Monday, September 23, 2013
The debut New Zealand season of Stephen Schwartz’s Wicked is now in full swing and AussieTheatre’s David Allen has been speaking with the cast of this thrillifying production i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMSaturday, September 21, 2013
Amanda Harrison takes to the cabaret stage for the first time in seven years performing at Sydney’s Slide on Thursday October 3 with her new show Up Close and Reasonably Personal. She …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:35AMFriday, September 20, 2013
Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour opened in Australia on Wednesday to a rapturous audience response at the Perth Arena and now looks set to conquer Australia as it…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:31PMThursday, September 19, 2013
The debut New Zealand production of Wicked began performances this week and AussieTheatre’s David Allen has been speaking with the cast of this new production including NZ’s own…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMMonday, September 16, 2013
With rumours starting just last week, it has now been confirmed that Melbourne Theatre Company will produce the hit Broadway musical Once as part of their 2014 season in partnership with the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00AMLast week at a casual chic affair at the Bar at the End of the Wharf – a very welcome STC addition that has been embraced as an institution by its theatregoers – Andrew Upton announced h…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:38AMSunday, September 15, 2013
With the debut New Zealand production of Wicked set to begin performances on Tuesday, September 17, AussieTheatre’s David Allen got the chance to talk to the cast of this new productio…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:34PMSunday, September 8, 2013
Wicked and Mary Poppins star Pippa Grandison recently caught up with Aussie Theatre’s David Allen for a conversation about her next major role in The Graduate in Melbourne. One of the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:56PMBelvoir Theatre this week announced its season for 2014 and here are our picks from their sensational line up of plays for the new year. From humble origins Belvoir has grown to be a part of…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:51AMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Squabalogic has announced that the cast for the third and final musical of their 2013 season, the highly anticipated Australian professional debut of Carrie the Musical, will be led by Margi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:55PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
The legendary Sydney charity concert to raise money for the Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation will return to Sydney in 2014 with tickets now on sale. The music theatre extravaganza wil…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:00PMOscar winning Australian stage and screen star Geoffrey Rush it has announced will reprise his role as Man in the Chair in a big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperon…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:44PMFriday, August 30, 2013
Hugh Jackman’s next foray into the world of music theatre has finally been confirmed, and like everything the Oscar nominated showman does for the stage it’s a project with serious pedig…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:59PMFriday, August 23, 2013
Shall we dance? It seems after the enduring success of Opera Australia’s revival of South Pacific that the road has been paved for some more Rodgers and Hammerstein to be presented in …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:58AMSunday, August 18, 2013
This morning Independent Music Theatre Sydney has made the announcement via The Daily Telegraph and JoLitson.com that they will re-christen their venue The Hayes Theatre to honour Australian…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:10AMMonday, August 12, 2013
Once upon a time… we wished more than anything, more than life, riches and more than the moon for better music theatre adaptations from Hollywood. Unquestionably this week the biggest …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:00AMFriday, August 9, 2013
In Opera Australia’s season commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of composer Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata cannot help but stand out. A famous opera, yes, it also possesses a stor…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:39AMMonday, August 5, 2013
David Allen chats with Patrice Tipoki about Songs For A New World, playing tonight in Melbourne. When I was a kid, I got to see a lot of great shows – in Sydney, in Melbourne and even …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:06AMSunday, July 28, 2013
My first confession about Esther Hannaford is that I had no idea just how talented she was! I first saw her play Penny Pingleton in the 2010 production of Hairspray. She was funny, vocally p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:42PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
After over two years of speculation and overwhelming popular demand by Australian audiences, finally it can be confirmed that Tim Minchin’s critically acclaimed Matilda the musical is expe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMThursday, July 18, 2013
A truly great play, is a delicate and fragile thing. The luminaries who write them come once in a generation — if we’re lucky. Somehow their words manage to capture something — some sp…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:40PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
David Allen writes about Australia’s original international musical success story — Hot Shoe Shuffle — and why you should grab tickets to this Australian born creation while you can! L…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:45PMMonday, July 15, 2013
Anyone who has considered a career in the theatre, in some way, at some time, will most likely have considered picking up and moving to New York. One of the great theatre capitals of the wor…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:25AMFriday, July 12, 2013
Cabaret as an art form can be hit and miss — and what a rare and incredible thing it is to come across a show where the music, the subject and the performer have all come together to provi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:26PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Three years age when Bernadette Robinson debuted in Songs for Nobodies as part of a season at Melbourne Theatre Company, she was a veritable unknown. Her play by Joanna Murray Smith seemed t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMThursday, June 27, 2013
Christie Whelan-Browne is unquestionably one of Australian music theatre’s most promising starlets. She has also had one of the most interesting careers of her generation. There is very li…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:51PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
It’d be tough to find a duo in Australia more similar to the characters they are playing than James Millar and Lucy Maunder. When the pair of young music theatre stars opened at Glen Stree…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:00AMMonday, June 24, 2013
I’m enough of a theatre geek to admit that Monday night, for me, was all about the Helpmann Awards and that there were days of preparation for me leading up to the actual event. Tweets wer…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:02PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
It’s a truly extraordinary thing to experience the concert of a star so beloved that she could conceivably have performed the scale and received a rapturous welcome from her audience. So i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:03PMThursday, June 13, 2013
Tyran Parke cuts a youthful figure but already he’s a theatrical veteran. He graduated WAAPA in 1999 and stepped into some of the best and brightest productions to tour Australia in the la…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:08PMThe Adelaide Cabaret Festival this year is rich and diverse with events. Jazz, rock’n’roll, musicals, song cycles, cabaret and divas as far as they eye can see. Joining them, is Aussie m…
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