Sunday, May 4, 2014
Tyran Parke never fails to astound and delight in live performance. His new one man show Children and Art, which debuted at the Art Gallery of NSW on Friday is no exception. A masterful crea…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:28PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
When it comes to the music theatre and cabaret, you would indeed be hard pressed to find someone more passionate on the subject than Tyran Parke. Actor, singer, writer, director – Tyra…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:48AMThursday, April 10, 2014
While it may indeed be a long way to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the distance between Sydney audiences and the best in Aussie cabaret just got a whole lot smaller. The Hayes Theatre Compa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:34PMAustralian music theatre icon and legendary leading lady Geraldine Turner will return to Sydney stages to star in the Theatre Divisions premiere production of Ruthless! the musical. Turner w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Australian music theatre star, and book writer behind such smash hits as Der Gelbe Stern, Love Bites and The Hatpin, James Millar will be joining the cast of the US arena tour of the rock op…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMRecently, an article on Crikey.com’s Daily Review created a lot of discussion within the music theatre industry by posing the question of whether home-grown musicals received the crea…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:00AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
After award winning Australian seasons and a trip to New York, Dean Bryant and Matthew Frank’s original musical has made it into London. Replete with a spectacular cast of Aussie talen…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMThere’s a reason Shakespearean repertory theatre company Sport for Jove got all those awards earlier this year at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Look yonder oh thy good souls of Sydney and loo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:26PMMonday, March 31, 2014
BREAKING: Hayes Theatre Company has announced their next musical of 2014 this fine April morning and it looks set to be the biggest of them all. The ambitious independent theatre company has…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:09PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
Madama Butterfly is one of the worlds most popular and most performed operas. It remains a guarantee, however, that whether you have seen Puccini’s early 20th century tale of the loss …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMWith Willy Russell’s iconic West End musical Blood Brothers in full swing at Melbourne’s Chapel-Off-Chapel until April 6, AussieTheatre took time out to hear from the Johnson Twi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMMonday, March 17, 2014
On Saturday, Sydney’s beautiful Angel Place recital centre played host to a fantastic, charity event. The Royal Flying Doctors Service in the presence of the Governor of NSW Dr Marie B…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:50PMSaturday, March 15, 2014
Though only in its third year in 2014, Opera on the Harbour has swiftly become a fast fixture of the cultural (and social) calendar not only for Sydney, but also Australia at large and even …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMFriday, March 14, 2014
Recently, AussieTheatre’s David Allen got the chance to go backstage during a break in a tech run of music theatre darling Squabbalogic’s latest production. Mix ups, mayhem and a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMAussieTheatre’s David Allen talks to the creator of the legendary Rocky Horror Show – Richard O’Brien as he prepares to join the Australian tour. On the phone, Richard O’…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMThursday, March 13, 2014
Prepare ye, for the return of Squabbalogic is upon us! In 2013 this bold young production company reminded the Sydney music theatre scene just what the words “game changing” mean…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:33AMMonday, March 10, 2014
When it comes to Next to Normal, Victoria just seems to get all the luck! With two fabulous productions in Melbourne, a third is set to open at the Geelong Performing Arts Centre this week.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald have both reported that critically acclaimed and internationally renowned actress Wendy Hughes has died in Sydney this morning as a result of cancer.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:10AMFriday, March 7, 2014
No list of Australia’s truly great leading ladies of the stage would be complete without Rachael Beck. Over the last twenty-nine years (she made her debut in Cats in Melbourne aged 15) she…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:30PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Eugene Onegin is an operatic experience with a difference. A “classic” by Tchaikovsky, it spent the earliest years of its history, touring Europe where it was viewed as something of a Ru…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:10PMMonday, March 3, 2014
Australian star of stage and screen and former co-creative director of the Sydney Theatre Company Cate Blanchett officially joined the ranks of Hollywood royalty today winning her second Aca…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:36AMMonday, February 24, 2014
2013 became all about the Wicked witches Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. 2014 is more than living up to the benchmark as international music theatre icons Bernadette Peters, Faith Prince…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMSunday, February 23, 2014
Well it’s official, this month Sydney audiences resoundingly welcomed the return of the independent musical. With William Finn’s Falsettos playing at the Eternity and Sweet Charity at th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:15PMAustralian music theatre star Alexis Fishman (Dusty, Kiss of the Spider Woman) will feature as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival in her smash hit one woman show co-penned with Ja…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:37PMMonday, February 17, 2014
You never saw such a standing ovation as greeted the final performance of King Kong last night. Though Wicked’s and Grease’s come and go and ignite the youthful believers of the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:08AMSaturday, February 15, 2014
When I was 4 years old, I was a giant fan of a TV show called The Golden Girls. I’d watch the classic 80s – 90s tv show with my mother and, admittedly, back then I didn’t u…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:21PMSunday, February 9, 2014
If there is one thing that 2013 taught me, hands down it’s that there’s no such thing as too much Margi de Ferranti. Having performed only sporadically for the past decade while she conc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:45PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Carmen’s passion strikes you full force. By word, by deed and through it’s famous score, it’s a crazed tale of misbegotten adventure with the good corrupted and vanquished …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:35PMThe Glugs marked their 45th anniversary at the Castlereagh Inn in Sydney last night with the presentation of the annual Glug Awards. Big winners of the evening included George Youakim’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:52AMSunday, February 2, 2014
A Sydney theatrical institution will mark its 55th anniversary tonight with an awards ceremony celebrating the best of Sydney’s theatre scene and cultural life. In 1966, a group of the the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:38PMWednesday, January 22, 2014
The Turk in Italy arrived in Sydney last night in grand style in a new, groundbreaking production directed by Simon Phillips and designed by Gabriela Tylesova. A flop for most of its lifetim…
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