A hit at Belvoir in 2010, The Book of Everything plays a short Adelaide season prior to heading for Broadway.
The magical production The Book of Everything is told through the eyes of nine-year old Thomas, a little boy who dreams big and who is determined to make sense of his life and achieve his modest ambition - to be happy. Adelaide Festival Centre and Windmill Theatre will present Belvoir and Kim Carpenters’ Theatre of Image’s The Book of Everything at Her Majesty’s Theatre from 17 – 27 August.
Trained by the man who discovered Bette Midler, Catherine Alcorn returns to Slide Bar, Darlinghurst (NSW) in The Divine Miss Bette for August and September shows.
After sold out shows in Melbourne and a recent performance with Mark Nadler at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Catherine Alcorn returns to Slide for on Fridays 12 August and 16 September.
Due to huge demand, there will be an additional performance of flowerchildren on Tuesday September 6, at 8pm.
Magnormos will present the world premiere of flowerchildren, the new musical about the turbulent private lives of The Mamas and Papas between their spectacular rise to fame in 1966 and their tragic demise only four years later, in 1970.
The 2011 Helpmann Awards, Australia’s equivalent to Broadway’s Tony Awards and London’s Olivier Awards, were presented at the Sydney Opera House on, August 1. Red carpet arrivals began at 7.30pm prior to televised the presentation ceremony which commenced at 8pm.
Melbourne. August 1, 2011. Live Performance Australia [LPA], the peak body for Australia’s live performance industry and presenter of this evening’s Helpmann Awards®, today released its Ticket Attendance & Revenue Survey 2010, which shows record revenue growth for the sector.
Chief Executive of Live Performance Australia (LPA), Evelyn Richardson said overall, revenue grew 22.6% to $1.3 billion, while attendances grew 13.5% to 17.2 million paid and unpaid tickets.
Brisbane’s La Boite Theatre was outside the flood zone when the Brisbane River burst its banks in January, but suddenly plans to stage a play about the impact of the drought in rural communities as part of their Indie season were washed away. The scope of the play, Water Wars, now embraces broader issues of environmental sustainability. It practices what it preaches. They are calling it a “99% Green production” – encompassing every aspect of what is seen on stage.
After a long and successful marriage, Pam (Linda Cropper) and Don (Russell Kiefel) are still very much in love. But Pam is ill and has to make a heartbreaking decision that will transform both their lives. She does so in the only way she knows how – quickly, pragmatically, and resolutely. Don behaves in the only way he knows how – struggling to keep up but desperate not to lose touch.
The State Theatre Company of SA presents Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Adam Cook, at the Dunstan Playhouse from August 5 – 28.
One of the greatest plays of the 20th century, Chekhov’s tragic-comic masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia and the frustrations of small town-life has a universally resounding appeal.
To see the future one must only look to the past. Bell Shakespeare’s new production of Julius Caesar goes behind the scenes as yet another leader is forced from office.
Peter Evans, Bell Shakespeare’s new Associate Artistic Director, takes this momentous piece of Roman history and transports it to the corridors of backroom politics.
