Stage Briefs

The Beautiful Game Cast Announced

Manilla Street Productions is excited to announce the complete cast of 24 actors who have been chosen for the Australian premiere production of The Beautiful Game by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton at Chapel off Chapel from 13-29 September 2019.

2019 Adelaide Cabaret Festival

Click on the links below to read our reviews of the 2019 Adelaide Cabaret Convention.

Image: Testival headliner Ute Lemper. Photographer: Lucas Allen.

Ute Lemper – Rendezvous with Marlene

Paul Capsis

The House is Live

Dami Im – My Life In Songs

Helpmann Award Nominations

Charlie in Chocolate Factory is taking on West Side Story, In the Heights and Barbara in the Camp Dogs in the Best Musical category for the 2019 Helpmann Awards.

In the Best Play category there are six finalists including blockbusters Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Part 1 and 2) and The Harp in the South (Part 1 and 2)

For the second year there will be two Helpmann Awards nights (Part 1 and 2) but for the first time the industry awards will be held in Melbourne.

Tony Awards 2019

The musical Hadestown has scooped eight Tony awards - whilst the Aussies who were nominated have missed out.

The modestly budgeted musical intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone.

Australia’s Billy Elliots Announced

The producers of Billy Elliot the Musical have announced the four young actors who will play the title role in the multi award-winning smash hit’s 10th Anniversary Australian Tour.

Two Playwriting Competitions

Edythe Brook Cooper Playwriting Competition 2020

Edythe Brook Cooper was a member of BATS Theatre Co. Inc from the late 1980’s until her death in 2003. Her first play to be produced by BATS was Kisses In The Sky, set in Milton in Brisbane behind the Castlemaine brewery, and the name referred to the four Xs on the roof. This was followed by many others over the next 20 years.

Writing was Edythe’s passion. Many of her plays have been published by The Australian Script Centre.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for Brisbane in 2020

The stage musical version of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory heads to Brisbane in March 2020, playing at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC, following a successful season in Sydney and the season at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne from August. Tickets for the Brisbane season will go on sale in July but waitlist now to be the first in line to purchase tickets at CharlieTheMusical.com.au

Cabaret Celebrates Bastille Day

The Magicians Cabaret (Darlinghurst) presents the celebration of French Bastille Day 2019 with the production of Cabaret La Belle Rose on July 11 & 12 at 7.00pm and July 14 at 2pm.

Having played at the annual Bastille French Festival (2015-2018), Cabaret La Belle Rose is back in town with its pure heartfelt Parisian entertainment!

The Dismissal Cast Announced

Squabbalogic in association with the Seymour Centre will present the pre-world premiere of a brand-new Australian musical, The Dismissal, centred on one of the biggest political crisis in Australian political history in the York Theatre from June 18-22.