Perth's theatre scene is full of enterprising people who want to work on creatively fulfilling projects that allow them to produce cutting-edge works, maintain artistic control, and provide …
Broken Colour, a new work written by Nina Pearce, directed by Michael McCall and presented by The Blue Room and Same Cat, tackles the subject of mental illness and coupling in the modern wor…
This was my first introduction to this beloved Australian story, one that generations of Aussie children grew up on, either through Colin Thiele’s book or the 1976 movie based on the b…
Analisa Bell comes DownStairs at the Maj with her new cabaret based on songs sung and inspired by Marilyn Monroe. The genesis of the show came from a moment outside a Melbourne theatre, afte…
And so opens a new production of Macbeth, this time presented by Class Act Theatre at Subiaco Arts Centre's studio, directed by Stephen Lee and starring Rhoda Lopez as Lady Macbeth and Nick …
Tim Winton's Shrine is beautifully flawed; somehow, structurally, its scope seems beyond the confines of theatre and it might seem a better fit for film, or be best savored from the page. Bu…
Twelve years ago this month New York City firefighters were called to duty for an unthinkable disaster. A third of all New York City Fire Department (FDNY) companies were dispatched to go in…
WAAPA 3rd year music theatre students took a shot at Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, under the direction of WAAPA alumnus James Millar and the musical direction of David King. It was a slick a…
I'd like to begin my next Spotlight by saying a few words about what it means to be an independent theatre maker in Perth and why it's vital to get a view of the forest while still examining…
Hedda gets her hooks in deep. She's crafty, cunning, complicated, and deadly cold. She's no ones friend, no ones lover, no ones possession. Yet she is one of the most coveted female roles in…
Perth's theatre scene is full of enterprising people who want to work on creatively fulfilling projects that allow them to produce cutting-edge works, maintain artistic control, and provide …
Édith Piaf is alive and well and living in Perth. From the streets of Paris to the corner room of a building in Perth called the Guild Studio, the chansons of Piaf reverberate with passi…
Perth's theatre scene is full of enterprising people who want to work on creatively fulfilling projects that allow them to produce cutting-edge works, maintain artistic control, and provide …
The events that occurred in America on September 11, 2001 still continue to create ripple effects around the world, more than a decade later. As an American who was living in the US at the t…
These kids are onto something. The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF) presented its second Home Open this weekend (the first was back in June), and it was a fantastic success. Home Open is TCRF's (so…
Perth's theatre scene is full of enterprising people who want to work on creatively fulfilling projects that allow them to produce cutting-edge works, maintain artistic control, and provide …
Preparing for the role of Silda in Black Swan Theatre Company's up-coming production of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, actor Vivienne Garrett took time to talk with Aussie Theatre's …
Perth's theatre scene is full of enterprising people who want to work on creatively fulfilling projects that allow them to produce cutting-edge works, maintain artistic control, and provide …
How much time do you spend online in a day? Do you live there, more in the virtual world than in the real world? Would you give up a complicated, messy, painful life in the real world to liv…
Round and round it goes, and where it stops, nobody knows. The merry-go-round of love is turning swiftly at the Heath Ledger Theatre, as Black Swan launches its current production, Day One, …
Is there anybody out there? Is there life on Mars? Have humans had close encounters with E.T.s? Artists and aliens have often collided in creative ways over the last few decades because the …
Immersion is the operative idea at work in Russya Connor's performance piece Sea Inside. From the moment we step through the theatre door into a red lit corridor lined with seashells and mov…
Amanda Muggleton is at Subiaco Arts Centre right now performing in The Book Club (written by Roger Hall and directed by Rodney Fisher) and she's spinning a tale with exuberance and joy about…
Perth just got itself a new festival this year: the Perth International Jazz Festival. It ran over one weekend, May 24"26, and was headlined by Joe Lovano, Katie Noonan and Vince Jones in a …
Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, presented by The Blue Room Theatre and Red Ryder Productions, offers a lot of food for thought, and this production goes down a treat. LaBute examines the situation of…