618 stories by "Cassie Tongue"
David Williamson's Dream Home is a play about Paul, who moves into a new block of flats. When he arrives, all three women living there proceed to throw themselves at him in a variety of deme…
Squabbalogic, the indie darlings of Sydney musical theatre and forefathers of its present revitalisation, are branching out! They will present a concert of the first musical to win the Pulit…
Here it is! Today, Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracinni AM and producer John Frost announced the final lead cast member and the full ensemble cast for Anything Goes. Bartho…
One minute he’s starring in films with Angelina Jolie and Michael Fassbender, and the next he’s playing an intimate, exciting play at the tiny yet beloved Old Fitz theatre. Micha…
This year Hats Off! has found a new ambassador and it’s international music therapist Jan van de Stool. (If you’re not familiar with her work, you might know beloved actress Quee…
They’re back! Packemin Productions have been delighting the Riverside stages for a few years now, and following their successes like Hairspray and Annie, they’re tacklin…
Madama Butterfly, in this production by director Moffatt Oxenbould, is not a newcomer to Opera Australia – it debuted in 1997. Seeing it in the 2015 summer season with fresh, first-vie…
It’s an essential part of the musical calendar in Sydney, right in the middle of Mardi Gras, and it’s almost back again: It’s Hats Off! time. On Monday 23 February, the …
The SBW Stables Theatre, home to Griffin Theatre Co, has a bare stage, following, we learn, a recent revival of Hotel Sorrento. Scrawled on one wall is a placeholder set: “Beach ima…
We waited in anticipation for Squabbalogic's first "Mystery Musical" and now the cat's out of the bag, we wanted to share as much about it as we could! Bye Bye Birdie a hit: inside Squabbalo…
John Frost has announced that sister stage and screen stars Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills will tour the country with the Australian premiere of Legends!, a comedy by James Kirkwood. Th…
The 2015 Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest (YTICC) Grand Final was held at The Basement in Sydney last week, and it featured 11 finalists from Adelaide, Brisbane, The Sunshine Coa…
Last night, at the Paddington “Paddo” RSL, over 300 performers, theatre-makers, administrators  " a cross-section of the Sydney arts scene " crowded into the auditorium …
2015 has started with a bang in the theatre world, as the houses fill and the lights dim and rise again after the holiday break. It’s no exception over at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre,…
Ever since she was young and sufficiently troubled, Mary (Adriane Duff) has had recurring dreams in which she is flying. It’s the ultimate symbol of escape and liberation, and doubly f…
Gareth Davies, the greatest actor in the world, was literally born into the chorus of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Les Miserables, where he remained for twenty-one years; his anonymous, ensem…
Grief is such a huge, overwhelming part of our lives, so much so that sometimes it seems impossible to overcome. Of course it occurs in our art all the time, all these shapes and stories of …
When Next to Normal made its way through development and onto Broadway in 2009, it was something quite extraordinary: a show that broke through so many seeming boundaries of what the genre o…
At the centre of Masquerade, a fantastical story about the Moon and the Sun and a Hare sent on a quest to unite them, is a mother and a son. In Kate Mulvany’s twist on the 1979Â chil…
A mother has died and in her North Queensland house, a ramshackle thing renovated to feel livable, only Mae (Shari Sebbens) remains. She's disconnected and unhappy and " it seems " wooden. I…
The next generation of talent is on full display in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Chatswood's Concourse Theatre, and the immensity of that talent is a little bit overwhelmi…
The critical smash Doorstep Arts production of Next to Normal – one of the very few musicals to win a Pulitzer Prize – is coming to Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co. And are yo…
There is so much skill in Tabac Rouge, one of Sydney Festival's most-hyped shows in the 2015 lineup. Its technical skill is impressive " from dancers and movers who do not stop, who are agil…
Gale Edwards' La bohème is in another return season for Opera Australia, and as a first-time viewing in the 2015 season, it sparkles like it was new. Best known to legions of musical the…
One of the delights of the later half of 2014 was So Long Lives This, an album of Shakespeare’s sonnets set to music, by performers Drew and Naomi Livingston. The album, a pleasant …
