Indulge your inner (or not-so-inner) nerd at the Seymour Sound Lounge during the Sydney Fringe with LadyNerd – Keira Daley's cabaret tribute to some of history's greatest minds, from Marie Curie to Ada Lovelace… via that woman who invented Liquid Paper.
Amazing true stories and intriguing real-life characters are interwoven with quirky rants and inventive arrangements of songs – some old, some new, all in the key of nerd.
The complete cast for the Australian premiere of Grey Gardens, to be produced by The Production Company at the Arts Centre’s Playhouse for 12 perfrmances from November 25 has been announced.
Pamela Rabe returns to the production Company in the virtuoso roles of Edith Bouvier Beale and ‘Little’ Edie, while Nancye Hayes plays the role of the aged Edith.
A wonderful line-up of entertainment is planned to celebrate the Official Opening of Willoughby City Council’s state-of-the-art entertainment and events complex The Concourse on Saturday 17 September 2011.
Fresh from the success of his one-man show Candy Man and Sydney Festival’s acclaimed Smoke & Mirrors, one of Australia’s true triple threats Wayne Scott Kermond returns to the stage in Underdogs.
Four talented, young, lovable ‘Aussie blokes’ rehearse for and perform a show at impossibly short notice – bringing a special kind of chaos as they endeavor to sort out their ideas, frustrations and personal hang-ups.
Griffin Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Sam Strong today (September 5) announced the Company’s 2012 Season with a line-up of plays bigger and better than ever before, including a partnership with the Sydney Festival and the presentation of Griffin work in cities around Australia. In 2012 Griffin will be the place to come for up close and personal encounters with the hottest acting talent in the country.
A workshop of the new musical Dream Lover, written by Frank Howson and John-Michael Howson, will be held this week in Melbourne. John Frost, Managing Director of The Gordon Frost Organization, acquired the rights for this new un-produced musical in 2010 and is producing the workshop with John and Barbara Gilbert of Gilbert Theatrical
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.
