Yesterday afternoon lauded creatives (between them they’ve won Helpmanns, an Emmy, and a Tony) Brian Thomson AM, Julie Lynch, and Gale Edwards released a statement regarding Opera Aust…
Kate Mulvany is astonishing in the title role of Bell Shakespeare's latest Richard III, but that doesn't make it politically radicalRichard III, Shakespeare's tragi-history about a tyrant's …
The 30th anniversary production of Alex Harding’s Australian musical (set in Kings Cross!), Only Heaven Knows, is all set to open at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre Co in May 2017. And no…
Playhouse, QPACLead singers of Grinspoon and the Living End share a role in the 90-minute thrill ride through protest-punk and rock'n'roll despairWhen young dirtbag punk trio Green Day signe…
In tribute to the late Jon English, his rock opera passion project, PARIS: A Rock Odyssey is set to return in a Melbourne concert series for just four performances in July 2017 at Melbour…
The filmed staging of the hit Broadway musical comes thrillingly close to replicating the live show " and its message is more relevant than everWho would have thought that one of the most po…
Good children's stories usually have deeper meaning beneath the surface. Often our favourite childhood tales contain messages for bigger issues. The Harry Potter series is about learning to …
We go to the theatre for the stories. We go to practise empathy and experience the lives of people whose stories are both similar and different to our own. Theatre's mainstream sibling, cine…
"Life is a cabaret, old chum!" It's one of the most recognisable lines in the history of musical theatre. Even the title, Cabaret, rings a bell to those unfamiliar with musicals. Opening on …
The ‘Bonnie Lythgoe Pantomime’ is becoming something of an annual tradition. This British-import, family-style form of entertainment keeps coming back, and after last year’…
Wind is attempting to commit suicide with a plastic bag over his head. It's a shock laced with black humour; he's tried this before, he tells us wryly. He even details the process at which t…
To celebrate its 200th performance of Verdi’s romantic epic La Traviata, Opera Australia is inviting you all in to celebrate " and maybe experience this story for the first time " by o…
History has traditionally been told through the words and stories of men, and the Gospel is no exception. Sydney Theatre Company's first production of 2017, The Testament of Mary, seeks to c…
In 1969, National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre became lost in the depths of Brazil's remote Javari Valley and found himself living amongst the Mayoruna people, a tribe with little …
The National Institute of Dramatic Art, or NIDA, has announced they will receive $300,000 over 6 years as a grant from the Luminis Foundation. The grant is earmarked to assist Indigenous stu…
At an upbeat and star-studded ceremony tonight at Sydney’s Seymour Centre, the winners of the 2016 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced – and we’ve got the full list rounde…
Going to the circus is, for many, a thrilling experience: nostalgia, loud noises, death-defying acts… while sitting in the front row and having popcorn lobbed in your face by the ringm…
Theatre Royal, HobartPeaches' reinterpretation of Jesus Christ Superstar retains the rock-opera roots of the original while infusing it with new meaning and her trademark humourIn Heaven on …
For some, seeing Shakespeare in English is complicated enough. For the crowd that packed into the Roslyn Packer theatre on Sunday night to see Cheek by Jowl and Moscow's Pushkin Theatre perf…
Nathan Maynard's The Season is a wonderfully authentic new Australian work, celebrating tradition without overlooking the challenges often associated with preserving heritage. Set on Dog Isl…
Rock stars and triple threats abound in the cast for Green Day’s American Idiot, the musical that took Broadway by storm. The Australian premiere season is exclusively at Queensland Pe…
There are many ways that Hell could be represented on stage. Walking into The Courtyard Studio of the Canberra Theatre Centre to find an office straight out of a Sherlock Holmes novel was, n…
Virginia Gay is set to take the stage at the Hayes this March as Calamity Jane in a semi-immersive production by Richard Carroll (it has evolved out of a Neglected Musicals staged reading in…
Every minute of Prize Fighter, the acclaimed playwrighting debut by Future D. Fidel, is essential. At only 65 minutes in length the play, now at Belvoir after a strong season at Brisbane…
Lyric theatre, SydneyMusical by Carolyn Burns and Tim Finn, based on Madeleine St John's 1993 novel, studies mid-century women working in fictional department storeMid-century Australia: a t…