The Grammy, Tony and Olivier Award winning musical Once, based on a low budget Oscar Winning Irish film from 2006, has its Australian Premiere at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne on 4 October.
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Bobby Fox and Michael Falzon are two rising mega stars in the Australian musical theatre scene. In a one-off special event, they have joined forces to perform the legendary Costello and Bacharach album, Painted From Memory.
Bruce Gladwin, Artistic Director of Australian regional theatre company Back to Back chats to Australian Stage's Dione Joseph as the company makes it's Edinburgh International Festival debut.
Almost Face To Face is the latest dramatic monologue from peripatetic award-winning writer/performer Stephen House. Australian Stage's Lee Bemrose caught up with him to find out what drives him, and what to expect from his latest work.
Black Voices, the internationally respected British A Capella quintet, will be touring Australia in October and November. Jan Chandler recently had the pleasure of speaking with Carol Pemberton MBE, their founder and musical director.
Recently in New York, STC lighting designer Nick Schlieper and set & costume designer Alice Babidge shared their thoughts on the creative process with Australian Stage journalist Dione Joseph.
The Byron Writers Festival, now in its eighteenth year, offered up over 100 acclaimed authors, this year’s festival program providing a plethora of creativity on every platform, from poetry, songwriting, storytelling, stand-up comedy and death-by-dialogue.
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Epic in scope, staging and soaring humanity, Coram Boy is a must see.
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The Ensemble Theatre’s intimate space is the perfect setting for this wonderful revival of a classic play, with a beautifully directed cast that simply couldn’t be better at delivering this enduringly funny and at times surprisingly moving material.
West Side Story | Opera Australia and GWB Entertainment
When a much anticipated, professional production of a familiar and famous musical hits town, there is a buzz in the air, and the eager aficionados turn out in eager droves for the opening night.
The Drill | Women's Circus
As a space that facilitated the military training of young men from the Footscray community who were then sent to faraway battlefields, The Drill now fills this space with contemporary circus, theatre and music. There is historical reimagining of the impact of their leaving, a reimagining through a feminine lens.
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Griffin Theatre Company has announced playwright, director and dramaturg Declan Greene as the next Artistic Director of the Company.