MELVILLE Theatre (WA) is presenting two very different comedies from February 8 – the world premiere of the adaptation of an Australian short story, Someone Called Rob, and a classic British comedy, Hands Across The Sea by Noël Coward.
Martin Lindsay’s Someone Called Rob was featured in the book Best Australian Stories 2012 and he has now adapted it for the stage.
Jeffrey Hansen is directing the comedy, which explores the miscommunication and subsequent paranoia that can occur from a simple mistake.
Castle Hill’s Pavilion Theatre (NSW) opens 2013 with magic, mayhem and mirth, raising the red curtain on Ken Ludwig’s comedy Shakespeare in Hollywood on February 1.
Melbourne's CLOC Musical Theatre, one of Australia's largest and most successful community theatre groups, has been known as the home of amateur premieres, whether it be Victorian (Evita, Singin' in the Rain, The Boy from Oz, Hot Shoe Shuffle), Australian (Sweeney Todd, Annie, Les Misérables, Dusty) or Australasian (Cats, Steel Pier, Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard).
Brisbane Arts Theatre’s opening production for 2013, from January 25, is Casablanca - A Radio Play.
Remember the chemistry between Bogart and Bergman, famous lines like “Here’s lookin’ at you, kid”, and of course, Sam’s rendition of ‘As Time Goes By’? In 2013 Brisbane Arts Theatre relives the romance, nostalgia and drama of Casablanca in a new format. Casablanca – A Radio Play brings to the stage one of popular culture’s most beloved films in the form of a radio play.
IF YOU knew a secret that could shatter a bride’s dreams the night before her wedding, would you tell? That’s the premise of Elizabeth Coleman’s Secret Bridesmaids’ Business, the first production for 2013 for Old Mill Theatre (WA), playing from February 1.
The popular comedy is set the night before Meg Bacon’s wedding in a hotel with her mother and bridesmaids, ready for one last night of girlie fun. But one lie could change everything – and the bridesmaids have to decide whether to reveal a secret about the groom.
Into the Woods (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine) opens at the Gold Coast Little Theatre on 2 February, 2012, directed by Joshua McCann-Thomson with musical direction by Ethan Jones and choreography by Tess Burke.
“Into the Woods is one of those shows that music theatre nerds obsess over,” says young Gold Coast director Josh McCann-Thomson,” a big Sondheim fan.
Pulling together all the pieces of the jigsaw to stage a musical is challenge for most of us – but imagine what it would be like if many in the cast had a disability. Heather Cook, the Director of Nadrasca's Music Theatre in Melbourne, explains how she has climbed that mountain, even staging productions of Les Misérables and Chicago.
Robert Broadley, founder of Strathfield Light Opera Company (SLOC) and member of the Association of Community Theatre (NSW) Hall of Fame passed away on December 18, 2012.
Stage Whispers thanks Christopher Hamilton for sharing this eulogy, which we’ve edited to emphasise Robert’s theatrical life.
Good Morning folks – it’s OK I am not going to sing.
This will be a tough gig for me; you are a pretty tough audience, so please bear with me if I go a little “off key”.