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If her friends could see her now! The smash debut production at Sydney’s new Hayes Theatre Co rocked the musical theatre world with its raw, stripped-back take on the Neil Simon/Cy Col…
Melbourne had the first look at Matthew Lee Robinson’s musical Happy People on the weekend. Its first workshop performance was in Melbourne in 2010 and since then Robinson, a WAP…
Written by Australian playwright Lachlan Philpott, The Trouble with Harry is a story about Harry Crawford, who was made famous after it was discovered that he was born female. It's set withi…
Kate Fryer is a co-founder of independent acrobatic aerial theatre company Dislocate. Their Melbourne Festival show, If These Walls Could Talk, is another world premiere for the …
Following the successful 2014 production of Snow White – Winter Family Musical in Sydney, Bonnie Lythgoe and Bonnie Lythgoe Productions have announced their next panto: Aladdi…
It was announced today by producers Howard Panter and John Frost that Bert Newton will play the Narrator in the Sydney season of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. Newto…
My Fair Lady is not only the best Musical that came out of the fifties, but is justifiably promoted as "The Musical of Musicals". Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, it has beautif…
It is heartening to see South Australia's flagship theatre company getting behind some of Adelaide's most prolific and promising independent artists. The core of this production is distinctl…
The experience of watching Circa continues to leave me a babbling mess of words that don’t come near to describing how they make me feel. Opus, which was co-comissioned by the Melbourn…
2014 has been  a great year for musicals in Sydney, especially on an independent scale. And we’re not just talking about the incredible success of the Hayes Theatre – the Thea…
To a capacity crowd in the William Magarey room of the re-developed Adelaide Oval David Sefton revealed his programme for the 2015 Adelaide Festival of Arts, his third as Artistic Director. …
Roslyn Oades new work, Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday is already a must-see see of this festival. Developed by Malthouse and the Melbourne Festival, it’s based on intervi…
My Lovers’ Bones is another premiere Australian work developed for and supported by the Melbourne Festival. Created by independent company Brown Cab Productions, it’s a fascin…
AÂ commemorative bronze plaque on Sydney’s Theatre Walk at Walsh Bay was unveiled today in recognition of Tim Minchin. The musician, composer, songwriter, actor, comedian and writer …
Sheridan Harbridge is performing in Big hART’s Hipbone Sticking Out. The work’s a culmination of three years of collaboration with between the company and the community of …
The Australian premiere concert production of Matthew Lee Robinson’s Happy People is currently in an intensive rehearsal period in Melbourne ahead of a limited four show season at C…
Mikelangelo isn’t from Melbourne and spends a lot of time travelling the world, but " like many of us " he fell in hopeless love with this city and made it his home. Last night, surrou…
Who doesn’t love the Demon Barber of Fleet Street? Australia has enjoyed a lot of Sondheim on our professional and independent stages over the last few years. A Funny Thing Happened on…
Melbourne University Shakespeare Company are doing a brave thing over at The Guild Theatre by taking on Hamlet they tackle, perhaps, the Bard’s most well known play. It’s huge, u…
Melbourne Festival, the Brisbane Festival and Melbourne Theatre Company have coordinated to support the creation of Complexity of Belonging. It’s the type of work that internatio…
Opera Australia has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Australia-India Council (AIC) to send Shane Warne The Musical to India. Written by Eddie Perfect, who worked with Opera Austra…
The curtain has just fallen on the 2014 Rob Guest Endowment Gala Concert, and we have rushed home from the beautiful night to announce that this year’s winner is Joshua Robson, current…
Sisters Grimm are back in Sydney and they have been missed. Their particular brand of arch DIY high-camp theatre is a fantastic bolt of energy to the theatre scene in town, and Calpurnia Des…
So, there’s a Japanese samurai going all Noh, a Pink Power Ranger, the offspring triplets of a Telly Tubby and the Michelin Man, a bird (that I called Dick Face), and an inflatable …
AussieTheatre is excited to have 3 double passes to give away to Bell Shakespeare’s Henry V at the Sydney Opera House in October. Damian Ryan’s production is inspired by th…
