Stage Briefs

Shane Warne The Musical Updated to 2013

Eddie Perfect heads up the cast In this new concert style presentation of Shane Warne The Musical (featuring Lisa McCune as Simone Warne, Shane Jacobson as Terry Jenner, Verity Hunt-Ballard, and Christie Whelan Brown as Liz Hurley) to re-imagine the musical as an epic, hero-worshipping, PR spinning, celebrity-slaying, satirical homage, which will play two performances at Melbourne's Hamer Hall on June 20 and 21.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival performances from June 5 to 9 at Her Majesty's Theatre had previously been announced.

Who will be the new Warner?

With Rob Mills departing the cast of Legally Blonde towards the end of the Melbourne season of the show (as announced by producers Howard Panter and John Frost announced on Sunday March 24), the search has started for a new star to step into the shoes of Warner Huntington III.

Assassins: New Sondheim Production for Melbourne.

Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's killer black comedy (musical) Assassins kicks off amidst the lurid debris of a travelling carnival, taking the audience on a kaleidoscopic ride through the psychological landscape of nine notorious historical figures - men and women who, for one reason or another, made attempts on the lives of American presidents.

Spain Awards Rafael Bonachela the Cross of the Order of Civil Merit

Sydney Dance Company Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela has been awarded one of Spain's highest honors, the Cross of the Order of Civil Merit, in recognition of his achievements in culture and extraordinary services in support of his home country.

Henri Szeps as Freud in Off-Broadway Award Winner

What happened when C.S. Lewis met Sigmund Freud? Australian audiences will find out when Freud’s Last Session opens at Sydney’s Theatre Royal on August 15, 2013. Winner of the 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play, Freud’s Last Session tells of an exquisite intellectual duel between two great minds of last century.

Inspired by Dr Armand S. Nicholi Jr's 2003 book The Question of God, playwright Mark St. Germain’s thought provoking play ran Off-Broadway for two years.

NSW State Government Support for Artists with Disabilities

A dozen NSW artists with disabilities will benefit from $150,000 in State Government funding to develop skills in their chosen art form, the Minister for the Arts, George Souris, and the Minister for Ageing & Disability Services, Andrew Constance, announced on Thursday February 28, 2013, at the Shopfront Theatre for Young People, in Carlton.

They’re Playing Our Song Returns to Sydney’s Theatre Royal

The Broadway musical They’re Playing Our Song had its Australian premiere at the Theatre Royal in 1980 and will return in a brand-new production for a strictly limited engagement on May 3 & 4, as part of HIT Productions wider tour.

2012 Matilda Awards Nominiees

The names of nominees for the 2012 Matilda Awards were released today (January 25, 2013) with the winners being announced on Monday 4 March in a glittering ceremony at the Gardens Theatre, Brisbane City.

They are Queensland’s most highly prized awards for excellence in live theatre - awarded to people considered the best in their field and recognise and celebrate the quality and diversity of our local theatre scene.

Broadway Star Liz Callaway Sings in Sydney This Week.

Tony Award® Nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer and recording artist Liz Callaway will perform in Sydney for one night only on Wednesday 16 January at The Basement.

Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along; she received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Baby, and for five years won acclaim as Grizabella in Cats. She has also starred in the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers and The Look of Love.

New Arts Festival to Run In Tandem with Iconic Rock Musical

Melbourne production company StageArt has announced the lineup for their inaugural StageArtXposed festival, to run concurrently with their production of HAIR at Melbourne’s Chapel off Chapel.