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News and Features
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the stage musical based on the MGM Motion Picture, flies into...
The Australian producers of stage musical The Addams Family, Rodney Rigby, Stuart...
During the technical rehearsals for the World Premiere production of the musical An...
For the last two years actress Lisa Peers has been involved with Whitelion Bail Out,...
Stage Whispers Magazine is excited to launch our first ever E-Edition, coinciding with...
It’s a cast with impressive credentials, not to mention serious box office...
Lucy Graham reports on the new Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam musical Moonshadow.
This...
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The coveted role of Australia’s Elle Woods in the musical ...
Latest Reviews
Downsizing was the only real option, but what an excellent choice it has proven for Sweet Charity...
The first thing that strikes you is the excitement and the passion that embraces...
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Three games – Chess, The Cold War and a love story are the base upon which the...
There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that this is a fine production...
With three major productions to his name, David Williamson is the Ensemble’s...
The Show Business Directory
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Meg Day told her assistant Director “no show I...
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Actors Centre Australia’s Graduating Company 2012...
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On the north coast of New South Wales an historic theatre...
Community Theatre
LIMELIGHT Theatre (Wanneroo, WA) presents The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, the 1978 Broadway musical based on thetrue story of the legendary Texas brothel known as the Chicken Ranch, from June 7 to 23.
Based on the book by Larry L. King and...
The next production from STAG (Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group) is Scrubbers, by Melbourne playwright and composer Cenarth Fox, at the Strathmore Community Hall from May 31 to June 9, 2012.
Five women clean a large multi-storey office...
Rockdale Musical Society and Canterbury Theatre Guild have joined forces to bring the ‘60s to Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL Club with Hairspray from May 25.
It’s time to tease your hair and put on your glad-rags when Hairspray...
Stage Heritage and History
At the beginning of the twentieth century Celia Ghiloni was a star in the JC Williamson Company, touring musical comedy and Gilbert and Sullivan across Australia and New Zealand. But jibes over her weight led to some serious belt tightening, as...
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
Presented by Make A Scene. A Commedia dell'Arte Performance by Rosa Campagnaro.
Coming to a School Near You.
As soon as this performance commenced my heart lifted with the joy and confidence that I could suspend disbelief, like a child,...
Charles Slucki has a job many show business tragics would kill for. Each year he leads teachers and students on a backstage and front stage tour of Broadway and the West End. Meeting stars is part of the fun.
How long have you been running these...
Year 11 Drama students from Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School (NSW) are performing a new verbatim play about cyber bullying and the complexities surrounding it by HSC playwright Alana Valentine entitled Cyberbile at the Q Theatre,...
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