Amazing Companies that support Aussie Theatre:
Disney first turned their empire onto the music theatre stage in 1994 with the Beauty and the Beast. Less than two decades later, following six smash-hit Broadway musicals and a host of international tours, they have blossomed o become one of the most powerful forces in music theatre today. And…
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Joanna Murry-Smith is set to return to Sydney Theatre Company this season with a brand new play directed by Andrew Upton. Commissioned by STC, Fury runs from their Wharf 1 theatre space. The play will feature Robert Menzies, Sarah Peirse, Harry Greenwood, and Geraldine Hakewill. A family drama, Fury is…
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Mae West is a lingering icon of a very different time who was well ahead of her time. Remembered for her sex appeal, her early, no-holds-barred feminism, and her bawdy double-entendres, West is a figure that inspires admiring and obsessive fans. Dirty Blonde is about those fans. Two fans, in…
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There are a few different kinds of standing ovations. There’s the perfunctory opening night ovation. The rolling ovation, that picks up momentum and vigour as it spreads across the audience. And then there’s the instantaneous ovation, where the lights come up and the audience, as one, leaps out of their seats.…
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The city of Sydney needs a new theatre. In fact the city of Sydney needs several new theatres – and while it’s a fact that appears known, it remains something about which little is being done. Decades after the period where well over a dozen 1000+ seater theatres and picture…
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Sydney’s best and brightest were joined by star presenters Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones (in Sydney for the national tour of Driving Miss Daisy) for the 2012 Sydney Theatre Awards. Paddington RSL was packed to the brim with the Sydney theatre scene as awards for an excellent year of…
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Griffin Theatre’s first writer/director collaboration from the Griffin Studio artist residency program is set to premiere in February — and it’s a mysterious exploration of the space between our public and private lives. Dreams in White is a dark thriller about secrets and betrayal. When wealthy property developer Michael Devine…
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Vika Bull — one of Australia’s most respected soul singers — is set to sell the story of one of the world’s most beloved women of soul, Etta James. Written by critically acclaimed author John Livings, At Last: The Etta James Story will premiere at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre from 19 February…
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Broadway hit The Addams Family, making its Australian debut in Sydney in March next year, keeps getting bigger. Today, producer Rodney Rigby announced the ensemble that will round out the cast of the spooky musical. The already announced principal cast features John Waters, Chloe Dallimore, Russell Dykstra, Teagan Wouters, Ben…
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Australia, it’s our lucky day, and 2013 is going to be our lucky year. How can you tell? Joanna Murray-Smith’s critically acclaimed one-woman show Songs for Nobodies, starring powerhouse vocalist and performer Bernadette Robinson, is set for a return season in January. Beginning in Melbourne on January 2, 2013, Songs…
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