# rickaby (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rickaby. Page: Feed: --- ## [Sharry Flett Is Reflecting on 34 Seasons at the Shaw Festival](https://stageworthy.ca/sharry-flett-is-reflecting-on-34-seasons-at-the-shaw-festival/) _2026-08-18 · Stageworthy_ About This Episode: Sharry Flett has spent 34 seasons at the Shaw Festival - long enough to have watched the company evolve through three artistic directors, raise a daughter who appeared on its stages, and welcome back former students she once coached as the people now directing her. In this conversation with host Phil Rickaby, Sharry reflects on what keeps drawing her back to… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/a9222920-a12e-42cf-946e-6ac206d4303e.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3) ## [Christopher Gaze is Sharing What It Takes to Build a Theatre Festival That Lasts](https://stageworthy.ca/christopher-gaze-is-sharing-what-it-takes-to-build-a-theatre-festival-that-lasts/) _2026-08-11 · Stageworthy_ About This Episode: Christopher Gaze is the founder and artistic director of Bard on the Beach, Vancouver's beloved outdoor Shakespeare festival now in its 37th season. In this conversation, Christopher talks with Phil about how a $35,000 co-op startup in 1990 grew into one of Canada's largest theatre companies, drawing 80,000 people a season to a pair of tented stages in Vanier Park overlooking… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/3d10b063-e28f-4cb4-aa87-47b5445cea8f.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3) ## Ming Hudson is Directing Antigone at Bard on the Beach _2026-08-04 · Stageworthy_ About This Episode: Director Ming Hudson joins Phil Rickaby to talk about bringing Antigone to Bard on the Beach in Vancouver - a production seven years in the making, created collaboratively with playwright Kate Besworth. It's a minimalist, intimate reimagining of a 2,500-year-old story about a woman who does the right thing even when told not to, and Ming shares how it came together from a… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/5adce574-493b-4863-97ad-769b6c3fa892.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3) ## [Tim Carroll is making the Shaw Festival into a two-way conversation with its audience](https://stageworthy.ca/tim-carroll-is-making-the-shaw-festival-into-a-two-way-conversation-with-its-audience/) _2026-07-28 · Stageworthy_ About This Episode: Tim Carroll has been the artistic director of the Shaw Festival for a decade, and in that time he's reshaped the festival's mandate, expanded its reach into the community, and built a company culture grounded in playfulness, humility, and genuine artistic ambition. This episode explores: How Tim balances directing two major productions, Heartbreak House and Amadeus, in a single… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/ac609fd4-ed5b-4a70-b4e2-139f95ee985a.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3) ## [Ryan McCollom is Making Canadian Theatre Impossible to Ignore](https://stageworthy.ca/ryan-mccollom-is-making-canadian-theatre-impossible-to-ignore/) _2026-07-21 · Stageworthy_ About This Episode: Ryan McCollom is a Toronto-based theatre content creator behind the popular TikTok and Instagram account Plates and Playbills, and he's on a mission to get more people through the doors of indie and smaller professional theatres across the city. What started as personal documentation of his own growing love of theatre has evolved into a platform dedicated to closing the gap… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/b1b6d421-69c4-4b61-b075-4a0e8c95f327:5d0d3e50-1aba-48c5-8f7c-949fba042360.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3) ## [Peter Fernandes is Making His Directing Debut at the Shaw Festival with Sleuth](https://stageworthy.ca/peter-fernandes-is-making-his-directing-debut-at-the-shaw-festival-with-sleuth/) _2026-07-14 · Stageworthy_ About This Episode: Peter Fernandes is many things at once: an award-winning actor, a magic and illusions designer, and now a first-time director at one of Canada's most celebrated theatre festivals. In this conversation, Peter joins Phil to talk about what it's like to make your directing debut with Sleuth at the Shaw Festival, a mystery that demands the same sleight-of-hand thinking Peter has… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/2f635eaa-349d-468d-b81f-98c446182204.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3) ## [Natalie Kaye is Channelling Harpo Marx, Mae West, and Shakespeare All at Once](https://stageworthy.ca/natalie-kaye-is-channelling-harpo-marx-mae-west-and-shakespeare-all-at-once/) _2026-07-07 · Stageworthy_ About This Episode: Playwright and writer Natalie Kaye joins Phil Rickaby to talk about her wildly ambitious new musical, 1920s Walking Around in a Dream, playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival. The show is a screwball comedy set in an imagined 1920s Jazz Age Chicago, and it's a retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, translated not into modern English, but into the heightened,… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/38f992c2-d6fe-446b-88b6-8280c670b4e4.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3) ## [Your Guide to the 2026 Toronto Fringe, with Four of Toronto's Essential Theatre Voices](https://stageworthy.ca/your-guide-to-the-2026-toronto-fringe-with-four-of-torontos-essential-theatre-voices/) _2026-06-30 · Stageworthy_ About This Episode: As the Toronto Fringe Festival prepares to launch, Phil Rickaby gathers four of Toronto's most dedicated theatre content creators (Janine Marley from A View from the Box, Ryan Borochovitz from The Cup Podcast, Alexandra Lean from Being Dramatic, and Ryan McCollom from Plates & Playbills) for a lively live stream preview of the 2026 festival. Together they dig into what makes… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/1ed8ce2c-2c39-43fa-8855-dd97fd1194fd.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3) ## [Marla Torgerson is Bringing her Show about Breaking Up with White Jesus to Toronto Fringe](https://stageworthy.ca/marla-torgerson-is-bringing-her-show-about-breaking-up-with-white-jesus-to-toronto-fringe/) _2026-06-25 · Stageworthy_ About This Episode: In this episode, Phil sits down with Marla Torgerson, a Calgary-based singer-songwriter and classically trained vocalist who has written and performs her debut theatrical work, Sinner, a one-woman musical tragic comedy about growing up in the evangelical Bible Belt of central Alberta and the long, often painful process of leaving fundamentalist religion behind. What starts as a… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/6396d1c9-726f-4bfc-a9db-c44bbbae14aa.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3) ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4U0VageHglBj) _2026-06-25 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Chris Cracknell is Making Theatre About Online Community, Identity, and Finding Your People](https://stageworthy.ca/chris-cracknell/) _2026-06-23 · Stageworthy_ About this episode: Chris Cracknell is a Hamilton-based composer, musician, performer, and web series creator who has channelled a pandemic-era creative crisis into something genuinely extraordinary: a non-canonical musical adventure called Pookumhura Mistress of B-Roll, playing at Theatre Passe-Muraille as part of the Toronto Fringe's Musical Theatre Hub. The show draws on Chris's nearly two… [Listen](https://pinecast.com/listen/ded24638-0a16-4741-9e38-efa867756515.mp3?source=rss&ext=asset.mp3)