Shaun Rennie is directing a new production of Rent at Sydney’s increasingly influential Hayes Theatre from 8 October – 1 November, and it’s shaping up to be a really inter…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:05PMAndrew Cook has been having something of a moment. From understudying major parts in King Kong and Moonshadow to landing a featured role in Strictly Ballroom and blowing audiences away …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:27AMOnce is a gem of a show, a musical that unfolds gently and poignantly. It’s romantic but not sentimental, quietly sad and yearning and essential. The Australian production of Once pla…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:28AMSome of the finest performers in Australia will be coming to the Seymour Centre’s Sound Lounge on Monday 29 September to raise their voices for the AusCam Freedom Project. The evening …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:58PMThe Rob Guest Endowment finalists for 2015 have been announced: these are the best of the best emerging performers in Australia. The winner will be decided at a gala concert, where each of t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:39PMRemember Smash? The short-lived drama about putting on a Broadway show? The first season focused most heavily on Bombshell, a new Marilyn Monroe musical being written, most delightfully, b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:49AMA brand new production of Fiddler on the Roof is coming! Starring Anthony Warlow as Tevye, the production will play a 6 week season in Melbourne at the Princess Theatre, and then 6 weeks in…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:50PMAustralian Entertainment Industry workers attempt suicide more than double the rate of Australia’s general population — 5 – 7 more times. Road crew members contemplate suicide …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:55AMThe Goodbye Girl has been tapped as the next show to receive the Neglected Musicals staged reading treatment: Tyran Parke will direct this Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch/David Zippel confection …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:53PMSunday afternoon: where the most serious thing you should have to deal with is probably something like some great musical theatre song-and-dance. We’ve got you covered. Here’s Na…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMAt a showcase on Sunday 30 August in North Sydney, ten opera and classical singers performed with great passion in hopes of being one of the five finalists selected to compete in the IFAC Au…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:57PMA new Australian song cycle is always good news. Getting to hear it on an album might be even better news, so everyone across the country can access it. And now one has been released! Togeth…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:53PMLeticia Cáceres has a chillingly cerebral directorial vision for Death and the Maiden, Ariel Dorfman’s 1990 play written from and premiering within the still profusely bleeding wound of C…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:20PMIn the 2013/14 season, La Traviata was the most performed opera in the world, and it consistently ranks in the top ten of similar lists. Verdi’s enduring masterwork is never too far away f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:32PMZindzi Okenyo is an explosion of creativity. Just this year, you might have seen her (among other things!) on stage in Griffin Theatre’s Masquerade, Darlinghurst Theatre Co’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMHe is one of the biggest stars in the world — just an “O” short of an EGOT — and he’s bringing a five-city arena concert tour, Broadway to Oz, to Australia. It’s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:35PMThe Australian cast of the brand new production, Georgy Girl – the Seekers Musical, was announced today with members of The Seekers in attendance. The cast announcement was made at M…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:14PMIt’s Sunday, so why not wander over to one of Australia’s biggest, most sensitive voices and have a listen? Casey Donovan might be best known for winning the second season of Au…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:34AMFrom a raft of drab, superficial, vaguely entertaining major commercial musicals emerges a sharp, intelligent winner. Matilda the Musical has opened in Sydney, and the Greases and Rocky Horr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:18PMCompetition is heating up at the 6th annual Rob Guest Endowment, with a semi-finalist list of 30 of the brightest new talents in musical theatre just announced. From these 30 participants, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:59AMWhispers and the rumour mill never really die down, do they? We’ve read in just the past 24 hours about two new shows that might be on their way to Australia. Ghost the Musical We…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:59PMMatilda the Musical is settling into its first Australian home, the Lyric in Sydney, and is gearing up for its opening night in just two days. The beloved Roald Dahl story about an extraord…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00AMWe’ve been speculating, but now it’s confirmed by everyone involved: the hit musical We Will Rock You is returning to Australia next year for a national tour. We Will Rock You�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:29AMA Sunday afternoon in late winter really calls for a torch song, so don’t worry: today I have got you covered. If you don’t already know this performer: meet Elise McCann. She…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:32AMAustralia is bursting with musical theatre talent, and very soon, one of our most remarkable is taking her rightful place in a very “Loud” role: Marika Aubrey will play the brash…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:36AMWe could not possibly be luckier. It was announced this morning that Dame Julie Andrews herself (you know, big time musical star, you might have heard of her?) is coming to Australia to dire…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:35PMThe full Australian cast of Singin’ in the Rain has been announced and Australian musical theatre fans will have a lot to cheer about — you’ll recognise a lot of the cast fro…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:29AMDo you know Josie Lane? She’s appeared in Avenue Q, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and, most recently, Miracle City at the Hayes as well…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:41AMThere’s a Pulitzer finalist play currently taking shape at the Eternity Playhouse in Sydney, the home of Darlinghurst Theatre Co. The play is Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit, and a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:45PMA sense of delight is unfolding nightly in The Dog/The Cat, a new double bill comprised of a play by Brendan Cowell (The Dog) and one by Lally Katz (The Cat). Gently, thematically related, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:31AMNick and Lincoln’s new song cycle Together Apart is being launched with a handful of music videos, an album, and a burst of excitement. There’s some real talent involved in brin…
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