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The Mousetrap for Perth and Canberra

Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live Australia has announced that the 70th Anniversary production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap will play in Perth at His Majesty’s Theatre from 8 April 2023, and at the Canberra Theatre Centre from 11 May for strictly limited seasons.

Ticket presales in Canberra begin today (Dec 12) and in Perth tomorrow, with GP sale in both cities from Friday 16 December.

fortyfivedownstairs 2023 Theatre Program

Image: Paul Capsis - Dry My Tears - photo by Warren Lee

Theatre Works Launch 2023 Program

On December 4th, Melbourne’s Theatre Works launched their 2023 program to a full house of industry and community.

At The Crossroads: Dale Burridge

Coral Drouyn talks to musical theatre star Dale Burridge about his long overdue return to the stage in his new cabaret experience.

It was 1990 when Dale Burridge truly did his Supernova act in Australian Musical Theatre by wowing audiences as Raoul in the original Australian production of Phantom of the Opera. That is no mean feat when you consider he shared the stage with Anthony Warlow and Marina Prior. Dale’s voice was lighter then, a pristine tenor with mellifluous undertones, but it promised more than we could ever have hoped for.

Come From Away Originals

As the Australasian tour of Come From Away resumed in 2022, Neil Litchfield spoke to two actual Ganderites, Brian Mosher and Oz Fudge. They’re among the interviewees whose accounts of 38 jets descending on their small Newfoundland town on 9/11, and the days that followed, inspired the verbatim musical. He also chatted with the actors who now portray them.

All was quiet on the morning of September 11, 2001 in the town of Gander.

STAGE WHISPERS MAGAZINE: DECEMBER 2022 - FEBRUARY 2023 EDITION OUT NOW!!!

IN THIS EDITION

New Dream for Joseph

A new vision for the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice favourite

A Tale of Two Christmas Carols

Very different versions of Dickens’ classic in Sydney and Melbourne

Theatre After Covid

Producers share Covid’s ongoing Box Office challenges

Seymour Centre Announces 2023 Season

Image: Camp. Photographer: Sallie Colechin

Sydney's Seymour Centre has announced its 2023 season, a set of six plays by independent theatre companies.

Playlab Theatre Shares David Williamson Prize 2022

Playlab Theatre has shared the prestigious David Williamson Prize for 2022. The prize, worth $100,000 in total, is one of the richest theatre awards in the country, which is shared between a playwright and the commissioning and producing Theatre Company. 

The award was announced at the 55th Australian Writers’ Guild annual AWGIE awards in Sydney last week. 

Black Swan Season 2023

Black Swan State Theatre Company has announced Artistic Director Kate Champion’s inaugural Season for 2023, celebrating a new artistic era for Western Australia’s state theatre company. 

The 2023 Season reflects Kate’s search for ‘stimulating and arresting ways to tell compelling stories, which grip the imagination in ways that excite and provoke.’ 

New Australian Musical, Midnight, to Debut in Melbourne

Popular Australian musical theatre stars including Lucy Durack (Wicked, Legally Blonde, Shrek), Verity Hunt-Ballard (Mary Poppins, Sweet Charity), Thomas McGuane (Frozen, Jersey Boys), Matt Lee (Mary Poppins, Frozen) and Kristie Nguy will lead the new musical production of Midnight, which is premiering in Melbourne in June 2023 at the Comedy Theatre.