Stage Briefs

The Bondi Theatre Company will stage the Australian Premiere of the musical sketch comedy show You Don’t Have To be Jewish this October and November at two Eastern Suburbs venues.

The sketches and songs were first released as a record album in 1965, penned by a team led by Grammy Award winning broadcaster Bob Booker. Timeless sketches in the musical revue include The Reading of the Will, The Plotnik Diamond and A Call from Long Island.

TIM a novel written by Australian icon Colleen McCullough and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tim McGarry, will commence a tour of eight NSW venues from 28 July 2023, prior to a future national tour.

Following the success of her previous, sold-out one-woman shows, Pennsylvania Avenue, The Show Goes On and Songs For Nobodies (a hit in both Australia and London), Bernadette Robinson is returning to Australian stages with the World Premiere of her post-pandemic solo show DIVAS.

DIVAS will open at QPAC, Brisbane on 20 July then travel to Sydney Opera House opening 3 August then to Fairfax Studio, Melbourne from 24 August 2023.

Joseph Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man, is an outcast. He survived circus ‘freak shows’ and the revulsion of a gawking public for years until a young doctor offered him asylum at the London Hospital in 1879.

Described by The Beat as ‘The Book of Mormon meets Beauty and the Beast’, The Marvellous Elephant Man tells a gripping tale of love, connection and the human condition.