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The Production Company was formed in Melbourne in 1999 by Jeanne Pratt AC. Still supported by individual and business sponsors, they present three short-run musicals a year with the ongoing …
It’s Sunday afternoon in winter: we could all do with some warming up, so let’s showcase someone exuding warmth: national treasure Paul Capsis. A wonder of a performer in cabaret…
Jane Miller completed Cuckoo as part of the Masters of Writing for Performance at VCA. Produced with the support of fortyfivedownstairs, it’s beautiful writing that lets ho…
The final opera in Victorian Opera's Stephen Sondheim trilogy opens next week with the much-anticipated Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Under the direction of Stuart Maunder,…
AussieTheatre is thrilled to be giving away some double passes to see Enda Markey’s production of Blood Brothers at the new Alex Theatre, St Kilda on 19 July! Starring Helen Dallimo…
Sydney's Hayes Theatre, a dedicated small space for musical theatre and cabaret, has branched out now into school holiday, family-friendly fare. The show that marks this growth is Akio!, a d…
We were speculating about this just three weeks ago! The six Tony-award winning smash Kinky Boots, by Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper, will make its Australian debut in Melbourne’…
It has been confirmed that Australian pop sensation and current coach on Channel 9’s The Voice, Delta Goodrem will make her musical theatre debut in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical…
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to The Songs of Alan Menken at the The Toff on 12th of July at 3pm. Featuring a talented cast of 6, the concert will showcase a ï¿�…
Belinda Giblin is a distinguished actor of the Australian stage and screen. Her most recent theatre credits include Daylight Saving (Eternity Playhouse) and Dark Voyager (Ensemble T…
I am an unashamed fan of Lionel Bart's Oliver! The film captured my imagination when I was very young and, although I had nightmares about Bill Sykes, I learnt every word of every song and w…
When the house lights finally went down in The Dunstan Playhouse to begin the Programme launch of the 2015 OzAsia Festival, a small child called out "Yay" and the entire audience broke out i…
AussieTheatre has three double passes to giveaway to Hamlet at the Arts Centre Melbourne on 16 – 18 July. Welcome to Elsinore, a place threatened by secret tyranny where no on…
Opera Australia's current production La Traviata, directed by Elijah Moshinsky and first staged in 1994, is a sumptuous, desperately romantic take on the full-hearted tragedy, and it's an em…
There's no doubt that audiences are challenged by double-crosses and deceit of the story told in Vivaldi's opera Bajazet. But this Pinchgut Opera presentation makes it worthwhile. All elemen…
Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co is moving from strength to strength as it steadily cultivates a thriving musical theatre exploration that is starting to be felt around the country. Now Hi…
This morning, producers of Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS announced the cast for the new Australian production, which will tour Australia from October this year. The beloved musical will feature…
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to the Australian premiere of Lisa D'Amour's award-winning comedy Detroit at the Darlinghurst Theatre on Friday 17 July. Set amidst a cr…
It seems at first like an improbable idea, combining circus with the courtly music of the Baroque era. Sure, circuses have music … but it's not usually elegant Baroque music played on peri…
It’s a throwback Sunday here at AussieTheatre, as we showcase one of our great leading ladies of the Australian musical theatre: Nancye Hayes. Having appeared in countless shows –…
Saltwater and Letters Home is a double bill of solo shows by 20-something artists who were born and brought up in Singapore and now live in Australia. Jamie Lewis and Joe Lui share …
Lois Ellis first directed Evelyn Krape in Female Parts in 1982. Written by Franca Rame and her theatre collaborator, co-activist and husband Dario Fo (who dedicated his Nobel Prize to …
Michael Gow's new translation of Mother Courage and her Children is an amiable one and Eamon Flack's production for Belvoir is courageous, but Brecht's political theatre (unsurprisingly) jus…
Rob Mills, or 'Millsy', has been in the public eye since he made the top 5 of Australian Idol back in 2003, and since then his life has been pulled apart by critics and the overly opinionate…
Graeme Murphy’s 1990 production of Turandot has an appealingly timeless quality; Murphy’s ensemble movement crests across the stage like waves, and Kristian Fredrikson’s de…
