Saturday, June 29, 2013
Give me a flute of bubbly in a crowded theatre foyer and I’m the happiest girl in the world. I love clinking a glass with friends and colleagues to celebrate the work of our wonderful Auss…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMThursday, June 27, 2013
It’s back, and more twisted than ever! Music theatre’s most loved fundraising event is returning to Melbourne this year after sold out shows in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and it’s going to b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:37PMAustralian Composer and Churchill Fellowship winner Matthew Robinson will be hosting a very special concert tomorrow night as part of the Melbourne Cabaret Festival at Globe Cafe in Prahran.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:53PMWinter is undeniably cabaret season in Australia — the Adelaide Cabaret Festival has just enjoyed an incredibly successful 13th annual program, the Melbourne Cabaret Festival is about to k…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:48PMWednesday, June 26, 2013
It was confirmed today that Shane Bourne will be joining the cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the Brisbane and Perth seasons this year. Last seen on stage playing opposite Geoffrey Rush i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:47AMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Australian producer Sean Bryan has his say about the 2013 Helpmann Award Nominations in a blog that asks some serious questions about the categories, eligibility and validity of our national…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:15AMMonday, June 24, 2013
The 2013 Helpmann Award nominations were announced tonight at concurrent ceremonies in six cities — Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth. This year, 822 entries were rec…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:29AMFriday, June 21, 2013
CONFIRMED: Opera Australia’s acclaimed production of South Pacific is heading to Adelaide in December 2013 as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s 40th anniversary celebrations. In the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:16AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
It’s a big day for cabaret performer Marika Aubrey. Audiences at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival will tonight witness the world premiere of her show Last of the Red Hot Mamas, and as she sit…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:05AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
After cancelling his highly anticipated Australian tour earlier this month after emergency surgery rendered him unfit to travel, Sir David Attenborough has been given the all clear to resche…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:34AMSaturday, June 15, 2013
Global Creatures’ epic theatrical event - King Kong - opened at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre last night with an official gala opening performance and party, attended by some of Austral…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:12AMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Green Room Award nominee Fem Belling took time out of her rehearsal schedule (literally) to chat with AussieTheatre about the much anticipated return season of Genesis To Broadway. The delig…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:39AMSunday, June 9, 2013
When the cast and crew of The Addams Family performed their creepy, kooky and joyous show this afternoon they marked their 101st performance at the Capitol Theatre Sydney (congratulations, a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:19AMThe all-Australian cast of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced is now complete, and producer Louise Withers (on behalf of the producing partners) confirmed the Australian premiere en…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:21AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Opera Australia today confirmed that Australian composer and conductor Richard Mills has withdrawn from its Ring Cycle project, set to open in Melbourne later this year. Mills, a long-time c…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:28AMMonday, June 3, 2013
AussieTheatre is thrilled be giving away a DOUBLE PASS to see the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House on June 10! Regarded as one of the most artistically interesting and succ…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:35PMIn New York City — the home of modern musical theatre — performers and artists are exposed to workshops, masterclasses, concerts and (of course) a multitude of major Broadway shows every…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:38AMSaturday, June 1, 2013
Following the success of Legally Blonde in Australia, producers John Frost (of Gordon Frost Organisation) and Howard Panter (of Ambassador Theatre Group) are teaming up again to bring the …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:12PMWednesday, May 29, 2013
There is little Val Lehman hasn’t done in her career as a performer. Theatre in education, film and television, musicals and plays — Lehman has played the gamut of roles across the genre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:07AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Anyone involved with the Australian production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are no doubt beating their chests with pride this week. They say good news comes in threes, and Chitty Chitty Bang …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:13AMMonday, May 27, 2013
We made our way inside the newly fitted Regent Theatre this morning for a glimpse of Global Creatures’ latest masterpiece — a six metre, 1.1 tonne puppet called Kong — in an incredible…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:16AMMaggie Kirkpatrick will return to the stage as Madame Morrible in the first leg of Wicked’s 10th anniversary tour, which is set to commence in New Zealand this September. Kirkpatrick orig…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:39AMFriday, May 24, 2013
The founder of Australia’s first professional theatre company has passed away aged 88. English born John Sumner AO CBE, the longest serving artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Compa…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:07PMThursday, May 23, 2013
An independent dance school in Sydney’s inner west was the topic of several news pieces yesterday, but unfortunate choice of language mistakenly implicated the professional contemporary co…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:56PMSunday, May 19, 2013
Attention all Melbourne Musical Theatre and Cabaret Performers: Matthew Robinson’s special new workshop is for you. No, really. Acclaimed performer and composer Matthew Robinson has been p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:10AMFriday, May 17, 2013
Last week, Global Creatures released an 8-track preview of the score of epic new theatrical event King Kong featuring music from some of the world’s most renowned contemporary artists. Sar…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:37PMThursday, May 16, 2013
Judi Farr will be donning her most sensible heels this year as the leading role in Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced tour from September. � Farr,� whose career includes an astonishi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:02PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
The Equity Foundation� (Actor’s Equity’s professional development arm) have announced a world-first research project in conjunction with the University of Sydney. The Actors Well-Being S…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PMSunday, May 12, 2013
Hurry! Matthew Robinson’s The Singing Actor Workshop Brisbane has only FIVE slots left — applications close May 17. Last year, composer, performer and 2011 Churchill Fellowship winner Ma…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:06AMFriday, May 10, 2013
WAAPA graduate and producer Tim Lawson has announced that his acclaimed production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will head to Perth from September this year, marking the fourth leg of the show…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMSouth Australian born tenor and musical theatre performer Daniel Koek has been living and working overseas for the better part of a decade. Audiences in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane will r…
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