Who doesn’t love a good rom-com? Musical theatre leading lady Lucy Durack is taking her passion for the genre around Australia this November in a concert tour called Lucy Durack’s ROM-COMCERT. She shared some secrets about romance, music and dating with David Spicer.
What’s your favourite rom-com?
Sleepless in Seattle, followed very closely by When Harry Met Sally. These are also my two favourite films of any genre.
Opera Queensland has announced its 2023 program, including three mainstage seasons at QPAC, a new regional production celebrating the Queensland songbook, a return of the Studio Series and the Festival of Outback Opera.
Minister for the Arts Leeanne Enoch said Opera Queensland’s 2023 program would deliver high-quality arts and cultural experiences for audiences across Queensland.
Following seasons of Ate Lovia and The Marriage Agency, kwento ends the year fight a striking new contemporary play - One Hour No Oil which follows the relationship that develops between a FIFO coal miner, and a male masseuse. Interrogating masculinity, mental health and the intersections of cultural responses to these issues, One Hour No Oil is a new work that has been closed to four years in the making.
Sydney Festival, which returns across 25 days from 5-29 January 2023, has announced its program.
Playing host to its largest lineup of international artists since 2019, the second program from Artistic Director Olivia Ansell features 18 World Premieres and 14 Australian Exclusives from across a full program of over 100 unique events – 26 of which will be free – featuring 748 performances traversing 54 venues.
Queensland Theatre has launched its 2023 Season, with Artistic Director Lee Lewis unveiling plans for the year, featuring both new and seasoned playwrights spanning a wide range of stories.
“Our 2023 Season promises moments of wild surprise, radical hope, intriguing gentleness, bliss, joy, spiritual wonder, and the warmth of being with a community of people who all love sharing great stories.
State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2023 season will feature the world premiere of an internationally best-selling South Australian novel, a musical homage to one of the world’s greatest singers and a Tony Award-winning classic tragicomedy that marks the return of one of Australia’s most beloved actresses.
Launching the season, Mitchell Butel says the 2023 season marks an exciting era for the company.
Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta (NTofP) has announced its program of work for 2023, described as a season of empowerment and place, of finding the voice within, and reclaiming identities, next year’s line-up turns up the volume with internationally acclaimed work, sitting alongside the talent and brilliance of Western Sydney creatives.
A zany new comedy about teaching in a primary school had its debut in Adelaide ahead of seasons in Sydney, Parramatta and Canberra. Jude Hines speaks to the writer and creatives of the play, described as a tribute to teachers dealing with a screwdriver and a hurricane.
Multi-award-winning Australian writer Angela Betzien, now a parent herself, grew up as a child of two teachers. They shared stories of notorious students like one who the family referred to as Scewdriver, because he brought one to school to use as a weapon.
