Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Of all the theatrical forms, musical theatre is slowest to recognise it has a gender problem, says the multi-award-winning Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori ahead of the Australian premier…
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 06:23AMMonday, May 25, 2015
The Paris stage version of the hit film The Full Monty - one of the biggest draws on the city's theatre scene - has closed early because of a punch-up between two actors in mid-performance, the France-Soir newspaper reports.
Thanks to Amanda on All That Chat for the link!
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMTen years ago two students fresh from university started writing a musical. Now their show is bound for Broadway.
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMThe show must go on, was the call, but the cast of Company, the new musical theatre production from the Kookaburra theatre company, was left fuming on Wednesday after scenes from the Stephen…
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMA FEW years ago, there was a post on Theatre Notes, a blog kept by Alison Croggon, now Melbourne theatre critic for The Australian: "If we didn't have a Cameron Woodhead to hate, we'd have t…
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PM"THE clashing sounds and pulsing rhythms of New York City," trumpets the description on the website for Company, the latest production from the Kookaburra theatre company. But the only clash…
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMWord of mouth and Hugh Jackman's stunning performance defy negative reviews, writes Phillip McCarthy in New York.
Gannon says the producers are looking at replacement possibilities but admits duplicating Jackman's star wattage will be a challenge.
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMThe Minister for the Arts, Virginia Judge, probably should have disclosed a conflict of interest regarding her relationship with a playwright and close friend, Kosta Nikas, the Director-Gene…
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMDalco worked with companies in Australia and London and helped produce many of the world's most popular modern musicals, including Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Phantom Of The Opera, …
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMBarry Humphries is about to launch a second volume of his autobiography. He talks to Caroline Overington about drinking, marriage, and his love for Australia.
Thanks to Amanda on All That Chat for the link!
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMHugh Jackman has returned to the stage as Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz, but he is destined to call the Sydney Theatre Company home one day.
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMTot Mom's unflinching focus on the ghoulish Grace can just as easily leave you with the feeling you've been watching too much junk TV and not enough drama.
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMJohn Kander and Fred Ebb have been turning out droll, sexy, caustic musicals for close to five decades. They always found an audience but, in the often kitschy world of musical theatre, their cynicism was probably ahead of its time.
It looks like The Sydney Morning Herald needs a fact checker in Oz, from the looks of this sentence:
"They've [Kander & Ebb] done three musicals with playwright Terrence McNally and the late Hal Prince and Bob Fosse directed their shows on stage and screen."
Hal is happily helming Hollywood Arms right now. (And thanks to Warren down under for pointing the article out.)SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:58PMThursday, August 22, 2013
When the dying Sigmund Freud moved into 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead in 1938, after escaping Nazi-occupied Vienna, London's notables were keen to pay their respects. Salvador Dali droppe…
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 10:51AMMonday, August 19, 2013
It is Freud's audience magnetism that St. Germain attributes to the longevity of his one-act play, FREUD'S LAST SESSION, which is an imagined meeting between Freud and the author, Oxford don…
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 02:44PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
Despite the gloomy statistics, female directors and playwrights are staking out new ground on stage.
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 09:15AMThe premiere of An Officer and a Gentleman appears to cement Sydney as the new mecca of the home-grown musical. No longer middle managers of the syndicated variety, Australian producers are …
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 08:24AMMonday, July 4, 2011
Theatre impresario Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber considered casting Michael Jackson in a film version of his classic musical The Phantom of the Opera.
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald at 05:44PM 
