Community Theatre

Cheers meets Red Dwarf meets Rocky Horror in Cult UK Musical

POLISH your disco balls and set your glitter beams to fabulous – the cosmic cabaret Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens blasts off in November and December 2015.

Produced by Blak Yak Theatre in collaboration with Phoenix Theatre, the UK cult musical has been described as Cheers meets Red Dwarf meets Rocky Horror in a galaxy far, far away.

All is not well at Saucy Jack’s space bar, as the evil shadow of a serial killer looms with cabaret acts killed off one by one, stabbed by the heel of a sequinned slingback shoe.

West Side Story Heads North to Chatswood

Classic Broadway musical West Side Story plays at the Zenith Theatre in Chatswood this November.

Famously based on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and featuring Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant lyrics and Leonard Bernstein’s extraordinary score, West Side Story places star crossed-lovers Tony and Maria squarely at the centre of a New York City gang war.

Controversial Classic Explores Anzac Day’s Meaning

A PLAY that created a public furore when first released – and is now regarded as an Australian classic – comes to the Old Mill Theatre (WA) in October 2015.

Written by Fremantle-born Alan Seymour and directed by Brendan Ellis, The One Day of the Year follows the Cook family during the week of Anzac Day and, while family patriarch Alf sees it as the one time of year old Diggers can get together and be commemorated, his son Hughie regards it merely as an excuse for them all to get drunk.

Joyfully Celebrating Female Sexuality on Stage

Eve Ensler’s world-famous tribute to female identity and sexuality comes to Sydney’s North Shore!

Lane Cove Theatre Company present The Vagina Monologues from 6-13 November 2015 at the Northside Baptist Church in Crows Nest.

“Women have entrusted Eve with their most intimate experiences, from sex to birthing … I think men as well as women will emerge with a feeling more free with themselves - and about each other.” - Gloria Steinem

Sydney’s North Shore Turns Pink for Legally Blonde at The Concourse

A hit Hollywood film, a multi-award winning Broadway and West End musical and now it’s the turn of Chatswood in Sydney’s North Shore to get a dose of pink, as Legally Blonde – The Musical opens at the Concourse Theatre from October 16th.

Presented by Willoughby Theatre Company as part of their 2015 season, the well-loved story of Elle Woods is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film starring Reece Witherspoon.

House of Usher Chills and Thrills Castle Hill

Castle Hill Players’ production of Fall of the House of Usher promises a masterpiece of suspense and terror. This macabre story is set in the dilapidated and ancestral house of Roderick Usher. The play, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic short story, is set to have audiences have you holding their breath and gripping the seats with their fingernails.

 

The Return: Thriller for University of Adelaide Theatre Guild

From much ado, to the other side of the tracks, The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild shifts from Shakespeare to psychological thriller for the next production in its diverse 2015 season. Lesley Reed reports.

Reg Cribb is one of that rare breed of Australian actors who have also succeeded in playwriting. Among Cribb’s plays is Last Cab to Darwin, which is probably better known to the general public for the play’s current movie adaptation, starring Michael Caton and Jackie Weaver.

New Faces, New Arrivals, in CLOC’s Drowsy Chaperone

After breaking attendance records with its production of Mary Poppins earlier this year, CLOC Musical Theatre is producing the rarely performed musical gem The Drowsy Chaperone, a show which beat bigger and grander musicals to win five Tony awards in 2006, including Best Score and Best Book, and which then enjoyed a sell-out 2010 season by the Melbourne Theatre Company with an all-star cast led by Geoffrey Rush.

Popstars! The 90’s Musical at Holroyd

A brand new musical based on the hit songs from the 1990s have been adapted for the stage. Written by Aussies, Neil Gooding and Nicholas Christo, Popstars! The 90’s Musical will open on Thursday 24 September at the Redgum Centre in Wentworthville.

Set in a high school in the 1990s, a mega talent agent offers stardom to the winners of a battle of the bands competition. Ex couple, Shannon and Mark put their high school dramas aside for a boy band versus girl band showdown to become, Popstars.

Farcical Hitchcock in The 39 Steps

Take a Hitchcock masterpiece, add a dash of Monty Python, and you have latest Limelight Theatre (WA) production, The 39 Steps.

Adapted from the John Buchan novel by Patrick Barlow, The 39 Steps is best known from the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation – Barlow turned the spy thriller into a comedy in 2005 with four actors playing a wide variety of roles.

An Olivier Award winner for Best New Comedy, it is the fifth longest-running play in West End history.

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