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The first production for shake and stir's 10th anniversary year-long party started with the family friendly, summer holiday show, George's Marvellous Medicine. Aces of the stage adaptation, …
Having always declared myself the Steven Bradbury of all things technology, the fact that I have to use social media to market myself these days seems about as appealing as kale. If it was u…
Alan Cumming has the ineffable quality of a star. There's that flashing smile, sliding from cheeky to rueful within seconds. There's the twinkled eyes, the hair, the pixie-ish demeanour. He'…
It was the 1990 movie that became a cult classic and brought together the holy trinity of 80’s movie royalty; Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. For anyone of the era, the…
Welcome to the first weekend of 2016! What we need now, as we slip back into some semblance of routine, is a little bit of beauty. A little bit of magic. A little bit of music. So we’r…
Grab a coffee, sit back, relax and enjoy these 1o fabulous YouTube videos, selected by our very own Music Theatre fanboy –Â Joel Granger! If you're anything like me, you have spent f…
Lo-fi indie company Squabbalogic are kicking off their 2016 season by digging beneath the shiny exterior of a musical theatre classic to find the grit that use to lie at its heart. The Or…
Beneath a giant tree, branches reaching out across the sky, sit two teenagers: bookish Charlie (Tom Conroy) and outcast-troublemaker Jasper Jones (Guy Simon). They have never hung out before…
Fiddler on the Roof is one of "those shows". It's frequently mentioned as people's favourite musical, and one they were brought up on. For those people, this is a fine, if workmanlike, produ…
All Saints' College in Bull Creek Perth, has scored a major coup after securing Olivier Award-winning actor Guy Masterson " the great-nephew of Richard Burton " as artist-in-residence this F…
What do scrunchies, Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, the 80s, and Trevor Ashley have in common? Remember the 1988 cult film Heathers? Well sick back biatches, because Trevor Ashley is brin…
This is an important public service announcement: Alan Cumming. Do you know who he is? If you do, great. This little note is for you. (And you’ll LOVE the FAQs on his website). If you …
AussieTheatre has three double passes to giveaway to The Fantasticks at the Hayes Theatre Co on Monday January 11 at 7:30pm. What is the world's longest-running musical theatre prod…
Club Swizzle is the latest circus/cabaret show from the team behind La Soirée and La Clique. It uses the (well-worn) recipe of sexy circus with other acts, in a variety show format. Audienc…
Today we are very excited to unveil our latest project: The Australian Music Theatre Database, an ongoing record of the work and people in the professional music theatre industry of Australi…
With less than eight weeks left of The Lion King’s season in Perth, we thought a quiz to test your knowledge of the musical might be in order before it leaves the West Coast.…
Theatre critic and AussieTheatre Deputy Editor Cassie Tongue sees hundreds of shows a year. In this piece, she writes about the moments that give theatre its magic: the ephemeral, tantali…
The most moving part of Georgy Girl "The Seekers musical is a film of the audience watching The Seekers at Melbourne's Myer Music Bowl in 1967. There were about 200 000 people, around a tent…
Are you a Cat God of the Heavy Side Layer, educating felines ready to be born into a new Jellicle Life or a new kitten playfully discovering the joy of Cats? As Cats continues its tour aroun…
Melbourne based actor and playwright Emily Sheehan has taken out the 2015 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for her play Hell's Canyon.  Earlier this month, the Seaborn Broughton and W…
Grab a coffee, grab a chai, grab an iced chocolate (or even a wine!) and join Matilda Moran for her first column on AussieTheatre.com! From catching up with friends on the East Coast, to aud…
I’m going to ask a big favour of you all. I’m going to ask you to bear with me. And the reason is this: I’m going to talk about babies. Or more specifically, motherhood. Yo…
Sad news for the Australian arts community today with the passing of one of our most versatile and acclaimed actors, Carol Burns, after a battle with cancer. Burns’ partner of 36 years…
It’s that time of year again! Nominations were announced today for the Sydney Theatre Awards for 2015, which will be presented at a gala ceremony on Monday January 18, 2016 at 6pm at t…
The Sound of Music, that grand sentimental fare best known as a film from 1965, has come to Sydney's Capitol Theatre just in time for all that holiday-inspired nostalgia and family bonding. …
