Community Theatre

Community Theatre Seasons 2024

Image: Cats. Willoughby Theatre Company. 2023

Welcome to our Community Theatre Seasons feature, a round-up of productions in 2024 across Australia and New Zealand. 

If your productions are incomplete, or your company is not included, please let us know at our contact form - https://www.stagewhispers.com.au/contact

The Fox on the Fairway – A Cunning Tale at Cronulla?

The Fox On the Fairway, written by Ken Ludwig, debuted at the Signature Theatre in Washington in 2010. A tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, the play takes audiences on a romp that pulls the rug from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private golf country club.

Nunsense at Camden

Camden Musical Society’s upcoming production of Nunsense puts six Macarthur women on centre stage, showcasing their musical talent in the popular, hilarious musical.

Five Different Couples Tell One Enduring Story

“Can you know someone more from their letters than you do in person?”

The Guild Theatre at Rockdale NSW is presenting Love Letters by A. R. Gurney, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as the final play of their 2023 season, from November 3 to December 2.

A Far from Elementary Comedy at Castle Hill

Castle Hill Players present Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at the Pavilion Theatre from 17 November to 9 December, 2023, written by Ken Ludwig and directed by Jason Spindlow.

Get your deerstalker cap on—the play’s afoot! Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Shakespeare in Hollywood) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure with Castle Hill Players’ final play of the season.

Set sail for Treasure Island at the Arts Theatre in November.

Join young Jim Hawkins and friends as they set sail on a perilous journey to uncover buried treasure, at Arts Theatre in Adelaide this November. With pirates, mutiny, and a mysterious one-legged sailor named Long John Silver, this gripping tale unfolds on a treacherous island where alliances shift and secrets abound.

Father and daughter Stuart Pearce and Sophia Livingston-Pearce play the pivotal roles of Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins.

Shakespeare in Araluen Botanic Park

PACK a picnic and surround yourself with sonnets at Araluen Botanic Park in WA this November. 

Good Grief at Therry

Therry Theatre’s final production of 2023 at The Arts Theatre, Adelaide, is Good Grief, a “comedy with an emotional heart”.

We meet June Pepper when she returns home from the memorial service of her late husband, Sam.

Evita Sells Out

Lead image: "Requiem for Evita"

Superstar Productions and The Darwin Chorale have rightfully celebrated a sell-out 2023 season of their production of Evita at the Darwin Entertainment Centre. Days before the first of only two performances, social media was abuzz with punters desperately trying to secure a spot in the 1,000 seat Playhouse Theatre – with no luck. The producers kindly offered to share a selection of Reuben Gore’s evocative photography of the performances with Stage Whispers.

 

New Zealand’s Theatre Comeback

Musical Theatre companies in New Zealand are slowly returning to their pre-Covid level of production, although some are still wounded following cancellations.

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