career became a happy accident … but all describe the challenges and demands – and ultimately celebrate why there’s no business like show business! STAGES talks to talent from front of house and backstage - directors, designers, drag artists and doormen … performers, producers and publicists ... teachers, technicians and talent! Whatever stages it takes to e...

‘Centred Stages’ - Performing Arts Counsellor, Coach & Mentor; Sophie Carter
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Yesterday at 6:00 PM

The Arts are widely recognised as a unique tool for human expression and offer a valuable contribution to society. They define our humanity.
For anyone working in the Arts, it is a wonderful and fulfilling profession. But a creative or performance career will present considerable emotional challenge. Navigating an industry with precarious employment opportunities means that artists (on and off the stage), may experience mental health concerns, anxiety or stress. 
Artists are required to manage a role that brings huge expectations from colleagues, self and potential employers. Work is not guaranteed, and this can place huge demands o...


‘Hey Old Friend!’ - Actor, Director, Writer; Barry Creyton
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Last Saturday at 6:00 PM

Barry Creyton began his career at the age of 17 in theatre and in radio in Australia and by age 20, was playing leads on stage, and in national radio productions.  He also hosted his own weekly radio program devoted to theatre news and interviews. At 21, he made his Australian television debut as Lorenzo in a national television production of The Merchant of Venice.   
For three seasons, he starred in the TV series The Mavis Bramston Show.  This ground  breaking show, the highest rated in the history of Australian television, dealt with topical and political satire.
Creyton relocated to England fo...


‘Grease is the Word’ - Actor/Director; Luke Joslin
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03/20/2024

Luke Joslin is a graduate of The University of Western Sydney and The Actors College of Theatre and Television, Luke has forged a successful career in both musical theatre and straight drama, as well as being highly sort after as a director.
Luke worked as an Actor for 15 years. His extensive credits include the national tour of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Play That Goes Wrong, both for Lunchbox and Jon Nicholls, Brigadoon for Production Company, Machu Picchu for State Theatre Company of South Australia, Pinnochio for Windmill and Sydney Theatre Company, Threepenny Opera for Malthouse and Sydney Theatre C...


‘Time to Learn, Time to Care’ - Celebrated Opera and Theatre Director; Francesca Zambello
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03/19/2024

Francesca Zambello is an internationally recognised director of opera and theatre. She is the Artistic Director of The Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center; a role she has occupied since 2012. 

In 2022 she retired from a celebrated role as the General Director of The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, N.Y., having been appointed in 2010.

Francesca has also served as the Artistic Advisor to the San Francisco Opera from 2005–2011 and as the Artistic Director of the Skylight Theatre from 1987–1992.

She has since staged new productions at major theatres, festivals and opera houses in Asia, Austra...


‘Sing Out Louise!’ - Musical Director, Performance Coach & Archivist; Michael Lavine
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03/16/2024

Michael Lavine is a Broadway Performance Coach and Sheet Music Expert. He has also worked as a musical director, pianist, vocal coach and singer all over the world. He is very much; a Music Man!
Michael gives master classes on auditioning in New York, Los Angeles, Australia and Martha’s Vineyard. He has worked several times at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. 
Accompanying many artists, he has worked regularly with Heather MacRae on her show about her father, Gordon and has accompanied Broadway and television star Bryan Batt in New Orleans, at 54 Below, Feinstein’s and the Metropolitan Room...


‘New York City Boy’ - Actor/Writer; Eddie Grey
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03/15/2024

Eddie Grey was born and raised in Sydney. An accomplished musician and talented performer, he graduated from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and quickly garnered an impressive list of credits in productions of Spring Awakening (for the Sydney Theatre Company), and commercial productions of Legally Blonde, Wicked (as Boq) and The Book of Mormon.
Whilst at WAAPA he started writing his own material. His first work was Frau Fangus’ Revenge, a musical about a masochistic Weimar-era piano teacher who falls in love with her student and makes the student murder her husband. Y’know.  Standard musical comedy fodd...


‘Drama Queen’ - Designer & Arts Educator; Judith Hoddinott
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03/13/2024

Judith Hoddinott has made considerable impact as an educator and a theatre designer across all disciplines. 
Training at the University of New England and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, her design work has been seen complementing a myriad of stages with companies as diverse as the Sydney Theatre Company, GFO, CDP, Jacobsen Entertainment, Playbox, Opera Australia, Performing Lines, Theatre of the Deaf, New Moon, Hunter Valley, STC, Marian Street, & Ensemble theatre companies, and the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.
Judith has taught Theatre Design at East Sydney Technical College, University of Western Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney a...


Vale Episode - Producer, Manager, Impresario; Martin McCallum.
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03/09/2024

On January 14th we learned of the passing of Theatre Impresario, Martin McCallum. He was a featured guest on the STAGES podcast in January 2019. The podcast was only a year old, but Martin with his enthusiasm and vigour for supporting new ventures was keen at my first suggestion. I am so honoured that we were able to record some of his story in this episode.
Martin resided in Australia for the past 20 years. He was brought here originally when overseeing the transfer of global hit musicals such as Evita, to Australian shores; working alongside the Adelaide Festival Centre T...


‘Not a Day Goes By’ - Stars of GROUNDHOG DAY; Andy Karl & Elise McCann
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03/06/2024

Groundhog Day The Musical made its Australian Premiere at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre on Thursday February 1st - (incidentally February 2nd is the actual Groundhog Day).

Direct from its record-breaking return season at London’s Old Vic, the Australian production will play a 13-week season in Melbourne. 

Groundhog Day the Musical is a gloriously joyful and heart-warming production from the award-winning minds of Australia’s one and only Tim Minchin AM, the writer of the iconic 1993 film Danny Rubin and director Matthew Warchus. 

Broadway Veteran Andy Karl returns to Groundhog Day after his critically-accla...


STAGES SEASON 7 - "It's So Nice to Have You Back Where You Belong!"
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02/23/2024

The STAGES podcast returns in 2024 for it's 7th Season - conversations with creatives about craft and career!

Season 7 launches on March 7th.