Stage Briefs

Rocky Horror Creator to Join Cast as Narrator in Adelaide

Producers Howard Panter and John Frost gleefully announced today (February 18, 2014) that the creator of The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien, would join the current Australian production to play the Narrator for the Adelaide season only. The 2014 Australian tour of The Rocky Horror Show is proving to be a phenomenal success with the Brisbane season selling out, and the Perth season kicking off last weekend.

Premiere of Notoriously Yours for Adelaide Fringe

Since its debut in 2009, Adelaide independent theatre company five.point.one has earned a reputation for producing a unique style of contemporary theatre that is both exciting entertainment and artistically provocative.

Anthony Warlow and Faith Prince: Direct From Broadway

Anthony Warlow returns home this June with Tony-Award winner Faith Prince in an exclusive concert event titled Direct From Broadway. The Australian tour premieres at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival on June 10, then travels to Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Warlow will be accompanied by Faith Prince, his Broadway co-starfrom the critically acclaimed US production of Annie and a 30 piece orchestra under the musicaldirection of Alex Rybeck and the direction of Dan Foster.

Miles Away for Fringe

Award winning Adelaide based theatre company Junglebean collaborates with Blue Dingo Productions for the 2014 Adelaide Fringe to present Miles Away, a brand new development of the critically acclaimed short play Six Dollar Solitude, which was first performed in the Adelaide Fringe in 2012.

An Open Thank You Letter to James Waites

Dear James,

I wonder... did you know in March 1992 when you were my lecturer at Theatre Nepean that you would say something so simple and so profound that it would hit my solar plexus, ricochet into my brain and sit in my consciousness for ready reference even until today?

The Seagull for Adelaide Festival

South Australia’s State Theatre Company is to open its 2014 season with one of the modern era’s greatest plays, Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.

Presented in association with the Adelaide Festival, the production will be performed in traverse staging in the company’s Scenic Workshop.

Hugh Laurie: First Australian Tour

For the first time, Hugh Laurie brings his band, the Copper Bottom Band, for a major tour of Australia inApril-May 2014. In a series of live shows, Laurie performs an eclectic mix of blues, tango, Southern and South American music, delivered with his inimitable, sharpBritish humour.

Summer of Blood for Fringe

We all know horror movies are gory, but could things get just as gory in the creation of them? They do in Summer of Blood, a new and decidedly screwball comedy to be staged by Blancmange Productions for the Adelaide Fringe.

Written by Robert Armstrong and produced and directed by Stephen Carnell, this sixty minute production incorporates rapid comic dialogue, fast and furious onstage combat, mini-horror movies on a big screen and, of course, lots of blood.

GREASE: John Paul Young and Other New Cast Members for Perth and Adelaide

Producer John Frost today  (February 9, 2014) announced new cast members for his production of GREASE for the Perth and Adelaide seasons.

THE KING AND I: Final Casting Announcements

Producer John Frost and Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini today (January 9, 2014) announced that Marty Rhone, will join the upcoming production of The King and I in the featured role of The Kralahome.