Frozen delivers a blizzard of stage magic
From Elsa's show-stopping transformation to a scene-stealing sauna, Free-Rain Theatre Company delivers Frozen on an impressive scale, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
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It was no surprise when Canberra comic actor Joe Dinn was cast as Olaf the Snowman in Free-Rain Theatre’s forthcoming production of Disney’s Frozen at The Q, writes HELEN MUSA.
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been adapted countless times, but rarely with as much pizzazz as in Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of).
IAN McLEAN reviews the clever, witty and fast-paced musical theatre production - I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change - takes its audience on a "fabulously entertaining rollercoaster of emotions with belly laughs aplenty".
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‘Heathers’ delivers laughs with an unsettling edge
Musical adaptation Heathers satirises 1980s high-school films with an uneasy blend of comedy and cruelty that makes for disturbing viewing, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
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Director’s debut is perfect, now she’s changing it
One of Canberra’s best-known stage performers, Janie Lawson, is about to make her directorial debut with the boutique musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Creswick celebrates using art to age with inspiration
At the age of 36, Creswick feels he is facing middle age and, just as he did with his fatherhood show, he's been out interviewing people, this time a carefully selected group of senior artists, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The revival of Graeme Murphy’s exquisite staging of Franz Lehár’s 120-year-old operetta, The Merry Widow, at the Sydney Opera House powerfully demonstrates why it was destined to become an audience favourite, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
A post-covid 50th birthday party conversation about middle age and menopause was the catalyst behind the musical Middle Raged, directed by Priscilla Jackman, reviews SAMARA PURNELL.
Middle Raged – A Musical Meltdown, about to premiere at The Playhouse, is the brainchild of two former Canberrans, performer Queenie van de Zandt and writer-producer Tiffany Noack, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Broadway adaptation of Beetlejuice has been axed midway through an Australian tour with rising costs to blame.
"Audiences never seem to tire of the epic scale of its uplifting story nor of the glorious score in which every song is a classic." BILL STEPHENS reviews the Queanbeyan Players' new production of Les Miserables.
“No grand sets, no spectacle, just the truth behind the fairytales,” director Jarrad West promises of their “unplugged” version of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, reports HELEN MUSA.
The show Promise and Promiscuity, described by the Irish Times as “a posthumous collaboration with Jane Austen”, is the brainchild of actor Penny Ashton, reports HELEN MUSA.
Disney has cut parts from its orchestra and replaced them with synthesised keyboard technology, leaving local musicians out of a job.
"This was a classy, well-paced, high-energy show highlighted by outstanding dancing from a young, multi-talented cast." IAN McLEAN reviews Footloose.
Footloose: The Musical returns to Canberra in a new production – bigger, bolder and more explosive than ever before – at the Royal Theatre, May 8-10.
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"It is the casting of the legendary Nancye Hayes as the Dowager Empress, a role that could have been written for her, that makes this production one not to be missed." BILL STEPHENS reviews Anastasia, playing at the Sydney Lyric Theatre.
"This quality, high-energy, fun and funny production of boy-band bangers and girl power was well deserving of the rowdy wolf whistles and enthusiastic standing ovation it received." SAMARA PURNELL's been to see & Juliet.
