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Academy Award® nominated, Golden Globe, Grammy and Tony Award-winning performer...
Coral Drouyn chats with two of our most senior stars before a national tour of Senior...
Michael Brindley reports
On a beautiful mild Melbourne day, over three hundred people...
Coral Drouyn explores the Australian Ballet’s trip down the Rabbit Hole in Lewis...
Latest Reviews
In only its third staging, following London and New York, the gargantuan show that is Harry...
The band Nirvana formed in 1987 in the small town of Aberdeen, in a socio-economically...
John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award...
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The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild can boast many...
Stage Briefs
David Spicer reports.
Music Theatre star Geraldine Turner has been heartbroken by the cancellation of a forthcoming season of Gypsy - which is the fifth time in her career that she has been cast in the lead role, in a production of the Stephen...
Harvest Rain CEO Tim O’Connor has announced that Simon Gallaher will play the role of The Wizard in The Wizard Of Oz - Arena Spectacular touring Australia in 2019 – 2020.
Simon Gallaheris much-loved by audiences around Australia as a...
Opera Australia has revealed the full cast for its brand new Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production of the iconic Broadway musical, West Side Story.
Joining opera/musical crossover stars Julie Lea Goodwin and Alexander Lewis,the role of the fiery...
Community Theatre
The Canberra Repertory Theatre and So Popera Productions from Wollongong were the big winners at the 2018 Canberra Area Theatre Awards.
Each won six CAT awards at the presentation night, held at the Australian National University’s Llewellyn...
The first production for Arts Theatre Cronulla for 2019 is A Bunch of Amateurs, a comedy by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman packed with comic dialogue and plenty of twists and turns.
Facing the loss of their community theatre, a local amateur dramatic...
Sydney’s Genesian Theatre has announced an all-female cast for its forthcoming tribute to the late playwright and lyricist, Nick Enright – Enright On The Night.
Enright On The Night is devised by David Mitchell and Melvyn Morrow....
Stage Heritage and History
MARTIN PORTUS profiles LOUIS NOWRA, the remarkable talent behind the Australian classic Cosi and much more.
A writing career seemed unlikely for young Louis Nowra. Raised in a Housing Commission paddock suburb north of Melbourne without any...
Legendary Australian composer Peter Stannard died in March 2018, just months before a star-studded concert revival of Lola Montez, the musical he penned sixty years ago, is staged at Sydney’s Riverside Theatre. In his last interview Peter...
Jenny Fewster from Ausstage reports.
In late 19th century Australia, theatre fires had become so common that one of the most popular medicines of the time was advertised under the somewhat misleading headline, “A Theatre on Fire”....
Schools on Stage
You have probably seen Fame and watched Glee, but what is it really like attending a Performing Arts High School? Laura Banning and Lola Bond from the Australian Performing Arts Grammar School in inner city Sydney have the low down.
How do you...
The Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2019 season is filled with stories of adventure, love, friendship, discovery and drama. The season takes audiences on a journey around Australia and the world via the very best new plays, reimaginings of beloved...
Book by Joseph Stein. Music by Jerry Bock. Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. Moriah College. October 21 – November 1, 2018.
Think less of a high school putting on a musical and think more of the school spectacular. To celebrate its 75th ...
