Stage Briefs

Antipodes Theatre Company Presents Bumpwell Manor

Antipodes Theatre Company (ATC) has announced casting for Don Winsor’s Bumpwell Manor. Part of ATC’s Ricochet Reading Series, the online reading will be streamed live to the ATC Facebook Page on Monday, 17th August at 7:00pm. The video will remain available for one week.

New Theatre to Reopen with Neighbourhood Watch

New Theatre in Newtown, NSW, will reopen its doors to audiences from Tuesday 8 September, with COVID-safe restrictions in place and subject to government directives regarding public gatherings.

Australian Premiere of Lost Tennessee Williams Play

A TENNESSEE Williams play lost for 60 years will make its Australian premiere at the Last Drop Canning Vale, Western Australia during September 2020.

Phantom Closes in West End

Andrew Lloyd Webber has contradicted Cameron Mackintosh over the future of his hit musical The Phantom of the Opera insisting that it will re-open.

Producer Cameron Mackintosh this week announced that the West End production of The Phantom of the Opera is 'permanently shut' ending the 34-year-run for the blockbuster musical.

The musical closed in March with Australian Josh Piterman in the lead role.

Not All Theatre Has Stopped During COVID

MYP Youth Productions Inc finds a way during COVID, to give 16 young talented performers the opportunity to perform in the Victorian Premiere - The BIG ONE-OH !

 

Michael Falzon Memorial

Film director Jane Cho, wife of beloved Australian entertainer Michael Falzon, has released a statement following his passing last Tuesday after a year-long battle with a rare form of germ cell cancer.

The Boy From Oz Reunion

More than 100 cast, crew and creatives from the original production of The Boy From Oz have sung, shimmied and shaken their maracas, for a spectacular on-line performance of I Go To Rio to raise money for charity

Are You Writing a New Musical?

Hatch Lab’s New Musical Theatre Residency applications close on 21 June 2020

Writing a new musical? Notepads and musical charts piling up in the filing cabinet? The Hatch Lab Musical Theatre Residency program wants to hear from you.

$345 Million Plan to Restart and Rebuild Live Performance Industry

Live Performance Australia has developed a $345 million plan to help the live performance industry restart, rebuild and reopen for audiences following the shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The plan includes capital investment in performing arts companies and productions to help them restart, extending income support to businesses and individuals to retain jobs, and incentives to encourage Australians to return to live performance events.