Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The novella L’Amante Anglaise by Marguerite Duras was first published in 1967 and Duras adapted it for stage in 1968. The stage version is two interviews about a murder that was disc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:57AMMonday, July 20, 2015
If you’ve ever wondered why anarchists don’t write for television, this may be the answer. Inaugural Barry Award and Piece of Wood Award winning comedy act Miss Itchy invade the Butterfl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMDead Centre is a new piece by Tom Holloway that reflects on and adds a new dimension to the 2008 work Sea Wall by Simon Stephens. Both are solo short plays told from the hurt of emptines…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
In 2015 the Melbourne Cabaret Festival, now in its sixth year, elected as their the chocolate-dipped strawberry as their new emblem; a humble yet iconic treat that, despite its modest size…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:13PMSunday, July 12, 2015
The Production Company was formed in Melbourne in 1999 by Jeanne Pratt AC. Still supported by individual and business sponsors, they present three short-run musicals a year with the ongoing …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:59AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
Jane Miller completed Cuckoo as part of the Masters of Writing for Performance at VCA. Produced with the support of fortyfivedownstairs, it’s beautiful writing that lets hope shine…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:46AMFriday, July 10, 2015
The final opera in Victorian Opera’s Stephen Sondheim trilogy opens next week with the much-anticipated Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Under the direction of Stuart Maunde…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMTuesday, July 7, 2015
I am an unashamed fan of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! The film captured my imagination when I was very young and, although I had nightmares about Bill Sykes, I learnt every word of every song and…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMSaturday, July 4, 2015
Saltwater and Letters Home is a double bill of solo shows by 20-something artists who were born and brought up in Singapore and now live in Australia. Jamie Lewis and Joe Lui share their …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:15PMThursday, July 2, 2015
Lois Ellis first directed Evelyn Krape in Female Parts in 1982. Written by Franca Rame and her theatre collaborator, co-activist and husband Dario Fo (who dedicated his Nobel Prize to her)…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:28AMTuesday, June 30, 2015
Shit is the shit. The fourth show of the 2015 MTC Neon Festival of Independent Theatre screams louder and stronger than the women it’s about and inspires us to make our support for in…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:43AMThursday, June 25, 2015
Apparently times are tough on the dating scene. The women of Ginger & Tonic and the men of Suade are here to tell us all about it in A Match Made in Harmony, a lively and entertaining sh…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:10AMWednesday, June 24, 2015
In her own words, Ruth Wilkin has a lovely life. Her childhood was ordinary, she doesn’t strip or get nude for a living, and she’s not a member of a minority group. So rather than do wha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:07PMTuesday, June 23, 2015
Now in its sixth year, the Melbourne Cabaret Festival is still struggling to become a well-known event on the city’s arts calendar. I attended the initial festival in 2010 and was delighte…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:58PMSaturday, June 20, 2015
As Melbourne rugs up for Winter Solstice, Hobart celebrates the last weekend of the Dark Mofo festival. Anne-Marie Peard had to come home to Melbourne, but there’s one more night …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMThursday, June 18, 2015
It’s 41 years since Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show first broke out of the lab and started blazing a glittery trail of mischief across the planet Earth. Since then, it has overrun …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:58PMFriday, June 12, 2015
It was cold in Hobart last night. The sun’s out today but tonight promises to be colder, darker and weirder as the third Dark Mofo festival opens and this gorgeous city celebrates art …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:12AMFriday, June 5, 2015
The MTC’s much-anticipated North by Northwest will be a sold-out hit. This re-telling of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 much-loved film is slick and fun and doesn’t detract fro…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:56PMMonday, May 25, 2015
What do a dorky high school band, two bagpipers, 50 gingham tablecloths, Bart Simpson, a watermelon, a Prince Albert piercing, and an ungodly amount of spaghetti alla chitarrahave in common?…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:30AMNed (A New Australian Musical) opened on Friday night at the new Ulumbarra Theatre in Bendigo. The choice of opening show was inspired: a musical about a story that infuses Australian id…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:14AMMonday, May 4, 2015
As You Like It is Bell Shakespeare’s first offering this year and has already been through Sydney and Canberra on its way to us here in Melbourne. It’s also John Bell’s first Bell Shak…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:26PMSaturday, April 25, 2015
I’ve heard of double-dating but this is ridiculous. Dave Warneke makes us feel like we’re the most beautiful audience in the world for one very special night of passion and romance in Da…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:28AMFriday, April 24, 2015
1625. France. A young man named d’Artagnan feeds chickens on his family farm and wistfully pines for a different life, one of excitement, valour and duty as a member of the famed Musketeer…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:05AMThe National Gallery of Victoria is next to Arts Centre Melbourne. At night, the gallery’s long grey brick walls share an Anzac story in a series of projections. It’s beautiful …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:57AMMonday, April 20, 2015
The winners of Melbourne’s 32nd Annual Green Room Awards were announced tonight at the Comedy Theatre. Cabaret Production Eurosmash: Die Roten Punkte Artiste Geraldine Quinn: All Out O…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:31AMSunday, April 19, 2015
The 32nd Annual Green Room Association announces the 2014 award winners at a ceremony at the Comedy Theatre tonight. Recognising outstanding achievements in Melbourne theatre, 60 awards deci…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:39PMThursday, April 16, 2015
The worst thing about the announcement Melbourne International Comedy Festival is that there isn’t enough time to see all the shows you’ve missed. But, you can give it a good go …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:25AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
UK comic Stephen K Amos is a stalwart of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and always manages to pull a crowd. With stakes that high, it was a shame to see him a little off his A-g…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:52PMYouTube is only ten years old. Like Facebook and Twitter, it’s already hard to imagine life without them. And enough people have now grown up not knowing that opening your life and you…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:23AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
As they may or may not say in the music halls, “Everybody loves puppets!” and apparently, as has been exceedingly demonstrated in recent years by the likes of Avenue Q, Henson Alternativ…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:18AMMonday, April 13, 2015
Dave Thornton’s Spit & Polish doesn’t need any elbow grease, despite what the name might suggest; it’s already a lively and entertaining little gem of a show with plenty of appeal.…
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