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STC Strikes ‘First Look’ Content Deal with Michael Cassel Group

Sydney Theatre Company (STC) and Michael Cassel Group (MCG) have today (28 September, 2021) announced a commercial ‘First Look’ agreement for all future works produced by the theatre company. 

In the first agreement of its kind in Australia, STC’s productions will have the opportunity to be transferred or remounted as commercial productions to entertain audiences in new markets, with the intention of touring across Australia and internationally.

Queensland Theatre (QT) Season 2022 Launch

On 26 September at the Bille Brown Theatre, Queensland Theatre launched their 2022 season of eight plays, chosen to inspire, challenge and entertain. Beth Keehn reports.

Jagged Little Pill to Launch Theatre Royal Sydney in December

Starring Australian Stage, Screen & Music Star Natalie Bassingthwaighte.

Mythology of Naked Flesh

Alex Raineri explains to Beth Keehn why he's given classical music a sexy digital makeover that challenges double standards and gender expectations.

Vale Joan Whalley

The foyer of the Bille Brown Theatre was the venue for an informal afternoon tea funded by Queensland Theatre to honor and celebrate the life and career of Joan Whalley OAM, who passed away on 27 August 2021, at the Glasshouse Views Nursing Home, Beewah, just a couple of months shy of her 94th birthday.

Come From Away and Hamilton to Re-Open in Sydney

Producers Rodney Rigby and Junkyard Dog Productions have announced that the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical COME FROM AWAYis preparing to reopen at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney from Wednesday 20 October.

With theatres able to reopen at 75% capacity until further advice from the NSW Government, tickets are now on sale for dates through to 28 November 2021.

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IN THIS EDITION

Play Swallows Universe

Queensland Theatre’s adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows Universe

Theatre On Ice

When lockdown shutters shows mid run, big and small alike

Broadway and the West End Back in Business

How New York and London theatres are reopening after COVID

Ladies Take The Stage

How the great Divas make Broadway musicals tick

Barrie Kosky's The Golden Cockerel for 2022 Adelaide Festival

Adelaide Festival announces the return of Australia’s celebrated international opera director Barrie Kosky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden CockerelThe opera will form the centrepiece of the 2022 Adelaide Festival.

Musicals – The Reel Deal!

Image: In The Heights

With a batch of blockbuster musicals being released as movies, Coral Drouyn looks between the sheets at the marriage of screen and stage.

Hibernation World Premiere for Adelaide

Playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer’s large-scale futuristic drama Hibernation will have its world premiere at Dunstan Playhouse in August.

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