Monday, September 11, 2017
How do you direct one of the most iconic and best know musicals of all time and present it as something completely reinvented? You do as director Crispin Taylor has done with WAAPA’s final…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMThursday, August 31, 2017
Western Australia’s Black Swan State Theatre Company’s newest Artistic Director, Clare Watson, launched her first season for 2018 to an eager and excited crowd Monday night. The …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:20PMWednesday, June 21, 2017
42nd Street is a toe tapping extravaganza presented by a proficient and polished cast of second and third year musical theatre WAPPA (Western Australian Academy of Perfroming Arts) students.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:16PMThursday, May 11, 2017
Perth, your wish has been granted! Following on from successful magical seasons in Sydney and Melbourne Disney’s Aladdin will extend the magic carpet ride West. The production will play at…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:14PMSunday, April 2, 2017
Check out our photo feature from Black Swan State Theatre Company’s Once in Royal David’s City. Images captured by Philip Gostelow A co-production with the Queensland Theatre C…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:15AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) third year musical theatre students give a comical, heartfelt and highly energetic performance in this musical based on the 80’s …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:06AMThursday, February 23, 2017
In what is looking like a desolate musical theatre scene for Perth in 2017 (Matilda which opens at the end of the month, is the only major production announced for 2017!) WAAPA (The Wester…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:53PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
Check out the photos from Black Swan State Theatre Company’s Clinton The Musical captured by Daniel James Grant. Starring Lisa Adam, Simon Burke, Matt Dyktynski, Brendan Hanson, Luk…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:39PMThursday, September 1, 2016
Black Swan State Theatre Company’s Clinton The Musical is a fast paced hilarious, irreverent and wild ride through the two terms of the (Bill) Clinton Presidency. And it will have you on…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:04PMMonday, June 13, 2016
I’m always blown away by the talent exposed in the major mid year WAAPA musical and this years offering, Bring It On The musical, did not disappoint. As the audience enters the theatre the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:31AMSunday, June 12, 2016
As the musical theatre students from WAAPA prepare for opening night of Bring It On – The Musical, check out the images captured by Jon Green during a recent technical run through. Present…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:15PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
The third year WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) Musical Theatre Students launched their 2016 season with The Drowsy Chaperone. Directed by Crispin Taylor, the musical pl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:17PMSunday, February 28, 2016
There is instant nervous tension in the air when the 16 audience members are told they will be ushered one-by-one into the production of I Know You’re There to be personally greeted by …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:16PMTuesday, January 5, 2016
All Saints’ College in Bull Creek Perth, has scored a major coup after securing Olivier Award-winning actor Guy Masterson – the great-nephew of Richard Burton – as artist-in-residence …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:32PMSunday, January 3, 2016
With less than eight weeks left of The Lion King’s season in Perth, we thought a quiz to test your knowledge of the musical might be in order before it leaves the West Coast. The L…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:44AMTuesday, December 29, 2015
Are you a Cat God of the Heavy Side Layer, educating felines ready to be born into a new Jellicle Life or a new kitten playfully discovering the joy of Cats? As Cats continues its tour aroun…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:54PMSunday, November 22, 2015
Perth Musical Theatre fans, it might be time to get that second job! With recent announcements of shows confirmed for Perth in 2016, and those still rumored, it’s looking like a busy t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:05AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Black Swan’s Next to Normal is emotionally brought to life by the amazingly talented cast assembled by director, Adam Mitchell. Conveying the complexities and strains of mental illness i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:22AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Perth’s Black Swan State Theatre Company completes its 2015 season with the Tony Award winning musical Next to Normal. The show opened last night (Wednesday 11 November) at the Heath…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:25PMThursday, August 27, 2015
Carrie The Musical, based on Stephen King’s novel, is not the uplifting, upbeat musical, that WAAPA is famous for. It’s a commentary on bullying, surviving high school and trying to over…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:18PMFriday, June 26, 2015
The Blue Room in Perth gives voice to emerging creative talent and allows independent theatre artists to get their work seen. Lucy Clements is using the space to her advantage and makes an i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:59AMTuesday, June 16, 2015
OMG you guys! WAAPA’s mid year musical Legally Blonde is funny, hilarious and sassy. Director Jason Langley’s prediction that Legally Blonde would “drag the young audience in” proved…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Amanda Muggleton, one of Australia’s leading actresses, is returning to Perth to reprise her Helpmann Award-nominated role as Deborah in the raucous one-woman hit, The Book Club. Amanda …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:58PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
It’s taken 18 years, but finally Disney’s The Lion King is heading to Perth. Following sell out seasons in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, the blockbuster Disney musical will open at the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:40PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
La Soiree has finally made it to Perth as part of the 2015 Fringe World Festival. Check out our exciting photo feature which showcases some of the acts that have enthralled, entertained and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:01PMMonday, February 9, 2015
La Soiree is a feast of sensual delights that satisfies all tastes, as acts from around the globe have audiences enthralled, engaged and entertained. And at last it has arrived in Perth as…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:22AMSaturday, February 7, 2015
As Tina Del Twist stumbled up onto stage in a gin induced daze I wasn’t sure what sort of show I had let myself in for. Five minutes in and the first set of laughs, I knew I was in for a f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:26PMSunday, February 1, 2015
The hills are alive with hysterical laughter! This 60 minute production of The Sound of Nazis borrows the premise from the 1956 West German film Die Trappe Familie which was made into anothe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:38PMArmed with another bottle of wine, a pen, and an opened mind Craig Dalglish once again trawled through the 500 acts listed in the program and culled, to come up with another 7 selections for…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:38PMWednesday, January 28, 2015
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, thank God for The West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) who present the musical theatre that, for some reason, never seems to make…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:24AMPuppet Fiction pays homage to director Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 cult movie Pulp Fiction. Three puppeteers, James Noklse , Ralph McCubbin-Howell and Anya Tate-Manning, bring eleven puppets …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:05AM 
