618 stories by "Cassie Tongue"
Sure, she played Ethel Merman and tackled the show’s eponymous number in the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely, but now it’s happening: Caroline O’Connor will play Reno Sween…
Sheridan Harbridge’s Songs for the Fallen had extremely successful seasons in both Sydney and Brisbane in 2013, and now it has been invited to spice up the 2015 New York Music Th…
Stalker: The Musical is a new Australian work, written by Alex Giles, David Russell, and New York based Australian composer Andy Peterson, and this show is going place – it’s jus…
In arts news from overnight, Sydney Festival has announced that Wesley Enoch will be their incoming Festival Director. He will serve a three-year tenure from 2017 – 2019, taking the re…
Fresh from starring in Dogfight, Luigi Lucente is about to bring his show Jim Morrison: Kaleidoscope to the Hayes Cabaret season. Written and musically directed by Lucente, it…
This Sunday, we’re going to go into one of the more absurd, creatively rich corners of Australian musical theatre as we celebrate artist and performer iOTA. You might know him from Smo…
Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA)’s The HOME Project is opening at the Prague Quadrennial of Design and Space! The HOME Project is one of eight Australian works selected to…
Jeremy Youett has only been in New York for four years, but he’s already co-produced a five Tony Award-nominated show:Â The Visit, starring Chita Rivera. Since it’s nominated f…
There's a reason that Sport for Jove have so thoroughly caught the eye of critics and audiences in Sydney. Their fresh, open-hearted, contemporary approach to classics (largely Shakespeare) …
The House of Ramon Iglesia sits comfortably in the Old Fitz season, a seemingly odd choice that has settled into place very well indeed. Helmed by Anthony Skuse, the play " which opened at N…
John Misto's The Shoe-Horn Sonata is Sandra Bates' swan song. In her final year as Artistic Director of the Ensemble Theatre, she is, along with Lorraine Bayly, reprising her performance fro…
The House on the Lake, a fine, twisting thriller by Aidan Fennessy, has opened at Griffin’s SBW Stables Theatre following a season in Perth. In the play, David (Huw Higginson) and A…
Sundays, man. Sundays are tough. The working week is calling all over again. But fear not – I’m here to help you out again with another great video of Australian musical stars li…
Actor, screenwriter, librettist and playwright Kate Mulvany is the latest recipient of Sydney Theatre Company’s (STC) Patrick White Playwrights’ Fellowship. The Fellowship,…
Cabaret season is just around the corner and in Sydney that means the Hayes. Now in its second year, the Hayes Theatre Co Cabaret season will bring cabaret acts, masterclasses, talks and mor…
The most theatrical burst of Irish dance on stages anywhere is heading to Australia this September with a new staging of Michael Flately’s Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games. The sh…
As part of the Hayes Theatre Co Cabaret Season 2015, the company and venue will play host to a few special events aimed at bolstering and supporting the local musical theatre cabaret industr…
Do you hear the people (of Queensland) sing? Queensland Premier and Arts Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk announced today that Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Les Misérabl…
Hayes Theatre Co has only been operating for 18 months. Since their first production – the runaway smash hit re-imagining of Sweet Charity, directed by Dean Bryant and starring Veri…
It’s the end of the weekend already? It goes by far too quickly. But don’t worry, Sunday afternoon means one last moment of pleasure by way of a gorgeous local voice taking us to…
Another week is looming, but let’s take a moment and relax and listen to rising star Luigi Lucente. He’s travelled across the country in shows like Grease, The Rocky Horror Sh…
According to Playbill.com, leading man David Harris (Miss Saigon, Wicked, Legally Blonde) is set to play Jean Valjean at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre. The production will be directed by…
Dogfight, with a book by Peter Duchan and music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, premiered off-Broadway in 2012. Now having its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre in Syd…
Enda Markey’s acclaimed intimate Sydney production of Blood Brothers is heading to Melbourne’s new Alex Theatre in St Kilda for a strictly three-week limited season in July…
The hit West End production of Singin’ in the Rain is coming to Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre in May 2016, and will visit Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. It w…
