Wednesday, January 28, 2015
It’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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:46AMMonday, January 26, 2015
The SBW Stables Theatre, home to Griffin Theatre Co, has a bare stage, following, we learn, a recent revival of Hotel Sorrento. Scrawled on one wall is a placeholder set: “Beach image…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:15AMSunday, January 25, 2015
We waited in anticipation for Squabbalogic's first "Mystery Musical" and now the cat's out of the bag, we wanted to share as much about it as we could! Bye Bye Birdie a hit: inside Squabbalo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:47PMThursday, January 22, 2015
John Frost has announced that sister stage and screen stars Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills will tour the country with the Australian premiere of Legends!, a comedy by James Kirkwood. The sh…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:10AMMonday, January 19, 2015
The 2015 Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest (YTICC) Grand Final was held at The Basement in Sydney last week, and it featured 11 finalists from Adelaide, Brisbane, The Sunshine Coa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMLast night, at the Paddington “Paddo” RSL, over 300 performers, theatre-makers, administrators — a cross-section of the Sydney arts scene — crowded into the auditorium fo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:27PM2015 has started with a bang in the theatre world, as the houses fill and the lights dim and rise again after the holiday break. It’s no exception over at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:10PMSunday, January 18, 2015
Ever since she was young and sufficiently troubled, Mary (Adriane Duff) has had recurring dreams in which she is flying. It’s the ultimate symbol of escape and liberation, and doubly f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:14AMGareth Davies, the greatest actor in the world, was literally born into the chorus of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Les Miserables, where he remained for twenty-one years; his anonymous, ensem…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:33AMGrief is such a huge, overwhelming part of our lives, so much so that sometimes it seems impossible to overcome. Of course it occurs in our art all the time, all these shapes and stories of …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:10AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
When Next to Normal made its way through development and onto Broadway in 2009, it was something quite extraordinary: a show that broke through so many seeming boundaries of what the genre o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:04PMMonday, January 12, 2015
At the centre of Masquerade, a fantastical story about the Moon and the Sun and a Hare sent on a quest to unite them, is a mother and a son. In Kate Mulvany’s twist on the 1979 childr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:44AMA mother has died and in her North Queensland house, a ramshackle thing renovated to feel livable, only Mae (Shari Sebbens) remains. She’s disconnected and unhappy and – it seems – woo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:42AMFriday, January 9, 2015
The next generation of talent is on full display in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Chatswood’s Concourse Theatre, and the immensity of that talent is a little bit overwhel…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:59PMThursday, January 8, 2015
The critical smash Doorstep Arts production of Next to Normal – one of the very few musicals to win a Pulitzer Prize – is coming to Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co. And are you …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:29PMThere is so much skill in Tabac Rouge, one of Sydney Festival’s most-hyped shows in the 2015 lineup. Its technical skill is impressive – from dancers and movers who do not stop, who are …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:48PMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Gale Edwards’ La bohème is in another return season for Opera Australia, and as a first-time viewing in the 2015 season, it sparkles like it was new. Best known to legions of musical the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:48PMOne of the delights of the later half of 2014 was So Long Lives This, an album of Shakespeare’s sonnets set to music, by performers Drew and Naomi Livingston. The album, a pleasant fo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:21PMMonday, January 5, 2015
This week, Packemin Productions will launch their new initiative, Packemin Youth, and they’re going to do so with a multicoloured splash – a production of Joseph and the Amazing …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:05AMSunday, January 4, 2015
Hayes Theatre Co is kicking off its second year in Sydney by connecting itself to independent theatre across the country. Its first show in 2015 is the Doorstep Arts production of Next to N…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:12PMThursday, December 18, 2014
Eden Falk, currently appearing in Belvoir’s heartwarming take on A Christmas Carol, has put together Belvoir’s Christmas message this year, and it’s just as lively and upl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:26PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
A film adaptation with heart and soul, the new musical Dogfight is making its Australian debut at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre in May 2015. Directed by Neil Gooding, the first casting annou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:04PMMonday, December 15, 2014
Nominees have just been announced for the Sydney Theatre Awards for 2014. The awards, which look back on the 2014 theatre season in Sydney – independent and mainstream – will be …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMFriday, December 12, 2014
You walk into the theatre and take your seat. The curtain comes up. The overture starts. It sounds like an ordinary night at a musical, but here’s the catch: at Squabbalogic’s n…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:37AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
At the Imperial Hotel in Erskineville, Laura Jackson is going to perform for change. Handle It, Jackson’s one woman play, will be performed tonight as a fundraiser for the United Na…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:06PMSunday, December 7, 2014
Darren Coggan has just announced an encore tour of his portrait of one of the greatest folk artists of our time, Peace Train: The Cat Stevens Story. The show will tour Australia and New Zeal…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
There’s something oddly mesmerising about the fan experience, especially when it occurs in the collective, in a public space. At a Buffy the Vampire Slayer convention, people will bond wit…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:22PMThe nominations for the AACTA awards were announced today, and AussieTheatre is celebrating extra hard to see local talent recognised this year: our Editor in Chief, Erin James, has scored a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:51AMTuesday, December 2, 2014
Musical theatre it girl Hilary Cole has been unstoppable over the past 12 months. From a shattering, remarkable Sydney debut in Squabbalogic’s Carrie, she has thrilled and delighted i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:05PMSunday, November 30, 2014
It’s back! Ten months after its closing season in Melbourne, Rocky Horror will finish its short, surprise season at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre and head back to Melbourne’s Co…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:48PMAt the end of Beyond Desire, a world premiere musical crammed into the Hayes theatre, the cast asks the audience, a la the cheeky ending of The Mousetrap, not to reveal its plot twists outsi…
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