AussieTheatre’s Ben Neutze spoke to director Iain Sinclair about his upcoming production of Arthur Miller’s perennial classic All My Sons and the privilege of opening Sydney’s newest t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMAussieTheatre went inside the rehearsal room of the new Australian production of The Lion King to see how things are coming along. Check out the cast singing together for the first time duri…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:33PMBrendan Hay and Jared Jekyll’s new cabaret, Dance with De Vil, tells the secret story of the son of everyone’s favourite fur-loving, puppy-hunting villainess, Cruella de Vil. T…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:29PMAussieTheatre takes a look at what Griffin Theatre Company has in store for Sydney audiences in 2014. 2013 has been a strong year up at the SBW Stables Theatre. Under Artistic Director Lee L…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:09PMBen Neutze spoke to Blake Bowden at the end of his first week of rehearsals to play Lieutenant Joe Cable in the return season of Opera Australia and GFO’s South Pacific Just one week into …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:13PMOpera Australia today announced their season for 2014 – a mixture of bold new productions and much-loved classics. Ben Neutze takes a look at the season ahead. If Opera Australia’s 2014…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:36AMAfter the huge success of La Traviata in 2012 and Carmen this year, Opera Australia has announced that Madama Butterfly will take centre stage for Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour 2014. On…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:07AMAlbert Herring might be a bit of a favourite at Opera Australia, but it isn’t exactly one of Benjamin Britten’s most well-known operas. It’s essentially a light comedy set in a parochi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:13AMAussieTheatre’s Ben Neutze caught up with stars of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Matt Hetherington, Amy Lehpamer, Katrina Retallick and Anne Wood for this exclusive video interview! Hear w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMIt’s no secret that Trevor Ashley has been inspired by many, many women throughout the course of his working life. His successful I’m Every Woman saw him channel eight divas over the co…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:04PMBen Neutze sat down with Ewen Leslie in a break during rehearsals to talk about his role in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, his skyrocketing career and being reunited with old friends…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:12PMBefore it hits our stages again, AussieTheatre’s Ben Neutze takes a closer look at 40 years of the history of a show that changed history – Grease I sometimes wonder how many peo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMLast month, AussieTheatre attended an exclusive lunch with Lisa McCune, Christine Anu and Gyton Grantley, hosted by Opera Australia to celebrate the return of South Pacific to the Sydney Ope…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMOpera Australia seems to have mixed luck when it comes to staging comic operas. Often they manage to produce work that has joy, fine comedic performances and speaks to our irreverent Austral…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:37AMWhen the curtain first rose on the Act I set of John Bell’s new production of Tosca, there was an audible gasp throughout the audience. Such is the impact of Michael Scott-Mitchell’s mam…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00AMOne of Australia’s most beloved stars of the stage is preparing to frock up as Edna Turnblad in Packemin Production’s Hairspray. Ben Neutze spoke with Jon English, best known for his roc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMAussieTheatre’s Sydney writer Ben Neutze made his way to Melbourne for a taste of the Victorian theatrical scene this week. We think he fell in love with Caroline O’Connor… As a critic…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:05AMThe prestigious JC Williamson Award is awarded by Live Performance Australia to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the live performing arts industry in Australia, and t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMPhil Scott’s new show is the type of show that every cabaret festival needs – a cabaret about cabaret. Scott tells the good, the bad and the ugly from his 30 years working in cabaret, an…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:45PMWhen it comes to opera, they don’t get much gloomier or doomier than Verdi’s epic The Force of Destiny. There’s forbidden love, a woman who lives alone for eight years in a cave, a fur…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:25PMUK theatre company Kneehigh have announced a cast of both Australians and international stars for the upcoming tour of their Broadway and West End hit Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter. The …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:32PMIt’s hard to quantify the impact Elvis Presley had on the world of music. It’s even harder to quantify the impact ‘the King of Rock and Roll’ had on the lives of the people who follo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:15AMEntries are now open for the one of the country’s most prestigious musical theatre competitions, the Rob Guest Endowment. Since 2009, the Rob Guest Endowment has been awarded yearly to a r…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:45PMSir David Attenborough has been forced to cancel his Australian tour of Sir David Attenborough — A Life on Earth. Sir David has been told by his cardiologist that he is in urgent need of a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:41AMIt’s a rare thing for actors to be given the kind of gifts they’re given in Tony Kushner’s seven-hour epic Angels in America. Over the course of the two sprawling parts, Millenium Appr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:33AMWe chat to the winner of last year’s Annual Cabaret Showcase ahead of the national tour and prestigious New York performances of his new show Cabaret: The Complete Unauthorised Biography B…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMARTSONG NSW, an organisation dedicated to presenting classical song recitals have announced their 2013 series, featuring some of Australia’s most beloved opera stars including Teddy Tahu R…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMThe Removalists is the play that put David Williamson on the map as one of Australia’s most revered playwrights. Since premiering in 1971, it’s been studied, analysed, revived and reimag…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:21AMThe ABC have announced they’re developing Kate Grenville’s award-winning, critically acclaimed novel The Secret River into a television miniseries. Earlier this year, Sydney Theatre Co…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:33PMLast night the prestigious Olivier Awards honoured the best on the West End from musicals to plays and opera to ballet. Amongst the winners was Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s epic Einste…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:31AMLegendary star of stage and screen Julie Andrews has touched down in Australia ahead of the national tour of� An Evening with Julie Andrews. AussieTheatre welcomed the icon to Sydney at a pr…
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