Audiences are being brought closer to the action than ever before. Productions ranging from The Great Gatsby, to Peter Pan, to Blindness and Monopoly are set to entertain and immerse Australian theatregoers. David Spicer surveys the new landscape.
Tim Lawson in association with Michael Harrison and The Really Useful Group have announced that after two seasons at The London Palladium, the brand new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will come to Australia, opening at the Regent Theatre, Melbourne on 10 November 2022. Melbourne’s opening will be the first staging of this newly reimagined production outside of the UK, and comes 30 years after the show was last produced professionally
On the first night of winter, artists, musicians and creatures of the night will pulse through a city reawakened. A festival three years in the making, created by Melbourne and reconnecting with the world, RISING is inviting audiences to get lost, go deep and shake loose. This is the festival the city has been waiting for. A surge of art, music, performance and ceremony in the heart of Melbourne, RISING will run from 1—12 June 2022.
Willoughby City Council has announced the inaugural launch of Chatswood Culture Bites. For the first time, an arts and entertainment program featuring music, theatre, comedy, dance, children’s shows and visual arts has been created for Sydney’s north shore. This program features over 25 unique performances that will run from 18 March to 22 October and can be experienced at The Concourse, both inside and on the outside forecourt, along with performances at the Zenith Theatre.
To celebrate its recent 50th birthday, Currency Press, Australia’s foremost publisher of the performing arts, is convening the Australian Playwrights’ Festival. Showcasing their playwrights and the roles they have played in reflecting our society and defining who we are, the festival will be held from 18-20 March 2022 at the Paddington RSL.
With Jagged Little Pill on stage in Melbourne, confirmed for Perth in May, and a return season in Sydne in July, Maggie McKenna and Tim Draxl tell David Spicer why they relish being cast in a musical of our times.
Described as the most ambitious jukebox musical ever, Jagged Little Pill is a family drama traversing drug addiction, rape, sexual identity, relationship stress and more – set to the pulsing music of Alanis Morissette’s seminal 1995 album.
