Community Theatre

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Shakespeare in Araluen Botanic Park

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

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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.

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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.

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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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Barry Hill OAM

Stage Whispers readers outside South Australia will mainly know Barry Hill as a reviewer, occasionally also reviewed for his direction, or for his stage performances. A stalwart of Adelaide theatre, we congratulate Barry, who was honoured with the Order of Australia Medal on Australia Day, thanking him for his lengthy, passionate ‘service to the Performing Arts’. We asked Barry to share some of his theatrical highlights.

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Celebrating Sixty Years of Theatre at Cronulla

As Arts Theatre Cronulla turns 60 in 2023, Publicity Officer Michele Potter shares the theatre company’s history.

Arts Theatre Cronulla is thrilled to be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2023. Through a formula of good plays, high production values and talented performers, ATC enjoys continuing success as a community theatre group after six decades, with a wealth of productions and experiences enjoyed by cast, crew and audiences alike.

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