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Welcome back to Stage Door Shrink, a regular column aimed at helping performers chortle their way to a #win. This week, our session is focused on the big A – AGENTS. Apart from having …
Competition is heating up at the 6th annual Rob Guest Endowment, with a semi-finalist list of 30 of the brightest new talents in musical theatre just announced. From these 30 participants…
Whispers and the rumour mill never really die down, do they? We’ve read in just the past 24 hours about two new shows that might be on their way to Australia. Ghost the Musical We&…
Matilda the Musical is settling into its first Australian home, the Lyric in Sydney, and is gearing up for its opening night in just two days. The beloved Roald Dahl story about an extrao…
Twisted Broadway takes place tonight at Arts Centre Melbourne, raising money for Oz Showbiz Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Hosted by Eddie Perfect and Kate Ceberano, over 80 members of the Aus…
We’ve been speculating, but now it’s confirmed by everyone involved: the hit musical We Will Rock You is returning to Australia next year for a national tour. We Will Rock …
A Sunday afternoon in late winter really calls for a torch song, so don’t worry: today I have got you covered. If you don’t already know this performer: meet Elise McCann. She…
According to queenonline.com, Ben Elton’s smash hit musical We Will Rock You " featuring 24 songs from Queen’s catalogue " will be returning to Australia for a nation…
We are thrilled to bring you the first instalment of This Week In Musical Theatre, a brand new regular column on AussieTheatre which will explore the professional music theatre highlights in…
Written and performed by James McCaughey, Conversations with the Gods about their Deaths & Other Matters (Part I) is a series of stylish (and somewhat bizarre) monologues based around ou…
On Saturday 22 August, children and their families will have the opportunity to explore dressing rooms, under the stage and through mazes of corridors at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the…
The Bleeding Tree won Angus Cereni the 2014 Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting and its premiere production is running at Griffin’s Stables Theatre in Sydney. This is theat…
Beyond expectation and presented free of charge, an impressive display of music and performance by the Monash Academy Orchestra treated the audience at the Monash University’s Robert B…
This review comes with a caveat. The 20-something yuppie woman in front of me thought it was a brilliant idea to see a show with two columns of hair, each six inches high, packed neatly side…
Andrew Upton's The Present is an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's earliest play, originally untitled but most often known as Platonov. Upton has condensed the lengthy original to a fast paced, …
Ahilan Ratnamohan is a soccer player and a theatre maker who creates physical performance inspired by by sport, film language and unorthadox foms.  In SDS1, opening at Arts House on 19…
Australia is bursting with musical theatre talent, and very soon, one of our most remarkable is taking her rightful place in a very “Loud” role: Marika Aubrey will play the brash…
One of the world’s top theatrical companies The Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) has been granted the lease and management of Sydney’s oldest theatrical institution, the Theatre Ro…
AussieTheatre has a double pass to giveaway to Anything Goes at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday, 6 September. For decades, Anything Goes has captivated millions with its delightful…
Sophie Wright is back after finishing the Australian tour of Wicked, with another wellness video blog. This week she delves into what you can do to deal with those ‘over-sharers’…
Good news, Ozians! Australia is the first country in the world to be granted the non-professional performance rights for WICKED, thanks to Music Theatre International (Australasia) in ass…
Imagine this: You weren’t an all A student. You left school early, but you wrote words from your heart straight onto the page. Your words are celebrated still, more than 60 years after…
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to Bell Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Sydney Opera House on 19 August. Prospero, a duke in exile, rules an island bound by nameles…
We could not possibly be luckier. It was announced this morning that Dame Julie Andrews herself (you know, big time musical star, you might have heard of her?) is coming to Australia to dire…
Matt McFarlane brings you a special wrap up of the 5th Annual Theatre Footy Day in Melbourne! A note from Matt Three things I have learnt this week: Jellicles can and do, white men can actua…
