Stage Briefs

Adelaide Festival 2024 Review Round-Up

Our reviewers have been out and around at the 2024 Adelaide Festival. Click on the images or show titles below to read more about the show of your choice.

Top image: Baleen Moondjan. Photographer: Roy VanDerVegt

 

Adelaide Fringe 2024 Review Round-Up

Below are a series of links to the Adelaide Fringe shows we have reviewed. Please click on the image or the title of the production you would like to read about.

Top image: An Attempt to Lose Time.

 

 

The Ark

 

SIX The Musical Is Back in 2024

SIX The Musical returns to Australia in 2024, playing at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre from August, Theatre Royal Sydney from October and at QPAC’s Playhouse in Brisbane from January 2025. 

“SIX is truly a global phenomenon and the record-breaking Australian production enjoyed rapturous acclaim by both critics and audiences alike, said producer Louise Withers.

Candide in Concert Collaboration in Adelaide.

In May 2024, South Australia’s flagship theatre and opera companies will come together for the first time in more than a decade. State Theatre Company South Australia and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will join forces to present a concert version of Leonard Bernstein’s beloved comic operetta and existential vaudeville, Candide.

Seasons 2024

Theatre companies around Australia are now announcing their 2024 seasons. Read on for brief season introductions, and links to our more detailed coverage of each indiividual season.

Sydney Theatre Company

Queensland Theatre cancels entire production

The Board of Queensland Theatre has been forced to cancel their season of POTUS, OR BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE due to health issues impacting their cast.

Identity Crisis

 

Stand-up master of hiliarious UNpolitical correctness ‘JNewtz’ heads back to Australia in April for the International Melbourne Comedy Festival to unleash his first solo show ‘Identity Crisis’

Considered a master of UNpolitical correctness and a jack of all comedy trades, JNewtz has forged an enviable reputation with audiences across the world for his refreshingly hilarious honest, practical and sometimes inappropriate, view points on life.

Broadway Bingo at The Brisbane Powerhouse

Following their hit Christmas cabaret, Merry Mixology, securing them a Matilda Awards nomination for Best Cabaret or Musical 2023, Outside The Jukebox returns with their most entertaining musical experience yet: Broadway Bingo.

Australia Felix

A runaway convict who lived with nine Aboriginal tribes, and inspired the exploration of western Victoria, is the subject of a musical revue being staged in Sydney this March/April.

Director and writer Geoffrey Sykes says the remarkable life of George Clark – also known as the flying barber - is presented by ‘travelling players’ in the tradition of ballads and storytelling. 

 

The Wharf Revue Melbourne Season

The Wharf Revue: Pride in Prejudice

12-24 February 2024

Union Theatre, University of Melbourne

For more than 20 years, The Wharf Revue has delivered razor-sharp political satire to audiences in Sydney and around the country. Now it’s Melbourne’s turn.