Friday, July 26, 2013
Just when it looks like there might be a week without an arts festival in Melbourne, along comes the inaugural Container Festival presented by MUST, the Monash University Student Theatre ass…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMThursday, July 25, 2013
Patrick Pittman is a writer, editor and radio broadcaster who loves pushing magazines to feature more about development politics. Based in Perth, he was the editor of the interview magazine …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:25AMMonday, July 22, 2013
Victorian Opera’s Sunday in the Park with George is exquisite, and it’s heartbreaking that it can only run for a week as so many people will miss this emotionally-perfect production of…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:01AMSaturday, July 20, 2013
Ubu Roi is a mess. A filthy, mud-spluttered, cover-me-with-plastic glorious mess. Founded in late 2010, the 5Pound theatre ensemble are making their mark in Melbourne. Based at The Owl and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:50AMFriday, July 19, 2013
“Art is fueled by passion, liquor and unrealistic expectations.” Welcome to Glory Box Paradise and the ninth year of Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith’s subversive and celebratory bur…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMThursday, July 11, 2013
Caroline O’Connor stars as Rose in Gypsy. Is there anything else you need to know! If you’ve seen O’Connor perform, you know you have to see her; if you haven’t seen her, you’ve p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:04AMMonday, July 8, 2013
One act, one scene plays are a staple of theatrical storytelling, and Tape, a tight one hour play by Stephen Belber, one of the contirbutors to The Laramie Project, has become a staple of co…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:55AMSaturday, July 6, 2013
Patricia Cornelius is a playwright, novelist, film writer, writing teacher and dramaturge, a founding member of Melbourne Workers Theatre, and a mentor to many emerging playwrights. Her many…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:15PMAn art deco dance hall, red wine, hot chips and music by The Beatles performed by three uber-delightful cabaret performers: it doesn’t get much better. And I finally got to some of Melbour…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:08AMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Carousel ponies, huffy walk-outs and a personal trigger warning when you pick up your ticket: The Rabble have adapted the Story of O for the MTC’s sensational Neon season. It’s con…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:20PMFriday, June 28, 2013
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible was my favourite play when I was 17 and, along with Lillian Hellman, Miller was my favourite playwright. This play made me read the rest of his work and so m…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:04AMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Young independent company Attic Erratic started performing and working together in 2010 and are well on their way to being on of those companies who you have to see what they do next. I miss…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:11PMCircus Oz’s 2013 show, Cranked Up, is welcoming all into the warmth of the Big Top in Birrurung Marr and our last chat is with Shane Witt, acrobat and brownie eater. Shane Witt was a Flyin…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Thomas Pender was 23 when he took his wife and baby on a dangerous 126-day sea voyage to Australia. People died on the way, they couldn’t land in another country because for fear of diseas…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:17PMSaturday, June 22, 2013
Oh Eddie Perfect! You gorgeous, sexy, magnificent beast. You’re as hot as King Kong and if you had a faction of the resources that developed the magnificent monkey, Shane Warne the Musica…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMMonday, June 17, 2013
I can’t say enough wonderful about the MTC’s Neon Festival of Independent Theatre. Five of Melbourne’s most loved, most successful and most challenging independent companies were asked…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMBetty Burstall: 1926–2013 In 1967, Betty Burstall founded La Mama theatre in Carlton. It’s difficult to even begin to imagine the development of Australian theatre and Australian theatre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:29AMSunday, June 16, 2013
Grab a box of popcorn and dust off your diablo, because Circus Oz are back home in Melbourne and their 2013 show Cranked Up opens on Thursday. If you want to win a double pass to see the s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMOh King Kong! You gorgeous, sexy, magnificent beast. Your entrance may be the most spectacular thing ever seen on a live stage. Every time you’re on, the audience is yours for the taking, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:16AMSaturday, June 15, 2013
In Cape Town in 2006, actor Brett Goldin and designer Richard Bloom left a party and never got home. They were found naked, except for their socks, near a freeway; they had been robbed and s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:41AMThursday, June 13, 2013
Carl Polke first joined the Circus Oz family in the 90s as a musician and he’s back as the musical director for Cranked Up, which opens next week. And click here to be in the running fo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMWednesday, June 12, 2013
If you work as an artist or in the arts industry in Melbourne, you’ll probably qualify for an Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Industry Card. Launched earlier this year, this new initiative aims…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:49PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
In just over a week, Circus Oz hit the big top in Birrarung Marr with their new show Cranked Up. It’s a bit like last year’s sensational From the Ground Up, but with some new acts and a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMMonday, June 10, 2013
The closing concert of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival was given by jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, last seen here nearly a decade ago. The Mississippi-born singer responded to the l…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:48PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Tell your story, tell our story or tell a story that means so much to you that it doesn’t matter whose it is. In Palace of the End, nice middle class, successful Canadian writer Judith Th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:05AMThursday, June 6, 2013
It felt a little ironic walking into what was once a chapel to the rousing mix of Israeli and Arabic music, but perhaps it’s a credit to our society. After all, Jeremie Bracka, human right…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:33AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Red Stitch present the Australian premiere of Herding Cats by UK writer Lucinda Coxon. Opening this week, it’s 2010-11 UK productions won the acclaim of critics and it was shortlisted for …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Bookings are now open for Victorian Opera’s production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapins’s Sunday in the Park with George. First produced in 1984, Sunday in the Park with George is an…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMMonday, June 3, 2013
It’s not long until Circus Oz put the big top up in Birrarung Marr for their annual home-town season. Last year’s show was From the Ground Up. It travelled Australia, visited the Northe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMFriday, May 31, 2013
Palace at the End opens at Theatre Works next week. It’s about the wars in Iraq and tells the stories of three people whose lives changed because of the wars. Private Lynndie England (play…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:24PMMonday, May 27, 2013
Oz Opera are heading away from the posh theatre for a four-month tour of Victorian primary schools. Oz Opera is the touring arm of Opera Australia and aims to bring great opera to all Austra…
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