618 stories by "Cassie Tongue"
This week, Packemin Productions will launch their new initiative, Packemin Youth, and they’re going to do so with a multicoloured splash – a production of Joseph and the Amazing …
Hayes Theatre Co is kicking off its second year in Sydney by connecting itself to independent theatre across the country. Its first show in 2015 is the Doorstep Arts production of Next to…
Eden Falk, currently appearing in Belvoir’s heartwarming take on A Christmas Carol, has put together Belvoir’s Christmas message this year, and it’s just as lively and u…
A film adaptation with heart and soul, the new musical Dogfight is making its Australian debut at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre in May 2015. Directed by Neil Gooding, the first casting ann…
Nominees have just been announced for the Sydney Theatre Awards for 2014. The awards, which look back on the 2014 theatre season in Sydney – independent and mainstream – will be …
You walk into the theatre and take your seat. The curtain comes up. The overture starts. It sounds like an ordinary night at a musical, but here’s the catch: at Squabbalogic’s…
At the Imperial Hotel in Erskineville, Laura Jackson is going to perform for change. Handle It, Jackson’s one woman play, will be performed tonight as a fundraiser for the Uni…
Darren Coggan has just announced an encore tour of his portrait of one of the greatest folk artists of our time, Peace Train: The Cat Stevens Story. The show will tour Australia and New Zeal…
There's something oddly mesmerising about the fan experience, especially when it occurs in the collective, in a public space. At a Buffy the Vampire Slayer convention, people will bond with …
The nominations for the AACTA awards were announced today, and AussieTheatre is celebrating extra hard to see local talent recognised this year: our Editor in Chief, Erin James, has scored a…
Musical theatre it girl Hilary Cole has been unstoppable over the past 12 months. From a shattering, remarkable Sydney debut in Squabbalogic’s Carrie, she has thrilled and delighted…
It’s back! Ten months after its closing season in Melbourne, Rocky Horror will finish its short, surprise season at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre and head back to Melbourne’…
At the end of Beyond Desire, a world premiere musical crammed into the Hayes theatre, the cast asks the audience, a la the cheeky ending of The Mousetrap, not to reveal its plot twists outsi…
Jacqui Dark and Kanen Breen are the beloved wayward siblings of the opera community. With multiple Green Room and Helpmann nominations and wins under their belt, they’ve performed on B…
Theatre producing machine John Frost announced on Friday that his new production of Dirty Dancing will be heading to Perth for a limited season at the Crown Theatre in August 2015. The sh…
How do you trace the life of someone who feels so much larger than life? David Williamson’s Rupert attempts to do just that with mogul of moguls, Rupert Murdoch. It was a hit at the…
Sydney Theatre Company's Cyrano de Bergerac wants to feel like the saddest love story in the world that still makes people laugh. It doesn't quite get there, but what it does give us is a…
Christmas has come early to Belvoir St with A Christmas Carol: a lively, unabashedly heartwarming take on the old Dickens classic. Even the Scroogiest Scrooge you know won't be able to resis…
Cabaret is unique as a performance art because it demands authenticity from its performers. It is very easy, in an intimate setting, where you have an artist and a pianist or a duo or trio o…
David Page is a composer, performer, and Artist in Residence at Bangarra Dance Theatre. He is a descendant of the Nunkul people and the Munaldjali clan of the Yugambeh tribe from South Ea…
Joanna Murray-Smith's new play Switzerland – a two-hander lovingly crafted in the image of Patricia Highsmith, exploring her last days – is an elegantly tense new play that is wr…
Bell Shakespeare has been touring Henry V through Australia since the early parts of the year, and it has arrived to finish its season in Sydney, its reputation preceding it steadily like a …
Tony Sheldon, star of Broadway, the West End, and Australian theatre, has signed on to play Don Quixote in Squabbalogic’s production of Man of La Mancha. Best known for his H…
Totem " the newest Cirque du Soleil concoction taking over the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park " is a look at evolution filtered through the kind of dazzling human circus tricks we've co…
Darlinghurst Theatre Company is committed, for the next three seasons, to bringing Nick Enright’s works to the stage. They begin in appropriate place, with one of the celebrated playwr…
