Allan Chapple has done over three thousand performances, including the series director in 2005 Tele movie “Dynasty – Behind the Scenes”, two thirds of which involved singing, and has produced a dozen or more dramatic and comic plays, 2 full scale musicals, 6 theatre restaurant shows, 20 pantomimes and children’s shows, 2 short films and written and directed some 60 corporate and training videos.
He has taught acting for TV and Film at Ensemble Studios as well as acting for theatre at Brent Street and many other schools, and corporate communication skills for many top leaders in the public and private sectors.
Sydney Festival is quickly earning a worldwide reputation as unmissable and this quirky, cheeky, flagrant, even luscious presentation is yet another reason this is so.
The first throaty nuanced vocals from American Conceptualist/ Singer Claron McFadden promised an intimate insight …
What a wonderful new innovation this is by the RSC, bringing all the atmosphere of this famous Stratford venue of Shakespeare’s productions to a whole new range of audiences who may not otherwise have the opportunity!
We start our viewing …
A large Sydney Media Scrum, print, electronic and online are summoned to the Grand Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel, George Street, Sydney 12.30 setup for a 12.45 start. Hugh’s wife, Debra Lee-Furness and their daughter, Eva, arrive at the same time …
Adapted in 1937, by Nobel prize–winning author John Steinbeck from his novella written the same year, this wonderful play tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced ranch workers in California, searching for a job during the …
They say that music soothes the savage beast and warms the heart. And the therapeutic strength of the human voice is well documented. So, in one of our coldest winters, we are ready to weave a little hypnotic magic, care …
HOT SHOE SHUFFLE at the Bryan Brown Theatre – an illustrious show by David Atkins and Max Lambert- at a venue with an illustrious name. Both were enhanced last night by a pearl of a performance, a reinvention of this …
The director, Maggie Scott welcomed me last Thursday night to a delightful little venue, the Craftsman Bar within Balmain’s Exchange Hotel. I took my seat to settle in for ninety odd minutes of something a little different in the arena …
The SHORT and SWEET, VOICES Festival Coordinator, Lenore Robertson,(singer, chorister, director) confided to me that she saw music as very therapeutic and often inspiring, especially: “…sitting in the audience and watching the faces. It’s about sharing the joy of …
Sipping a pre-show drink on the deck, watching the surfers while you wait to take your seat you realise the Bondi Pavilion Theatre is the perfect venue for a show called WAVES about a swimmer by a swimmer. In performance …
THE ROLLING STONES , Adelaide Oval, 25/10/14,
Just writing ROLLING STONES CONCERT has a mystique that causes the heart to quicken, and feelings of awe and almost scary anticipation. When the day arrives you make your way to this grand …