The future Australian superstar seemed destined to become a journalist, but something happened when he enrolled in a performance subject whilst he was studying at university. In this Stage Whispers exclusive, Sara Lander recounts the moment when everyone in the room realised that Hugh Jackman was something special.
The Australian Musical Theatre Festival in Launceston, Tasmania from 15 – 19 May, 2024 will feature John Bucchino, Josh Piterman, Patrice Tipoki, Kerrie Anne Greenland, Queenie van de Zandt, Tyran Parke, Natalie Gamsu, Nicole Farrow, Samantha Hammersley and more…
Casting announced for It's Only a Life, Marry Me a Little and Nine.
Soundworks Productions has announced the full cast and creative team of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Tony Award-Winning musical Parade, opening at Sydney’s Seymour Centre from 9 May, following a sell-out season in Melbourne. Tickets are on sale now fromseymourcentre.com.
Image: Chicago Australian cast 2023/4. Photographer: Jeff Busby.
Something old and something new is the flavour of Musical Theatre in 2024. There’s blockbuster classics including Wicked, Sunset Boulevard and Beauty and the Beast, along with Australian premieres of Dear Evan Hansen and Groundhog Day the Musical.
Chicago was the last big musical on Anthony Warlow’s bucket-list. Now on a national tour playing Billy Flynn, the 62-year-old has revealed that he thought his opportunity to play the star lawyer had passed. David Spicer reports, in association with the podcast ‘Stages with Peter Eyers’.
Anthony Warlow is Australia’s most successful music theatre star, with decades of leading roles on local stages, plus Broadway appearances, yet in 2019 he thought his career was at a crossroads.
Image: Georgie Parker - The Great Divide. Photographer: Brett Boardman.
Australia’s most successful playwright, David Williamson, has burst out of retirement to premiere three new plays this year in Sydney, Adelaide and Noosa. In a wide-ranging interview with David Spicer, the 82-year-old discusses the prevailing themes of Australian theatre, the issues raised in his latest offerings, and names the best and worst plays of his career.
