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Exciting New Ventures

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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Flowerchildren’s commercial debut in Melbourne

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Flowerchildren’s commercial debut in Melbourne

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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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to open in Sydney this year

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to open in Sydney this year

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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    One Man, Two Guvnors opens in Melbourne

    One Man, Two Guvnors | Reviewed on: Tuesday 21 May 2013
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    One Man, Two Guvnors opens in Melbourne

    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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    Hannah Gadsby: Happiness is a Bedside Table

    Happiness is a Bedside Table | Reviewed on: Saturday 18 May 2013
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    Hannah Gadsby: Happiness is a Bedside Table

    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: An exciting adventure

    This Is Capital City | Reviewed on: Thursday 09 May 2013
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    This Is Capital City: An exciting adventure

    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: Leaping off the Bell Curve

    Leaping off the Bell Curve | Reviewed on: Friday 17 May 2013
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    Jeff Green: Leaping off the Bell Curve

    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 Nightingale and the Rose

    The Nightingale and the Rose | Reviewed on: Friday 10 May 2013
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    The Nightingale and the Rose

    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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    PICF Tom Gleeson — Hello B*tches

    Tom Gleeson - Hello B*tches | Reviewed on: Friday 17 May 2013
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    PICF Tom Gleeson — Hello B*tches

    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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    Nixon in China

    Nixon in China | Reviewed on: Thursday 16 May 2013
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    Nixon in China

    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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    Opera Australia: Partenope

    Partenope | Reviewed on: Thursday 02 May 2013
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    Opera Australia: Partenope

    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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