Community Theatre

Tease your hair and slip on your bobby socks.

Phoenix Ensemble presents Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story over five weekends, opening on 10 August, 2012, and audience members are encouraged to come along dressed in 50s fashion to help set the mood.

In 1959, the man who changed the face of popular music tragically died in a plane crash aged 22. Now,Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story tells the story of the three years in which he became the world’s top recording artist.

WITH Australian Idol, The Voice, Australia’s Got Talent, The X Factor and Popstars all producing a variety of winners for more than a decade, is there an over-abundance of reality show singers?

It’s a question explored in the world premiere of Falling To The Top at Playlovers (WA) this August and September, a new musical written by director Tyler Jones and musical director Robert Wood.

Opening on July 27 at Theatre on Chester, Epping (NSW), director, Joy Sweeney, shares her thoughts on and reasons for directing the American classic, The Philadelphia Story.

“The Philadelphia Story has been one of my favourite movies since Bill Collins me introduced it to via The Golden Years of Hollywood somewhere in the 1960s.

Heidelberg Theatre Company will stage Oscar Wilde’s well–loved comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, from July 12 – 28 as part of the company’s 60th anniversary celebrations.

Well over a century since The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed to the London public in 1895, it remains as fresh and sparkling as a glass of fine champagne.