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The Rob Guest Endowment annual gala concert will take place on Monday November 9, where six finalists " emerging stars of Australian musical theatre " will take the stage at Sydney's Lyric T…
The Melbourne Festival production of Peter Sellars Desdemona sold out. With reactions ranging from  “tedious” " there were walk outs and some impressive snoring " to gen…
Jonathan Larson's Rent originally premiered Off Broadway in 1996. Inspired by Puccini's La Boheme, set in New York City's East Village in the early 1990s, it tells the story of a group of yo…
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to CATS at the Capitol Theatre on 30 October, 8pm. Staring Delta Goodrem as Grizabella, the 2015 Olivier Award-nominated CATS introdu…
Luckiest Productions and Tinderbox Productions, the producers of the 2014 multi award winning Sweet Charity, announced today a national tour of the cult musical hit …
It’s getting warmer, the days are longer, it’s not quite summer yet but “Summertime” still seems appropriate for this Sunday afternoon. Settle in and listen to Kirby …
In a festival full of big ideas and abstract concepts, Dear John is deceptively simple. At first, the audience struggles to find a pattern, a narrative or even a theme. However, once they gi…
I didn’t take my eyes off the stage and am still trying to fully understand the astonishingly beautiful, often disturbing and totally unapologetic adaption of The Bacchae created…
From the first oozings over the audience chatter, of the live music from the very accomplished Zephyr Quartet, to the very first sentence from the actors, it was clear that this was no ordin…
Have you all but given up trying to remember the (ever growing) list of wonderful Musicals heading to Australia in the next few years? We’ve been trying to list them in order here a…
Disney's Aladdin, a new musical comedy based on the classic Academy Award-winning animated film, will open in Sydney at the Capitol Theatre in August 2016. Tickets will go on sale in March 2…
The late Pina Bausch played the role of matchmaker to Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa and hence the immaculate conception of Play was borne. Play is the gentle art of love &#…
RENT is now officially open at Hayes Theatre Co and – surprise, surprise! – the season is already completely SOLD OUT. We at AussieTheatre wanted to share this beautiful photo fe…
A Steady Rain is a gritty show in that you feel the dirt caught in your teeth as you watch it unfold; it's not exactly a pleasant experience, but it grabs, and holds, your attention. Keith H…
Christopher Marlowe's 1593 political thriller Edward II brings to light the complexities of human nature by exploring how these intricacies play out in the political realm. This historical t…
If there are things that Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life is lacking, truth isn't one of them " not if the hoots and hollers coming from mothers in the audience are anything to go by, a…
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway toMichael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games at the Capitol Theatre on Thursday, 20 October. The world's most successful…
The 2015 Rob Guest Endowment Grand Final Concert is a celebration of the best of the talents on our musical theatre stages. From our emerging stars, the finalists who sing for the grand priz…
Adelaide readers, if one of your favourite things is musical theatre, you’re in luck. Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian, John Frost and the Really Useful Group announced yesterday thatÂ�…
David Sefton has revealed the programme for his 4th and final as the Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2016. Sefton stated, "For my last hurrah, I've brought together a s…
The Rabbits is an hour-long opera based on a 1998 children’s picture book. Its Melbourne Festival season is sold out and as the Playhouse exploded with joy at the end of last night&…
The Lion King has been a smash hit production with Australian audiences. It did extremely well in its first run, and now it’s in its second, comfortably touring around Australia and…
Producer Enda Markey announced today that Defying Gravity, a concert celebrating the work of acclaimed composer Stephen Schwartz, will premiere at Sydney's Theatre Royal for two per…
It’s a miracle! Today the Royal Shakespeare Company, Louise Withers, Michel Coppel and Michael Watt announced that Matilda the Musical will move down to Melbourne’s Princess T…
The Rob Guest Endowment annual gala concert will take place on Monday November 9, where six finalists " emerging stars of Australian musical theatre " will take the stage at Sydney's Lyric T…
