Saturday, July 5, 2014
Something is happening in Sydney musical theatre. 2014 is a moment, a movement, for the genre: Hayes Theatre Co dipped a toe in a pool of still water and rippling outward are its effects; wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:14PMHedda Gabler is one of the great realist plays, and the role of Hedda is one of the great roles for women because she isn’t, simply, a woman or a wife. She is complicated; she is bored and…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:04PMFriday, July 4, 2014
In Every Second, newly opened by Darlinghurst Theatre Co at the Eternity Playhouse, the question of the day is about love and IVF: can the former survive the challenges of the latter? Is a b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:59PMThere’s not much question about it anymore: Toby Francis is the new rockstar of independent musical theatre. The ex-punk with a heart of gold spent his last cabaret digging into the mu…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:03PMFriday, June 27, 2014
David Campbell came home to the Hayes as part of the Hayes Cabaret Festival, and I don’t think we knew how much we missed him until he had returned. Campbell, a household figure probab…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:10PMAt the Ensemble, Mark Kilmurry is staging, he thinks, a revolution. His Richard III is hghly stylised. It’s structured as though it’s an underground, on-the-fly production; act…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:28PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
The 6.30pm preview performance on Sunday 29th June of Cameron Mackintosh’s of Les Misérables is being rescheduled due to cast illness. But fear not! It will be replaced by a later per…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:19PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
Hilary Cole is the newest star in the Sydney musical theatre scene, and she certainly burns the brightest. She made her debut in Carrie – stunning audience members and critics alike wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMIn Sydney, Squabbalogic is our little engine that could. The dedicated crew have lit a spark in the in the independent musical theatre scene around town, creating exquisitely-crafted product…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:16AMTuesday, June 10, 2014
Exclaim Theatre Co, a new venture created by AIM graduates, seeks to bridge a gap or two at the beginning of an actor’s career by staging shows for new alumni to play in. Their first c…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:34AMABBA is such a cultural touchstone that there’s approximately one billion cover bands, not to mention the long-lasting stage show and the impossibly mystifyingly cast film. Australia warme…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:10AMThursday, June 5, 2014
Lucille Ball: a modern icon of comedy, a sitcom pioneer, the first woman to be a studio executive, and the first woman to be visibly pregnant on television. She’s also the subject of a new…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:07PMWednesday, May 28, 2014
Toby Francis finds it hard to pick a side. Canberra born and raised, he fell into two different worlds with vigor: punk music, and musical theatre. Polarising as it sounds, Toby loves them b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:53AMSaturday, May 24, 2014
One of the best things the Hayes Theatre has brought to Sydney this year is “a month of Sundays”, an initiative for alternative musical acts on Sunday nights. So far, we’ve seen up-and…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:17PMIf media scions stopped being a relentless force for scrutiny and parody, CJ Johnson’s 2005 play The Young Tycoons probably wouldn’t be twice-revived already. In a Murdoch/Packer…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:39PMIn 2004, Broadway superstar Audra McDonald launched a new song cycle at Carnegie Hall. Called The Seven Deadly Sins, it revolved around different works for the soprano voice, structured as a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:33PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Over at the Lyric, a new Australian, Sydney-set musical is telling the story of a family legacy, of art and love. It’s Strictly Ballroom; you’ve probably heard of it. In Potts Point, in …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:37PMDavid Harris, as one of Australia’s leading men of musical theatre, is one of only a small club of make performers with name recognition and instant credibility. Our leading men are few an…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:08AMSunday, May 4, 2014
On 17 May, the National Institute of Dramatic Art is throwing its doors open for one day for anyone and everyone to find out more about everything the centre has to offer – from training a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PMWith all the international theatre talk of late eclipsed by the Tony Award nominations, it’s important to not forget the West End’s own Awards, the Oliviers. Australia has hosted…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:18PMThursday, April 24, 2014
Dame Vera Lynn was known as the “Force’s Sweetheart.” She is credited with inspiring the nation with her patriotic wartime songs during World War II. Now, one of our most c…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Spanning a career of four decades, the tumultuous life of the enigmatic Christine McVie is coming to Glen Street Theatre told in 80 music-packed minutes. Go Your Own Way, the acclaimed ca…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMMonday, April 21, 2014
At the Seymour Centre during National Reconciliation Week 2014, awareness will be raised of both historical and contemporary experiences of the first Australians. Part of the varied and vivi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:30PMNeil Gooding directs and produces a brand new Australian musical for Hayes Theatre Co, featuring music and lyrics by Tim Freedman (The Whitlams) and a book by Freedman and Alex Broun. The Ha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:25PMIt’s back! CJ Johnson’s satirical look at the ruthless world of Australia’s empire builders was a hit for Darlinghurst back in 2005/06, and now a new version created for th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMSunday, April 20, 2014
In June, Bangarra Dance Theatre will take the stage at Sydney Opera House for the world premiere of Patyegarang, as it celebrates 25 years of surviving and thriving. Choreographed by Banga…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:36PMSaturday, April 19, 2014
2013 Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright’s Award winner Jada Alberts is bringing her new play Brothers Wreck to Belvoir in May, and celebrated storyteller Leah Purcell will direct…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PMThursday, April 17, 2014
Directed by Iain Sinclair (Our Town, Blood Wedding) Mojo is a tightly-wound thriller which examines the dark underside of the halcyon days of rock ‘n’ roll with grim humour. Fr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Glen Street Theatre has announced an exciting opportunity for young people to share their voice and celebrate cultural diversity in association with the National Institute of Dramatic Art (N…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Sarah Giles directs German playwright Marius von Mayenburg’s Perplex, a rollicking absurdist comedy about the capriciousness of reality and the unreliability of reason. Andrea Demetriades…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMMonday, April 14, 2014
The Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) has opened submissions for the annual ATYP Foundation Playwrights Commission. Now in its third year with this important Commission, the atyp …
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