618 stories by "Cassie Tongue"
It's an epic musical, a towering behemoth from the 1980s " an era that spawned plenty of them, like Cats and Phantom of the Opera " but Les Misérables , a sung-through, all-feeling story of…
New Musicals Australia this week have announced the 11 new musicals that have been selected for musical snapshot presentations this year. One of these productions will be go on to be present…
Violet, with book and lyrics by Brian Crawley (A Little Princess) and music by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Caroline or Change), will find a home at Sydney’s Hay…
The weekend is almost over, so why not slow down, close your eyes, and listen to one of William Finn’s most beautiful songs, performed with plenty of heart by Blake Erickson? Erickson …
The 15th Annual Helpmann Awards will be held on Monday 27 July at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Live Performance Australia has announced. This means the Helpmanns will unfold on the set…
The Reginald Theatre, downstairs at the Seymour Centre, has launched its 2015 season. With new resident company the indie juggernaut Sport for Jove, new shows from Squabbalogic, and a compel…
John Frost and Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini announced today that they will present a new version of Jekyll and Hyde in late 2015 " and it'll be directed by Christopher …
Caress/Ache is high drama " half 'ripped from the headlines' and half 'personal relationships'. Unified by surtitles explaining the synapses and receptors on our skin that allows us to e…
Kill the Messenger is so alive that it constantly interrupts itself to remind the audience that it has a very real beating heart. Nakkiah Lui, playing herself, tears down the fourth wall…
Squabbalogic are back and this time they're tackling a revival of a classic work, trying to find its original kernel of authenticity before it became a gaudier, lighter-hearted thing: they'r…
When Blue Wizard (Nick Coyle), an intergalactic traveller from a crystal planet where everyone is gay and a different colour (the beige Wizards have the gift of renovation, for example, whil…
On Sunday night, on the set of Blood Brothers at the Hayes, Geraldine Turner made her Sydney cabaret return after at least a decade away. She walked onto that stage and she started with a…
Producers John Frost, Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and the Really Useful group have announced today that the London Palladium production of The Sound of Music will come to Australia in …
It’s Shakespeare meets Chicago. Originally commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe London, Othello: The Remix takes the high-stakes tragedy and transports it to the world of hip-h…
A report from theatermania.com about the popular Off-Broadway comedy Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man indicated that the show may well be heading for our shores: The hit off-…
Tennessee Williams always encouraged the reach for something more in the stage directions of his plays, seeking for an elevated storytelling method and set design that would heighten and rei…
Bonnie Lythgoe productions have just announced casting for the Australian premiere of Aladdin and his Wondrous Lamp, following up from their Snow White: Winter Family Musical success last ye…
We live within a conservative, disturbingly cruel government in 2015 Australia, where our most vulnerable citizens are the ones repeatedly targeted for more and more hardship, via our budget…
After Dinner, Andrew Bovell's light comedy, is currently making audiences laugh at Sydney Theatre Company. We sent some questions to everyman actor Glenn Hazeldine to find out his thou…
After Dinner, Andrew Bovell’s light comedy, is currently making audiences laugh at Sydney Theatre Company. We sent some questions to composer and sound designer Steve Francis, to se…
The Hayes theatre has proved itself to be a home of firsts, so it seems only fitting that it’s the home of actor Jamie Kristian’s first foray into musical theatre. He’ll be…
Mike Bartlett's script for Cock is dense and aurally-driven; off-kilter language choices, particularly from central character John, buzz around the audience and into their ears. Naturalistic…
Phantom is a behemoth of a musical, the kind that can run for over 25 years on Broadway, even for the whole of this decade. It's the kind of musical that can cast a guy who sexually assaulte…
Last week, it was revealed that in the weeks before Hollywood heartthrob Rock udson died, he reached out to Nancy Reagan (the then-First Lady of the United States) for help in receiving t…
Blood Brothers is on its way to the Hayes, with its first preview performance scheduled for tonight. We asked cast member Michael Cormick our 20 questions to find out more about his caree…
