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Tim Winton is becoming the new David Williamson of Australian theatre. Adaptations of his novels are best sellers on the stage. First there was Cloudstreet, adapted by Nick Enright, then Rising Water last year, and in 2012 Black Swan Theatre Company’s production of Signs of Life, touring Western Australia before it arrives at the Sydney Opera House in November. Constantine Costi speaks to the Director Kate Cherry.

Director, Roger Hodgman invited the media into the Rehearsal Room of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang today to watch a run through of the big song and dance number ‘The Bombie Samba’.

‘The Bombie Samba’, performed by Baroness Bomburst (Jennifer Vuletic), Baron Bombhurst (Alan Brough) with the Vulgarian chorus and takes place during the Baron’s big birthday bash.

Love, art, laughter, drama, catharsis, glamour, song and adventure in the spotlight

Queensland Theatre Company unveiled its Season 2013 today (October 14) to a capacity  Playhouse at QPAC.

QTC’s Artistic Director Wesley Enoch said QTC’s onstage journey would showcase a range of works that take ticketholders around the world, shine the light on home grown talents and create theatrical moments of national importance across a world of love, art, laughter, drama, catharsis, glamour, song and adventure.

At a Fitzroy cafe, Finn Caldwell has ordered boiled egg with soldiers. Perhaps he is homesick. But if War Horse continues as it has begun, chances are the English actor turned Puppetry Director will have to get used to a global lifestyle.

War Horse has, ironically, taken on a life of its own. Since opening at the National Theatre in 2007, millions of people have seen the stage show in London’s West End, New York, Toronto and Los Angeles. Hollywood director Steven Spielberg even turned it into a movie.