Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Glen Street Theatre has announced an exciting opportunity for young people to share their voice and celebrate cultural diversity in association with the National Institute of Dramatic Art (N…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Sarah Giles directs German playwright Marius von Mayenburg's Perplex, a rollicking absurdist comedy about the capriciousness of reality and the unreliability of reason. Andrea Demetriades…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
The Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) has opened submissions for the annual ATYP Foundation Playwrights Commission. Now in its third year with this important Commission, the aty…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
How different could our world be if the first act of violence was committed by a woman? What if Cain and Abel were sisters? “Cain and Abel were the two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain was t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:31PM[SHARE]Windmill Theatre, a company of artists making theatre for children and families out of Adelaide, are one of the smartest companies in the Australian theatre scene. They are cheeky, youthful,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:13AM[SHARE]Global Creatures and Bazmark have announced a partnership with Melanoma Institute Australia for the Global Premiere of Strictly Ballroom. Baz Luhrmann said “Having had a very perso…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 12, 2014
Strictly Ballroom the Musical needs to learn from its own motto: A life lived in fear is a life half-lived. The show is afraid to be a musical. For a piece that started as a devised stage wo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:19PM[SHARE]One of Australia’s foremost entertainers, David Campbell is back with a brand new album and a brand new show – David Campbell sings John Bucchino. Campbell will also tour with hi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PM[SHARE]Todd McKenney is set to perform the songs of Peter Allen in a high energy, vibrant and entertaining night that showcases Todd's incredible talents. His Victorian and NSW tour, commencing…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2014
Windmill Theatre makes a welcome return to Sydney, following the success of multi award-winning School Dance, with a rollicking revision of the classic tale of a wooden boy with a nose…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PM[SHARE]A new exhibition celebrates the sequinned splendour of the hit stage and screen musical Strictly Ballroom, just in time for the opening of the new musical. It has been thirty years since Str…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PM[SHARE]Live Performance Australia (LPA) has announced that theatre producer John Frost has been named the recipient of the JC Williamson Award for 2014 – one of the highest honors in the Aust…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2014
Sydney Independent Theatre Company (SITCO) presents for one week only the Pulitzer Prize nominated play Thom Pain (based on nothing), by Will Eno. The play will run at the Old Fitzroy Theatr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
Bernadette Peters wants to talk about Peter Allen. It's an easy, instant connection to make with her Australian audience " she loved him, and so did, collectively, all of us " and she sang "…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
The Drowsy Chaperone, a loving parody of 1920s musicals and a thank you to musical theatre for making life a little more bearable, is something of a recent classic. It has played Broadway an…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2014
The Winter's Tale is a rarely-performed and uneven, but occasionally glittering, part of Shakespeare's canon. Half-tragedy, half-comedy, it is a bit of a beast to stage with clarity. Bell Sh…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 9, 2014
One night only! Wicked and Legally Blonde stars Lucy Durack and David Harris are going to sing the best of Broadway at Taronga Zoo on 14th March – and you could be there! They will tak…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:15PM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2014
Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) launch their 2014 Selects season (previously known as Under the Wharf) with the Australian premiere of Diana Son's critically acclaimed play Stop K…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Once in Royal David’s City, the return of celebrated playwright Michael Gow to Sydney, is a product of time, age, and a life longer-lived. Gow’s writing has grown older and has s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:49AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2014
Hayes Theatre Co " a new company devoted to furthering Australian musical theatre and cabaret through clever revivals and new works " debuted their first show this week: Luckiest Productions…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Falsettos, the Tony-Award winning (book and score) William Finn/James Lapine show, comes from a marriage of two works written ten years apart: March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. It'…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:54PM[SHARE]Annie is a perfect programming choice for Packemin. It’s youthful and calls for a youthful cast, Packemin’s speciality in its amateur/professional split model. It’s accessi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2014
Packemin Productions continue their tradition of bringing musical joy to Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres with their new production of Annie, playing from 7 – 22 February. T…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2014
It’s the inaugural season of Hayes Theatre Co, the new musical theatre collective in Sydney, and they’re coming out swinging. After their first production, Sweet Charity, they wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:36PM[SHARE]2014 might as well be the year of David Williamson in Sydney, with eight of the prolific playwright’s productions being staged across the city. Sydney Theatre Company’s outing is…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:52PM[SHARE]The countdown is on! In just 100 short days, the 10th Anniversary tour of Wicked will set itself down in Melbourne, where its Australian journey began. The show will commence previews on …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
Most musical theatre fans in Sydney are well into the groove of 2014. The newly-formed Hayes Theatre Co is devoted to musical theatre and cabaret programming, as well as developing new Austr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
What are you going to do on your first Sunday night in February? Probably check out the launch of Slapdash Song Night, a fun and flighty musical variety show you might have caught at l…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:59PM[SHARE]The 2014 Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest was the first to invite contestants from recent heats in 5 cities, with 10 winners from Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Au…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:45PM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
AussieTheatre is thrilled to be giving away two DOUBLE PASSES to see the Tony Award winning musical Falsettos at Darlinghurst Theatre Company, as part of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Our …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:47PM[SHARE]Squabbalogic are oft-called ‘musical theatre darlings’ of the Sydney scenes, which is accurate, but after their smashing 2013 season and now, coming into 2014, we might need to s…
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