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She’s just loverly - Internationally renowned performer Anna O’Byrne has worked with some of the greatest legends in musical theatre history . With all this high praise and her extraordinary global career, O’Byrne was still humble, excited, and delighted when I spoke to her about Becoming Eliza, the first show she’s written, about her journey to becoming Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady, after being hand selected and mentored by the Dame herself.
Writing duo Kurt Kansley and Oliver Lidert brought Confessions to Home Grown at Chapel off Chapel earlier in the year, and are now out to conquer the West End with the show. Ahead of their run at The Other Palace, off West End, I spoke to them about what they’ve been up to since returning to the UK, and how they’ve been putting together Confessions for it’s London debut.
From some of the team behind the Big HOO-HAA comes an improvised who-dunnit inspired by the works of Agatha Christie. Welcome to Murder Village, where the population is decreasing and each colourful British character is more suspicious than the last.
One of the wilder shows being presented this year’s Melbourne Fringe season is the Offenbach Retold Triptych, a satirical look at modern society through comedy and opera in French, presented by BK Opera. From blind magicians, agoraphobia, incompetent criminals to vacuous bloggers, three worlds will collide when Offenbach’s operas are presented with brand new stories for an evening of enlightening fun.
Seanna van Helten and Penny Harpham started She Said Theatre because they couldn’t see any clear pathways to make the type of work they wanted to create. Now their new show, Fallen, a powerful new work about fallen women finding a new life on the other side of the world, opens at fortyfivedownstairs this week, following a highly successful premiere season in Sydney. I spoke to van Helten about creating the company and this work, how it has been impacted by the #MeToo movement, and how she sees women in theatre.
Thirty years’ experience as a pianist and musical director, two previous Production Company shows, and two previous runs of The Boy From Oz, including the original – Michael Tyack is the perfect person to bring to light the music and story of Peter Allen, for both the show and The Production Company’s 20 year anniversary.
I headed into rehearsals for The Production Company’s Boy From Oz and have a chat with leading man Rohan Browne and the creative team, Jason Langley, Director, Michael Tyack, Musical Director, and Tim Chappel, Costume Designer.
Essence Productions presents the 2018 Victorian Tour of Point of No Return, written and directed by Alaine Beek which has just begun a state-wide tour. Based on the true story of Australia’s first boys’ prison, the show is set to be a riveting, energetic new Australian drama about a group of youths struggling to survive in Tasmania’s Point Puer Boys’ Prison.
Australian theatre household names Todd McKenney and Shane Jacobson have leapt into the cast of The Rocky Horror Show which is coming home to Melbourne this month. A truly classic, outrageously fun show, it returns to Her Majesty’s Theatre from July 12.
The impossible search is over: Madiba the Musical has found it’s leading man of Nelson Mandela in South African star of the stage, television and film – Perci Moeketsi. The triple threat is from Pretoria, the South African city where Mandela was both imprisoned and later inaugurated as President, so it is fitting that a star from this area is chosen for the pivotal role.
BREAD CRUMBS is a warped retelling of the well-known fable Hansel and Gretel – it’s a crass and highly stylised exploration into the link between gender roles, domestic abuse and the scarring impact it has on young people.
Illumi-Nation Theatre director, Michele McNamara, has brought together five poetic monologues from award-winning Australian playwright, Daniel Keene as part of this year’s Poppyseed Festival.
Alexithymia is described as the inability to name and describe emotions, which affects 85% of people diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Citizen Theatre and A_tistic have joined forces to create a new theatrical work that gives a voice to stories of females who are on the spectrum.
Melbourne cult cabaret icon Yana Alana is a multi- Green Room award winner, a Helpmann award winner, a femme drag star and this week, an artist launching her first album.
Bristol based artists Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse are taking over Arts House as company in residence with their company Action Hero and three works that are set to provoke, entertain and unhinge.
Boutique Theatre are celebrating their 10th production since 2012, and while being one of the most active independent companies in Melbourne, they’re still flying under the radar.
Phillip Adams BalletLab (PABL) proudly presents New York City-based queer writer, director and choreographer, Jack Ferver in residence at PABL’s new venue for contemporary art andperformance, Temperance Hall in South Melbourne
Bitten By Productions is back with their second show for 2017, a new take on the character of Dracula in Dracula: Last Voyage of the Demeter.
Chelsea Zeller is embarking on her first solo performance, and her Melbourne International Comedy Festival debut, with High Achievers, written by The Comedy Company’s Tim Smith and Michael Syme.
For the first time in Australia, the “all singing, all dancing, all flesh eating” musical Cannibal will be staged in Adelaide this December.
