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The SBW Stables Theatre, home to Griffin Theatre Co, has a bare stage, following, we learn, a recent revival of Hotel Sorrento. Scrawled on one wall is a placeholder set: “Beach ima…
Agent Cleave is a very sexy glam-punk-pirate/bondage-slave/film-noir-private-dick/femme-fatale/mermaid/Spanish-Jesus in Show Stopper, returned to Melbourne for a limited run at Howler, as pa…
Low level sex scenes, partial nudity, mature adult themes, smoking, drinking, and loud noises … No, it's not a usual Friday night out at The Normanby, but the warning notification for Jave…
We waited in anticipation for Squabbalogic's first "Mystery Musical" and now the cat's out of the bag, we wanted to share as much about it as we could! Bye Bye Birdie a hit: inside Squabbalo…
Even if you don’t know his name, you know the work of Stephen Flaherty. This New York based composer has given music theatre some of the greatest works of the last 20 years with Ragtim…
The wonderful Belinda Strodder stopped into Strictly Ballroom in Melbourne to take some incredible shots of this new Australian musical. Starring Phoebe Panaretos and Thomas Lacey, Baz Lu…
Stop Kiss by playwrite Diane Son was first seen off-Broadway in 1998. An almost desperate need to appear “real” and naturalistic cause strong performances to fall flat in B…
Bagabus Inc are Hannah Malarski and Jack Richardson. They brought the delightfully dark Bushpig to the Melbourne Fringe in 2013 and are back for Midsumma with The Jacobeans, an equa…
The Fastest Clock in the Universe, by UK writer (and perfomer, painter, photographer and director) Philip Ridley, is an exploration of beauty and the cost that comes from obsessive narcissis…
Here Lies Love was set to be the next big thing in Sydney’s music theatre calendar this year, but according to reports in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, the immersive theat…
Adelaide's Brink Productions, in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre, will bring Nobel Laureate Patrick White's short story Down at the Dump, from his 1964 collection The Burnt One…
Camille O’Sullivan knows that if she wants to move to Melbourne, she’ll have adoring fans and endless friends eager to see her do anything, meow on the streets with her and invit…
John Frost has announced that sister stage and screen stars Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills will tour the country with the Australian premiere of Legends!, a comedy by James Kirkwood. Th…
This Midsumma festival offers you the chance to go behind the scenes at Melbourne Arts Centre, guided by an Australian entertainment icon: Rhonda! Rhonda Butchmore, that is. If you show up e…
As the Once cast head into their last weeks they have given us one final cover, Stairway to Heaven! With lead vocals from both Tom Parsons and Madeleine Jones this is a true celebratio…
Who really wrote Waltzing Matilda? What is the romantic secret behind the celebrated Australian song? And how did the swagman really die? The Man They Call the Banjo is a new musical play th…
Celebrating the 'the undisputed King of Pop', Thriller Live is a tribute concert show of Michael Jackson’s musical journey from his Motown days in the Jackson 5 to his chart-topping so…
Strictly Ballroom began when NIDA student Baz Luhrmann led a student-devised piece in 1984. This production went on to play at the Czechoslovakian World Youth Drama Festival in 1986 and, …
The 2015 Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest (YTICC) Grand Final was held at The Basement in Sydney last week, and it featured 11 finalists from Adelaide, Brisbane, The Sunshine Coa…
Last night, at the Paddington “Paddo” RSL, over 300 performers, theatre-makers, administrators  " a cross-section of the Sydney arts scene " crowded into the auditorium …
The Experiment, showing as part of the Sydney Festival, is certainly not passive theatre. You won't watch it and walk out with nothing much to say. You will turn to the person next to you an…
2015 has started with a bang in the theatre world, as the houses fill and the lights dim and rise again after the holiday break. It’s no exception over at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre,…
Who doesn't like a bit of magic? It amazes us no end and makes us think hard about how the heck they do it! This slick and stylish show brings together some of the world's best illusionists …
Ever since she was young and sufficiently troubled, Mary (Adriane Duff) has had recurring dreams in which she is flying. It’s the ultimate symbol of escape and liberation, and doubly f…
Gareth Davies, the greatest actor in the world, was literally born into the chorus of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Les Miserables, where he remained for twenty-one years; his anonymous, ensem…
