Stage Briefs

Murder! Lies! Cows!

Eddie Perfect’s play The Beast tours to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane in 2016 

Written by and starring Eddie Perfect, and directed by Simon Phillips, The Beast is an organic, free range, jet-black comedy that holds a hand-crafted chef’s blade to the throat of modern Australia. 

Baby - Next Neglected Musical

Neglected Musicals will present the Maltby and Shire musical BABY at Hayes Theatre Co playing four performances from Monday 20 June, 2016.

Directed by Neil Gooding this 1983 Tony Nominated Broadway Musical is about three couples, each newly expecting a child, with very different but familiar reactions

Neglected Musicals presents musical theatre that has never or rarely been seen in Australia.  Presented with scripts in hand, and with piano accompaniment after only a day’s rehearsal.


Full Fawlty Towers Cast Announced

Following the announcement by John Cleese that Stephen Hall will play the role of Basil Fawlty in the World Premiere Tour of Fawlty Towers – Live on Stage with Blazey Best as Sybil Fawlty, full casting has been announced today.  

Charlie Brown Musical for Hayes

Charles Schulz’s beloved characters come to life in the musical You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner, which will play Hayes Theatre Co from Tuesday 5 July for 31 performances including special shows for the School Holidays. 

Charlie Brown Musical for Melbourne

A new production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown plays at the Alex Theatre in St Kilda in June 2016 with a fun, fresh approach to an ageless story about a boy and his best beagle friend.

Kinky Boots' Creators Honoured with Walk of Fame Stars

Pop icon Cyndi Lauper and four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, creators of hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots, will be honoured with the 2,577th and 2,578th stars respectively on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning AEST time. The multi award-wining musical makes its Australian premiere at Her Majesty’s Theatre Melbourne from October 12, 2016 and celebrates its third birthday on Broadway this month.  

The ceremony will be streamed live on walkoffame.com.

Bert and Patti Join All-Star Follies Cast

Storeyboard Entertainment have announced that Bert and Patti Newton will join the cast of FOLLIES IN CONCERT.

Bert and Patti will play the roles ofTheodore and Emily Whitman, ex-vaudevillians who perform an old routine from their days in the “follies” ("The Rain on the Roof").

tick, tick...BOOM! for Melbourne

Musical theatre writer Jonathan Larson (of RENT fame) passed away tragically 20 years ago but his work still resonates with audiences across the world. In April, Melbourne company Pursued By Bear are staging his lesser known show, tick, tick...BOOM!

CHRIS SUMMERS WINS
 2016 MAX AFFORD PLAYWRIGHTS’ AWARD

Tim Roseman, Artistic Director of Playwriting Australia, and Perpetual as Trustee, today announced Chris Summers as winner of the $30,000 Max Afford Playwrights’ Award 2016, awarded to playwrights aged between 18 and 40. The national prize is for Mr Summers’ script, Pedagogy.

Chris, 27, receives $15,000 prize money plus a creative development opportunity at Playwriting Australia’s forthcoming National Script Workshop in April in Sydney valued at $15,000.

Megan Hilty

Broadway and television star Megan Hilty will make her debut Australian tour this June, performing at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC’s) Concert Hall, for one night only on Thursday 9 June 2016.

Accompaniedby her four-piece band, including her musical director and pianist Matt Cusson and husband Brian Gallagher on guitar, Megan will take audiences on a trip through the American Songbook.