Thursday, May 7, 2015
Dogfight, with a book by Peter Duchan and music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, premiered off-Broadway in 2012. Now having its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:06AMSunday, May 3, 2015
Enda Markey’s acclaimed intimate Sydney production of Blood Brothers is heading to Melbourne’s new Alex Theatre in St Kilda for a strictly three-week limited season in July. Op…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:20PMThe hit West End production of Singin’ in the Rain is coming to Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre in May 2016, and will visit Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. It wil…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00AMIt’s comedy season, with Melbourne’s festival wrapping up and Sydney’s kicking into full swing. What better thing for our Sunday afternoon refreshment, then, than great voi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMFriday, May 1, 2015
The Dream, The Australian Ballet’s current instalment in its year of beauty, is a triple bill that slowly loosens and elongates until it reaches the eponymous ballet, with its familiar…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:12PMMonday, April 27, 2015
Vice, Melvyn Morrow’s new play about sexual assault in the private school system, has taken up residence in the small King Street Theatre in Newtown. It’s a play that insists on�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:16PMIt’s all happening on Friday 1st May: performances of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s Dogfight makes its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre, an increasingly important intimat…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMSunday, April 26, 2015
Have you heard the people sing yet? As Les Misérables makes its way around Australia, audiences in Melbourne and Perth and Sydney have all had the opportunity to meet Kerrie Anne Greenlan…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:11AMFriday, April 24, 2015
Sydney performers Rob Johnson (you may know him from Squabbalogic’s Sondheim on Sondheim and Carrie) and Harry Milas (he’s a magician) are Mantaur, a comedy duo and improv fo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:40AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
It’s here! This morning the names of all our future “revolting children” have been announced! That’s right, it’s the full cast of the Australian premiere of M…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMSunday, April 19, 2015
Tyran Parke is a performer and director. He has a unique vulnerability to his performance that translates in some really appealing ways, like in wry regret or tentative hope, his buttery voc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:45AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Music Theatre International, the world’s leading musical theatre library and part of the Cameron Mackintosh group of companies, is set to open an Australasian office in Melbourne later…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:34PMThere’s little more disappointing than a glossy and aggressively superficial production of a show that has in its bones a history of lively, scrappy-camp subversion. The Rocky Horror Show,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:27PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Director and producer Neil Gooding has a long history of championing musical theatre in Australia, working on (and writing) new musicals, and recently championing a growing, inclusive cultur…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:25PMMonday, April 13, 2015
Matilda the Musical is one of the most anticipated shows to hit Australia in recent years. The beloved Roald Dahl book is one of many people’s brightest childhood memories, and the st…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:45PMSamuel Beckett’s Endgame is currently seeing two productions in Australia – one by Melbourne Theatre Company, directed by Sam Strong, and one by Sydney Theatre Company, directed by Andre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:33AMAFI Award-winning actor Nicholas Hope has written Five Properties of Chainmale, five variations of the theme of contemporary masculinity. He’s also directing it for Griffin Independe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:04AMSunday, April 12, 2015
The Hayes Theatre has quickly become a home to a host of cabaret shows, ranging from career retrospective to tribute to original narrative to bildungsroman and everything in between, and it�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:27AMRocky Horror is traveling around Australia and it’s about to stop in Sydney. It’s bringing Amy Lehpamer along in the role of Janet, so this Sunday afternoon, let’s float a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMSaturday, April 4, 2015
The weekend is drawing to a close, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still some magic to be found. We’ve even cued up a slice of it for you right here, with one of our best…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:57PMMelvyn Morrow’s new play is about to open at Newtown’s King Street Theatre, and it has a distinct “ripped from the headlines” feel. Centred around horrific reality of sexual assault …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:17AMFriday, April 3, 2015
She made her entrance as Giselle, young and innocent and joyous, and the crowd in the Joan Sutherland Theatre burst into applause at the mere sight of her. Madeleine Eastoe is adored by audi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:55PMHis celebrated success Matilda the Musical is still running on The West End and on Broadway, and it will finally open in Australia at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre later this year, but our …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:39PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Jane Turner is the heart and soul of Jumpy, a Melbourne Theatre Co production presented by Sydney Theatre Co that has just landed at the Drama Theatre. She is Hilary, fifty years old and f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:34PMWho doesn’t love a black comedy? Insomniac Theatre is bringing one to Balmain in the form of Rick Cleveland’s Jerry and Tom. We caught up with director Maggie Scott to find out …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:09PMOn Sunday night, Sydney’s Eternity Playhouse was full to bursting for the launch of The Nick Enright Songbook, a record of one of Australia’s best lyricists, a tangible, teachab…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:05AMHanda Opera on Sydney Harbour is now in its fourth year. An exaggerated, exuberant opera staging on an outdoor stage overlooking Sydney’s genuinely beautiful harbour. After La Traviata, Ca…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:40AMSaturday, March 28, 2015
Lucy Maunder is one of musical theatre’s brightest stars. Recently she’s played Rizzo in the national tour of Grease and Cinderella in the Victorian Opera’s production of�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:58PMThursday, March 26, 2015
It’s an epic musical, a towering behemoth from the 1980s – an era that spawned plenty of them, like Cats and Phantom of the Opera – but Les Misérables , a sung-through, all-feeling st…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:55PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
New Musicals Australia this week have announced the 11 new musicals that have been selected for musical snapshot presentations this year. One of these productions will be go on to be present…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:03AMSunday, March 22, 2015
Violet, with book and lyrics by Brian Crawley (A Little Princess) and music by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Caroline or Change), will find a home at Sydney’s Hay…
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