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Details: Paul Andrew; 01 October 2010

Benedict Hardie is an actor, writer and director and Associate Artist with Melbourne's award winning Hayloft Project. This month he debut's with the Melbourne Theatre Company, playing the role of Tom in Daniel Keene's Life Without Me. Benedict spoke to Australian Stage's Paul Andrew.

Details: Paul Andrew; 01 October 2010

Dean Bryant is the scriptwriter to Matthew Frank’s fabulous musical direction in the prodigious musical theatre pairing known as Bryant and Frank. Paul Andrew manages to catch Dean Bryant for five minutes on Broadway.

Details: Dione Joseph; 28 September 2010

Ursula Yovich always wanted to sing. And deep down she knew that one day she would. “After all my people have been doing it for 40,000 years.”

Details: Dione Joseph; 28 September 2010

Uncle Jack Charles has an electrifying personality. And coupled with his gift of the gab and an unwavering commitment to expose Australian history and its justice, social and health systems, the man is unquestionably one of the most important figures of our times.

Details: Brett Casben; 25 September 2010

Kym Vercoe is writer and performer of seven kilometres north-east, the latest work by award-winning Sydney company version 1.0. In the lead up to Opening Night, she spoke to Australian Stage's Brett Casben.

Details: Paul Andrew; 20 September 2010

Described by Patrick White as ‘a novelist of genius’, Christina Stead displays throughout her fiction, an extraordinary range of character, situation, language, theme and atmosphere. Playwright Darryl Emmerson has written a new play about her life and an insight into her life’s work.

Details: Eliza Eggler; 17 September 2010

Australian Stage's Eliza Eggler recently met up in Sydney with publicist Julia Lenton and writer Patrick Lenton to discuss the Sydney Fringe Festival which is currently running in venues around Sydney’s inner west.

Details: Anna Lozynski; 17 September 2010

In 2010, Melbourne will again be presented with an exciting array of both home grown and international acts across multiple genres. Anna Lozynski spoke to Director of the Melbourne International Arts Festival Brett Sheehy to get the low down on his vision for this year’s “fiercely contemporary” program.

Benedict Hardie

Dean Bryant

Ursula Yovich

Uncle Jack Charles

Kym Vercoe

Darryl Emmerson

Julia Lenton and Patrick Lenton

Brett Sheehy

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