Stage Briefs

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.

The Bridges of Madison County at the Hayes

Producers Matthew Henderson and Neil Gooding will present the Australian premiere of the Tony Award winning musical The Bridges of Madison County in March 2020 at Hayes Theatre Co. The musical is ased 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).

Bonnie & Clyde for Hayes Theatre Co.

Producer Joshua Robson, who brought In the Heights and Violet to Hayes Theatre Co, presents another professional premiere with the musical Bonnie & Clyde. Telling the story of America's most notorious bank robbers and lovers, Bonnie & Clyde will play from 18 September 2020 as part of Hayes Theatre Co’s 2020 season.

Head Over Heels to Premiere at Hayes.

BB-Arts and Two Doors Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Co will present the Australian Premiere of HEAD OVER HEELS. Playing at Hayes Theatre Co from 3 July 2020, HEAD OVER HEELS is a bold new musical comedy from the creatives behind Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q, Next To Normal and Spring Awakening.

Merrily We Roll Along at the Hayes in 2020

Postponed until 2021

Luckiest Productions, in association with Hayes Theatre Co, is will present the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along. A Broadway fable about friendship, compromise and the high price of success, Merrily We Roll Along will run from 16 April 2020 at the Hayes Theatre Co.

Warlow on the High Seas

Fans of Anthony Warlow will get another chance to enjoy his talent  this year, on the high seas.

The popular leading man is the headline act on the 2020 BRAVO Cruise of Performing Arts.

Known for his astounding performance in the title role of the Phantom in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Anthony’s versatility has enthralled audiences since his 1981 debut with the Australian Opera, at the tender age of 19.