Tuesday, July 28, 2015
There’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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:45PM[SHARE]AÂ 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 05:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 26, 2015
Nick 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 br…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:40AM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2015
Never been to the opera? Ticket prices too high? Two patrons of Opera Australia have decided to offer $20 tickets to people who have yet to an experience an opera in either Sydney or Melbour…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:56PM[SHARE]Amanda Harrison's simple and fun cabaret, Up Close and Reasonably Personal, is a gentle act of distance. The cabaret form is notoriously intimate and Harrison negotiates her terms with us up…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:55PM[SHARE]Highway Run Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co is bringing Rent to Sydney in October. Directed by Shaun Rennie and with musical direction by Andrew Worboys, the production h…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2015
Citing increased radio and television commitments, Alan Jones has withdrawn of the role of the Captain of the S.S American in the Sydney season of Anything Goes. The role will be be playe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:53PM[SHARE]Avenue Q won the coveted Best Musical Tony Award in 2004, which was a surprise considering it was up against the intensely popular Wicked, Caroline or Change, a wonder of a work, and The Boy…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:01PM[SHARE]Jaz Flowers has a voice. She’s starred in the Australian tours of Hairspray and Hot Shoe Shuffle, and if you’ve been craving hearing the way she sculpts gossamer line…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Does Sir Cameron Mackintosh ever rest? His productions are internationally renowned and consistently staged " his revival of Les Miserables is even playing in Sydney right now. But we cou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
The cast of Les Misérables have sung the songs of love and revolution more than 400 times in this Australian production of the classic show, and they’re still going strong. Current…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:25PM[SHARE]Helen Dallimore is one of our most accomplished musical theatre performers (and directors!) You’ve seen her on stage in anything from Spring Awakening to Legally Blonde –…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2015
The classic “splash-hit” Singin’ in the Rain musical will now open at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre in July 2016, with an all-Australian cast led, as previously reported,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:04PM[SHARE]It’s Sunday afternoon in winter: we could all do with some warming up, so let’s showcase someone exuding warmth: national treasure Paul Capsis. A wonder of a performer in cabaret…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2015
Sydney's Hayes Theatre, a dedicated small space for musical theatre and cabaret, has branched out now into school holiday, family-friendly fare. The show that marks this growth is Akio!, a d…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:12PM[SHARE]We were speculating about this just three weeks ago! The six Tony-award winning smash Kinky Boots, by Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper, will make its Australian debut in Melbourne’…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Belinda Giblin is a distinguished actor of the Australian stage and screen. Her most recent theatre credits include Daylight Saving (Eternity Playhouse) and Dark Voyager (Ensemble T…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:15PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
Opera Australia's current production La Traviata, directed by Elijah Moshinsky and first staged in 1994, is a sumptuous, desperately romantic take on the full-hearted tragedy, and it's an em…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:37PM[SHARE]Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co is moving from strength to strength as it steadily cultivates a thriving musical theatre exploration that is starting to be felt around the country. Now Hi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:19PM[SHARE]This morning, producers of Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS announced the cast for the new Australian production, which will tour Australia from October this year. The beloved musical will feature…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2015
It’s a throwback Sunday here at AussieTheatre, as we showcase one of our great leading ladies of the Australian musical theatre: Nancye Hayes. Having appeared in countless shows –…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Graeme Murphy’s 1990 production of Turandot has an appealingly timeless quality; Murphy’s ensemble movement crests across the stage like waves, and Kristian Fredrikson’s de…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:25AM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2015
Cabaret, as a beating-heart underground art form, has its roots in politics, provocation, and rebellion " intimacy and authenticity without formality. It wasn't until the end of the 2015 Hay…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2015
It’s Sunday afternoon. It’s winter. Is there a better time for some Sondheim? Probably not – especially when it’s sung by three cast members from Squabbalogic’s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Nicholas Gentile and Lincoln Hall, a writing duo, are set to release the album for their song cycle Together Apart, and it’s bursting with talent. Nick & Lincoln, as they’…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:25PM[SHARE]The only thing legendary about Legends! is how aggressively mediocre it is. The James Kirkwood play has hit Sydney as a star touring vehicle for Hayley and Juliet Mills, as well as Maxwell C…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:12AM[SHARE]Luigi Lucente's Jim Morrison: Kaleidoscope, a dreamy trip tribute to rock legend Jim Morrison, is haphazard " but it's supposed to be. There's a poetry to this performance that doesn't alway…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:31AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
At ceremonies around Australia, stars from the Australian live performance industry read aloud the list of the Helpmann Award nominees. The ceremony will be held in Sydney in July, on the me…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 21, 2015
One of the best things about brightening up our Sundays together with Australian stage stars singing up a storm is realising exactly how many people, songs, and performances there are to sho…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2015
There’s no official word yet, but it sounds like it might be happening:Â Kinky Boots, the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, might be on its way to Melbourne. This week the Herald …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:32PM[SHARE]Picture growing up as a minister’s son, and growing up to think that your place is somewhere in the world of modern Christianity: Thom Jordan did just that. And then he moved to Sydney…
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