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With the 30th annual comedy festival now in full swing, we caught up with our regular MICF correspondant, Danny McGinlay, to get his picks of the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival…
At 82, Lynn Ruth Miller is the oldest stand-up comedian in the world. And, as the name of her show tells us, This Is Your Future. I didn't really know what I was in for with this show. There…
Gillian Cosgriff packs her bags for outer space and now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come… I've been Whelmed by Gillian Cosgriff and heard her "8 Songs in 8 Weeks" and lear…
USA comedian"actor"writer"rapper"cable-tv-host Tom Green is possibly best known for his crude songs and his 2001 film Freddy Got Fingered. He returns to Australia with hilarious high-energy …
Claire Healy is a bit of an over-sharer. Luckily, she's charming and funny so the over-sharing isn't really a problem. With her arresting big eyes, mischievous expressive face and blunt-bobb…
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to The Original Grease at the Seymour Centre on Wednesday April 6. Raw, raunchy and risqué, The Original Grease is the classic…
AussieTheatre has three double passes double passes to giveaway to CrossXRoads at Chapel off Chapel on Friday, 15th of April. Sometimes starting again can change everything… Spann…
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I've decided to trade my coffee in for a well-deserved wine this week, after our first full sing through of the Dogfight score. We have just finished our first week of rehearsals for this pr…
Ghost, a romantic fantasy thriller of a film, found its way into audience's hearts in 1990 with its passion, mystery and unique story. Ghost the Musical however, now in Sydney, loses s…
Cats is one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s longest-running creations (35 years and going strong since its West End debut in 1981). Â Trevor Nunn (original director) and Gillian Lynne (orig…
CATS the musical opened at the Adelaide Festival Centre over the weekend to standing ovations and full houses. Adelaide-based photographer Oliver Toth attended the official media ca…
Stage Door Shrink returns to AussieTheatre this month with a very special guest. Rachel Cole chats with Tim Minchin about Matilda, art and taking risks. A note from Rachi… If you're like m…
Without a propelling story line, Anthony Crowley’s Redemption considers the relationship between the priesthood, corruptness and sexual depravity. Set in Melbourne, a young Catho…
The third year WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) Musical Theatre Students launched their 2016 season with The Drowsy Chaperone. Directed by Crispin Taylor, the musical pl…
It was at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney in 1972, that the Australian public first fell in love with Jon English. Â Playing Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar, Jon launched himself in…
My biggest concern leaving WAAPA was that I would never get work. My second biggest concern was that if I did score a show, I would be working with a group of strangers, not the 18 people…
The biggest smash-hit musical to hit Australian shores in recent years is preparing to premiere in Melbourne this week at the Princess Theatre after more than 30 weeks playing at Sydney̵…
I am  a 24 year-old male with no intention of having children. At its core, The Distance is about being a mother; I'm not its audience. With that out of the way, I can say that I perso…
We are still in shock over the sudden death of Aussie legend Jon English. Born in 1949, he passed away on March 9 2016, just two weeks shy of his 67th birthday. This beautiful piece, penn…
The Prince is a one-act play superbly written and directed by Rachel Hogan, with its two actors " Peter Fock as Machiavelli and Nicola Tydale-Biscoe as Marietta " giving transformative…
In a gorgeous piece of symmetry, StageArt's return season of In the Heights began last night, eight years after the opening performance ended at the Richard Rodgers theatre on Broadway, a…
Musical theatre is so often about spectacle, it's always a pleasure to see a small musical that focuses on people and their troubles. Based on a short story, The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris …
Following the release of a distressing story in the Sydney Morning Herald (read here for a full run-down of facts and statements from both parties) last month claiming that a young girl w…
Ladies In Black, Georgy Girl, Strictly Ballroom, King Kong, LoveBites, The Hatpin, Miracle City, Happy People, Metro Street, Eureka! Priscilla – Queen of the Desert, Dusty, Eurobeat &#…
