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Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2023

Adelaide Cabaret Festival is set to celebrate Adelaide Festival Centre’s 50th Anniversary from June 9 to 24, presenting its 23rd program, featuring 342 artists and musicians across 91 performances including 13 world premieres and 20 Adelaide premieres by a large contingent of Australian artists and performers from the USA, United Kingdom, and France. 

“Princesses” Doing It For Themselves

Coral Drouyn talks to the dynamic duo behind the success of the Disney 100 concert.

Sydney Return Season for La Cage aux Folles

Winner of 11 Tony Awards, the hit Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles returns to Sydney at the State Theatre from 19 April for one week only.

RISING 2023

RISING has unveiled its 2023 program of 185 events featuring more than 400 artists including 35 commissions and 12 world premieres, set to ignite the heart of Melbourne from 7—18 June., 2023

Over 12 nights of  theatre, dance, music that traverses the globe, large scale installation, public performance, free and low cost experiences, and outdoor works of mass participation, RISING will invite audiences to join a 10,000 strong kazoo orchestra, to slice up the ice, and to reflect, reckon, rave and revel in Melbourne’s night-time buzz.

Musical Dynasties

Coral Drouyn looks at two great Australian theatre families, proving that ‘the show must go on’ across the generations. Current members of both dynasties have been brought together in the touring production of Hairspray.

Casting Announced for Metropolis at The Hayes.

Little Eggs Collective in association with Hayes Theatre Co will present the World Premiere of a new Australian musical Metropolis at the Hayes Theatre Co from 21 April. 

Fritz Lang’s iconic 1927 science fiction film Metropolis was based on the novel his wife, Thea Von Harbou, wrote two years earlier, with essential parts of the story lost on the cutting-room floor. Little Eggs Collective has adapted one of the most influential science fiction tales of all time into a live theatre experience.

No Place like Holmes

Coral Drouyn talks to Writer/ Director of The Mystery of the Valkyrie on the World Premiere opening (March 11th, 2023) of his new play at QPAC’s Playhouse theatre.

You hear the description “triple-threat” all the time in musical theatre, but it’s rarer to find such a creature in drama. The triple threat is actor/writer/director. Kenneth Branagh is one, as is Emma Thomson. And so is Brisbane’s Michael Futcher.

A Beautiful Vision

Coral Drouyn talks to Julia Dray, who plays Carole King in the latest production of Beautiful – which opens at Star Casino Theatre on the Gold Coast this weekend, and looks at the visionary producer Matt Ward.

Miss Saigon at Sydney Opera House in 2023

Opera Australia has confirmed that Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Miss Saigon will premiere at the Sydney Opera House in August 2023.

From the creators of Les Misérables, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, Miss Saigon is a winner of 70 major theatre awards including two Olivier Awards, three Tony Awards and four Drama Desk Awards, and has been seen by 38 million people and performed in 15 different languages, in over 32 countries and 350 cities.

World Premiere of Not Finished With You Yet!

The World Premiere of the Australian production of NOT FINISHED WITH YOU YET! will open with preview performances on 7 & 8 March 2023, at the Alex Theatre, St Kilda, playing until Sunday, 2nd April from Tuesday to Sunday, with matinees Saturdays and Sundays.

The leads will feature married couple Christie Whelan Browne who will play Kate and Rohan Browne, who will play Rupert who will play a married couple.

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