Community Theatre

When the amateur rights to The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie’s 60 years old blockbuster, became available to Australian and New Zealand community theatre companies there was an immediate and eager queue. Although there was only a two-year ‘window of opportunity’ in which to perform the famous whodunit, amateur groups couldn’t wait to sign on. And those smart enough to head the queue have been rewarded by full houses.

Tease your hair and slip on your bobby socks.

Phoenix Ensemble presents Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story over five weekends, opening on 10 August, 2012, and audience members are encouraged to come along dressed in 50s fashion to help set the mood.

In 1959, the man who changed the face of popular music tragically died in a plane crash aged 22. Now,Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story tells the story of the three years in which he became the world’s top recording artist.

WITH Australian Idol, The Voice, Australia’s Got Talent, The X Factor and Popstars all producing a variety of winners for more than a decade, is there an over-abundance of reality show singers?

It’s a question explored in the world premiere of Falling To The Top at Playlovers (WA) this August and September, a new musical written by director Tyler Jones and musical director Robert Wood.

Opening on July 27 at Theatre on Chester, Epping (NSW), director, Joy Sweeney, shares her thoughts on and reasons for directing the American classic, The Philadelphia Story.

“The Philadelphia Story has been one of my favourite movies since Bill Collins me introduced it to via The Golden Years of Hollywood somewhere in the 1960s.