Community Theatre

Who’s in Bed with the Butler at Adelaide Rep?

Michael Parker’s farce Who’s in Bed with the Butler is one of a string of box office hits written in the British style of naughty but nice, developed for the American Market. An interesting note is that Michael met his wife Susan in the theatre; in fact, he cast her in the role of “Suzy Legere” in his world premiere of “Who’s In Bed With The Butler?” in California, in which he had the role of the butler.  

RENT is the First Musical for New Sutherland Theatre

This March 22-26th, Sydney’s Miranda Musical Theatre Company (formerly Miranda Musical Society) will be bringing rock-musical Rent to the Sutherland Shire.

Rent will be the debut musical performance in the brand-new Pavilion Performing Arts Centre in Sutherland, which recently underwent two years of council renovations and upgrades and has only just re-opened to the public.

Toowoomba Choral Society Announces 90th Anniversary Les Misérables Team

The Toowoomba Choral Society has announced Martin Paroz as Director and Nerida Eckert as Musical Director for their 90th Anniversary production of Les Misérables at the Empire Theatre in September 2023.

Dead White Males at Cronulla

Arts Theatre Cronulla has kicked off its 2023 season with David Williamson’s comedy, Dead White Males. Williamson, Australia’s best known and most widely performed playwright, wrote this 1995 play in response to an academic paper on post-structuralism that he found incomprehensible.

Live, laugh, love with Lunenburg at Harbour Theatre

A MIX of mystery, comedy and romance is coming to Harbour Theatre in WA. 

The Ladykillers at Heidelberg

Heidelberg Theatre Company (Vic) will present The Ladykillers in February 2023.

The Ladykillers is a classic thriller farce set in 1950s London, England. A sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits.

Plaza Suite at Melville Theatre

Melville Theatre’s February production of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite,

American Idiot at Chapel Off Chapel

Following the 2022 Victorian premiere of Freaky Friday, new musical theatre company Theatrical presents their production of the two time Tony Award winning musical, American Idiot.

The Chapel Off Chapel production features music by five-time Grammy Award winning rock band Green Day, with the book and lyrics written by lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong, alongside Tony Award winning director and co-writer Michael Mayer.

Of Mice and Men at Stirling Theatre

THE classic John Steinbeck novella

Farndale Avenue Macbeth at Lane Cove

Lane Cove Theatre Company start 2023 with the laugh out loud comedy The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr. Directed by Andrew Castle, it plays from from 10-26 February at The Performance Space @ St Aidan’s in Longueville.

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