Bell Shakespeare has announced the full cast of the upcoming production and world premiere of The Lovers, a pop musical written by young Australian writer and composer Laura Murphy reimagining Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with an original score.
The producers of the original Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray have announced that the production, which is soon to premiere at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre, will be touring to Adelaide and Sydney from late 2022.
Director Jack O’Brien (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and Choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots), lead the original Broadway creative team to present the big hair and big-hearted musical Hairspray in Australia as originally intended.
Acclaimed Welsh actor and producer Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga, Frost/Nixon, The Queen, Tron: Legacy, Masters of Sex, Good Omens, Amadeus) will star as Salieri in a new production of Peter Shaffer’s Tony and Academy Award®-winning masterpiece Amadeus. Portraying the artistic rivalry of two great classical composers – Salieri and Mozart – the show is the first event to be announced as part of the Opera House’s year-long 50th anniversary celebrations, supported by the NSW Gover
Tim Lawson in association with Michael Harrison and The Really Useful Group have announced that Euan Fistrovic Doidge will star as Joseph, and Paulini as The Narrator, in the new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
A landmark Australian production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert opens in Queensland this month. Coral Drouyn talks to the creative forces driving the new production which will preview at Star Casino, Gold Coast from 16th July and open on July 21st.
In December 2021, Stephen House’s The Ajoona Guest House took off at The Bakehouse Theatre in Adelaide. Stage Whispers reviewed it, and we praised the production. “A compelling hour in the theatre… see this master storyteller in his element.” We asked Stephen about where the show goes now, as we hear it is about to travel.
Stage Whispers: The response to The Ajoona Guest House has been incredibly positive. What do you think this is due to?
With Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella opening in Melbourne, ahead of its national tour, Coral Drouyn explores the history of the show and talks to its two young stars.
We all grow up with fairy tales but most of us think they are “uncool” at around the same time that we discover that Santa Claus is just our parents stringing us along, and that they actually bought our Christmas presents themselves!
The final cast members have been unveiled for the Australian premiere of the original Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray, which is set to open at the Regent Theatre in August.
