Community Theatre

All About Eve in Adelaide

The production of All About Eve produced by St Jude’s Players in Brighton, South Australia in April 2023, adapted and directed by Olivia Jane Parker, is not the play with the same name as the original story (The Wisdom of Eve), but instead, an adaptation of the Joseph L Mankiewicz film screenplay of that story, titled All About Eve and starring Bette Davis.

Female Spin on The Odd Couple for WA

OLIVE is a slob and Florence is a snob – the classic play

Six Children’s Choirs Join Toowoomba’s Boy From Oz

As opening night of the Empire Theatre’s major 2023 musical The Boy from Oz approaches, cast and crew are hard at work putting the finishing touches to the show.

The Boy From Oz, presented by Mort & Co, will feature talented local vocalists, dancers and musicians, who are set to dazzle when the curtain is finally lifted for the six show season from Friday 17 March to Sunday 26 March. 

Who’s in Bed with the Butler at Adelaide Rep?

Michael Parker’s farce Who’s in Bed with the Butler is one of a string of box office hits written in the British style of naughty but nice, developed for the American Market. An interesting note is that Michael met his wife Susan in the theatre; in fact, he cast her in the role of “Suzy Legere” in his world premiere of “Who’s In Bed With The Butler?” in California, in which he had the role of the butler.  

RENT is the First Musical for New Sutherland Theatre

This March 22-26th, Sydney’s Miranda Musical Theatre Company (formerly Miranda Musical Society) will be bringing rock-musical Rent to the Sutherland Shire.

Rent will be the debut musical performance in the brand-new Pavilion Performing Arts Centre in Sutherland, which recently underwent two years of council renovations and upgrades and has only just re-opened to the public.

Toowoomba Choral Society Announces 90th Anniversary Les Misérables Team

The Toowoomba Choral Society has announced Martin Paroz as Director and Nerida Eckert as Musical Director for their 90th Anniversary production of Les Misérables at the Empire Theatre in September 2023.

Dead White Males at Cronulla

Arts Theatre Cronulla has kicked off its 2023 season with David Williamson’s comedy, Dead White Males. Williamson, Australia’s best known and most widely performed playwright, wrote this 1995 play in response to an academic paper on post-structuralism that he found incomprehensible.

Live, laugh, love with Lunenburg at Harbour Theatre

A MIX of mystery, comedy and romance is coming to Harbour Theatre in WA. 

The Ladykillers at Heidelberg

Heidelberg Theatre Company (Vic) will present The Ladykillers in February 2023.

The Ladykillers is a classic thriller farce set in 1950s London, England. A sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits.

Plaza Suite at Melville Theatre

Melville Theatre’s February production of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite,

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