368 stories by "AussieTheatre"
Tegan Higginbotham's The City of Love is a joyful giggle-fest from start to finish. When she was young, Higginbotham had three dreams: to become an action movie star, to do magic and to fall…
Hunter Smith went without sex for six months last year. This was his Winter of Discontent. His choice to go without sex was altruistic; he was helping a lesbian couple get pregnant. B…
Pass me a bottle of chardonnay, I'm still recovering from the front row of Bridget Everett's Pound It. I'd been urged to see this show by friends who knew Bridget from her alt-cabaret…
With the 30th annual comedy festival now in full swing, we caught up with our regular MICF correspondant, Danny McGinlay, to get his picks of the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival…
At 82, Lynn Ruth Miller is the oldest stand-up comedian in the world. And, as the name of her show tells us, This Is Your Future. I didn't really know what I was in for with this show. There…
Gillian Cosgriff packs her bags for outer space and now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come… I've been Whelmed by Gillian Cosgriff and heard her "8 Songs in 8 Weeks" and lear…
Claire Healy is a bit of an over-sharer. Luckily, she's charming and funny so the over-sharing isn't really a problem. With her arresting big eyes, mischievous expressive face and blunt-bobb…
AussieTheatre has two double passes to giveaway to The Original Grease at the Seymour Centre on Wednesday April 6. Raw, raunchy and risqué, The Original Grease is the classic…
AussieTheatre has three double passes double passes to giveaway to CrossXRoads at Chapel off Chapel on Friday, 15th of April. Sometimes starting again can change everything… Spann…
CATS the musical opened at the Adelaide Festival Centre over the weekend to standing ovations and full houses. Adelaide-based photographer Oliver Toth attended the official media ca…
We are still in shock over the sudden death of Aussie legend Jon English. Born in 1949, he passed away on March 9 2016, just two weeks shy of his 67th birthday. This beautiful piece, penn…
The Prince is a one-act play superbly written and directed by Rachel Hogan, with its two actors " Peter Fock as Machiavelli and Nicola Tydale-Biscoe as Marietta " giving transformative…
The new Australian production of Fiddler on the Roof has gotten off to a strong start, and as it prepares to move from Melbourne to Sydney, one of its cast members has given us a lovely trea…
Wednesday night saw the official opening of Beats on Pointe at the Gasworks theatre in Albert Park, Melbourne. Curious to see how a fusion of street dance and Ballet would go, I went al…
AussieTheatre has three double passes to giveaway to The Punter's Siren at the Blood Moon Theatre on Thursday 18 February. Blancmange Productions will present the dazzlingly fast-pa…
La Mama, as part of their programming for this year's Midsumma, are presenting two dress up shows. They're not billed as such, and I suspect this was mere kismet, but it does strike me that …
There's a saying that I learned – you might have heard it said, one has to kiss a lot of frogs to catch a prince. Sadly, in terms of new independent Australian musicals, Butch Masters …
Wouldn't it be funny if Liza Minnelli was in, say, The Sound of Music? Sounds like the basis of a good sketch on a comedy show, but surely not the sort of thing that would sustain an entire …
The Australian cast and crew of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical CATSÂ celebrate 100 performances in the current Australian tour tonight as they take to the stage at Melbourne’s R…
AussieTheatre has three double passes to giveaway to The Fantasticks at the Hayes Theatre Co on Monday January 11 at 7:30pm. What is the world's longest-running musical theatre prod…
Sad news for the Australian arts community today with the passing of one of our most versatile and acclaimed actors, Carol Burns, after a battle with cancer. Burns’ partner of 36 years…
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical CATS is all set to pounce on Melbourne this weekend, commencing shows at the Regent Theatre tonight with an official gala opening schedule…
The cast of Tim Lawson’s new production of Fiddler on the Roof are currently rehearsing in Melbourne ahead of an official opening night on January 5, 2016. Last week they opened up …
Welcome to the first of many coffee dates with Matilda Moran and Joel Granger! Both graduates from WAAPA’s Musical Theatre course in 2015, Matilda and Joel will spend the next 12…
Ever wondered what it's like to be a fly on the wall in the rehearsal room for a major musical in Australia? Or better still, inside the mind of an actor in a rehearsal room for a major musi…
