Australia is mourning the late great Bert Newton (23 July 1938 – 30 October 2021) and those who shared the stage with him are sharing their tributes and dedications.
The 37th Adelaide Festival program will run over 17 days from Friday 4 to Sunday 20 March, 2022. The program offers a total of 71 events in theatre, music, opera, dance, media and visual arts, including uniquely local programs Adelaide Writers’ Week, UKARIA Chamber Landscapes and WOMADelaide.
The Festival will feature 9 World premieres, 6 Australian premieres and 17 shows playing exclusively in Adelaide.
Adelaide Festival Artistic Directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield say:
Moulin Rouge! The Musical had its Australian premiere performance on Friday 12 November, 2021 as Baz Luhrmann’s film came to life onstage, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza.
Melbourne’s Regent Theatre has been transformed into the famed French nightclub and is set to transport audiences to 19th century Paris, complete with the iconic red windmill and towering blue elephant.
Following seasons in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane the U.K. and Toronto, the stage adaption of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest will play an exclusive limited season at Sydney Lyric Theatre from March 9 2022.
Geoffrey Williams recently caught up with award-winning playwright Sandra Thibodeaux in Darwin to talk about her latest play – Calls to 1194 – for the 2021 Darwin Fringe Festival.
Is it possible to die from a broken heart? Or does ‘broken hearted’ belong strictly to the emotionally cathartic world of prose, songs, poems, and melancholic malaise?
Image: Lin Yin, Nicole Milinkovic and Cheryl Ho (2021 White Pearl cast). Photographer: Philip Erbacher.
Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Kip Williams has announced Act 1, six shows to kick off STC’s 2022 season that he says will “celebrate the joy, revelation and connection only theatre can offer” as the industry returns to the stage.
Black Swan State Theatre Company describes its 2022 season of theatre as a celebration and exploration of connection and family. It is called KIN and promise to explore how we are connected as family, from bloodlines right through to a virtual family.
State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2022 season ranges from new Australian works and a big new musical to a shaken-up classic and celebration of an Australian sporting legend.
The company, which in 2022 marks 50 years since it was legislated into being by former Premier Don Dunstan, officially launched the season at Her Majesty’s Theatre on 13 Oct.
Artistic Director Mitchell Butel says he has set out to deliver a dynamic and ambitious season, with theatrical experiences ranging from grand and sweeping to the intensely intimate.
