Willoughby Theatre Company on Sydney's North Shore is presenting The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Tony and Oscar Award winning musical inspired by the lives of the von Trapp family, at The Concourse, Chatswood this May, transporting audiences to hills of Austria for an evening of love and nostalgia.
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.
Lerner & Loewe’s much-loved musical My Fair Lady is back in Melbourne for a limited engagement produced by GSOV - Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria - on 30 and 31 March, 1 and 2 April - includ
Castle Hill Players is presenting the classic Ray Cooney farce Funny Money, adapted into a movie starring Chevy Chase, for their second offering of their 2023 season, at the Pavilion Theatre from 31 March to 22 April.
What would you do if you arrived home from work and discovered that you'd picked up somebody else’s briefcase on the train? Then you opened that briefcase and discovered it contained a cool £735,000 in cash?
The production of All About Eve produced by St Jude’s Players in Brighton, South Australia in April 2023, adapted and directed by Olivia Jane Parker, is not the play with the same name as the original story (The Wisdom of Eve), but instead, an adaptation of the Joseph L Mankiewicz film screenplay of that story, titled All About Eve and starring Bette Davis.