Stage Briefs

American Psycho for Arts Centre Melbourne.

American Psycho - The Musical, an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ best-selling novel and the 2000 cult film of the same name, will have its Melbourne premiere at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse from 21 – 31 May, 2020.

John Frost and Opera Australia Join Forces for Cinderella

Continuing their successful collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musicals including The King and I and South Pacific, Opera Australia and John Frost have announced they will be collaborating again to produce Cinderella for the first time in Australia.

Adelaide Fringe 2020 Reviews

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The Ballad of Mulan

Baggage Limit

The Wild Unfeeling World 

Schapelle,Schapelle

Mullygrubs

LaChiusa Musical Hello Again at Marrickville

Seductive, intimate and nostalgic – John Michael LaChiusa’s Hello Again explores themes of lust and abandonment, and is a social commentary on how sex transcends time and status. Set in ten different decades throughout the 20th century, the show follows ten characters who pursue each other in a daisy chain of various social classes. Whether it’s the Whore or the Senator, the roaring 20s or the wild 70s – everyone desires to be loved.

2020 GLUG AWARD WINNERS

Charismatic Theatre agent Les Solomon emerged as both one of the big winners and losers of 2019 Glug Awards. Whilst a host of his clients won awards, the impresario was trapped in a lift for over an hour at the Masonic Club and had to be rescued by NSW Fire and Rescue.

Solomon entered the lift with half a dozen others at the conclusion of the awards to begin “after show” celebrations at the Masonic Club/Castlereagh Boutique Hotel, when the lift in the heritage building became jammed.

Return Sydney Season for Bran Nue Dae

Opera Australia has announced the 30th Anniversary tour of the hit Aussie musical Bran Nue Dae will return to Sydney’s Roslyn Packer Theatre in Walsh Bay in April 2020. 

After delighting audiences at Riverside Theatre in Parramatta in January, the feelgood musical will return to Sydney for a strictly limited season from 16 April until 3 May, presented in association with Roslyn Packer Theatre.

Ian Stenlake Joins The Bridges of Madison County Cast

With rehearsals about to commence, producers Matthew Henderson and Neil Gooding have announced that Ian Stenlake is joining the cast of the Australian premiere of The Bridges of Madison County to play the leading role of Robert Kincaid. Based on the best-selling novel and developed by the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning creative team of Jason Robert Brown (The Last  Five Years, Parade, Songs for a New World) and Marsha Norman (The Secret Garden, The Colour Purple),&nbsp

Fringe World 2020 Reviews

Click on the links below to read the reviews of shows in Perth's Fringe World Festival 2020.

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Golden Age Girls

Post-Mortem

Through Tim Burton's Eyes

The Aspie Hour

Vale Garry Ginivan

Tributes are flowing for the theatre producer/director/actor Garry Ginivan who has passed away just months after announcing that he was moving away from family entertainment.

For over forty years he was one of Australia's leading producers children's theatre. His national tours included Puff the Magic Dragon and Winnie the Pooh!

Robert Love from the Riverside Theatre Parramatta described Garry as a "one off."

World Premiere of The Life of Us. at The Hayes

To kick off Hayes Theatre Co’s 2020 season, 100 Coffees Productions and Neil Gooding Productions will present the World Premiere of the new musical The Life of Us. Directed by Neil Gooding, this modern-day musical written by Ashleigh Taylor, composed and written by Ben Bennett and mentored by the legendary Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Godspell), is being performed at Hayes Theatre Co from 16 January 2020.