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Lucy Durack, Silvie Paladino and American Psycho for Big Night In

Lucy Durack, Silvie Paladino and the cast of American Psycho – The Musical

CATS is Streaming Free This Weekend

This weekend’s FREE musical theatre screening (May 16 and 17, 2020) at 'The Shows Must Go On'  YouTube channel is Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats.

This isn't last year's controversil version, but a 1998 version starring the original West End Grizabella, Elaine Paige.

Sydney Season of Frozen Postponed

Disney Theatrical Productions Australia has announced that "due to the COVID-19 situation globally, and in line with all current restrictions and advice from the Federal and State Governments, we have had to make the decision to postpone Frozen the Musical at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney until 1 December, 2020."

"Impacted customers have received an email (or will receive a phone call if no email was provided at purchase) explaining the process for transferring their tickets into a new performance and how to get a refund if required."

National Theatre’s Barber Shop Chronicles FREE Online

National Theatre At Home’s latest FREE online offering is Barber Shop Chroniclesis Inua Ellams' hit play about the places where banter can be barbed, and the truth always is telling.

Directed by Olivier award-winning director Bijan Sheibani, this heart-warming, hilarious and insightful new play leaps from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day.

Rhonda Burchmore, Aled Jones and Ricki-Lee Star in Big Night In

Australian entertainer Rhonda Burchmore, Welsh singer, radio and television presenter Aled Jones and popular singer/songwriter Ricki-Lee are set to entertain during this week’s episode of live variety digital show, Arts Centre Melbourne’s Big Night In with John Foreman on May 13, 2020 at 7pm.

New Cancellations From Opera Australia

·         Fiddler on the Roof –  cancelled

·         Sydney Winter season cancelled

·         Rembrandt’s Wife –  postponed

·         Carmen National Tour – postponed

Watch Lloyd Webber Musical By Jeeves FREE This Weekend

This weekend’s FREE musical theatre screening (May 9 and 10, 2020) at 'The Show Must Go On'  is Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical comedy By Jeeves!

Small theatres might open in July

Australia's performing arts sector faces months more closure under the Federal Government's new guidelines released today, for the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.

The Prime Minister announced that he wants many aspects of Australian life up and running by July - which may include small theatres in some states.

However even under what is described as Stage Three of life getting back to normal, almost all live theatre will not be possible.

Watch National Theatre's Antony and Cleopatra FREE

National Theatre At Home’s latest FREE online offering is Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra directed by Simon Godwin.

At the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, James Bond: Spectre) and Sophie Okonedo (Chimerica, Hotel Rwanda) play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Opera Queensland Announces An Aria a Day

Opera Queensland, May 8 onwards

Opera Queensland has consulted some of Australia’s most revered music specialists to prescribe an uplifting and invigorating course of free online performances in An Aria a Day.

Theatres and concert halls may be closed but opera continues to ring through the homes and hearts of Australians, uniting people through song during this time of isolation.

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