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News and Features
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...
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...
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts.
EVERY so often an extraordinary theatre experience comes along; Steppenwolf Theatre...
Theatre on DVD
Over the years a lot of Broadway plays and musicals have been recorded for Broadcast,...
The Swinging Sixties on Stage: Designing a Thriller.
Entertaining Mr. Sloane is a thriller. It’s about a psychopathic but...
Is On-line Ticketing Killing off the Human Face of the Box Office?
As a great debate it was a fizzer. Delegates at the Ticketing Professionals...
TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY (and rent) ? That is the question...
Chris King from Multi-Image investigates whether it is more cost effective to...
The Court Theatre, Christchurch
In the picturesque town of Christchurch a professional theatre company has set...
Time to Ditch the Corporate Suit!
In the past few years companies and organisations have becoming acutely aware that the...
THE CHANGING FACE OF OUR MAJOR PERFORMING ARTS CENTRES.
Researchers from Griffith University have been investigating changes afoot in...
Stage Heritage and History
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.
