Following the resounding success of its 2013 inception, the NEON Festival of Independent Theatre returns with a stellar line-up of productions, talks and workshops. Aussie Theatre’s Brenda…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:44AMThis April, one of AussieTheatre’s own lights takes centre-stage with a new, original work based on her experiences in a different kind of foyer, with Reception: The Musical. Brendan McCal…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMJane Bodie is someone who knows how to keep the plates spinning. With three plays happening simultaneously across two states, one might expect a certain fatigue to be trickling down the phon…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:18PMThe cultural diversity of Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs will be on display as classical music, hip-hop and street poetry collide in Urban Chamber – Beyond, from non-p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:29AMIn the lead up to this year’s Melbourne Festival Aussie Theatre’s Brendan McCallum caught up with director Daniel Schlusser to talk about his adaptation of one of the canonical m…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:15PMIn 2010, prior to the escalation of civil war in Syria, actor and writer Cat Commander spent months visiting the country, along with many of its Levant neighbours. Her one-person show, Befor…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:26AMSince its inception in 2012 Mockingbird Theatre has been quietly carving a place for itself amongst the Melbourne independent theatre scene. Founded by award-winning director Chris Baldock, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:41AMThe story of Salome, like many tales from the Bible, has endured in part because of its frisson of beauty and brutality. Christian iconography has presented her as the epitome of the femme f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:48AMTobias Manderson-Galvin and Glyn Roberts are the creative heart of independent theatre troupe MKA, which has carved out a name for itself over the past four years with its innovative approac…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:17PMBlessed with arresting looks, a mercurial talent and a voice to die for, Jamaican-born Zahra Newman next hits our stages as Varya in Simon Stone’s upcoming The Cherry Orchard: After Chekho…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMAussie Theatre’s Brendan McCallum caught up with Moira Finucane, the grand dame of dark burlesque, before the opening of her latest performance The Glory Box Paradise. There is somethi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:51AMIn the lead up to the opening of Cruising Paradise — tales by Sam Shepard on 25 April, Aussie Theatre’s Brendan McCallum managed to catch up with director Terence O’Connell for a chat.…
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