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News and Features
Producers John Frost and Sharleen Cooper Cohen today (January 27, 2012) announced that fans of...
Geoffrey Rush has been named Australian of the year - marking his extraordinary 40 year...
In This Edition
• Christie Whelan - From Triple Threat to Tea Parties to Wild...
2012 is set to start with a musical theatre bang, with new productions of two Broadway...
On the eve of the World Premiere of How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular, the...
Latest Reviews
Four strong musical theatre voices are accompanied by a grand piano, without a sign of electronic...
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Even those who aren’t fans of Britney’s music will be won over by Christie...
The Year of Magical Wanking
By Neil Watkins. Director: Phillip McMahon. Designer:...
Ray Lawler’s classic play about two Queensland cane cutters and their 16-year...
The Show Business Directory
Finding a Show »
On November 4, 2011, ORiGiN™ Theatrical ...
Training »
APO Arts Academy are proud to announce that a formal...
Venues »
Could Sydney’s historic State Theatre become the...
Community Theatre
The night of nights for Western Australian amateur theatre, the 37th Annual Robert Finley Awards, took place on Saturday 21st January 2012. The event took place at the beautiful Judith Cottier Theatre at Perth College and was a wonderful...
Around Australia, Beehive hairdos promise to be all the fashion, with Hairspray The Musical looking like the most popular new release on the amateur musical theatre scene. Less than a year after the professional season shuttered in Sydney, the...
Stage Heritage and History
Decades before Shirley Temple, Australasia had its own young starlets. The Beatty sisters, Maud and May, were two of our most famous exports during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Leann Richards reports.
Maud and May Beatty had theatre...
When faced with mortal danger in World War 1, a showman did what came naturally – he cracked a joke.
Leann Richards looks back at the life of Tom Dawson.
In the early 1900s, Harry Rickards’ Tivoli Circuit featured a small number of...
Schools on Stage
Struggling to get your cast focused? Perhaps the solution is go bush.
Production camps mean long days, hard work and very little sleep, but they can fire charge your rehearsal. In Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, Ringwood Secondary College has...
NOMINATIONS
Junior Production of the Year
The Witches of Eastwick, Ivanhoe Grammar School – Ridgeway Campus
Little Shop of Horrors, Leibler Yavneh College
Seussical – The Musical, Christian College Geelong Jesus Christ...
