South Australia is to have a state election in mid-March and many onlookers are finding the political games prior to the big day a little tedious. However, audiences can leave tedium at the door when attending the Adelaide Festival’s Fight Night, in which elections become a theatrical game in a very different, entertaining and totally absorbing perspective on politics.
Director Baz Luhrmann, currently hard at work in the rehearsal room at Carriageworks, has announced composers he and co-writer Craig Pearce have collaborated with on original songs for STRICTLY BALLROOM THE MUSICAL.
Australian audiences will hear new music and lyrics from composers including Australia’s own Elliott Wheeler, Sia Furler and Eddie Perfect along with American songwriters David Foster and Diane Warren, who between them have won all the most prestigious music awards including Golden Globe, Emmy and Grammy Awards.
Matilda The Musical will have its Australian Premiere at Sydney Lyric Theatre in August 2015, NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell announced today (February 27, 2014).
Australia’s largest outdoor ballroom dancing event took place on the Northern and Western Broadwalks of the Sydney Opera House on Sunday February 23, creating a world record when hundreds of couples performed a specially choreographed Strictly Sydneymoment.
This event, under the direction of Baz Luhrmann, celebrated the forthcoming opening of Strictly Ballroom The Musical, which previews at Sydney Lyric Theatre from 25 March, 2014.
Talented multi award winning composer, writer and actor Matthew Robinson talks to Coral Drouyn about this weekend’s concert version of his new musical Atlantis.
In the intimate solo performance that is An Iliad, Tony Award winner Denis O’Hare illuminates the heroism and horror of war by playing an ageless poet who retells the ancient story and never-ending destruction of conflict throughout the ages.
In its 31st year of acknowledging excellence in the performing arts on the Melbourne stage, the Green Room Awards Association has announced the nominations for the 2013 Awards for performances presented between January 1st and December 31st 2013. The recipients of these awards will be announced at a ceremony to be held on Monday April 28th at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne.
