Community Theatre

Lead image: "Requiem for Evita"

Superstar Productions and The Darwin Chorale have rightfully celebrated a sell-out 2023 season of their production of Evita at the Darwin Entertainment Centre. Days before the first of only two performances, social media was abuzz with punters desperately trying to secure a spot in the 1,000 seat Playhouse Theatre – with no luck. The producers kindly offered to share a selection of Reuben Gore’s evocative photography of the performances with Stage Whispers.

Musical Theatre companies in New Zealand are slowly returning to their pre-Covid level of production, although some are still wounded following cancellations.

Three generations of performers will come together for Wait Until Dark at the Guild Theatre, Rockdale. Glenda Kenyon, the director of the play, is joined by her daughter, Lauren Eade, who will be playing the lead role of Susy Henderson, and her granddaughter, Finlay Thomas, who is making her Guild debut as Gloria.

Lane Cove Theatre Company’s brings Nick Enright and Justin Monjo’s adaptation of the Tim Winton novel Cloudstreet  at The Performance Space @ St Aidan’s in Longueville from August 11 – 27.

An epic tale of two Australian families dealing with heartbreak and joy over the course of two decades  following the war, united by their co-habitation of a sprawling Perth house with a haunted past.