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BEYOND WICKED

Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett talks about beyondblue’s arts connection with Wicked to Coral Drouyn.

Wicked might not seem the perfect match for beyondblue, an organisation committed to helping those with depression of all kinds, but founder and chairman Jeff Kennett believes they are a perfect fit.

Fight Night: Adelaide Festival Audiences Get The Vote

South Australia is to have a state election in mid-March and many onlookers are finding the political games prior to the big day a little tedious. However, audiences can leave tedium at the door when attending the Adelaide Festival’s Fight Night, in which elections become a theatrical game in a very different, entertaining and totally absorbing perspective on politics.

STAGE WHISPERS MAGAZINE: March / April 2014 EDITION OUT NOW!!!

•  Mrs Popular: Lucy Durack on her wedding and Wicked white dress.

• The Art of Farce

• Lunch with Rocky Horror creator Richard O’Brien

• Melbourne’s thriving Independent Theatre scene.

• Sydney’s Theatre Gridlock

• Marty Rhone’s King and I stagecraft lessons with Yul Brynner.

• The Road to the Adelaide Fringe.

• School Performing Arts Resource Kit

• Reviews. What’s On. Broadway and West End

• Lots more…

Stephen Schwartz: From The Heart

Part Two of Coral Drouyn’s interview with Musical Theatre legend Stephen Schwartz during his 2013 visit to Australasia.

Cick here if you missed Part 1.

When you get the chance to talk to someone like Stephen Schwartz, and he’s open to any question, you can’t help but be a little bit cheeky.

Strictly Ballroom The Musical: The Composers

Director Baz Luhrmann, currently hard at work in the rehearsal room at Carriageworks, has announced composers he and co-writer Craig Pearce have collaborated with on original songs for STRICTLY BALLROOM THE MUSICAL.

Australian audiences will hear new music and lyrics from composers including Australia’s own Elliott Wheeler, Sia Furler and Eddie Perfect along with American songwriters David Foster and Diane Warren, who between them have won all the most prestigious music awards including Golden Globe, Emmy and Grammy Awards.

Sydney to Host Premiere of Matilda The Musical

Matilda The Musical will have its Australian Premiere at Sydney Lyric Theatre in August 2015, NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell announced today (February 27, 2014).

THE WIZARD IS ANNOUNCED!

Australian musical theatre icon Reg Livermore will play the role of the Wizard in the 2014 Melbourne and Sydney seasons of WICKED

Strictly Sydney Celebrates Strictly Ballroom

Australia’s largest outdoor ballroom dancing event took place on the Northern and Western Broadwalks of the Sydney Opera House on Sunday February 23, creating a world record when hundreds of couples performed a specially choreographed Strictly Sydney moment.

This event, under the direction of Baz Luhrmann, celebrated the forthcoming opening of Strictly Ballroom The Musical, which previews at Sydney Lyric Theatre from 25 March, 2014.

ATLANTIS RISING

Talented multi award winning composer, writer and actor Matthew Robinson talks to Coral Drouyn about this weekend’s concert version of his new musical Atlantis.

AN ILIAD FOR ADELAIDE

In the intimate solo performance that is An Iliad, Tony Award winner Denis O’Hare illuminates the heroism and horror of war by playing an ageless poet who retells the ancient story and never-ending destruction of conflict throughout the ages.

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