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Adelaide Festival 2013: Theatre and Dance

The 2013 Adelaide Festival runs from March 1 to 17. The program, announced on October 30, 2012, includes a wide range of international and Australian theatre and dance productions.

Theatre

Adelaide Festival returns to international theatre commissioning with Nosferatu, a psychological vampire thriller from Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna and his Warsaw based theatre company TR Warszawa.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Preview

Melbourne’s Forum To Premiere Sondheim’s Unsung Lyrics

Lucy Graham was at the media preview of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne today (October 25), where she spoke with cast members including Geoffrey Rush.

According to Geoffrey Roy Rush, Melbourne audiences will be treated to Sondheim’s ‘as yet unperformed lyrics’ when the show opens at Her Majesty’s Theatre this Saturday.

Theatre and Opera Seasons 2013

Theatre and opera companies across Australia and New Zealand have been busy announcing thir 2013 seasons.

Below, we've gathered links to our coverage of the various seasons for your convenience.

Sydney Theatre Company

Melbourne Theatre Company

Griffin Theatre Company

Tim Winton’s Dirt Music on stage as Signs of Life.

Tim Winton is becoming the new David Williamson of Australian theatre. Adaptations of his novels are best sellers on the stage. First there was Cloudstreet, adapted by Nick Enright, then Rising Water last year, and in 2012 Black Swan Theatre Company’s production of Signs of Life, touring Western Australia before it arrives at the Sydney Opera House in November. Constantine Costi speaks to the Director Kate Cherry.

Good Things Come in Senior Packages.

Jane Clifton, shortly to appear in John-Michael Howson’s More Sex Please … We’re Seniors! at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre, speaks to Coral Drouyn.

Chitty Chitty Samba

Director, Roger Hodgman invited the media into the Rehearsal Room of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang today to watch a run through of the big song and dance number ‘The Bombie Samba’.

‘The Bombie Samba’, performed by Baroness Bomburst (Jennifer Vuletic), Baron Bombhurst (Alan Brough) with the Vulgarian chorus and takes place during the Baron’s big birthday bash.

David Williamson: Addicted to Playwriting

Managing Carmen – a play about a cross-dressing AFL footballer - is the latest blockbuster in the making from David Williamson, set to open in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney. Frank Hatherley meets Australia’s best-known dramatist, without his high heels on.

David Williamson announced his retirement from playwriting in 2005. He was drained, he had a major heart problem, he’d been hospitalised half a dozen times and, anyway, he was “out of fashion”.

Queensland Theatre Company Season 2013

Love, art, laughter, drama, catharsis, glamour, song and adventure in the spotlight

Queensland Theatre Company unveiled its Season 2013 today (October 14) to a capacity  Playhouse at QPAC.

QTC’s Artistic Director Wesley Enoch said QTC’s onstage journey would showcase a range of works that take ticketholders around the world, shine the light on home grown talents and create theatrical moments of national importance across a world of love, art, laughter, drama, catharsis, glamour, song and adventure.

Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones to Tour in Driving Miss Daisy

Producer John Frost has now announced that due to an unprecedented demand for tickets, following the Brisbane premiere season of Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic play Driving Miss Daisy, the production will tour to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

A Perth season has also been added, 

Quit Horsing Around, This Is Puppetry

At a Fitzroy cafe, Finn Caldwell has ordered boiled egg with soldiers. Perhaps he is homesick. But if War Horse continues as it has begun, chances are the English actor turned Puppetry Director will have to get used to a global lifestyle.

War Horse has, ironically, taken on a life of its own. Since opening at the National Theatre in 2007, millions of people have seen the stage show in London’s West End, New York, Toronto and Los Angeles. Hollywood director Steven Spielberg even turned it into a movie.

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