Sunday, October 19, 2014
My Fair Lady is not only the best Musical that came out of the fifties, but is justifiably promoted as “The Musical of Musicals”. Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, it has b…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:26AMFriday, October 17, 2014
To a capacity crowd in the William Magarey room of the re-developed Adelaide Oval David Sefton revealed his programme for the 2015 Adelaide Festival of Arts, his third as Artistic Director. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:58PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
From The Dunstan Playhouse’s stage, adorned with Victorian era dresses, the Brookman boys (CEO Rob and his son Artistic Director Geordie) revealed the State Theatre Company of South Austra…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:17PMSunday, October 5, 2014
This piece is an absolute theatrical gem. It is also a piece that could never be done justice by any other medium than live theatre. Set in Sophiatown, a South African shanty town near Johan…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMMonday, August 25, 2014
Two iconic characters, Peter Pan and Alice (of Wonderland and Looking Glass fame) were both based on real children by their respective authors, J.M.Barrie and Lewis Carroll. The prototypes f…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:30PMThe Oracle marks Meryl Tankard’s triumphant return to Adelaide after a 16-year absence. Performed by Paul White to Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring, The Oracle really is high-end High art…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:00AMSunday, August 24, 2014
The Oracle marks Meryl Tankard’s triumphant return to Adelaide after a 16-year absence. Performed by Paul White to Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring, The Oracle really is high-end High art…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:34AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
The ’70s and ’80s may not be the pinnacle of pop music, but much of its legacy still has some real appeal. Some who were there then may not remember much of it, but there were pl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMThursday, June 12, 2014
Little Bird is a family affair. The writer is married to the director who in turn is the State Theatre Company of SA’s CEO’s son as well as being the brother of an Adelaide Cabaret Festi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:37PMMonday, May 26, 2014
It is a considerable challenge to adapt any novel by Comedy/Fantasy/sci-fi writer Sir Terry Pratchett to the stage, and perhaps even moreso to direct and produce it. Pamela Munt and The Unse…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30AMSunday, May 25, 2014
South Australian children’s theatre company Patch Theatre recently announced the appointment of Thom Browning as their third (and final) Associate Director in Residence. Mr Browning will s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:27PMWednesday, April 2, 2014
This is an extraordinary and extremely important piece of theatre. Movingly and chillingly portrayed by four seasoned professional actors and twelve returned service personnel, this remarkab…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:30PMWednesday, March 12, 2014
From the youth of Melbourne comes a vibrant show which surely must be one of the highlights of The 2014 Adelaide Fringe. This vibrant, enthusiastic young troupe fills the theatre with its en…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:30AMThursday, March 6, 2014
Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company were last in Adelaide to present two stunning works, Anaphase and Mabul, as part of Barrie Kosky’s groundbreaking 1996 Adelaide Festival of Arts, so their…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:30AMMonday, March 3, 2014
Three political plays, hundreds of years old, one following the next with a running time of around 6 hours performed in throaty Dutch with English surtitles is – in a word; engrossing. Ton…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:30PMSunday, March 2, 2014
Choreographer Shaun Parker’s latest offering AM I takes its audience on a didactic journey from a time pre-Big Bang to somewhere post-Apocalypse. All the while trying to explain everything…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:23PMFriday, February 28, 2014
After fizzling out in 2013 with the deplorable Maggie Stone, The State Theatre Company of South Australia opens 2014 with a bang – Anton Chekhov’s sublime tragicomedy The Seagull. Chekho…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:29AMWednesday, February 26, 2014
Written by James Cunningham, The Sheds is about a gay AFL footballer and the effect his public coming-out has on the club he plays for (The Fitzroy Fighters), his teammates and his best frie…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMMonday, October 21, 2013
John Doyle knows his target audience very well indeed (he’s one of them) and hits a bull’s-eye with his new play Vere (Faith). Ground-breaking sociologist Max Weber defines the upper mid…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:41PMSaturday, October 12, 2013
East of Berlin is a psychological drama written by Canadian Playwright Hannah Moscovitch (her first full-length play, at the age of 29) in 2007. Running for 80 minutes without an interval, t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMThursday, October 10, 2013
SuperEverything is true to its name in that it is a multi-media event. Described as “live cinema” the show is oddly reminiscent of the silent film era. The audience is greeted with a scr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:10PMMeeting with Bodhisattva is entertaining and challenging but above all it is ethereal theatre at it’s otherworldly best. While the dancers and musicians are entertaining with their precisi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:05PMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Ontosoroh is a work of song, music and dance based on the Nyai Ontosoroh character in Indonesian Author Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s historical novel This Earth of Mankind. The novel incorporat…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00AMThe Artistic team of Not According To Plan – Leigh Warren, Khai Liew, Alistair Trung, Jerome Kugan, Geoff Cobham and Helen Fuller come together with an artistic brilliance equalled onl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:00AMMonday, September 16, 2013
The OzAsia Festival kicked off this week and Aussie Theatre takes a look at the best of the 2013 Programme – 5 shows you shouldn’t miss! Meeting with Bodhisattva A spiritual journey, in …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:40AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Artistic Director David Sefton has released a teaser of his 2014 Adelaide Festival Programme. Roman Tragedies, a six-hour long multimedia concoction of three of William Shakespeare’s p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:13AMSunday, September 1, 2013
Stomp ’13 is a boomer of a show. The energy, the rhythm, the sound and the choreography combine to delight each and every audience member. The roots of Stomp ’13 can be traced back to 19…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:42AMSunday, August 25, 2013
Almost everything about the State Theatre Company of South Australia’s Babyteeth is new except the subject matter. Cancer is heavy going at any time but when it’s terminal in a 14-year-o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:28PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Happy As Larry is an energetic, playful and sophisticated exploration (at times an exposé) of what it means to be a child, channelled through the art of dance. The audience enters while a c…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:19AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
Each person who walks into the auditorium of The Odeon Theatre and lays eyes on the stage is immediately struck at just how big it is. The implication is the audience is about to witness the…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:36AMSunday, August 4, 2013
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a rip-snorting comedy of histrionic extravagance. It’s William Shakespeare meets the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:59PM 
