Darkness and Light in Maitland – the Diary of Anne Frank
A chance visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam where those world famous diaries were originally penned during the Second World War, has inspired Co-Directors Lesley Coombes and Guil Noronha to put The...
Creative Brilliance for a Show with Impact – Mittagong NSW
In a big move for Pig’s Fly Productions, production team Fiona Jowett, Lou Vella and Greg Oehm have chosen a show to challenge their audiences and coax them out of their snug Southern Highland...
Rhyme, Reason and the Iambic Pentameter – Love’s Labour’s Lost in Maitland
Maitland’s Reamus Youth Theatre is not only making sure their group of 16 to 25’s know their lines in this year’s Shakespeare play, but also how to deliver iambic pentameters – and a whole...
Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery in Goulburn
In what might be an Australian premier, Lieder Theatre Company’s production of Ken Ludwig’s fast paced comedy Baskerville – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, is bound to get audiences venturing out into the cold mid-winter...
Not Your Normal Shakespeare – Measure For Measure in Warragul
In a confident move for Warragul Theatre Company, when selecting shows for their 2017 program, the committee decided to seek out a straight play to add to their long list of highly successful musicals...
$3 million for Regional Theatre in May
May is a massive month for theatre in Regional Australia. From Towers Players' production of Oliver! in Charters Towers, to Devonport Theatre Company’s Whistle Down the Wind in Tasmania, and across to Goldfield Repertory...
Backstage Brilliance – Highlands Theatre Group Costumier Ron Russell
Many things make theatre a success – but the right costumes provide the colour, and the actors within them the movement, that set the scene for the action on stage. Costumes are just as much...
Albury-Wodonga 10 Minute Play Festival – RatNews Review
There was a definite theme running through the eight short plays of last night’s 10 Minute Play Festival at the Albury Wodonga Theatre Company – intimacy - seen and unseen.
It’s unlikely such risqué subject...
Murwillumbah does The Real Inspector Hound
By arrangement with ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL, and on behalf of SAMUEL FRENCH LTD. Murwillumbah Theatre Company present a comic whodunit from the brilliant mind of Tom Stoppard and directed by Julie West.
LOVERS of murder mysteries are...
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