127 stories by "David Allen"
Tyran Parke never fails to astound and delight in live performance. His new one man show Children and Art, which debuted at the Art Gallery of NSW on Friday is no exception. A masterful crea…
When it comes to the music theatre and cabaret, you would indeed be hard pressed to find someone more passionate on the subject than Tyran Parke. Actor, singer, writer, director – Tyra…
While it may indeed be a long way to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the distance between Sydney audiences and the best in Aussie cabaret just got a whole lot smaller. The Hayes Theatre Compa…
Australian music theatre icon and legendary leading lady Geraldine Turner will return to Sydney stages to star in the Theatre Divisions premiere production of Ruthless! the musical. Turner w…
Australian music theatre star, and book writer behind such smash hits as Der Gelbe Stern, Love Bites and The Hatpin, James Millar will be joining the cast of the US arena tour of the rock op…
Recently, an article on Crikey.com’s Daily Review created a lot of discussion within the music theatre industry by posing the question of whether home-grown musicals received the cr…
After award winning Australian seasons and a trip to New York, Dean Bryant and Matthew Frank’s original musical has made it into London. Replete with a spectacular cast of Aussie talen…
There's a reason Shakespearean repertory theatre company Sport for Jove got all those awards earlier this year at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Look yonder oh thy good souls of Sydney and look …
BREAKING: Hayes Theatre Company has announced their next musical of 2014 this fine April morning and it looks set to be the biggest of them all. The ambitious independent theatre company has…
Madama Butterfly is one of the worlds most popular and most performed operas. It remains a guarantee, however, that whether you have seen Puccini’s early 20th century tale of the loss …
With Willy Russell’s iconic West End musical Blood Brothers in full swing at Melbourne’s Chapel-Off-Chapel until April 6, AussieTheatre took time out to hear from the Johnson Twi…
On Saturday, Sydney’s beautiful Angel Place recital centre played host to a fantastic, charity event. The Royal Flying Doctors Service in the presence of the Governor of NSW Dr Marie B…
Though only in its third year in 2014, Opera on the Harbour has swiftly become a fast fixture of the cultural (and social) calendar not only for Sydney, but also Australia at large and even …
Recently, AussieTheatre’s David Allen got the chance to go backstage during a break in a tech run of music theatre darling Squabbalogic’s latest production. Mix ups, mayhem and a…
AussieTheatre’s David Allen talks to the creator of the legendary Rocky Horror Show – Richard O’Brien as he prepares to join the Australian tour. On the phone, Richard O'Br…
Prepare ye, for the return of Squabbalogic is upon us! In 2013 this bold young production company reminded the Sydney music theatre scene just what the words “game changing” mean…
When it comes to Next to Normal, Victoria just seems to get all the luck! With two fabulous productions in Melbourne, a third is set to open at the Geelong Performing Arts Centre this wee…
The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald have both reported that critically acclaimed and internationally renowned actress Wendy Hughes has died in Sydney this morning as a result of cancer.…
No list of Australia's truly great leading ladies of the stage would be complete without Rachael Beck. Over the last twenty-nine years (she made her debut in Cats in Melbourne aged 15) she h…
Eugene Onegin is an operatic experience with a difference. A "classic" by Tchaikovsky, it spent the earliest years of its history, touring Europe where it was viewed as something of a Russia…
Australian star of stage and screen and former co-creative director of the Sydney Theatre Company Cate Blanchett officially joined the ranks of Hollywood royalty today winning her second Aca…
2013 became all about the Wicked witches Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. 2014 is more than living up to the benchmark as international music theatre icons Bernadette Peters, Faith Prince…
Well it's official, this month Sydney audiences resoundingly welcomed the return of the independent musical. With William Finn's Falsettos playing at the Eternity and Sweet Charity at the Ha…
Australian music theatre star Alexis Fishman (Dusty, Kiss of the Spider Woman) will feature as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival in her smash hit one woman show co-penned with Ja…
You never saw such a standing ovation as greeted the final performance of King Kong last night. Though Wicked’s and Grease’s come and go and ignite the youthful believers of the …
