Community Theatre

Noosa Arts Theatre Calls Out for One Act Play Entries

Noosa Arts Theatre in Queensland is calling for playwrights to submit an entry into their highly regarded and well-known One-Act Playwriting competition. Now in its 47th year, this prestigious competition attracts submissions from Australia and overseas. It is not only the prize money which attracts, but the fact that each of the three finalist plays is performed over a two week festival by a highly regarded acting and directing fraternity.

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For the Love of Theatre Podcast

Image above: Guest host, Brittany Daw, interviewing cast members of St. Jude’s Players’ Red Peppers, Kim Clark, Rhonda Grill, and Sam Wiseman.

Actor and director Olivia Jane Parker talks to Stage Whispers’ Mark Wickett about her role in promoting South Australian community theatre through a podcast.

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Community Theatre Seasons 2024

Image: Cats. Willoughby Theatre Company. 2023

Welcome to our Community Theatre Seasons feature, a round-up of productions in 2024 across Australia and New Zealand.

If your productions are incomplete, or your company is not included, please let us know at our contact form - https://www.stagewhispers.com.au/contact

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Barry Hill OAM

Stage Whispers readers outside South Australia will mainly know Barry Hill as a reviewer, occasionally also reviewed for his direction, or for his stage performances. A stalwart of Adelaide theatre, we congratulate Barry, who was honoured with the Order of Australia Medal on Australia Day, thanking him for his lengthy, passionate ‘service to the Performing Arts’. We asked Barry to share some of his theatrical highlights.

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Celebrating Sixty Years of Theatre at Cronulla

As Arts Theatre Cronulla turns 60 in 2023, Publicity Officer Michele Potter shares the theatre company’s history.

Arts Theatre Cronulla is thrilled to be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2023. Through a formula of good plays, high production values and talented performers, ATC enjoys continuing success as a community theatre group after six decades, with a wealth of productions and experiences enjoyed by cast, crew and audiences alike.

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Community Theatre Seasons 2025

Unpublished

Come From Away

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Clue, The Classic Whodunnit, At Henry Lawson Theatre

Calling all mystery-loving theatre goers! Henry Lawson Theatre is rolling out the red carpet for a night of suspense and hilarity with the stage adaptation of Clue — the classic whodunnit that promises thrills, chills, and side-splitting laughter.

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Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! at Roleystone Theatre

A COMEDY adventure full of dragons, dastardly plans, dire deeds and decidedly dramatic dramas comes to life at the end of November 2024.

Adapted by Stephen Briggs from the popular Discworld novel and directed by Bradley Towton, Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! is lighting up the Roleystone Theatre stage.

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9 to 5: The Musical in WA

Take a coffee break and enjoy toe-tapping tunes in 9 to 5: The Musical at Don Russell Performing Arts Centre this November!

It’s time to tumble out of bed, stumble to the kitchen, and pour yourself a cup of ambition - iconic ‘80s film 9 to 5 is coming to the stage in a production by local theatre company Art in Motion.

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We Will Rock You

North Shore Theatre Company

Zenith Theatre Chatswood

The rights holder David Spicer enjoyed watching his fifteenth (or thereabouts) different production of the musical by Queen and Ben Elton.

I almost auditioned for the role of Buddy – the aging rocker in the musical who has one solo – and my daughter who attended the tight and energetic performance by the North Shore Theatre Company was so relieved I chose not to.

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