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Perth is hosting its first ever International Jazz Festival and, on the eve of the opening, award-winning jazz saxophonist Jamie Oehlers, made time to talk with Aussie Theatre’s Jan Chandler. Oehlers is a jazz saxophonist with a national and international reputation and there have been many highlights for him along…
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An independent dance school in Sydney’s inner west was the topic of several news pieces yesterday, but unfortunate choice of language mistakenly implicated the professional contemporary company, Sydney Dance Company, not the company in question — RG Dance Studio. The ABC published a story on RG Dance Studio’s closure, following…
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The ABC have announced they’re developing Kate Grenville’s award-winning, critically acclaimed novel The Secret River into a television miniseries. Earlier this year, Sydney Theatre Company received standing ovations from sold-out audiences for its triumphant adaptation of the book. Adapted by Andrew Bovell and directed by Neil Armfield, the production garnered five star…
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Recently Aussie Theatre’s David Allen caught up with producer Michelle Guthrie about her Sydney based company Neglected Musicals. Talking to Michelle Guthrie I know right off the bat I’m conversing with a producer. She’s direct, no-nonsense – knows her industry, the people who populate it and how it all works.…
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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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When Bell Shakespeare deviates from the master, you know there’s a good reason. From Ancient Greek myth via Euripides, through Seneca’s Rome, past Racine in France and finally to Ted Hughes in England, the story of Phèdre has naturally developed along the way. Yet it remains as horrifying and compelling…
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Magnormos’s 2011 premiere of Flowerchildren: The Mamas and Papas Story sold out at Theatre Works, got rave reviews (here’s mine) and made it onto favourite and award’s lists. It’s since been developed and has opened its first professional season at The Comedy Theatre. If it doesn’t sell out, get rave reviews and awards,…
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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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