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Into the Paddock: Carly Sheppard and Alisdair Macindoe on THE SHEPHERDS

In The Shepherds, two sheep wander through a slaughter paddock searching for the figure who determined their fate. What unfolds…

5 days ago

Rowan Witt on Comedy, Chaos and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

On the sun-soaked French Riviera, appearances are everything — and in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, nobody plays the game better than…

5 days ago

In Conversation with Jenn Kidwell on WE COME TO COLLECT: A FLIRTATION, WITH CAPITALISM

There are theatre-makers who politely critique capitalism, and then there’s Jenn Kidwell — kicking the whole thing over in heels…

6 days ago

AIDA Cruises sets sail for Australia in search of vocalists and dancers

A major international opportunity is opening for Australian performers, as AIDA Cruises arrives in Australia to audition singers and dancers…

1 week ago

From the Ensemble to Eliza: Claire Lyon on returning to MY FAIR LADY

Few musicals carry the weight of legacy that My Fair Lady does. Based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Lerner and…

1 week ago

Cloning the Self: Chenturan Aran on THE SUPPOSED TO BE

The Supposed To Be arrives as a sharp disruption to the familiar rhythms of migrant storytelling, trading nostalgia for speculative…

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Musicians Vanishing From Australia’s Major Productions As Technology Takes Their Place

Australia’s major musical theatre stages have long promised audiences something increasingly rare, a live event built on the chemistry of…

2 weeks ago

A Pirate’s Life for Me! Maxwell Simon on THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

Few works in the musical theatre canon have endured quite like The Pirates of Penzance. Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved comic…

2 weeks ago

A Brilliant Mind, A Dangerous Legacy: Brian Lipson on A LARGE ATTENDANCE IN THE ANTECHAMBER

Theatre has long been a space for interrogating the figures history chooses to celebrate — and the ideas society once…

2 weeks ago

Love, memory and the music that brings us home

There is a moment at the beginning of many great love stories when everything changes. For Arthur and Jane, in…

2 weeks ago