Canterbury Theatre Guild (NSW) celebrates the age of disco in sizzling style in Disco Inferno at Bexley RSL from November 1, 2013 in a jukebox musical with dozens of red hot hits.
Containing more twists than a corkscrew, Corpse! was first staged in 1984, in London’s West End. Welcomed by The Daily Mail as ‘a wild, high camp comedy thriller, a play where anything can happen –and most of it does’, it began its Broadway run at the Helen Hayes Theatre in 1986. Fast forward to 2013 and the Therry Dramatic Society’s November production at The Arts Theatre, Adelaide.
The barbs come fast and furious in Clare Booth Luce’s bitchy, biting, social satire The Women, on stage at Theatre on Chester, Epping, NSW from November 8, 2013.
A smash hit when first performed on Broadway in 1936, playing 657 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, it is probably best known thanks to the 1939 classic/cult movie of the same name.
The play is set in the world of high society Manhattan, in a time when women’s lives revolved around their efforts to look beautiful to obtain and hold on to wealthy husbands.
When Normanhurst Uniting Church Musical Society (NUCMS) presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical Oklahoma! in October / November 2013, it will mark the end of an era with the retirement of the company’s stalwart Wardrobe coordinator.
Diana Moehead (pictured left in her element) retires after many years of incredible service. She has been involved with costume creation as far back as 1993, and has either led a small team of costumers or been the sole wardrobe provider for almost every NUCMS show since 1998.
Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza, which had a successful season at the Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre (Vic) in August / September 2013, moves to the Malvern Theatre in November for a return season.
Adapted from the novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the 2005 Broadway musical has a book by Craig Lucas, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel.
The Hills Musical Society (NSW) is presenting a varied end to its 2013 season with two simultaneous shows, RENT and Gutenberg! The Musical! at its new home at Castle Hill RSL from October 30 to November 3.
Theatre-goers will be familiar with RENT, the Tony award-winning masterpiece by Jonathon Larson, and director / set designer Jeff Fisher promises a fresh, reflective take on the show.
WITH an abundance of changing identities, twists and surprises, Melville Theatre’s November 2013 production has been described as a “Russian doll of a play”.
Written by Roger Leach and Colin Wakefield and directed by Joan Scafe, Audience with Murder moves from a seemingly innocuous domestic play reading, through a murder- mystery in the classic style, to a final terrifying and violent climax.
It was first produced at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival, then subsequently at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre in 2006.
