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Les Solomon finds a new theatre and a new theatre company worth exploring This last week with the cancellation of The Addams Family without a tour and an early closure of the Sydney season could easily make both agents and performers throw their hands up in horror and wonder why we…
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King Kong the Musical is hitting Melbourne with a bang. Yesterday they recreated one of the most famous scenes from the movie with a starlet dangling from Kong’s hand 300m above Melbourne. More details in this article from The Age: Eureka stunt is no monkey business
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Producer, Director and Musical Arranger Aaron Joyner made time between a technical rehearsal and a dress rehearsal of flowerchildren: The Mamas and Papas Story to chat with AussieTheatre’s Jan Chandler. Aaron Joyner is the founding Artistic Director of Magnormos, an award-winning, independent production company established in 2002 with the aim…
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Last night the prestigious Olivier Awards honoured the best on the West End from musicals to plays and opera to ballet. Amongst the winners was Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s epic Einstein on the Beach, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production and will play an exclusive…
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David Allen catches up with Richard Piper from King Kong’s principal cast… Richard Piper has had a long and impressive career on the stage. Having Trained at London’s celebrated Central School of Speech and Drama he then worked as a performer, composer and musician in Europe for Twelve years. His…
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It was confirmed today that the devilishly cheeky and deliciously fun Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will open at Sydney’s Theatre Royal this year. Nominated for 11 Tony awards, the original Broadway production ran for almost two years and starred John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, Sherie Renee Scott and Joanna Gleason. This production,…
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Ben Nielsen catches up with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s canine co-ordinator in Adelaide! Every day is a bit of a dog’s breakfast for Kate Lloyd.The director of the Adelaide Animal Actors Agency has spent the last few months assembling, training and handling the canine ensemble for the Adelaide season of…
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By the guffaws at the opening night of One Man, Two Guvnors, it’s guaranteed to be a sold-out must-see. With a cast and script as tight as a mother-of-the-bride’s girdle, low-class British farce doesn’t get any classier. Commissioned by the National Theatre of Great Britain, it opened in June 211 and had…
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The now widely known television personality Hannah Gadsby has had a good year. She now classifies herself, at thirty five to be, an adult. She has just handed in six years of back tax returns. She has just received her driver’s licence. She has her own place. She is “captain…
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This Is Capital City is a promenade performance that takes place in the Kelvin Grove Village and surrounds as part of the La Boite Indie Season. But more than that, it is an exciting adventure where fantasy and reality combine as individuals manned with headphones navigate the Urban Village as…
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Jeff Green is well known to Perth audiences from a couple of stints touring with the Melbourne International Comedy Roadshow. Fans were out in force for his one night stand as part of the second hugely successful Perth international Comedy Festival. Nowadays an Australian resident, the differences between British and…
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The Brisbane Anywhere Theatre Festival has begun and has lots on offer from cabaret, theatre, and mixed media performances in unconventional venues across Brisbane. One such production is the mixed-media shadow-puppetry play The Nightingale and the Rose, based on Oscar Wilde’s novel debating which quality is more important – love…
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Tom Gleeson is the thinking persons comedian. While using his life, family and the audience for comedic relief he can touch on subjects that require you to think debate and question life. Arriving on stage to a rousing applause Gleeson begins his set “by just saying hello” to various members…
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I’ve loved Nixon in China from the time I curiously listened to a highlights recording, and John Adams became one of my favourite contemporary composers at its opening chorus. Opera Victoria’s exquisite production has confirmed its place as a masterpiece of 20th century art and loudly hinted that the best opera in…
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I don’t want to been seen as the always dissenting reviewer – but here I go again! This production garnered glowing reviews and a collection of Helpmann awards for its cast when it was staged in Sydney in 2010. But while this Partenope is a visual and musical feast, I…
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