Tuesday, August 23, 2016
The Australian premiere of the Broadway musical-whodunnit Curtains adds another feather to The Production Company’s cap with this polished, brisk and sophisticated laugh-a-plenty product…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:42PMFriday, November 6, 2015
From the company that launched their talents last year at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse Theatre with an inventive production of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, Life Like Company…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:03PMFriday, September 18, 2015
Company is the latest dalliance with another a Stephen Sondheim work from independent company Watch This (following Assassins and Pacific Overtures). Making marvellous use of that delightful…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:57PMMonday, March 16, 2015
For months, Lyric Opera of Melbourne milked everything possible in their advertising campaign that, at first seemingly cryptic, flooded their Twitter feed with the hashtag #MeetTheMule. It w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:38PMThursday, February 12, 2015
While the national opera company is being lampooned for regurgitating the easier-sell popular works, it’s great seeing smaller companies presenting works that broaden the opera experience.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:21AMThursday, December 4, 2014
Closing Opera Australia’s 2014 season in Melbourne, Falstaff succeeds as the most intelligently integrated production of the year. As well as showcasing a large cast of Australasian pr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:06PMSunday, November 30, 2014
Amongst the fun and frivolity of the feathers and glitter, the wigs and the legs onstage, backstage and above, a show of its own unfolds at La Cage aux Folles; a drag cabaret nightclub on …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:51PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
I’m comparing Lyric Opera of Melbourne’s new production of Werther as a little tugboat compares to a cruise ship. That’s because the last time I saw Werther was earlier this year a…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:28AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
If you witnessed the conviction and stride with which the young enthusiastic performers displayed in their enactment of a world premiere interpretation of The Play of Herod, you’d recognis…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:13AMFriday, June 6, 2014
THE HEROINE MIGHT… BUT THIS OPERA WILL NEVER DIE When the theater lights fade to darkness at the War Memorial Opera House, the first notes of La Traviata will introduce a somber musical th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:04PMWednesday, June 4, 2014
SHOW BOAT JUST KEEPS ROLLING ALONG At San Francisco Opera’s summer company premiere of Show Boat, the first image at the War Memorial Opera House is a proscenium-high curtain depicting…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:59PMSunday, June 1, 2014
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD Headlining Plácido Domingo and Georgian soprano Nino Machaidze, the extravagance of LA Opera’s production of Massenet’s 1894 opera, Thaïs, is a verita…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51PM 
