127 stories by "David Allen"
Once upon a time… we wished more than anything, more than life, riches and more than the moon for better music theatre adaptations from Hollywood. Unquestionably this week the biggest …
In Opera Australia’s season commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of composer Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata cannot help but stand out. A famous opera, yes, it also possesses a stor…
David Allen chats with Patrice Tipoki about Songs For A New World, playing tonight in Melbourne. When I was a kid, I got to see a lot of great shows – in Sydney, in Melbourne and even …
My first confession about Esther Hannaford is that I had no idea just how talented she was! I first saw her play Penny Pingleton in the 2010 production of Hairspray. She was funny, vocally p…
After over two years of speculation and overwhelming popular demand by Australian audiences, finally it can be confirmed that Tim Minchin's critically acclaimed Matilda the musical is expect…
A truly great play, is a delicate and fragile thing. The luminaries who write them come once in a generation " if we're lucky. Somehow their words manage to capture something " some spirit o…
David Allen writes about Australia's original international musical success story " Hot Shoe Shuffle " and why you should grab tickets to this Australian born creation while you can! Last we…
Anyone who has considered a career in the theatre, in some way, at some time, will most likely have considered picking up and moving to New York. One of the great theatre capitals of the wor…
Cabaret as an art form can be hit and miss " and what a rare and incredible thing it is to come across a show where the music, the subject and the performer have all come together to provide…
Three years age when Bernadette Robinson debuted in Songs for Nobodies as part of a season at Melbourne Theatre Company, she was a veritable unknown. Her play by Joanna Murray Smith seemed t…
Christie Whelan-Browne is unquestionably one of Australian music theatre's most promising starlets. She has also had one of the most interesting careers of her generation. There is very litt…
It'd be tough to find a duo in Australia more similar to the characters they are playing than James Millar and Lucy Maunder. When the pair of young music theatre stars opened at Glen Street …
I'm enough of a theatre geek to admit that Monday night, for me, was all about the Helpmann Awards and that there were days of preparation for me leading up to the actual event. Tweets were …
It's a truly extraordinary thing to experience the concert of a star so beloved that she could conceivably have performed the scale and received a rapturous welcome from her audience. So it …
Tyran Parke cuts a youthful figure but already he's a theatrical veteran. He graduated WAAPA in 1999 and stepped into some of the best and brightest productions to tour Australia in the last…
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival this year is rich and diverse with events. Jazz, rock'n'roll, musicals, song cycles, cabaret and divas as far as they eye can see. Joining them, is Aussie music…
The Maids is a weird play. Heartily intellectual (well, Andrew Upton), blissfully stylish (well " Alice Babidge!) and wickedly hilarious. But it never quite finds its feet. Written in 1947 b…
Reviving Jesus Christ Superstar on so grand a scale as the 2012/13 arena tour may not seem like a risky move. All the same, it is. It's not all that long ago that yet another revival of that…
At present the nation is glued to The Voice in a style of televised addiction that makes teenagers dizzy and musicians bitter. But while those young musicians go on the tube to make their wa…
While there are many Aussie music theatre stars presently wowing the crowds in the West End " few have made the same splash as Trevor Ashley did this May. The man dubbed "the busiest man in …
Ever sing while you're cooking? Turns out it's a practice indulged in by the best of them as Sydney-siders are about to see in high style. The Grande Dame of Australian Music Theatre Toni La…
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence are quintessential figures of 20th century theatre. Coward - the image of English gentry - acted, wrote, directed and composed; while Lawrence acte…
Recently Aussie Theatre's David Allen caught up with producer Michelle Guthrie about her Sydney based company Neglected Musicals. Talking to Michelle Guthrie I know right off the bat I'm con…
David Allen catches up with Richard Piper from King Kong's principal cast… Richard Piper has had a long and impressive career on the stage. Having Trained at London's celebrated Central Sc…
It was confirmed today that the devilishly cheeky and deliciously fun Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will open at Sydney's Theatre Royal this year. Nominated for 11 Tony awar…
