Stage Briefs

Happy Feraren Awarded 2021 Incubator Fellowship

Happy Feraren has been selected as the successful recipient of the 2021 Incubator – NSW Theatre (Emerging) Fellowship and will use the opportunity to undertake creative development of new work with support from Create NSW and Griffin Theatre Company.

Feraren will receive $30,000 through the Fellowship and use the funding to further explore the practice of improvisation in theatre making, and to create new opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse artists.

Sheridan Harbridge Awarded Musical Theatre Fellowship

Sheridan Harbridge has been awarded the 2022 Hayes - NSW Musical Theatre (Established) Fellowship, a career accelerating musical theatre initiative delivered in partnership with Create NSW and Hayes Theatre Co.

The Hayes - NSW Musical Theatre (Established) Fellowship, valued at $30,000, consisting of $25,000 in financial support from Create NSW, and in-kind support of up to $5,000 from Hayes Theatre Co, will support Ms Harbridge to write and produce new musical theatre piece The Flash Mob.

Andrew Lloyd Webber in Sydney

David Spicer reports.

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is in Sydney to watch Opera Australia’s new grand production of The Phantom of the Opera on the harbour, but poor weather is threatening to rain on his parade.

The superstar music theatre writer celebrated his 74th birthday in the harbour city and posted on Instagram in front of the Sydney Opera House.

Moulin Rouge Heading for Sydney

 

The cast and creatives of Moulin Rouge! The Musical have been guests of honour at a glamorous soire in Sydney, ahead of the production's transfer to the Capitol Theatre in late May.

The champagne corks were popping and exotic canapes were quaffed at Cafe Sydney on a day off for the cast.

After a nightmare start due to Covid, the company is enjoying full houses for their season in Melbourne.

Adelaide Festival 2022 Reviews

The 2022 Adelaide Festival runs from March 4 to 20.

To read a review of a Festival production, click on the links below. 

Image: The Golden Cockerel. Photographer: Andrew Beveridge.

Wudjang: Not The Past 

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Macro

If/THEN

Image, from Left Romy McIlroy (as Anne); Jade Bohni (as Kate); Stacey-Louise Camilleri (as Elizabeth); Ag Johnson (as Elena)

Have you ever looked at your life and wondered ‘what if’? Or considered how things might have been different if it hadn’t been for one small moment that changed everything? This is the idea explored in Theatrical’s new musical, If/THEN, playing this March 4 -12 at Chapel Off Chapel in Melbourne

Adelaide Fringe 2022 Reviews

Click on the links below to read individual reviews from the 2022 Adelaide Fringe.

Top image: Venus in Fur

Venus in Fur

Autoeulogy

Letters To The Editor

DUBBO CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING

Sydney's Hayes Theatre has released an all star concept album for a new rock musical called Dubbo Championship Wrestling which will have its world premiere at the venue in May.

The recording now streaming features iOTA, Vidya Makan, Lara Mulcahy, Genevieve Lemon, Eddie Perfect, Ryan Gonzalez, Amber Lawrence, Loren Hunter, Lucy Durack and David Campbell

The musical is set in the Dubbo Dome; where Ozzy the Aussie Battler flicks his cape and steps into the ring, and the crowd go troppo. 

Stage Whispers TV

Music Spice : David Spicer on his new toy Stage Whispers TV Live.

Since the last edition of this magazine, Stage Whispers has acquired a new toy that I have enjoyed playing with. It is software called Streamyard, which is a bit like Zoom but is tailored to broadcast interviews.

When I worked at the ABC in the good old days there would be a room full of people – camera operators, mixers, switchers, etc for a live broadcast to go to air. Now I can do the lot from my laptop, with talent in another state beamed live onto Facebook and YouTube.

You & Me at Fringe World

You & Me is a domestic drama and a psychological thriller by Dan Rebellato. The radio play, performed live, plays at Ace’s Cabaret, Dress Circle Bar, His Majesty’s Theatre from Monday, January 31 to Saturday, February 5 as part of Perth’s Fringe World.

A young woman unexpectedly comes to meet her husband after work. She says she just fancied a date night together, but in fact she has something important to ask him...