There is nothing like mordant humour to drive home a serious point and Bruce Norris’s latest production, Clybourne Park does just that. After Barak Obama’s election almost three years ago some declared a post-racial America, but
On Thursday 8th and Friday 9th of September (2011), 18 teenagers from South Western Sydney will come together to share their experiences as refugee children. Tree of Life by Treehouse Theatre is a montage of true stories, and a sharing of the joys, sorrows, terrors, relief, and humour of the refugee experience.
The Tree of Life explores the human experience of refugee children, as trauma survivors, asylum seekers, resettled refugees and Australians.
Instinct Entertainment in association with McLaren House officially announced today that the new, all Australian musical, Strange Bedfellows, scheduled to open at The Princess Theatre, Melbourne in October this year will now open early next year.
David Redman from Instinct Entertainment has also confirmed that Strange Bedfellows has been postponed.
When the Malthouse Theatre and Victorian State Opera staged The Threepenny Opera, the Director Michael Kantor was able to update the setting by dipping into Melbourne’s rich tapestry of crookedness. He’s found just as much seediness in Sydney to update the classic by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill once more. David Spicer reports.
Michael Kantor is passionate about Bertolt Brecht, describing him as the consummate political theatre satirist of our time.
Get out the hair gel and dust off your leather jackets. Grease 2: Live in Concert brings Rydell High’s Class of ’61 to Melbourne’s Chapel off Chapel after a successful Midsumma season earlier this year.
Following a sellout premiere season, this concert style musical returns to the Melbourne stage bursting with back-to-back songs from the original soundtrack – ‘Back to School Again’, ‘Reproduction’, ‘Cool Rider’ and a string of 1960′s chart toppers. Hand-jiving is out and rock music is in!
Mátalor, a conceptual hard rock dance opera based on an avant-garde imagining of Romeo and Juliet, will have its World Premiere at Melbourne’s Chapel off Chapel in October. Mátalor promises to shock, entertain and inspire.
Choreographed by Stephan Agisilaou (Creative Director of Vertical Shadows, Choreographer on 'So You Think You Can Dance') and Adam Blakey (Multi Australian Dancesport Championships Winner).
Mátalor combines contemporary, jazz, Latin and ballroom dance.
Brisbane children's cast now been announced - see the article - Link
Our earlier coverage of the casting of the Sydney children follows.
On August 25, 2011, producer John Frost today announced the 24 children who have been cast in the upcoming production of the ever-popular Broadway musical Annie. There will be three different casts alternating in the roles of Annie and the seven orphans.
New Musicals Australia has announced the next round of works selected to undergo workshops for further development in November / December 2011, and the creative teams.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. During previews for Love Never Dies, line changes came so fast and furious that Ben Lewis, playing the Phantom, jotted them down on the handiest prop. Lucy Graham went backstage to peak behind the mask.
It was announced today (August 15) by Barry O’Farrell, Premier of NSW, that Sydney has won the right to host the World Premiere season of the new musical An Officer and a Gentleman in 2012.
Neil Litchfield was at the musical's launch, on the Flight Deck of the HMAS Sydney, at Sydney’s Garden Island, and spoke to members of the creative and producing team afterwards.
