The Pulitzer Prize in Drama is awarded “for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.” Disgraced certainly has ple…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:46AMFresh off the return season of Rent at the Hayes, Shaun Rennie will direct You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, playing at the Hayes from Tuesday 5 July 2016. And yes – all your favou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:39PMThe Detective’s Handbook, a new Australian musical about to debut at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre, is the result of when a former rapper develops an obsession with the golden age of…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMBad Jews, Joshua Harmon’s play about family, love, faith, and the fights that bind – a biting comedy with heart – is heading to Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. We caught up …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMThe Detective’s Handbook, a new Australian musical about to debut at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre, is the result of when a former rapper develops an obsession with the golden age of…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMParramatta’s Riverside Theatres is presenting Daffodils, a bittersweet love story direct from New Zealand – featuring the biggest hits from our Kiwi neighbours’ songbook. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMWhat happened to Squabbalogic? The staunchly independent boutique musical theatre company used to feel vital, maybe even radical. Led by artistic director Jay James-Moody (very smart, someti…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:34PMReplay, a small and surprisingly ambitious new play by Philip Parsons Playwriting Award winner Phillip Kavanagh, studies the way a single decision can make, or break, a life. Three brothers,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:18PMOpera tickets can get very pricey very past, so it’s nice to hear some affordable ticketing news today, and this time it concerns one of the biggest spectacles in the Sydney social cal…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:57PMAfter a successful joint venture presenting a semi-staged production of Of Thee I Sing! in 2015, indie musical theatre company Squabbalogic and the Sydney Philharmonic choir are set to joi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:23AMFiddler opened on Broadway in 1964, the same year as Funny Girl, Hello Dolly! and Man of La Mancha. It was an exciting time in musical theatre history, where stories were starting to become…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:09AMOn the opening night of the UK’s Almeida production of King Charles III in Sydney, a uniquely Australian reaction rippled through the audience. “It’s Will and Kate,” said a character…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:04AMThis afternoon, director Simon Phillips, producer John Frost and NSW Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres gathered at the Lyric Theatre in Sydney to announce the two le…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:45AMEddie Perfect and Ali McGregor have announced the programming for their first Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and amongst the stars in the line-up is Megan Hilty, direct from Broadway. Perhaps be…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:14PMTap really takes advantage of a dancer’s showmanship: it’s as much about how well you sell it as it is about what you can actually do. Untapped ‘taps in’ to that facet of tap dancing…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:10PMAll Good Things is the final installment of ATYP’s The Voices Project, where a series of monologues for seventeen year olds – all by young people – are presented under the wharf. The …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:36PMHayes theatre, SydneyWith their thrilling and creative revival, Dean Bryant and his team continue to make American musicals devastatingly relevant to local audiencesAlmost all of the musical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37PMWe Will Rock You, the musical featuring a book by Ben Elton and the music of legendary band Queen, is well known for its musical numbers. And we have here your first taste of the new Austral…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:44PMToday at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney, media gathered to hear the announcement of the cast of We Will Rock You, the musical by Queen and Ben Elton. This is the second outing of the show…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:50PMSquabbalogic fundraises in style: for one night only (February 29) at the Seymour Centre in Sydney, they will present a staged reading of a musical theatre classic. Which classic? Who knows!…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:35PMEmily Milledge carries within her a hint of the extraordinary. She crosses over from plays to musicals and back again, often carrying with her a sincere, curious intensity. Who else but Emil…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMDirector Shane Anthony is bringing The Whale to life at Sydney’s beloved black box, The Old Fitz Theatre, in conjunction with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. It opens tonight. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:36PMThis Sunday, let’s take it way back to some serious Australian entertaining legends: Ted Hamilton and Toni Lamond. This footage is taken from In Melbourne Tonight, a variety show that…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:31PMLast year Sydney Theatre Company staged The Present, a new adapatation by Andrew Upton of Anton Chekhov’s first play, Platonov. The production was incredibly popular and the run sol…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:52PMIn Sydney, the week kicked off with the Sydney Theatre Awards – awards given by a panel of professional theatre critics (disclaimer: I’m one of them) – held, as always, in Padding…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMToday, Matthew Management in association with Hayes Theatre Co announced the the cast of XANADU, the musical based on the beloved cult movie from the 1980s, which will play in Sydney from T…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:01PMTonight the winners of the 2015 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced. A record 36 Awards were presented, shared between 19 productions which played in Sydney during the calend…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:45AMThe Rabbits, a new operatic adaptation of Shaun Tan and John Marsden’s picture book composed by Kate Miller-Heidke and libretto by Lally Katz, is a beautiful-looking piece of art. In …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:48PMJacqueline Dark, who has taken a break from the opera world to play Mother Abbess in the current Australian production of The Sound of Music, has many layers. Would one think an opera star …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:36PMNote: this review frequently references sexual assault. Please be safe. The Fantasticks, the world’s longest-running musical, inspires a certain fervour in its audiences. Due to close in…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:43PMAlan Cumming has the ineffable quality of a star. There’s that flashing smile, sliding from cheeky to rueful within seconds. There’s the twinkled eyes, the hair, the pixie-ish demeanour.…
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