Stage Briefs

Opera Australia Now Streaming War and Peace

In 1973, the Sydney Opera House opened in spectacular fashion with Prokofiev's epic operatic adaption of War and Peace.

The production marked Opera Australia’s first performance in the iconic building.

New Cellist for Australian String Quartet

The Australian String Quartet announces that cellist Sharon Grigoryan will step down at the end of 2020 and cellist Michael Dahlenburg will join the quartet.

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.