Stage Briefs

Godspell Reimagined

GODSPELL will have a one-week season at the Playhouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House from 9 – 14 February 2016 before moving to Melbourne for performances in The Royal Botanical Gardens.

GODSPELL REIMAGINED features a cast of eight multi-talented all singing, all dancing performers.

Follies in Concert for Melbourne

For three performances only on May 24 and 25, exclusive to Melbourne, a line-up of Australian musical theatre stars including David Hobson, Lisa McCune and Nancye Hayes will come together for a must-see theatrical event, the celebrated FOLLIES IN CONCERT at the Melbourne Recital Centre, produced by Storeyboard Entertainment.

Winners of the 2015 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

The winners of the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards were announced by Carrillo Gantner AO, Chair of the Sidney Myer Fund at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday 21 January 2016.

Now in its 32nd year, the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards are one of the richest and most coveted awards in the performing arts in Australia.

Dark Mofo and Mofo festivals are joint winners of the Group Award ($45,000 to each festival). 

The multi-talented Ursula Yovich is the Individual Winner ($60,000).

XANADU THE MUSICAL SKATES INTO SYDNEY!

Matthew Management in association with Hayes Theatre Co today announced the cast of the smash-hit Broadway musical comedy XANADU, based on the 1980s classic cult movie, which plays in Sydney from Thursday 12 May 2016 for a strictly limited season.

New Spelling Bee for Melbourne

Get out your dictionaries! The Tony Award winning musical comedy, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is heading to the Melbourne’s Lawler Theatre for a strictly limited season from March 30 to April 10, 2016, in a new production from the Vic Theatre Company.

Cast Announced for Victorian Premiere of Dogfight

Doorstep Arts has announced the cast and creative team set to deliver the Victorian Premiere of the award-winning musical Dogfight, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and a book by Peter Duchan, in May 2016.

The whole damn world might change tomorrow. So we go for broke today.

Cancer Council Official Charity Partner of The Sound of Music.

The producers of the new stage production of The Sound of Music announced today (20th January, 2016) that Cancer Council will be the official charity partner for the Australian tour.

Bucket collections at selected performances across the season and proceeds from final dress rehearsal performances in Brisbane and Melbourne will raise funds for Cancer Council’s work in cancer support, research, advocacy and prevention.

Deliah Hannah to Play Grizabella in Adelaide and Perth

The Producers of Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS have announced that Deliah Hannah will play the role of Grizabella in the Adelaide and Perth seasons of the West End revival production of CATS. The show commences in Adelaide on Friday 18 March at the Festival Theatre and in Perth on Saturday 16 April at the Crown Theatre.

Stoney End: The Songs of Laura Nyro

An intimate, seductive and soulful exploration that revisits the work of singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, Stoney End reimagines this artist’s songbook in a theatrical and musical event. Melbourne-based performing artist Hilary Watts presents Stoney End: The Songs of Laura Nyro; featuring a varied collective of musicians and a quartet of vocalists, launching at Midsumma Festival 2016.

Mike Walsh Fellowships 2015

Mike Walsh OBE gives Fellowships to Graduates of NIDA, WAAPA, & VCA

The Mike Walsh Fellowships enable young theatre practitioners to travel overseas to further their knowledge and experience in their chosen fields of theatre before returning to Australia to pursue their careers. In 2015, the twentieth year of the awards, the Fellowships have been given to eight graduates of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), and the Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts (WAAPA).

Major Fellows: