Stage Briefs

Phantom Closes in West End

Andrew Lloyd Webber has contradicted Cameron Mackintosh over the future of his hit musical The Phantom of the Opera insisting that it will re-open.

Producer Cameron Mackintosh this week announced that the West End production of The Phantom of the Opera is 'permanently shut' ending the 34-year-run for the blockbuster musical.

The musical closed in March with Australian Josh Piterman in the lead role.

Michael Flatley's Celtic Tiger Streaming Free

This weekend’s FREE musical theatre screening (July 4 & 5, 2020) at 'The Shows Must Go On'  YouTube channel is Michael Flatley's dance show Celtic Tiger.

 

The international dancing master returns with another stage performance, taking as his subject the history and spirit of his native Ireland and its long traditions of music and dance.

Not All Theatre Has Stopped During COVID

MYP Youth Productions Inc finds a way during COVID, to give 16 young talented performers the opportunity to perform in the Victorian Premiere - The BIG ONE-OH !

 

World Premiere of Boy Swallows Universe Postponed

While Queensland Theatre and Brisbane Festival remain committed to developing the brand-new Australian theatre work, Boy Swallows Universe, in association with Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), they have announced that they are unable to present this new work in 2020, as initially programmed.

Boy Swallows Universe will instead make its world premiere during Brisbane Festival 2021.

Michael Falzon Memorial

Film director Jane Cho, wife of beloved Australian entertainer Michael Falzon, has released a statement following his passing last Tuesday after a year-long battle with a rare form of germ cell cancer.

The Boy From Oz Reunion

More than 100 cast, crew and creatives from the original production of The Boy From Oz have sung, shimmied and shaken their maracas, for a spectacular on-line performance of I Go To Rio to raise money for charity

Are You Writing a New Musical?

Hatch Lab’s New Musical Theatre Residency applications close on 21 June 2020

Writing a new musical? Notepads and musical charts piling up in the filing cabinet? The Hatch Lab Musical Theatre Residency program wants to hear from you.

$345 Million Plan to Restart and Rebuild Live Performance Industry

Live Performance Australia has developed a $345 million plan to help the live performance industry restart, rebuild and reopen for audiences following the shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The plan includes capital investment in performing arts companies and productions to help them restart, extending income support to businesses and individuals to retain jobs, and incentives to encourage Australians to return to live performance events.

Seeing Horrors Online

The University Theatre Ensemble presents Seeing Horrors 2 by Mark Roger, directed by Dominique Sweeney and presented by Charles Sturt University Third Year Acting Students.2020 Live Zoom Theatre.3rd - 6th June 2020 

An online performance of horror suspense, created by award winning playwright Mark Rogers, Seeing Horrors 2 begins with a laugh, climaxes with a bang and ends with…

Join a live Zoom adventure to find out, if you can bear the suspense.