Simon Moore

From the Northern Beaches to the Vienna State Opera and beyond – Margaret Plummer on Hansel, green lights, fearless leaps and life on the world’s great stages. Don’t miss her in @OperaAustralia Hänsel & Gretel. 🎧 listen at bit.ly/InCon224a

Spent an hour with Caroline O’Connor @cazoconnor talking Sondheim, Broadway, ballet, Baz Luhrmann & singing to the dog in the ‘good’ lounge room. Funny, fearless, and gloriously honest. 🎧 bit.ly/InCon223 🎭 catch her in Sondheim’s Putting it Together at Foundry Theatre

A story which is key in my development as a totally obsessive fanboy… and it shows in our discussion! It made me the man I am today!

Love this story and loved discussing it. So much class, so little time!

@David_Kitchen_ Rewatched The American President just the other night. Brilliant.

Mark Kilmurry and I chatted about everything from Dial M for Murder to new Australian writing, onstage mishaps, and the art of running @ensemblesydney. A generous, funny, deeply thoughtful guest. 🎭 🎧 Apple: bit.ly/InCon218a or Spotify: bit.ly/InCon218s

@David_Kitchen_ @docoho @2Broad2DeepPod Falls apart after part one…? *clutches pearls*

I’ve known Brett Weymark for 20+ years — still funny, thoughtful & just a little cheeky. In this week’s In Conversation, he shares his journey from school singalongs to the Opera House stage. 🎧 bit.ly/InCon205 | 🎵 A Child of Our Time, Sep 13 @SydOperaHouse @sydphil

Toby Schmitz @fallofasparrow adding some lovely colour to his nostalgic reminiscences of working on Broadway. 🎧 Hear our whole chat at bit.ly/InCon200s and don’t miss him @BelvoirSt for Grief is the Thing with Feathers 🎭

Thanks Toby, you were the perfect guest! 🙏😊

Toby Schmitz @fallofasparrow is one of those guests who makes you laugh, think & want to re-read Hamlet. Actor, playwright, novelist, Shakespeare tragic, Stoppard obsessive, don’t miss him in Grief is the Thing with Feathers @BelvoirSt 🎧 bit.ly/InCon200s

Our final 500 Yr Diary for this season was a surprising addition - as I suspect was the fact The Well ended up being a return to Midnight. Our musings below. Looking forward to a return later in the year…

@David_Kitchen_ Indeed. I never subscribed to the ‘recovery of part two made us reappraise the story’. Well, maybe I did reappraise it, as I think even less of it now!!

@David_Kitchen_ @FTEpodcast It would have provided quite the contrast I think! Thanks for your kind words!

Fascinating to meet @ejdougan for this week’s In Conversation. We talk Strozzi, Monteverdi, Polish baroque, ensemble singing and #ChoralChihuahua. He’s in town with @TheSongCompany Saturday @SydOperaHouse 🎧 bit.ly/InCon194s (Spotify) bit.ly/InCon194a (Apple)

To my mind, #doctorwho took a massive step backwards for S23. Our look at Mindwarp below, where I also wax lyrical about the brilliance of Sil’s first outing, too. There’s a lot crammed into this one!

@David_Kitchen_ @FTEpodcast Thanks for the shout out! Though I think saying it’s ‘really’ underrated is a step too far… ‘a bit underrated’ will be perhaps do 😉

A story whose promise is let down by a succession of poor choices in its realisation and execution, is where I ended up landing in this, our take on the Season 21 opener Warriors of the Deep. Commence ignition Scibus!

@David_Kitchen_ @FTEpodcast I’d be stunned if that view doesn’t still hold…

@David_Kitchen_ @FTEpodcast Making fun of bringing back Omega was I think the correct view when we recorded this episode. And I suspect it still is the correct view…

@David_Kitchen_ @theDWshow I remain perplexed that Ambassadors doesn’t get more love. I was captivated seeing it in B&W in the 86 repeat run and have only come to love it more as the years have passed. For me it’s difficult to separate the quality of the S7 stories, they are all top drawer.