Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:03PMSaturday, March 21, 2015
The weekend is almost over, so why not slow down, close your eyes, and listen to one of William Finn’s most beautiful songs, performed with plenty of heart by Blake Erickson? Erickson …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:37PMThe 15th Annual Helpmann Awards will be held on Monday 27 July at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Live Performance Australia has announced. This means the Helpmanns will unfold on the set o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:05PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
The Reginald Theatre, downstairs at the Seymour Centre, has launched its 2015 season. With new resident company the indie juggernaut Sport for Jove, new shows from Squabbalogic, and a compel…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:47AMTuesday, March 10, 2015
John Frost and Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini announced today that they will present a new version of Jekyll and Hyde in late 2015 – and it’ll be directed by Christop…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:22PMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Caress/Ache is high drama – half ‘ripped from the headlines’ and half ‘personal relationships’. Unified by surtitles explaining the synapses and receptors on our skin that allows…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:51PMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Kill the Messenger is so alive that it constantly interrupts itself to remind the audience that it has a very real beating heart. Nakkiah Lui, playing herself, tears down the fourth wall o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:50PMSunday, March 1, 2015
Squabbalogic are back and this time they’re tackling a revival of a classic work, trying to find its original kernel of authenticity before it became a gaudier, lighter-hearted thing: they…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:42PMMonday, February 23, 2015
When Blue Wizard (Nick Coyle), an intergalactic traveller from a crystal planet where everyone is gay and a different colour (the beige Wizards have the gift of renovation, for example, whil…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:57PMOn Sunday night, on the set of Blood Brothers at the Hayes, Geraldine Turner made her Sydney cabaret return after at least a decade away. She walked onto that stage and she started with a b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:36PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Producers John Frost, Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and the Really Useful group have announced today that the London Palladium production of The Sound of Music will come to Australia in la…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:44PMIt’s Shakespeare meets Chicago. Originally commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe London, Othello: The Remix takes the high-stakes tragedy and transports it to the world of hip-hop…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:18AMSunday, February 15, 2015
A report from theatermania.com about the popular Off-Broadway comedy Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man indicated that the show may well be heading for our shores: The hit off-Broa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:35PMTennessee Williams always encouraged the reach for something more in the stage directions of his plays, seeking for an elevated storytelling method and set design that would heighten and rei…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:27PMBonnie Lythgoe productions have just announced casting for the Australian premiere of Aladdin and his Wondrous Lamp, following up from their Snow White: Winter Family Musical success last ye…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:25PMThursday, February 12, 2015
We live within a conservative, disturbingly cruel government in 2015 Australia, where our most vulnerable citizens are the ones repeatedly targeted for more and more hardship, via our budget…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:08PMAfter Dinner, Andrew Bovell’s light comedy, is currently making audiences laugh at Sydney Theatre Company. We sent some questions to everyman actor Glenn Hazeldine to find out his though…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:22AMAfter Dinner, Andrew Bovell’s light comedy, is currently making audiences laugh at Sydney Theatre Company. We sent some questions to composer and sound designer Steve Francis, to see …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:44AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
The Hayes theatre has proved itself to be a home of firsts, so it seems only fitting that it’s the home of actor Jamie Kristian’s first foray into musical theatre. He’ll be…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:23AMMonday, February 9, 2015
Mike Bartlett’s script for Cock is dense and aurally-driven; off-kilter language choices, particularly from central character John, buzz around the audience and into their ears. Naturalist…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:35PMPhantom is a behemoth of a musical, the kind that can run for over 25 years on Broadway, even for the whole of this decade. It’s the kind of musical that can cast a guy who sexually assaul…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:51PMLast week, it was revealed that in the weeks before Hollywood heartthrob Rock udson died, he reached out to Nancy Reagan (the then-First Lady of the United States) for help in receiving tre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:30AMThursday, February 5, 2015
Blood Brothers is on its way to the Hayes, with its first preview performance scheduled for tonight. We asked cast member Michael Cormick our 20 questions to find out more about his career,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:05PMDavid Williamson’s Dream Home is a play about Paul, who moves into a new block of flats. When he arrives, all three women living there proceed to throw themselves at him in a variety of de…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:53PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
Squabbalogic, the indie darlings of Sydney musical theatre and forefathers of its present revitalisation, are branching out! They will present a concert of the first musical to win the Pulit…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:23AMMonday, February 2, 2015
Here it is! Today, Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracinni AM and producer John Frost announced the final lead cast member and the full ensemble cast for Anything Goes. Bartholo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:11PMOne minute he’s starring in films with Angelina Jolie and Michael Fassbender, and the next he’s playing an intimate, exciting play at the tiny yet beloved Old Fitz theatre. Micha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:21AMThis year Hats Off! has found a new ambassador and it’s international music therapist Jan van de Stool. (If you’re not familiar with her work, you might know beloved actress Quee…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:23AMWednesday, January 28, 2015
They’re back! Packemin Productions have been delighting the Riverside stages for a few years now, and following their successes like Hairspray and Annie, they’re tackling the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:19AMMadama Butterfly, in this production by director Moffatt Oxenbould, is not a newcomer to Opera Australia – it debuted in 1997. Seeing it in the 2015 summer season with fresh, first-vie…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:35AMIt’s an essential part of the musical calendar in Sydney, right in the middle of Mardi Gras, and it’s almost back again: It’s Hats Off! time. On Monday 23 February, the fu…
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