Newcastle local performing artist Louise Chapman is a real self-starter. Rather than traipse around auditions and wait for the phone to ring, or whatever, she reaches out to playwrights and other artists from around the world to collaborate and create …
Jacinda Patty’s Cindy is a 30? woman of Greek heritage who has returned from a soul-searching backpacking trip with no money and no boyfriend and the only housing prospect is living with her 80-year-old Yiayia.
She is also trying …
As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations Currency Press held the Australian Playwright Festival over the weekend of the 18th to 20th March 2022.
The Festival was well attended and it was pleasing to see a lot of young people. …
For a wonderfully hilarious escape to the world of vampires, ghosts, mummies and werewolves, set of course, in a stately manor on the moors, you can’t go past Castle Hill Players present production of The Mystery of Irma Vep – …
Last Friday I had the opportunity to appreciate and enjoy the play BAD MACHINE written by Brooke Robinson and directed by Lily Balatincz.
A mobile scenery that adapts very well to the different locations that the work transmits to …
Young Asian women start a cosmetic company. They are an Indian-Singaporean who uses her British education as a weapon, a Chinese woman who fears for her life if she returns to China, a Japanese woman escaping a toxic workplace, a …
For the last twenty-one years, with over 1700 performances including regional touring around Australia, every year THE WHARF REVIEW provides incredible sketch comedy and witty sketch musical theatre. This year the show is called “THE WHARF REVIEW – CAN OF …
To celebrate its recent 50th birthday, Currency Press, Australia’s foremost publisher of the performing arts, is conveningthe Australian Playwrights’ Festival. Showcasing our playwrights and the roles they have played in reflecting our society and …
This is a stage adaptation of one of Alfred Hitchcock’s finest films NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959).
The adaptation is by Carolyn Burns and has been directed by her husband Simon Phillips, one of Australia’s leading directors.
This is …
