Above : Lucia Mastrantone as Joan in BETTE AND JOAN at the Ensemble Theatre
Upon learning of her long-time rival Joan Crawford’s death in 1977, Bette Davis famously remarked, “You should never say bad things about the dead, you should …
G.bod Theatre & Old 505 Theatre Present:
WYNGARDE! A CELEBRATION + QUEEN BETTE. DOUBLE BILL .
With Garth Holcombe as Wyngarde! and Jeanette Cronin as Queen Bette.
Performed back-to-back, this double bill of one-person shows explores the lives of infamous …
Drumroll…… crash! Kim Carpenter has brought us a marvellous show about the life and times of controversial, larger than life famous Australian artist Brett Whiteley .I was fortunate enough to catch the last performance of the Riverside season . Brett …
The vitriol hits you full on. We knew it was there, it had to have been. While words like ‘murder’ impact hard, there is other sneaky vocabulary in there, ‘wilderness’ slides by in the middle of a sentence. And should …
This play, written by actor Michael Cristoffer, had its premiere on Broadway in March 1977. It went on to win that year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as taking out the Tony Award for Best Play.
Cristoffer’s play cuts …
Theatre people are much more superstitious than film people and Bette Davis began her career as a dancer and actor on the Broadway stage. It wasn’t until she headed to Hollywood in her early 20’s that she took the path …