618 stories by "Cassie Tongue"
We were speculating about this just three weeks ago! The six Tony-award winning smash Kinky Boots, by Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper, will make its Australian debut in Melbourne’…
Belinda Giblin is a distinguished actor of the Australian stage and screen. Her most recent theatre credits include Daylight Saving (Eternity Playhouse) and Dark Voyager (Ensemble T…
Opera Australia's current production La Traviata, directed by Elijah Moshinsky and first staged in 1994, is a sumptuous, desperately romantic take on the full-hearted tragedy, and it's an em…
Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co is moving from strength to strength as it steadily cultivates a thriving musical theatre exploration that is starting to be felt around the country. Now Hi…
This morning, producers of Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS announced the cast for the new Australian production, which will tour Australia from October this year. The beloved musical will feature…
It’s a throwback Sunday here at AussieTheatre, as we showcase one of our great leading ladies of the Australian musical theatre: Nancye Hayes. Having appeared in countless shows –…
Graeme Murphy’s 1990 production of Turandot has an appealingly timeless quality; Murphy’s ensemble movement crests across the stage like waves, and Kristian Fredrikson’s de…
Cabaret, as a beating-heart underground art form, has its roots in politics, provocation, and rebellion " intimacy and authenticity without formality. It wasn't until the end of the 2015 Hay…
It’s Sunday afternoon. It’s winter. Is there a better time for some Sondheim? Probably not – especially when it’s sung by three cast members from Squabbalogic’s…
Nicholas Gentile and Lincoln Hall, a writing duo, are set to release the album for their song cycle Together Apart, and it’s bursting with talent. Nick & Lincoln, as they’…
The only thing legendary about Legends! is how aggressively mediocre it is. The James Kirkwood play has hit Sydney as a star touring vehicle for Hayley and Juliet Mills, as well as Maxwell C…
Luigi Lucente's Jim Morrison: Kaleidoscope, a dreamy trip tribute to rock legend Jim Morrison, is haphazard " but it's supposed to be. There's a poetry to this performance that doesn't alway…
At ceremonies around Australia, stars from the Australian live performance industry read aloud the list of the Helpmann Award nominees. The ceremony will be held in Sydney in July, on the me…
One of the best things about brightening up our Sundays together with Australian stage stars singing up a storm is realising exactly how many people, songs, and performances there are to sho…
There’s no official word yet, but it sounds like it might be happening:Â Kinky Boots, the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, might be on its way to Melbourne. This week the Herald …
Picture growing up as a minister’s son, and growing up to think that your place is somewhere in the world of modern Christianity: Thom Jordan did just that. And then he moved to Sydney…
It's not every day that you walk into a show and Spider-Man is playing you in with some ambient tunes. Just Spider-Man, chilling at a keyboard in full costume. Why Spider-Man? Who can tell &…
Marney McQueen isRosa Waxoffski , beauty therapist to the stars. Along with her world-renowned pianist Boris Longschlongadongski (musical director Mark Jones), her show is a celebration o…
Another Opera Australia and John Frost co-production, another big cast announcement! Following in the footsteps of OA and Frost’s previous successful co-productions including South Pac…
She’s going to be singing “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” as Mother Abbess in the 2015 national tour of The Sound of Music, and while she might not be musical theatre’…
Akio! will be Hayes Theatre Co’s first production aimed for both kids and kids at heart (ages 8-13 and then up, up, up), and they have programmed it in July, just in time for the sc…
A group of guys have gathered to play cards in Oscar Madison’s filthy apartment. With all that mess, is it any wonder his wife left him? And how exactly does clean-freak guest Fleix Un…
Mean Girls compared school environments to the animal kingdom, but now schools can really get their majesty of the wild on:Â Disney's The Lion King JR and Disney's The Lion King KIDSÂ ar…
Graeme Murphy’s take on Puccini’s Turandot has returned. Set to open on 24 June, it will star American soprano Lise Lindstrom at the head of an international cast. Turandot…
Australian cast recordings are a rare beast indeed, so it’s a momentous occasion that last week, the live cast recording of Miracle City was released. Even more momentous: it rea…
