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News and Features

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Australian Plays Dominate 2011 Ensemble Season

The eight play 2011 season at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre, announced yesterday (...

Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical - North America Premiere

Olivier Award nominee Tony Sheldon (reprising his Australian and West End performance...

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Latest Reviews

Who can blame Opera Australia for squeezing every potential dollar from their Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire? The bookings are always big, the audiences are always...
The Mikado
Among the most enduringly popular of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, The...
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts.
EVERY so often an extraordinary theatre experience comes along; Steppenwolf Theatre...
TRUTHMACHINE
During my pre-show research before seeing TRUTHMACHINE, I came across a 1996...
Time to Ditch the Corporate Suit!
In the past few years companies and organisations have becoming acutely aware that the...

Stage Heritage and History

Australian experimental theatre in the 60s was stripped bare.
Bendigo-born William Anderson produced melodramas with Australian themes, authentic local settings and local talent, but gambling, on horses and grand schemes, eventually proved his undoing. Leann Richards re-introduces the charismatic showman, once mentioned in the same breath as J.C....
Juggler Paul Cinquevalli made four visits to Australia between 1899 and 1914. He was a skilled showman who perfected the art of juggling to a degree seldom seen. One of his favourite places became Australia until fate intervened.

Schools on Stage

Ivanhoe Grammar School Plenty Campus
Emmaus College, Rockhampton, Queensland - July 17 – 19th 2009
Christ’s College and St Margaret’s College, Christchurch