As part of their mandate to offer Brisbane audiences an alternative to mainstream musical theatre, Alex Woodward and Understudy Productions are once more set to thrill with Boys of Sondheim.…
At an upbeat and star-studded ceremony tonight at Sydney’s Seymour Centre, the winners of the 2016 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced – and we’ve got the full list rounde…
Doug Wright's play I Am My Own Wife, at fortyfivedownstairs for Midsumma, is a most remarkable piece. Its story twists and turns and keeps the audience guessing, it has a superbly unreliable…
I'm not going to beat around the bush. Dolly Di*mond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks is a hot mess " but it's the funniest and most delightful hot mess you'll ever see. And speaking of bush, Rhonda …
Going to the circus is, for many, a thrilling experience: nostalgia, loud noises, death-defying acts… while sitting in the front row and having popcorn lobbed in your face by the ringm…
New writing for theatre often goes through a lengthy development process before an audience sees it on stage. Lonely Company's two-night Beta Fest: Theatre in Various States of Undress is go…
A tycoon moves to Washington DC to use his money to influence politics and politicians. When the Melbourne Theatre Company announced they were staging Garson Kanin’s 1940s polit…
When I was given the opportunity to speak to Lea Salonga about her upcoming concerts just days after the results of the American election were announced, I couldn’t help but link he…
AussieTheatre has a double pass to giveaway to Ash Flanders: Playing to Win at the Arts Centre Melbourne on Friday 27 January. How do you win in a world where eight-year-olds on YouTub…
When the rare opportunity arises to see a master at work, you do whatever you can to make it happen. So, Melbourne theatregoers, make it happen. AACTA Award nominee Ben Gerrard hits the Melb…
One of the most anticipated musicals of the decade is beginning public performances today! The Book of Mormon have their first public preview at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne tonight. As…
For some, seeing Shakespeare in English is complicated enough. For the crowd that packed into the Roslyn Packer theatre on Sunday night to see Cheek by Jowl and Moscow's Pushkin Theatre perf…
Nathan Maynard's The Season is a wonderfully authentic new Australian work, celebrating tradition without overlooking the challenges often associated with preserving heritage. Set on Dog Isl…
AussieTheatre has a double pass to giveaway to Finucane & Smith's Glory Box: Lucky 13 at the Arts Centre Melbourne on 24 Jan at 8pm. Dice-rolling divas, ace-in-the-hole aerialists,…
Rock stars and triple threats abound in the cast for Green Day’s American Idiot, the musical that took Broadway by storm. The Australian premiere season is exclusively at Queensland Pe…
There are many ways that Hell could be represented on stage. Walking into The Courtyard Studio of the Canberra Theatre Centre to find an office straight out of a Sherlock Holmes novel was, n…
Around this time last year, I wrote an open letter to my first year drama school self. Now that I'm another year "wiser", I thought I would write another open letter to that scared little bo…
Virginia Gay is set to take the stage at the Hayes this March as Calamity Jane in a semi-immersive production by Richard Carroll (it has evolved out of a Neglected Musicals staged reading in…
Every minute of Prize Fighter, the acclaimed playwrighting debut by Future D. Fidel, is essential. At only 65 minutes in length the play, now at Belvoir after a strong season at Brisbane…
Ladies in Black means well. A new Australian musical based on Madeleine St John's novel Women in Black, it carries in its quintessentially Australian core an eagerness to charm audiences.…
After much Wishin' and Hopin', performer Baylie Carson returns home to Adelaide in her professional debut, 'Dusty the Musical' at the Festival Theatre. Growing up in both Adelaide and the La…
The circus always brings back fond memories of childhood " sitting under the big top (with the obligatory fairy floss and popcorn) and watching talented people do extraordinary things " but …
The producers of The Book of Mormon have announced the addition of an extra preview performance with all tickets priced at $20 each! The extra show will mark the first performance avai…
AussieTheatre has a double pass to giveaway to A Night at the Musicals starring Le Gateau Chocolat and Jonny Woo at the Fairfax Studio on Wednesday, January 18. Spend a raucous …
The Travelling Sisters and their motley crew of crazy characters stormed into town (literally) this month for a spin around the Bleaches (behind the scrumptious Bens Burgers in West End). It…