Stage & Screen - Season 2

Deborah is joined by performing arts expert and co-Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival Rachel Healy who gets us excited about the festival which she is co-artistic directing with Neil Armfield.

The episode also features actors Alison Whyte and Colin Friels who interview each other about their upcoming Melbourne Theatre Company production Faith Healer in which they never actually appear on stage at the same time in this four part monologue play structure.

Margaret Pomeranz offers critical insights into the new Australian coming-of-age film Jasper Jones,before interviewing author Craig Silvey and seasoned director Rachel Perkins prior to the film release.

Margaret is joined by television critic Graeme Blundell to take a look at showcase (Foxtel) channel's latest drama series offering Big Little Lies. A subversive, dark comedic drama based on the book of the same name by best-selling Australian author Liane Moriarty and stars Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern and Alexander Skarsgard.

A ‘television first' reuniting the legendary and longest on screen partnerships of Stage & Screen presenter Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton.

Margaret and David are reunited on our television screens for the first time on Stage & Screen since the final episode of At The Movies in 2014. Margaret welcomes David on set to interview him about his much anticipated documentary David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, featuring a who's who of Australian cinema including Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi, Eric Bana, Bryan Brown, Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman.

Deborah Hutton chats to Peter Evans, director of Bell Shakespeare's Richard III, which stars Kate Mulvaney and also chats to classically trained and alternative pop Australian artist Kate Miller-Heidke and some of her co-stars from Melbourne Symphony about their exciting new orchestral tour.