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Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) has revealed its Season 2016 featuring 10 productions, including the world premiere of The Wider Earth, a collaboration between QTC and Dead Puppet Society. From Molière and Shakespeare, to local stories from around the corner, international masterpieces and the Australian writing, QTC is set to celebrate ambition and achievement.
The six finalists for the 2015 Rob Guest Endowment, an award recognising an exceptional, emerging musical theatre performer, have been announced. They are Blake Appelqvist (West Side Story, new VCA Graduate), Daniel Assetta (Cats, Wicked), Hilary Cole (Carrie, Dogfight), Georgina Hopson (Into The Woods, The Pirates of Penzance), Rob McDougall (Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera) and Ashleigh Rubenach (Anything Goes, The Sound of Music).
I attended the launch of the 2016 season for Victorian Opera, and it was very clear that this was no ordinary opera company. Being very careful not to emulate their predecessor, Victorian Opera is planning an innovative and challenging season.
A brand new production of Fiddler on the Roof starring Anthony Warlow will open at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre on December 29thplaying for 6 weeks only. The production will also play a limited 6 week season in Sydney at the Capitol Theatre from March 24th, 2016. Tickets will go on sale on Friday 25thSeptember from Ticketmaster.
In 2016, State Theatre Company will play on stages across South Australia, around the country and, for the first time ever, in London. The 2016 season sees 6 co-productions amongst the 10 show season, reaffirming the Company’s position in the national theatre sphere and nurturing a new relationship with leading UK company Frantic Assembly.
Two years of development with Frantic Assembly will come to fruition in 2016, taking State Theatre Company to London with the world premiere of Things I Know To Be True, a new work by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell.
Bell Shakespeare, Australia’s national theatre company dedicated to the sharing of the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries with Australian audiences, has unveiled it’s 2016 program, the first under the sole Artistic Directorship of Peter Evans (pictured left, photographer Tony Davison).
Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Brett Sheehy AO has announced MTC’s 2016 Season.
‘2016 marks the fourth Melbourne Theatre Company season I’ve had the great privilege to curate,’ Brett Sheehy said. ‘Navigating a theatre company through this second decade of the 21st Century is both a joy and a challenge as we strive to achieve the right balance of stories and art which excites our loyal, intrepid subscribers and also speaks to new audiences about their lives in an arresting and compelling way.
With the announcement of Belvoir’s 2016 Season, Eamon Flack becomes the third Artistic Director in Belvoir’s 30-year history.
‘I learnt my craft under Neil Armfield and began my mainstage directing career under Ralph Myers– it’s the best possible apprenticeshipyou could get for a job as fiendishly wonderful as this.’
Flack comes to the position with three key values central to his endeavour: theatricality, variety of life and faith in humanity.
