531 stories by "Erin James"
Australian producer Sean Bryan has his say about the 2013 Helpmann Award Nominations in a blog that asks some serious questions about the categories, eligibility and validity of our national…
The 2013 Helpmann Award nominations were announced tonight at concurrent ceremonies in six cities " Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth. This year, 822 entries were recei…
CONFIRMED: Opera Australia's acclaimed production of South Pacific is heading to Adelaide in December 2013 as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre's 40th anniversary celebrations. In the hea…
It's a big day for cabaret performer Marika Aubrey. Audiences at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival will tonight witness the world premiere of her show Last of the Red Hot Mamas, and as she sits …
After cancelling his highly anticipated Australian tour earlier this month after emergency surgery rendered him unfit to travel, Sir David Attenborough has been given the all clear to resche…
Global Creatures' epic theatrical event - King Kong - opened at Melbourne's Regent Theatre last night with an official gala opening performance and party, attended by some of Aus…
Green Room Award nominee Fem Belling took time out of her rehearsal schedule (literally) to chat with AussieTheatre about the much anticipated return season of Genesis To Broadway. The delig…
When the cast and crew of The Addams Family performed their creepy, kooky and joyous show this afternoon they marked their 101st performance at the Capitol Theatre Sydney (congratulations, a…
The all-Australian cast of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced is now complete, and producer Louise Withers (on behalf of the producing partners) confirmed the Australian premiere …
Opera Australia today confirmed that Australian composer and conductor Richard Mills has withdrawn from its Ring Cycle project, set to open in Melbourne later this year. Mills, a long-time c…
AussieTheatre is thrilled be giving away a DOUBLE PASS to see the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House on June 10! Regarded as one of the most artistically interesting and succ…
In New York City " the home of modern musical theatre " performers and artists are exposed to workshops, masterclasses, concerts and (of course) a multitude of major Broadway shows every sin…
Following the success of Legally Blonde in Australia, producers John Frost (of Gordon Frost Organisation) and Howard Panter (of Ambassador Theatre Group) are teaming up again to bring …
There is little Val Lehman hasn't done in her career as a performer. Theatre in education, film and television, musicals and plays " Lehman has played the gamut of roles across the genres an…
Anyone involved with the Australian production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are no doubt beating their chests with pride this week. They say good news comes in threes, and Chitty Chitty Ban…
We made our way inside the newly fitted Regent Theatre this morning for a glimpse of Global Creatures' latest masterpiece " a six metre, 1.1 tonne puppet called Kong " in an incredible displ…
Maggie Kirkpatrick will return to the stage as Madame Morrible in the first leg of Wicked's 10th anniversary tour, which is set to commence in New Zealand this September. Kirkpatrick orig…
The founder of Australia's first professional theatre company has passed away aged 88. English born John Sumner AO CBE, the longest serving artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Company…
An independent dance school in Sydney's inner west was the topic of several news pieces yesterday, but unfortunate choice of language mistakenly implicated the professional contemporary comp…
Attention all Melbourne Musical Theatre and Cabaret Performers: Matthew Robinson's special new workshop is for you. No, really. Acclaimed performer and composer Matthew Robinson has been pre…
Last week, Global Creatures released an 8-track preview of the score of epic new theatrical event King Kong featuring music from some of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. Sarah…
Judi Farr will be donning her most sensible heels this year as the leading role in Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced tour from September.  Farr, whose career includes an astonishi…
The Equity Foundation (Actor's Equity's professional development arm) have announced a world-first research project in conjunction with the University of Sydney. The Actors Well-Being Stud…
Hurry! Matthew Robinson's The Singing Actor Workshop Brisbane has only FIVE slots left " applications close May 17. Last year, composer, performer and 2011 Churchill Fellowship winner Matthe…
WAAPA graduate and producer Tim Lawson has announced that his acclaimed production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will head to Perth from September this year, marking the fourth leg of the sh…
