Australian music theatre star, and book writer behind such smash hits as Der Gelbe Stern, Love Bites and The Hatpin, James Millar will be joining the cast of the US arena tour of the rock op…
Scott Gooding has been involved with more festivals than most of us have gone to. He hasn’t performed, much, for a while but is bringing the very successful Eric back to the Comedy Fes…
Recently, an article on Crikey.com’s Daily Review created a lot of discussion within the music theatre industry by posing the question of whether home-grown musicals received the cr…
After award winning Australian seasons and a trip to New York, Dean Bryant and Matthew Frank’s original musical has made it into London. Replete with a spectacular cast of Aussie talen…
There's a reason Shakespearean repertory theatre company Sport for Jove got all those awards earlier this year at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Look yonder oh thy good souls of Sydney and look …
Ticketing company Showbiz entered administration last week with the Business Recovery and Insolvency team at PKF Lawler appointed Voluntary Administrators of the company. The specialty ticke…
Two young lads from Ireland and a young chick from America who together call themselves Endless Theatre Company have moved their base of creative operations from Sligo, Ireland, to Perth for…
Sunday night at MICF. Trades Hall, Swanston Hotel, the Forum and the Tuxedo Cat. I started with the awesome Em Rusciano, whose Catholic upbringing offered a couple jokes about going to hell,…
AussieTheatre is excited to have a double pass to give away to DreamSong at Theatre Works in St Kilda on Sunday, April 13 at 5pm. Written by Hugo Chiarella and Robert Tripolino, directed …
Late night variety chat shows with guests from around the festival are a winning formula. Find a game that doesn’t alienate the audience, ask your friends performing around the festiva…
After suffering a massive hit from the Global Financial Crisis, fictional mega church DreamSong decides to stage the return of Christ, marketing him as a Christian pop star. Writer/Performer…
Simon Keck won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s prestigious Golden Gibbo  last year for his powerhouse show Nob Happy Sock and returns this year with the vastly differe…
Zoe Coombs Marr is known for her work with independent company Post; she’s also known as Dave. Dave’s gross and may well be a bit too close to some young stand ups in town. If…
Australia's first 'live' monthly cabaret show The Greenroom Project, hosted by Matthew Ward is launching its first show for 2014, tonight at The Arts Centre Gold Coast as part of their 'Live…
There’s no denying it, Ben McKenzie is not what society would call cool. In Ben McKenzie is Uncool he embraces his uncool labels and shows is all just how cool it is to be uncool! Ben …
Puppet Up!: Uncensored is a must see show this festival. Straight from the most well known puppet workshop, this band of merry puppeteers and improvisers bring puppets to life in ways you…
“I'm a cabaret artist, not a f***ing role model,” yelps Mark Nadler from behind his grand piano. Nadler has become a staple of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and is known for his…
Ellen has moved out of Melbourne into a new apartment in Sydney: a city that she hates everything about. Complications arise when her father, who has been away for two years, arrives unannou…
As I sat down to write about Adrienne, Stella and Zoe, Â a fellow-writer posted this on Facebook: “A guy at work just said to me, ‘Not to be sexist but I don’t like femal…
Porcelain Punch’s The Travelling Medicine Show aims to recreate the times when cure-alls were spruiked from wagons with acts of physical prowess serving as testimonials to the value…
After sold out seasons in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, and the recently announced Melbourne return season, John Frost confirmed today that Grease will be heading to Hobart for a 5 show on…
James Acaster is from the UK and was a nominee for the 2012 and 2103 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award. His show’s called Lawnmower and he’d love the Chilean miners from the …
The Long Way Home, a new play by Daniel Keene, will end its three month national tour in Perth. The production will play a limited two nights season at His Majesty's Theatre on Fri…
AussieTheatre are thrilled to be giving away four DOUBLE PASSES to see the new Australian musical Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You at Sydney’s exciting new theatre venue, the Hayes T…
Last week Opera Australia invited media inside the rehearsal room of The King and I for a sneak peek. AussieTheatre was able to capture these images of Lisa McCune and the cast at work…