Wednesday, November 2, 2016
It has absolutely made a splash in Melbourne, and now we know Sydney will play host to the strutting extravaganza that is Kinky Boots the musical. You’ll be able to catch it at the Cap…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:11PMSunday, October 30, 2016
The Rob Guest Endowment annual gala concert is just weeks away and it’s going to be a night to remember in the Aussie Musical Theatre calendar. The big event is all set for Monday Nove…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:59PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Pacific Opera, an influential program for young, exceptional performers has announced this week that it is under threat. A provider of talent to Opera Australia and other international compa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:32PMNick Enright and Terence Clarke wrote Summer Rain, a charming and quintessentially Australian musical, in the 1980s. It’s wistful, light, and lively, and features Enright’s trad…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:27PMMonday, October 24, 2016
At a media call today, producers John Frost, Michael Harrison and David Ian announced that beloved Australian pop star Paulini will play the leading role of Rachel Marron in the Australian P…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:15PMNews landed today that American Idiot, the award-winning Broadway musical based on the 2004 Green Day concept album, will make its Australian debut at Brisbane’s QPAC in February 2017…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:10PMHere’s a surprise piece of news! This evening Opera Australia announced the resignation of its CEO, Craig Hassall AM. Hassall has given six months’ notice before his exist, duri…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:30AMSunday, October 23, 2016
The Rob Guest Endowment annual gala concert is just weeks away and it’s going to be a night to remember in the Aussie Musical Theatre calendar. The big event is all set for Monday Nove…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:49PMThursday, October 20, 2016
It may be time to retire The Wharf Revue. The current-events inspired sketch-style show has become something of a tradition in the Sydney Theatre Company program, and has built up a rich tou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:23PMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Your first love, Benita from Play School (just me?!) is starring with the Channel 9 Midday mastro Geoff Harvey (trust me on this one, kids, he was a thing) in the return season of Senior …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:02PMJerry Herman’s classic musical Mack and Mabel is coming to the Hayes Theatre from November 18, and today Working Management and Hayes Theatre Co have announced the full cast and creat…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:51AMTuesday, October 18, 2016
The Rob Guest Endowment annual gala concert is just weeks away and it’s going to be a night to remember in the Aussie Musical Theatre calendar. The big event is all set for Monday Nove…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:46PMReady for some harmless chaos? Mischief Theatre (an Olivier Award winning company!) are bringing their stuff of comedy legend, The Play That Goes Wrong, to Australia for the very first time…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:55PMMonday, October 17, 2016
This week, the arts and entertainment industries have been reporting on the new figures released by Entertainment Assist and Victoria University that reveal serious, shocking truths about th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:30PMSunday, October 16, 2016
Patriarchy getting you down? The remedy just might be Festival Fatale. The two day theatre festival at Sydney’s Eternity Playhouse, from 29 – 30 October, is the work of Women i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:02PMOn Monday 21 November, a dazzling array of Australian entertainment industry stars will come together in response to the shocking new figures detailing the widespread mental health issues cu…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:24PMSunday, October 9, 2016
The Rob Guest Endowment annual gala concert is just weeks away and it’s going to be a night to remember in the Aussie Musical Theatre calendar. The big event is all set for Monday Nove…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:16PMFriday, October 7, 2016
World premiere of the jukebox musical about the American singer starring David Campbell gets the energy right but can’t escape the trappings of lazy, outdated storytellingThe bio-jukebox m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
A trio of events looks at where the city has come from and where it’s going to with changing laws, suburbs and peopleLiving in Sydney can be a fraught exercise in 2016. Lockout laws have q…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50PMThursday, September 8, 2016
Sydney Theatre Company and Global Creatures have come together for one of the more exciting announcements we’ve heard in a while: a brand new Australian musical based on a beloved Auss…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:30AMSaturday, August 20, 2016
Roslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyJohn Cleese’s production looks and sounds almost exactly like it did on TV, but it would be cheaper – and probably more fulfilling – to rewatch episodes at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58PMSunday, August 14, 2016
There’s nothing quite like the news that a new Australian musical is receiving not just recognition and critical acclaim, but also more life, and today, we get to celebrate just that. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMFriday, August 12, 2016
Today at Etihad Stadium, the cast of the new Australian production of Kinky Boots the Musical will join in with the inuagural AFL Pride Game. As the Game’s official entertainment part…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:56PMSunday, August 7, 2016
Mary Anne Butler is a Darwin-based playwright. Her play, Broken, is the first drama to win one of the most prestigious awards in Australia, the Victorian Premier’s Award for literat…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:54PMThursday, August 4, 2016
Two days to go! The cast of Side Show at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre will be announced on Sunday 7 August. And what a time it’s been waiting for this announcement. Our “guy on …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:28PMMonday, August 1, 2016
In September 2016, from the rear entrance of “The Nevada” at the World Bar in Kings Cross, a story awaits. This is Hidden Sydney – The Glittering Mile, an immersive cabaret/t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:16PMSunday, July 31, 2016
The non-professional rights to towering blockbuster musical Wicked were recently made available for Australian musical societies. Now, after two professional productions have played the Capi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:01PMAustralianPlays.org has just launched the Playbox Collection, an online treasure trove of scripts, interviews and images from the original Playbox Theatre. This is Australian Play’s m…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:17PMThursday, July 28, 2016
Sydney’s Hayes Theatre, arguably the most important thing to happen to Australian musical theatre in decades, is set to announce the cast of the Australian premiere of Side Show o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:59PMThursday, July 21, 2016
Sydney’s Hayes Theatre, arguably the most important thing to happen to Australian musical theatre in decades, is set to announce the cast of the Australian premiere of Side Show in…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:27PMThursday, July 14, 2016
Sydney’s Hayes Theatre, arguably the most important thing to happen to Australian musical theatre in decades, is set to announce the cast of the Australian premiere of Side Show in…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:53PM 
