Community Theatre

Kaleidoscope: One Act Play Season on Gold Coast

TORN and Damaged is the theme of Gold Coast Little Theatre’s 2012 Kaleidoscope one act play season, from July 12 – 14.

Co-ordinator Noella Johnson says this year’s Kaleidoscope an annual event at GCLT, is a very diverse collection, offering something for everyone.

The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs and dramatised by Louis N Parker, is directed by Nathan Schulz. It looks at how fate can rule people’s lives and suggests that those who interfere with it, may do so to their sorrow.

Chatswood Kids On Broadway

Chatswood Musical Society (NSW) presents Kids on Broadway, featuring an all-child cast of (almost) 50 singing the hit songs from best loved kids’ musicals, during the July holidays (July 7 to 15).

Following from its Best of Broadway and A Night on the West End shows (and fresh from a sell-out season of Miss Saigon at the Concourse), Kids on Broadway features performers aged 6-16 years old.

Players Celebrating 30 Years with Urinetown: The Musical

Players Theatre Company (Vic) is celebrating its 30th year Anniversary in 2012 by staging Urinetown: The Musical from June 29.

Over the last 30 years Players has produced shows including The Witches Of EastwickRENTGypsyOklahoma and Hot Mikado.

Gender Switch for Gold Coast Odd Couple

Oscar and Felix become Olive and Florence as Neil Simon's contemporary classic takes on a new twist at Javeenbah Theatre with The Odd Couple Female Version taking to the stage from July 13th – 28th.

With the script flipped to star ladies instead of gentlemen, Director Jim Dickson is thrilled to bring this unique but classic comedy to Javeenbah.

Arabian Nights - Milton Follies

I took the three hour drive south from Sydney to visit the lovely village of Milton.  

The Director Di Falloon had invited me to see their production of the musical Arabian Nights by Adam Forde and David Perkins which I represent.

The Milton Follies company is celebrating ten years of entertaining their community and I have been honoured that almost half their productions have been from my catalogue. They use a lovely little theatre on the main street in their town.

Hedda Gabler, Ibsen's 'Female Hamlet', for Perth

ONE of theatre’s great dramatic roles is coming to Perth’s  Melville Theatre from July 13, 2012, when Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 masterpiece Hedda Gabler is staged.

Olivia Darby takes on the title role of Hedda Gabler, commonly referred to as the “female Hamlet” in theatre circles, because of her strong and complicated nature and an energy both attractive and destructive.

Pajama Game to Warm Winter Nights

Diamond Valley Singers (Vic) present the classic Broadway musical The Pajama Game from July 6 – 14 at Warrandyte High School Theatre. Eltham Community Orchestra will accompany the cast of more than thirty performers for a nine performance season.

Hills Celebrate 40 Years with Eurobeat!

2012 marks the 40th Anniversary of the Hills Musical Society located in the Hills District in Sydney, and the Society is celebrating the occasion with a production of Eurobeat! Almost Eurovision from June 15.

Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Chatswood

Dark, funny, timeless and universal… Epicentre Theatre Company (NSW) presents Dario Fo’s absurdist masterpiece Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Sydney’s Zenith Theatre in June, 2012.                                                                                 

World Premiere of New Play from The Sum of Us Author

THE Old Mill Theatre (WA) is staging the world premiere of the latest play from Hollywood writer and director David Stevens (best known forThe Sum of Us, A Town Like Alice and Breaker Morant) from June 22.

Described as a “love story re-invented”, The Beast and The Beauty re-works the classic tale of magic and enchantment and sets it in the Australian outback of the late 1880s.

The so-called beast is an ordinary man, horribly disfigured in a bushfire as a baby.

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