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Ensemble Theatre Season 2023

Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre has announced its 2023 season, with everything from classics to new works, comedy, to drama. Next year sees another 10-play season take to the stage,  with a focus on female writing and directing.

Count Down to The Phantom of the Opera

The 37-strong company of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera is counting down towards the first preview of at the Sydney Opera House on 19 August, 2002.

Preparations continue as the talented company wait for the curtain to rise – and the chandelier to drop - on this historic premiere Sydney season of one of the most successful and celebrated musicals of all time, in one of the world’s most iconic buildings.

Tina – The Tina Turner Musical for Sydney

TEG DAINTY, Stage Entertainment and Tali Pelman, in association with Tina Turner have announced that the Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is coming to Theatre Royal Sydney, Australia in May 2023. 

Bell Shakespeare Announces Full Cast for The Lovers World Premiere

Bell Shakespeare has announced the full cast of the upcoming production and world premiere of The Lovers, a pop musical written by young Australian writer and composer Laura Murphy reimagining Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with an original score.

Hairspray Announces Adelaide and Sydney Seasons

The producers of the original Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray have announced that the production, which is soon to premiere at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre, will be touring to Adelaide and Sydney from late 2022.

Director Jack O’Brien (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and Choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots), lead the original Broadway creative team to present the big hair and big-hearted musical Hairspray in Australia as originally intended.

Eireborne Kicks Off National Tour

Australian Irish rock show Eireborne kicks off its national tour on Friday 29 July 2022 at the Palais in Melbourne, a city it hasn’t previously visited.

Following sold out shows across Australia and Europe, Eireborne is 2.5 years in the making, having been knocked down by Covid restrictions twice and has kept getting up, striving to bring great entertainment to audiences despite the challenges.

Amadeus Launches Opera House 50th Anniversary Program

Acclaimed Welsh actor and producer Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga, Frost/Nixon, The Queen, Tron: Legacy, Masters of Sex, Good Omens, Amadeus) will star as Salieri in a new production of Peter Shaffer’s Tony and Academy Award®-winning masterpiece Amadeus.  Portraying the artistic rivalry of two great classical composers – Salieri and Mozart – the show is the first event to be announced as part of the Opera House’s year-long 50th anniversary celebrations, supported by the NSW Gover

2022 Green Room Awards Recipients

The 2022 Green Room Awards, showcasing the diverse talent in Melbourne’s theatre community have been announced.

 

CABARET

BEST PRODUCTION 

Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back presented by Pietagogetter as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival  

BEST WRITING 

Michelle Brasier for Average Bear by Michelle Brasier presented by Century as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival 

BEST VARIETY SHOW [Joint Recipients]

Australian Stars Announced for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Tim Lawson in association with Michael Harrison and The Really Useful Group have announced that Euan Fistrovic Doidge will star as Joseph, and Paulini as The Narrator, in the new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Out of the Desert

A landmark Australian production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert opens in Queensland this month. Coral Drouyn talks to the creative forces driving the new production which will preview at Star Casino, Gold Coast from 16th July and open on July 21st.

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