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 07:59PMSydney’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 07:27PMSydney’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 08:53PMCelebrity Theatresports is back for another year, and this year, it’s for an especially great cause. This year’s show will be raising money for Impro Australia’s new Indig…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:44PMThe Rob Guest Endowment Awards are up and running again for 2016! The Rob Guest Endowment provides financial assistance and industry support to the next generation of musical theatre stars, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:54PMSimon Burke’s cabaret, Something About Always, was populated on its Saturday matinee mostly by people in the entertainment business and older audience members, it seemed, many of them�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:41AMMelissa Reeves has been awarded the 2016 Griffin Award for new Australian writing for her play The Zen of Table Tennis. The Griffin Award, a national competition, recognises an ̶…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:58AMToday, producer John Frost announced more leading cast members for Dream Lover, the David Campbell-starring new musical about the life of Bobby Darin set for Sydney’s Lyric Theatre i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:34PMThis week the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) today announced that Kate Cherry will step into the role of Director and Chief Executive Officer from November 2016. Kate joins NIDA f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:24PMBonnie Lythgoe is back at Sydney’s State Theatre with another panto for the whole family. This time, it’s Cinderella! There’s comedy magic, gorgeous costumes, pop music ri…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:03PMToday the president of Live Performance Australia, Andrew Kay AM, took to the stage of the Drama Theatre at the Sydney Opera House to announce that Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:09AMMagda Szubanski, Joel Creasey, Bob Downe, Paul Capsis, iOTA, Emma Matthews, Simon Burke, Virginia Gay, and many more are set to appear in From Sydney With Love – A Concert for Orlando i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:51PMAdelaide, you’re in luck. Following the announcement of the 2016 Helpmann Award nominations, which the production dominated with a record of thirteen, it has been announced that Matil…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00AMThe dazzlingly talented Ursula Yovich, the actor, singer and writer who starred in Belvoir’s A Christmas Carol, has been announced as the winner of The Balnaves Foundation Indigenous…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:38PMAmanda Harrison, best known for being the first Australian Elphaba in Wicked, will be celebrating her particularly witchy performing roots in a special event featuring the Sydney Symphony …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:18PMVia Playbill.com, a heart-warming response to terror: A chorus of Broadway celebrities raised their voices in song in response to the June 12 Orlando shooting massacre, the worst in U.S. his…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:55AMTonight, live announcements of the nominees for this year’s Helpmann Awards were made at simultaneous events in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane. LPA Chief Executive Ev…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:44AMNick Enright’s A Man With Five Children is a thoughtful exploration of the beginnings of reality television. Based on the Seven Up! documentary series, his filmmaker Gerry (Jeremy Waters),…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:39PMPlayhouse, Sydney Opera HouseFrom dark and traumatic to hilariously camp, the show may suffer from an identity crisis – but with an exeptional cast and direction, it’s still irresistible…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08PMThe Literati, the stylistic younger sibling of Justin Fleming’s wildly funny 2014 take on Tartuffe (this one’s based on Moliere’s Les Femmes Savantes), is a Bell Shakespeare-Griffin Th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:16PMWe Will Rock You is a crowd favourite in Australia, back touring the country barely a decade since it was last seen in our theatres. This time around, the legendary Queen songs and quirky Be…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMAt a ceremony earlier this week in Washington DC, it was announced that Australian musical theatre favourite Anthony Warlow has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Helen Hayes Award for…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:58PMThe Old Fitz and Howie the Rookie are a match made in theatrical heaven. The scrappy black box theatre in the belly of a beloved pub seems like exactly the right place for Mark O’Rowe’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:21PMThe highlands are alive! The Southern Highlands Symphony Orchestra (SHSO) have announced two concerts celebrating the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein on Saturday 25 June and Sunday 26 Ju…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:43PMRobert Jarman stands alone on the SBW Stables stage proper. Against the wall, near the entrance, a cellist (Jack Ward) plays something sombre (by Raffaele Marcellino) . Blurred, aged project…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMFrancine Cain is impossible to miss. She exudes charisma onstage. The winner of the Rob Guest Endowment 2010, and nominated for a Helpmann award for her performance in Rock of Ages, you mi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:04PMAs the original production of My Fair Lady is painstakingly reproduced, we should be challenging outdated theatre – not replicating itIn recent years, Opera Australia has begun programming…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13PMIt was announced this morning that Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will make its Australian debut at the Sydney Lyric Theatre in September 2017. It was also confirmed that the Sydney …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:21PMKinky Boots has been a real success of a new musical on Broadway and the West End, and now the cast has been announced for its premiere season in Australia, which opens in Melbourne&#…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:59PMImara Savage knows her way around a comedy. In her hands Hay Fever, the Noel Coward classic currently holding court at Sydney Opera House’s Drama Theatre, feels surprisingly, merrily, shar…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:34AMThe Pulitzer Prize in Drama is awarded “for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.” Disgraced certainly has ple…
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