Theatre Calgary in Canada will present the international premiere of Beaches the Musical, based on the best-selling novel, which was made into the blockbuster film starring Bette Midler and …
The Australian premiere of the Broadway musical-whodunnit Curtains adds another feather to The Production Company's cap with this polished, brisk and sophisticated laugh-a-plenty produ…
From the company that launched their talents last year at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse Theatre with an inventive production of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, Life Like Compa…
Company is the latest dalliance with another a Stephen Sondheim work from independent company Watch This (following Assassins and Pacific Overtures). Making marvellous use of that delightful…
For months, Lyric Opera of Melbourne milked everything possible in their advertising campaign that, at first seemingly cryptic, flooded their Twitter feed with the hashtag #MeetTheMule. It w…
While the national opera company is being lampooned for regurgitating the easier-sell popular works, it's great seeing smaller companies presenting works that broaden the opera experience. T…
Closing Opera Australia’s 2014 season in Melbourne, Falstaff succeeds as the most intelligently integrated production of the year. As well as showcasing a large cast of Australasian pr…
Amongst the fun and frivolity of the feathers and glitter, the wigs and the legs onstage, backstage and above, a show of its own unfolds at La Cage aux Folles; a drag cabaret nightclub…
I'm comparing Lyric Opera of Melbourne's new production of Werther as a little tugboat compares to a cruise ship. That’s because the last time I saw Werther was earlier this year at Ne…
If you witnessed the conviction and stride with which the young enthusiastic performers displayed in their enactment of a world premiere interpretation of The Play of Herod, you'd recognise …
THE HEROINE MIGHT… BUT THIS OPERA WILL NEVER DIE When the theater lights fade to darkness at the War Memorial Opera House, the first notes of La Traviata will introduce a somber musical th…
SHOW BOAT JUST KEEPS ROLLING ALONG At San Francisco Opera’s summer company premiere of Show Boat, the first image at the War Memorial Opera House is a proscenium-high curtain depicting…
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD Headlining Plácido Domingo and Georgian soprano Nino Machaidze, the extravagance of LA Opera’s production of Massenet's 1894 opera, Thaïs, is a veri…