Community Theatre

Woody Allen Comedy Warms Up Winter Nights

Despite the Winter hibernation that grips the Southern Highlands this time of year, Highlands Theatre Group (Mittagong, NSW) promises that the laughs will make it well worth coming out for in their production of Woody Allen play Don’t Drink The Water.

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Boy’s Own Mcbeth Rocks Marrickville

A classic Aussie rock musical is being updated by a young theatre company in Sydney for a July season.

Boy’s Own Mcbeth by Grahame (Aunty Jack) Bond and Jim Burnett toured Australia for two years back in the early 1980s and even had an outing in Los Angeles.

The star is Terry Shakespeare. He really is the school old boy. At 32 he’s been in year 12 for 16 years and his two children Dopey and SS are in the same class. But he’s not silly - it’s all a tax dodge.

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Contemporary 12 Angry Men for Phoenix Ensemble

Phoenix Ensemble will explore morality, conscience and human nature in a contemporary re-imagining of the classic play, 12 Angry Men, over four weekends at the boutique Pavilion Theatre in Beenleigh (S.E. Queensland) from 26 July, 2013.

The award-winning play is set in a jury room where 12 men must determine the guilt or innocence of a 19 year-old man. At the beginning, they have a nearly unanimous decision of guilty, with a single dissenter who then sets about sowing a seed of reasonable doubt.

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BIG HAIR for Jessica and Michele in Pro-Am HAIRSPRAY with Jon English

Packemin Productions has built a reputation of late for staging Pro-Am musical theatre on the grand scale at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatre. In July 2013, they stage Hairspray, following on from the success of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oliver!, and their sell-out season of The Wizard of Oz earlier this year.

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Bugs for Kids of all ages these holidays

DON’T let the kids bug you these school holidays – bug them instead (in a good way, of course).

Squisher and Squasher: The Great Bug Hunt is an interactive and educational children's show at the Old Mill Theatre (South Perth) this July, featuring lots of singing, dancing and general silliness that both kids and adults can enjoy.

Written and directed by Emma Davis, the story follows the two gardeners Squisher and Squasher who work in Princess Charlotte's royal garden.

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A Conversation: Confronting David Williamson Play

David Williamson’s A Conversation plays at South Perth’s Old Mill Theatre from August 2. The second play in Williamson’s Jack Manning trilogy – A Conversation explores the use of “community conferencing”, a process where an offender and his victim discuss the perpetrator’s actions and attempt to find a resolution.

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Mamma Mia! Next for New Zealand Consortium

New Zealand’s Musical Theatre Consortium has announced that Mamma Mia! will be the next musical where community / amateur Musical Theatre companies across the country will combine resources to create the sets, costumes and other resources which will be used to mount a series of top notch productions over a two year period, beginning with Auckland Music Theatre’s premiere season in March 2014 at the magnificent Civic Theatre.

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The Phantom ... Accountant, Personal Trainer and Singing Teacher ... of the Opera

Windmill Theatre Company (Vic) will present Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera at the Drum Theatre in Dandenong from June 21, one of the first companies in the world to be given the rights to perform this musical theatre classic outside of a professional setting.

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MUSE Announces Rep Season: Spelling Bee and Company

Following the success of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Sydney University Musical Theatre Ensemble (MUSE) will stage two contrasting productions, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Company as part of their Repertory season at the King Street Theatre, Newtown.

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Castle Hill Players loses a treasured friend

The Hills District theatrical community, based at the Pavilion Theatre on Castle Hill Showground, is in deep shock and mourning today, following the tragic, sudden loss of one of its own.

Fiona Churchward Whitehouse was killed in a traffic accident last Friday night, June 14th, as she travelled with her husband to attend the opening night performance of ‘Enemy of the People.’

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