Producer John Frost introduced the four main stars of his May 2012 World Premiere production of An Officer and a Gentleman The Musical on Monday September 26. While Ben Mingay (Jersey Boys) and Amanda Harrison (Elphaba in the original Australian of Wicked) will play the Richard Gere and Debra Winger roles from the Oscar winning movie, the secondary leads are in equally impressive hands.
With preparations in full swing for the 2012 Perth International Arts Festival, incoming Festival Director Jonathan Holloway is thrilled to announce five advance highlights of the 2012 program, including two Australian exclusives, a spectacular outdoor public event, and fabulous offerings from the worlds of dance, music and theatre.
Underbelly’s Gyton Grantley headlines the cast in the Queensland premiere of Brendan Cowell’s award-winning Ruben Guthrie, playing at La Boite’s Roundhouse Theatre for a strictly limited season from 8 October.
Robyn Nevin, Pamela Rabe and Aidan Fennessy today (September 27, 2011) announced the Melbourne Theatre Company’s Season 2012.
Reverse gender casting of a classic role is one theme that seems to have carried forward from 2011 to 2012, with Robyn Nevin as Queen Lear in 2012 set to follow on the heals of Geoffrey Rush’s forthcoming Lady Bracknell in Simon Phillips’ Importance of Being Earnestswansong.
Rehearsals began on Monday March 19 for the World Premiere production of An Officer and A Gentleman The Musical, which opens at the Lyric Theatre, Sydney on May 18, 2012.
The absurd world of Eugene Ionesco is given a fresh view by Melbourne’s 5pound Theatre Director Jason Cavanagh.
Cavanagh is taking Ionesco's classic Rhinoceros (in a adaptation by Martin Crimp) beyond the confines of a theatre to stage it throughout The Owl and the Pussycat, transforming the larger gallery space into a humble little village where the audience will sit at tables and chairs in the middle of the set, before being bustled into the bar area for the dramatic conclusion.
A celebration of the centenary of Patrick White’s birth, a double bill of hard-hitting modern works and the play that will leave everyone ‘buzzing’ are amongst the offerings in State Theatre Company’s 2012 season, announced today (September 25) at the Company Open Day.
2012 is also the Company’s 40th anniversary, celebrating the 1972 State Theatre Company of South Australia Act.
Australia’s own multi-talented Melinda Schneider steps into the shoes of a great musical icon, American chanteuse Doris Day in Doris – So Much More Than the Girl Next Door.
The Sydney premiere season will take place at the Lyric Theatre for 14 performances only from Thursday 3 November until Sunday 13 November 2011. This will be preceded by a Perth season at The Regal Theatre, Subiaco from Wednesday 12 October to Sunday 16 October 2011. A return Brisbane season follows at Twelfth Night Theatre from November 15.
