618 stories by "Cassie Tongue"
Falsettos, the Tony-Award winning (book and score) William Finn/James Lapine show, comes from a marriage of two works written ten years apart: March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. It'…
Annie is a perfect programming choice for Packemin. It’s youthful and calls for a youthful cast, Packemin’s speciality in its amateur/professional split model. It’s accessi…
Packemin Productions continue their tradition of bringing musical joy to Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres with their new production of Annie, playing from 7 – 22 February. T…
It’s the inaugural season of Hayes Theatre Co, the new musical theatre collective in Sydney, and they’re coming out swinging. After their first production, Sweet Charity, they wi…
2014 might as well be the year of David Williamson in Sydney, with eight of the prolific playwright’s productions being staged across the city. Sydney Theatre Company’s outing is…
The countdown is on! In just 100 short days, the 10th Anniversary tour of Wicked will set itself down in Melbourne, where its Australian journey began. The show will commence previews on …
Most musical theatre fans in Sydney are well into the groove of 2014. The newly-formed Hayes Theatre Co is devoted to musical theatre and cabaret programming, as well as developing new Austr…
What are you going to do on your first Sunday night in February? Probably check out the launch of Slapdash Song Night, a fun and flighty musical variety show you might have caught at l…
The 2014 Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest was the first to invite contestants from recent heats in 5 cities, with 10 winners from Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Au…
AussieTheatre is thrilled to be giving away two DOUBLE PASSES to see the Tony Award winning musical Falsettos at Darlinghurst Theatre Company, as part of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Our …
Squabbalogic are oft-called ‘musical theatre darlings’ of the Sydney scenes, which is accurate, but after their smashing 2013 season and now, coming into 2014, we might need to s…
Empire gleefully declares that it doesn't need to have a plot just because those "Cirque du Soleil assholes" have one, and you know what? They're right. A cheeky circus-cabaret dripping in b…
The Australian musical theatre is extraordinarily generous, and the cast of King Kong is no exception. Cast member Josh Robson has organised a charity concert featuring his fellow castmem…
Darlinghurst Theatre Company and director Stephen Colyer have been doing a bang-up job of marrying the company with Sydney’s annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Following 2012′sÂ…
Oedipus Schmoedipus " a mashup of pontifications on and moments of death in the 'great white' canon of classical theatre " is less a meditation on death, dying, and its representation in the…
The Rocky Horror Show is set to begin performances in Brisbane this week and excitement is reaching a fever pitch – so what better way to get in on the action than to take a sneak peek…
Michael Gow – perhaps best known for his 1986 play Away, an English-class syllabus staple – is set to come back to the Australian stage with his first new play since 2007̸…
The first five minutes of The Lion King are an experience of utter joy. The familiar opening call, in Zulu, breaks out into the theatre and from there we are transported into the pure magic …
Darlinghurst Theatre Company and the Enright family hosted a special event at  the new Eternity Playhouse last week. In honour of the late Nick Enright, over the next three years, the Enr…
The much lauded Rob Guest Endowment annual concert will take place next Monday November 25, where six finalists " emerging stars of Australian musical theatre " will take the stage to show t…
Atomic, the new musical currently playing at NIDA's Parade Theatre, is all about Dr. Leo Szilard, who invited and patented the nuclear chain reaction, and worked on the Manhattan Project " t…
The much lauded Rob Guest Endowment annual concert will take place on Monday 25 November 25, where six finalists " emerging stars of Australian musical theatre " will take the stage to show …
Carrie's life as a musical is notorious, legendary, intriguing. A resounding flop when it originally hit Broadway in 1988, it closed after only 16 previews and five performances. For the pas…
The Darlinghurst Theatre Company has moved into its new home, a new theatre for Sydney. The Eternity Playhouse is a 126 year old heritage listed building, and it is stunning; one walks in an…
What if the lady in the song knew that all that glitters wasn’t gold? Wild Delilah just might be the one who really knows how it all goes down. Coke and Sympathy is a rock and roll cab…
