Miles Allen’s solo comedy act, based on the critically acclaimed tv series Breaking Bad, was destined to garner a lot of interest at this year’s MICF after a YouTube clip of the LA-based actor/voiceover artist doing impressions of Breaking Bad characters went viral. Capitalising on the show’s success with his unique brand of humour… MICF: One Man Breaking Bad is a post from: AussieTheatre.com...
OCPAC’s highly successful 2013 production of Seussical The Musical returns to the stage this April for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. First time director, Josh Ellwood, tells Bethany Simons what it’s been like juggling his own performance schedule with demands from the cat in the stripy hat. A music theatre… MICF: Seussical The Musical – Pulling A Hit Out Of The Hat is a post from:...
Tim Key write shows about being a slut. I was a Tim Key virgin; shame on me! He started performing in about 2003, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2009, was a MICF Barry nominee in 2103 and has been Alan Partridge’s Sidekick Simon since 2010. Single White Slut opens with… MICF: Tim Key is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Scott Gooding has been involved with more festivals than most of us have gone to. He hasn’t performed, much, for a while but is bringing the very successful Eric back to the Comedy Festival. First seen and loved in 2008–09, Eric is a one person sketch show performed by Scott,… Comedy Chat: Scott Gooding is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Australian music theatre star, and book writer behind such smash hits as Der Gelbe Stern, Love Bites and The Hatpin, James Millar will be joining the cast of the US arena tour of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar commencing in June 2014. Though James Millar made the move the… James Millar to join the US arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
After award winning Australian seasons and a trip to New York, Dean Bryant and Matthew Frank’s original musical has made it into London. Replete with a spectacular cast of Aussie talent, the musical will run at the Kings Head Theatre in London until April 26. Once We Lived Here debuted… Once We Lived Here in London is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Recently, an article on Crikey.com’s Daily Review created a lot of discussion within the music theatre industry by posing the question of whether home-grown musicals received the creative support they needed within the Australian theatre industry. With critics citing Aussie made musicals like Miracle City, Summer Rain and Keating as examples… ‘Whatever Happened to the Music?’ –...
Ticketing company Showbiz entered administration last week with the Business Recovery and Insolvency team at PKF Lawler appointed Voluntary Administrators of the company. The specialty ticketing agency for concerts, events and music theatre (providing packages to consumers including hospitality, premium seats and merchandise) passed a resolution on April 3 to enter… Showbiz enters voluntary administration...
There’s a reason Shakespearean repertory theatre company Sport for Jove got all those awards earlier this year at the Sydney Theatre Awards. Look yonder oh thy good souls of Sydney and look well, for before ye stands the new rock star theatre company of our times. Sport for Jove is… Review: All’s Well That End’s Well is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Two young lads from Ireland and a young chick from America who together call themselves Endless Theatre Company have moved their base of creative operations from Sligo, Ireland, to Perth for the coming year. Their debut production in our fair city is Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, a very black comedy… Independent Spotlight Perth: Endless Theatre Company is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Sunday night at MICF. Trades Hall, Swanston Hotel, the Forum and the Tuxedo Cat. I started with the awesome Em Rusciano, whose Catholic upbringing offered a couple jokes about going to hell, and ended the night heckling Jesus, who will always welcome Em – and me and all the sacriligious… MICF: Em, Nick and Sarah, Alasdair, and Jesus is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
AussieTheatre is excited to have a double pass to give away to DreamSong at Theatre Works in St Kilda on Sunday, April 13 at 5pm. Written by Hugo Chiarella and Robert Tripolino, directed by Dean Bryant (Pirates of Penzance, Next to Normal, The Producers), with choreography by Andrew Hallsworth (Priscilla Queen of… Win a double pass to DreamSong in Melbourne is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Late night variety chat shows with guests from around the festival are a winning formula. Find a game that doesn’t alienate the audience, ask your friends performing around the festival to come play the game with you and prepare yourself for anything happening. Everyone wins out of these shows, the… MICF: Late night live games is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Australia’s first ‘live’ monthly cabaret show The Greenroom Project, hosted by Matthew Ward is launching its first show for 2014, tonight at The Arts Centre Gold Coast as part of their ‘Live in the Basement’ program. After returning from working as a performer overseas, Matthew Ward (NIDA alumni), found a… The Greenroom Project Returns with guest mentor Anne Wood is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Zoe Coombs Marr is known for her work with independent company Post; she’s also known as Dave. Dave’s gross and may well be a bit too close to some young stand ups in town. If you’re a comedian and think you’re nothing like Dave, perhaps you should see him. What MICF… Comedy Chat: Zoe Coombs Marr is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Simon Keck won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s prestigious Golden Gibbo last year for his powerhouse show Nob Happy Sock and returns this year with the vastly different but no less fantastic Let’s Write a Book. Simon wants to write a book. It’s something he says he’s wanted to do… MICF: Let’s Write a Book is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
After suffering a massive hit from the Global Financial Crisis, fictional mega church DreamSong decides to stage the return of Christ, marketing him as a Christian pop star. Writer/Performer Hugo Chiarella talks to Bethany Simons about how the journey of writing a new musical is anything but taking the straight… DREAMSONG – God Is In The Detail is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
There’s no denying it, Ben McKenzie is not what society would call cool. In Ben McKenzie is Uncool he embraces his uncool labels and shows is all just how cool it is to be uncool! Ben facilitates us on a journey of what it means to be uncool. From being… MICF: Ben McKenzie is Uncool is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
Ellen has moved out of Melbourne into a new apartment in Sydney: a city that she hates everything about. Complications arise when her father, who has been away for two years, arrives unannounced. This Year’s Ashes, at Red Stitch, revolves around the relationship between Ellen and her father, with sporadically placed… Red Stitch: This Year’s Ashes is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...
“I’m a cabaret artist, not a f***ing role model,” yelps Mark Nadler from behind his grand piano. Nadler has become a staple of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, and is known for his musical talent as much as his cheeky irreverence. As Kate Ceberano watches his performance from the sidelines, a… 2014 Adelaide Cabaret Festival lineup announced is a post from: AussieTheatre.com ...