Image: Kate Foy with the ABF Committee. Photographer: Ken Santos.
Lyrebird Restaurant, QPAC, 4 December 2020
This year’s Alan Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to actor Kate Foy, or as she is known on stage, Kate Wilson. Wilson has enjoyed a major career as an actor working in theatre in Queensland for La Boite, Twelfth Night, Metro Arts, but mostly Queensland Theatre, where she has appeared in 33 productions as well as writing, directing and teaching for the company.
Ten shows and a hundred performances in a month: from the family-friendly Disney Delights to the distinctly adults-only Pretending Things are a Cock, Preachrs Podcast OnLine and OnStageare presenting a diverse range of live performance at the Adelaide Fringe in 2021. Company founder and lead producerBenjamin Maio Mackaytalked to our SA correspondent,Mark Wickett.
Griffin Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Declan Green has announced the company’s 2021 season.
“When I started as Artistic Director, I imagined I’d introduce you to my first season while bragging about all Griffin’s triumphs during 2020,” Green said. “Flash forward 12 months, and I’m just happy I’m not announcing the theatre was recently eaten by locusts.
After 10 and a half months off-stage, Melbourne Theatre Company will reopen on 29 January2021 with Act 1 of its year in two acts, the return of its signature programs and the launch of MTC Digital Theatre.
70 events, 10 world premieres, 14 Australian premieres, 18 events exclusive to Adelaide over 17 beautiful days and nights
The 2021 Adelaide Festival program, prepared over this past turbulent year under ever-changing circumstances, may just turn out to be one of the most necessary – and memorable.
Launched on Thursday 3 December at the Adelaide Festival Theatre, the 36th Adelaide Festival offers a total of 70 events in theatre, music, opera, dance, film, food and visual arts.
Tim Omaji, popularly known as Timomatic, and Robert Tripolino join previously announced cast Callum Francis (Kinky Boots) and Seann Miley Moore (UK X Factor) in the brand new Australian production ofRENT. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Jonathan Larson’s multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning sensation will be coming to the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre from 27 December 2020 to 31 January 2021.
Beth Keehn chats with Opera Queensland’s Artistic Director and CEO, Patrick Nolan, and reviews the 2021 season launch at Brisbane’s Riverstage on 28 November, 2020.
Media Release from the Office of the Queensland Minister for the Arts
Shrek, Fiona and Donkey are coming to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in the first major musical to open to a 100% capacity audience in Australia, without a special exemption required, since the onset of COVID-19.
Minister for the Arts Leeanne Enoch said Shrek The Musical would boost tourism, local small business and jobs in the arts sector.
Image: Matt Jenson, Gabrielle McClinton and Bayley Edmends. Photographer: David Hooley
Coral Drouyn is excited by the return of Pippin to our shores, talking to its creator Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell) about the musical almost 50 years after its creation.
