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Like the proverbial cockroach in an apocalypse, CATS The Musical endures, dominating stages worldwide with barely a break. Unlike the cockroach, however, the show is eagerly embraced and ado…
The Rob Guest Endowment annual gala concert is just one week away and it’s shaping up to be an incredible night of entertainment. The big event will take place on Monday November…
Julian Kuo studied at AIM and has joined with other alumni to create their own work in a field that has far too few opportunities. EXCLAIM is a company that puts on very short seasons of sho…
Our ‘This week in Musical Theatre‘ column is back after a short hiatus and there is a lot going on this week. THIS WEEK: Anything Goes has their final show at the Sydney Op…
Australian audiences in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney have already had the chance to witness our brilliant Aussie cast in action in Boublil & Schönberg’s legendary musical, Les M…
As if you needed another reason to book tickets to the 2015 Rob Guest Endowment, Jemma Rix has been confirmed to be singing the number which (literally) brought the nation to a standstill at…
The cast and crew of Matilda The Musical celebrated a special milestone this week as they performed their 100th show in Australia. Matilda The Musical is the brain child of Aussie singer,…
Do you often wait before you say something or do something and wished you didn’t? We all do it, but how we stop and be more present! Even before an audition sometimes we don’t wa…
The Rob Guest Endowment annual gala concert is fast approaching! The big event will take place on Monday November 9, where six finalists " emerging stars of Australian musical theatre " will…
The Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) has been Australia's leading provider of examinations for music, speech and drama for over 100 years. With 40 syllabus options already availabl…
Pulitzer prize winner Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple was the precursor to the beloved '70s TV show. While I can't compare it to the TV show (before my time), the play is an enjoyable stand…
An homage to Chekhov, Afterplay is a two-hander play in which the characters are taken from two different Chekhov plays and fast forwarded twenty or so years into the future. Sonya from U…
Now in their 34th year, Melbourne Writers' Theatre continue their mission to foster and showcase new and established Australian writing talent with The Melbourne Monologues at La Mama Cou…
It's been 48 hours since my last Melbourne Festival show… Although Melbourne's festival lovers are looking forward to being in bed by midnight, food made at home and a couple of days that …
If you had to hazard a guess as to the longest running musical in the world, which should would you choose? CATS? The Phantom of the Opera? Les Miserables? Chicago? No, no, no and no. Ac…
After an extensive audition and casting process by Tony Award-winning director Matthew Warchus, the producers of Ghost The Musical have confirmed the full cast of their upcoming musica…
Hilary Cole is the next musical theatre superstar. Based in Sydney, she’s risen with fast audience, industry, and critical acclaim to star in Carrie, The Drowsy Chaperone, Miracle C…
We have a Molly! Australian musical theatre fans have been waiting for over a month to put the pieces of the Ghost puzzle together and the Daily Telegraph has finally revealed that Wicked st…
Kate Mulvany's gorgeous adaption of Kit Williams’s picture book Masquerade celebrates why picture books and stories are so important to children and why whenever a child asks yo…
The Australian premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Broadway smash Violet is heading to Hayes Theatre Co next month starring Steve Danielsen and Samantha Leigh Dodemaide. Based on the short st…
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to Good Works at the Eternity Playhouse on 3 November, 8pm. Written by acclaimed playwright Nick Enright (Cloud Street, The Boy From …
There isn't any sense in which this play could be called (in Mrs Everage's words), a "nice night's entertainment". It's very title, Mortido is Freud's term for the death wish, which immediat…
Welcome to Stage Door Shrink, a regular column penned by Rachel Cole aimed at helping performers chortle their way to a #win. A note from Rachel: Little known fact: In 2013, I had a booming …
A crisis meeting has been called for women employed in the theatre and screen industry following recurrent damning statistics of gender parity within theatre, film and television. On Monday,…
We already knew that Anthony Warlow is slated to play Tevye in Tim Lawson’s new production of Fiddler on the Roof, but the big names don’t stop there. This week it was announc…
