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Artist Profiles: The divine Miss Cath
Artist Profiles: Eden Espinosa on Wicked, Brooklyn and the Adelaide Cab Fest
News: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang opening date announced, Sydney
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Show Profiles: An Officer and a Gentleman – Anatomy of a Major Musical
According to an article in The Age this morning (Rush goes Roman for next musical) Melbourne could be receiving a production of Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum later this year, Geoffrey Rush. LAST year he donned a dress and a fur collar to play Oscar…
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Dancing animals and giant puppets are set to feature in Opera Australia’s The Magic Flute, opening tonight at the Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC). This truly is an opera for all ages with Director Julie Taymor, best known for directing the award-winning Broadway musical The Lion King. Taymor…
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When I first moved to Sydney the cabaret scene was very busy dying. Coming from a satellite suburb in tourist town hell Qld, I expected my arrival to be into a bushel of cabaret lounges, jazz bars and burly-q’s. Think what Cher had going on with her club in the…
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As Circus Oz get ready for the 20 June premiere of From The Ground Up 2012, Anne-Marie Peard has a chat with a new member of the troupe each week until opening. And there are double passes to give away! Formed in Melbourne in 1978, Circus Oz has toured the world as…
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Last month at the Theatre Royal Sydney, a star studded charity performance of Side By Side By Sondheim was staged to raise funds and awareness for The White Ribbon Foundation — Australia’s campaign to stop violence against women. Headlined by Broadway and West End star Ruthie Henshall and featuring more than 20 of…
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One night only of Queenie van de Zandt’s hilarious comedy and stunning vocals at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane was simply put, not enough. The sixty minute show was The Best (And Worst) of Queenie van de Zandt as she celebrates twenty-one fantastic years in the biz.…
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The naughtiest Circus is in Town! Polytoxic Dance Theatre’s latest ‘mongrel mash-up of technicolour theatricality’, The Rat Trap has transformed QTC’s Bille Brown Studio into a Cabaret Tiki Bar where the audience in lock-down are at the mercy of the burlesque rat pack. This colourfully chaotic production with it’s sexy, talented troupe,…
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Cyber-love soapie-tragedy begins 2012 tour with a sharp dagger to the gut. I Love You, Bro began its 2012 tour last week at the Street Theatre Canberra with enormous energy and vigour. A simple and striking set (Renee Mulder) allowed the audience to sit around the stage and close to the…
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While it is thrilling that Australia is rapidly becoming recognised as a great place to try out Broadway shows, and that our actors and creatives are considered to be of a high standard, and it is wonderful to see world premieres of shows happening right here in our own backyard,…
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Eve Langley, the subject matter of the semi-biographical Eve was a mid-twentieth century Australian writer who struggled against the shackles of the “feminine function”. She was eccentric by today’s standards but insane by the standards of her day; she took to dressing as a man and changed her name to…
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When actors have so much life that their presence fills such a small, intimate performing space and the audience is in stitches from the very first line, there isn’t a sliver of doubt that you’re going to enjoy the show. This is precisely what Damon Lockwood (as producer/director/writer/actor) achieved with…
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Written by Sydney-based Rick Viede, A Hoax won the Griffin award in 2011, and now Griffin Theatre have collaborated with La Boite Theatre to present the World Premiere of A Hoax. The concept behind this provoking four-hander play about a fabricated story written under a fake pseudonym was inspired by…
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A small circus company from Brisbane is doing big things at Her Majesty’s Theatre this week. Stepping away from garish big tops and Cirque-du-Soliel–style-extravaganzas, Yaron Lifschitz’s Circa is stripping back circus art to its bare bones and the results are astonishing. The human body is pushed to the limit, and stunts, rather than…
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