Amazing Companies that support Aussie Theatre:
After an exceptionally successful Australian Premiere in November 2011, Blessing Mokgohloa will be performing in the return season of Bad Blood Blues at Chapel Off Chapel’s Loft Theatre from next Thursday 9th February. We ask him our 20 questions… 1. As a child, what did you want to be when…
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The Australian newspaper reported yesterday that the advertising campaign for Queensland Theatre Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet has been removed from print. The Advertising Standards Bureau deemed the image to depict a “teenager in a highly sexualised image”. The advertisement features 26 year old actors Melanie Zanetti and Thomas Larkin, who…
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Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre has been transformed into the infamous country residence of the British Prime Minister, for the Australian Premiere of the hilarious comedy Yes, Prime Minister. Starring Philip Quast as the suave and cynical Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, Mark Owen-Taylor as the embattled Prime Minister Jim Hacker, and John Lloyd Fillingham and…
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Who says our musical theatre industry is slowing down? The smash hit sensation A Chorus Line, which opens tomorrow at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne is boasting over $3 million in advance sales, proving that Australian audiences are still very keen to see quality music theatre. Producer Tim Lawson, is thrilled…
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Rachael Beck, Margi de Ferranti, Jessica Rowe and Enda Markey will take to the stage this year in a regional tour of Side By Side by Sondheim. In an interview with AussieTheatre recently, Australian music theatre and cabaret sensation Margi de Ferranti discussed the tour, which will be taking place…
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Visually spectacular and elaborate, the Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Hilary Bell’s newly commissioned The White Divers of Broome as part of the Perth International Arts Festival 2012. Fiercely exotic and populated with greed, loyalty, betrayal and the controversial history surrounding the White Australia Policy, this world premiere play is rich…
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When confronted with the concept that in a maddened frenzy a man decides to salvage his lawnmower from an imminent blaze, the panic of the Black Saturday Bushfires becomes abruptly real. Ali Kennedy-Scott is an extraordinarily multitalented woman whose award-winning The Day The Sky Turned Black is both a humbling…
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37 Ways To Say I’m Gay is the new play from award-winning writer and directorWayne Tunks. Tunks is fast making a name for himself as one of this country’s top independent theatre writers with several successful plays already under his belt including The Subtle Art of Flirting, We’ll Always Have Wagga, The Bridesmaid…
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“A Dowager hen, her juvenile charge and a posturing old cock… a study of a species in its habitat – its breeding, management and methods of most un-natural selection.” The idea of Oscar Wilde’s ageless reflections on human behaviour as an ornithological study at a geographic society style lecture series…
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Forty women spent six days in Falls Creek with Gertrude Stein. The result is Midsumma’s in Girls Do Gertrude! at the Northcote Town Hall. I haven’t read any Gertrude Stein, but I saw Midnight in Paris at the flicks and read Alice B Toklas’s recipe for dope brownies (that she didn’t…
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The paradox of living in a big city is that you can feel suffocated by crowds of people and yet completely alone, usually at the same time. Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days is an understated show about the most extraordinary of ordinary experiences: human connection, seemingly at random and left to…
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