Opera Australia’s bringing La Bohème to Canberra
In a piece of good news for opera-starved Canberrans, Canberra Theatre has announced a professional production of Puccini’s La Bohème for July, reports HELEN MUSA.
Musical Theatre
Newsboys, remember them? In Arts in the City this week, HELEN MUSA reports there's a new musical about them coming up. But first the auditions.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Canberra Philharmonic Society's colourful production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
“Every director has a list of shows that they’d like to see happen and I've got that list,” says Kelda McManus, director of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Canberra Philharmonic Society.
Musical Theatre
Goofy Bubble Boy delights in its own silliness
"The musical is given a playful, cartoon-like production, by first-time Queanbeyan Players director Tijana Kovac." BILL STEPHENS reviews Bubble Boy.
Musical Theatre
Gloriously funny look at the Titanic, before the iceberg
The writers of Titanique have played fast and loose with facts for this cleverly conceived concoction that tells the probably untrue story of what really happened on the Titanic before it hit the iceberg. BILL STEPHENS reviews Titanique.
Musical Theatre
Bubble Boy strives to find the ‘truth in the goof’
Continuing its impressive run of refreshingly lesser-known musicals, Queanbeyan Players is about to present an unlikely show about a boy who grows up in a bubble, reports HELEN MUSA.
Friends gathered at the Canberra Repertory Theatre on Wednesday to celebrate and reminisce about the life of one of their most admired and respected members, Norma Robertson, reports BILL STEPHENS.
"It’s hard to think of a more perfect subject for an opera than the story of Las Vegas entertainers Siegfried and Roy," writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
"With a funny, moving and imaginative production of an engaging mini-musical, ACT Hub rounds out a year of outstanding and provocative productions." BILL STEPHENS reviews Tick, Tick…Boom!
So famous is Jonathan Larson's musical, Rent, seen at the Canberra Theatre in June, that many people have forgotten it’s not his only work for the stage. ACT Hub’s end-of-year production of Tick, Tick… BOOM! will put paid to that view.
"A visceral response to the opening chords of the lone guitarist spotlit high above the stage, heralded a sense that this production was going to be something special," writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
"A clever production destined to be remembered as being among Queanbeyan Players' best." Reviewer BILL STEPHENS is quite taken by Nice Work If Your Can Get It!
"It is complicated and gloriously silly and gets even sillier as the storyline pursues evermore outrageous and unlikely situations demanding all common sense be abandoned." BILL STEPHENS reviews Peter and the Starcatcher at The Playhouse.
"In this first iteration, Only Everything offers much to enjoy as an evening of entertaining and pleasingly performed musical theatre. However, it also feels like a work in progress." writes reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
Paul Capsis’ Canberra fans will doubtless be delighted by the weird characters he’ll be playing on stage at the Canberra Theatre soon in Peter and the Starcatcher, a spectacle bursting with 100 characters, music and technical wizardry.
The coming production of Little Shop of Horrors at Gungahlin Theatre will mark the 10-year anniversary of Dramatic Productions, founded by Richard Block, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
It seems almost incredible that Canberra actor Amy Kowalczuk has never acted in Shakespeare before. Now she's taking on the daunting role of "mad Meg", Henry VI’s wife Queen Margaret, in Rockspeare Henry Sixth Part Two.
"The well known story of murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery, treachery and “All That Jazz” was given a slick, sparkling and entertaining outing." IAN McLEAN reviews Chicago.
