Sunday, November 30, 2014
At 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…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:47PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
Jacqui Dark and Kanen Breen are the beloved wayward siblings of the opera community. With multiple Green Room and Helpmann nominations and wins under their belt, they’ve performed on B…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:31PMTheatre producing machine John Frost announced on Friday that his new production of Dirty Dancing will be heading to Perth for a limited season at the Crown Theatre in August 2015. The show…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:38PMTuesday, November 18, 2014
How do you trace the life of someone who feels so much larger than life? David Williamson’s Rupert attempts to do just that with mogul of moguls, Rupert Murdoch. It was a hit at the b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMSunday, November 16, 2014
Sydney Theatre Company’s Cyrano de Bergerac wants to feel like the saddest love story in the world that still makes people laugh. It doesn’t quite get there, but what it does give us is…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:21PMChristmas has come early to Belvoir St with A Christmas Carol: a lively, unabashedly heartwarming take on the old Dickens classic. Even the Scroogiest Scrooge you know won’t be able to res…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:06PMCabaret is unique as a performance art because it demands authenticity from its performers. It is very easy, in an intimate setting, where you have an artist and a pianist or a duo or trio o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:31PMDavid Page is a composer, performer, and Artist in Residence at Bangarra Dance Theatre. He is a descendant of the Nunkul people and the Munaldjali clan of the Yugambeh tribe from South East…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:43PMJoanna Murray-Smith’s new play Switzerland – a two-hander lovingly crafted in the image of Patricia Highsmith, exploring her last days – is an elegantly tense new play that is …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:09AMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Bell Shakespeare has been touring Henry V through Australia since the early parts of the year, and it has arrived to finish its season in Sydney, its reputation preceding it steadily like a …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:56PMTony Sheldon, star of Broadway, the West End, and Australian theatre, has signed on to play Don Quixote in Squabbalogic’s production of Man of La Mancha. Best known for his Helpman…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:11PMMonday, November 10, 2014
Totem – the newest Cirque du Soleil concoction taking over the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park – is a look at evolution filtered through the kind of dazzling human circus tricks we�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:36PMDarlinghurst Theatre Company is committed, for the next three seasons, to bringing Nick Enright’s works to the stage. They begin in appropriate place, with one of the celebrated playwr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:23AMFriday, October 31, 2014
John Frost announced the thrillifying news today that Wicked will fly to Perth in May 2015, as part of its 10th Anniversary tour. The Perth season will play at the Crown Theatre, Burswood, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:17AMMonday, October 27, 2014
Helen Dallimore is one of our brightest stars. From Wicked (even on the West End) to Legally Blonde to the wickedly clever Tartuffe, and a bunch of other glittering credits, she will nex…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:27PMLee Lewis has captured on her stage the spirit of Sydney: the splashy, bright Ken Done portrait that dominates the set, doubling as a harbour view; the standing at the fringes of the cockt…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:40PMSunday, October 26, 2014
Glory Days closed after its opening night on Broadway. But it’s not all bad. A coming of age musical that can trace its lineage to every other almost-not-a-teen angst show before it, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:57AMAn institution in Sydney theatre by now, The Wharf Revue, in its 15th year, opened this week at its home at the wharf theatres. This year, titled Open for Business, the troupe (consisting of…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:58AMThursday, October 23, 2014
Miracle City is the stuff of legends in the Australian musical theatre community. A show that was staged just once at Sydney Theatre Company in 1996, it played to rapturous audiences… and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:19PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
It’s your childhood come to life! The Very Hungry Caterpillar is going to eat his way off his book and onto stages all over Australia, debuting at Sydney Festival 2015. He’ll t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:46PMShaun Rennie, along with his brother Adam and friends Monica and Greg, held their first Light the Night benefit concert 10 years ago. It has become a must-attend event on the musical theatr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:17PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Sydney Theatre Company announced today that Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay will be renamed Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay. It is hoped that the renaming of Sydney Theatre, as well as honouring…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:25PMPotted Potter, the unauthorised parody show making a return to Australia, promises to tell the story of all seven Harry Potter books in seventy minutes (with a game of Quidditch thrown in, f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:11PMMonday, October 20, 2014
If her friends could see her now! The smash debut production at Sydney’s new Hayes Theatre Co rocked the musical theatre world with its raw, stripped-back take on the Neil Simon/Cy Col…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:52PMSunday, October 19, 2014
Following the successful 2014 production of Snow White – Winter Family Musical in Sydney, Bonnie Lythgoe and Bonnie Lythgoe Productions have announced their next panto: Aladdin and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00AMIt was announced today by producers Howard Panter and John Frost that Bert Newton will play the Narrator in the Sydney season of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. Newtown…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:48AMFriday, October 17, 2014
2014 has been a great year for musicals in Sydney, especially on an independent scale. And we’re not just talking about the incredible success of the Hayes Theatre – the Theatr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
A commemorative bronze plaque on Sydney’s Theatre Walk at Walsh Bay was unveiled today in recognition of Tim Minchin. The musician, composer, songwriter, actor, comedian and writer is…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMMonday, October 13, 2014
The curtain has just fallen on the 2014 Rob Guest Endowment Gala Concert, and we have rushed home from the beautiful night to announce that this year’s winner is Joshua Robson, current…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:49AMSisters Grimm are back in Sydney and they have been missed. Their particular brand of arch DIY high-camp theatre is a fantastic bolt of energy to the theatre scene in town, and Calpurnia Des…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:48AMSunday, October 12, 2014
Light the Night, a concert that raises much need funds for The Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation, will be hosted by international musical therapist and hilarious YouTube sensation, Jan…
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