Community Theatre

Love Changes Everything for Rosa

Busy musical theatre performer, Rosa McCarty (pictured with co-star Adam Rafferty) is becoming one of Melbourne’s most accomplished and well-known leading ladies in the Melbourne theatre scene. She is currently preparing to star in her fourth consecutive show in the last twelve months, this time as the aptly named Rose in CLOC Musical Theatre’s upcoming production of Aspects of Love.

Lieder Theatre Celebrates 120 Years with The Dream

The Lieder Theatre Company (NSW) is in rehearsal for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which will be performed to mark one hundred and twenty years of entertainment to the Goulburn community by the Goulburn Liedertafel.

The Dream is one of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays and has been performed previously at the Lieder for the company’s 90th birthday celebrations. We felt it most suiting to repeat this choice for our 120th making the Lieder Theatre Company the longest running theatre company in Australia

Aussie Classic Begins New Era at Bankstown

A vivid, moving and funny play which explores the concept of loyalty both to family and to country will be the first production for the newly named Bankstown Theatre Company (formerly Bankstown Theatrical Society).

The long standing South-West Sydney community group recently made a name change to coincide with a new era at the re-opened Bankstown Arts Centre, and will perform the Australian classis Hotel Sorrento from August 26th.

The Gondoliers

The Gondoliers was Gilbert and Sullivan's last great success and the G&S Society Tasmania again bring it alive at The Playhouse, Hobart. Amongst the canals of Venice and a palatial setting in Barataria, this musical treat is filled with true love, mistaken identity, the verve of a cachucha and the grace of a gavotte, and is brought to life by the voices and energy of an outstanding local cast.

God of Carnage for Macedon

Peace talks between the parents of two eleven year old boys implicated in a park altercation involving stick hitting and name calling have broken down. A lounge room brawl ensued after pleasantries over coffee and cake crumbled.

Herein lies the premise of the Mount Players (Victoria) latest theatrical offering - God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, running from August 26 to September 17.

Eurobeat for Geelong

Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision, the hilarious parody of the Eurovision Song Contest, will play in Geelong from August 20.

This production features two NEW, never before staged songs - "The Vikings" from Norway, and "Bang Me" from the Ukraine.

Take a trip to Sarajevo where you will be part of it all.

The show features performances from your favourite European countries and YOU get to vote each night for the winner!

Run for your Wife at Penrith

Run for your Wife, the hilarious British farce by Ray Cooney, ran for nine years on London’s West End, and NTT Productions brings it to Penrith for a limited run at the Q Theatre.

Life x 3

Thrice is nice as dinner party disaster is served up

WHAT would happen if everyone arrived 24 hours early for a dinner party?

That’s the question posed in Life x 3, an amusing commentary on vanity, professional insecurity and the changing states of marriage at the Old Mill Theatre (WA) from August 11 – 20, 2011.

Written by French playwright Yasmin Reza (Art, God of Carnage) and directed by Eliot McCann, the play is described as a comedy of errors from three different angles.

Lend Me A Tenor at Limelight (Perth)

Double entendres, impossible innuendoes and a scheming soprano are just some of the ingredients being served up at Wanneroo’s Limelight Theatre (WA) this August.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Hornsby

Hornsby Musical Society (NSW) presents Dirty Rotten Scoundrels from August 26 to September 3, 2011. The all-singing and dancing musical comedy based on the popular 1988 movie starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin (and written by Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning) recreates the film’s entertaining mix of romance and rip-off!

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