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Before the late, great Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) came on the scene music theatre was the province of feel good, unchallenging, escapist entertainment. Sondheim turned things around, writing musicals about difficult subject matters. He was a provocateur, asking …
Chookas Entertainment (Be More Chill, Chicago, Heathers) is thrilled to present the Newcastle season of Company, kicking off from the 14th of June 2023!
Newcastle has blown out their candles and made a wish as Stephen Sondheim’s …
The Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along will recommence at the Hayes Theatre Co on Thursday 21 October. A thrilling and compelling Broadway fable about friendship, compromise and the high price of success, Merrily We Roll Along…
The period characters in ASSASSINS, playing at the Sydney Opera House, are a pretty wild-eyed bunch who make meeting them in an abandoned sideshow late at night pretty unappealing. Led by John Wilkes Booth, who considers himself forefather of all …
Sondheim fans rejoice! This is a dazzling , very moving absolutely HUGE production with a cast of 37 and incredible costumes.
The original Broadway production of FOLLIES was in 1971. This is the first time FOLLIES has been staged by …
After debuting with a critically acclaimed sell-out production of SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, Little Triangle will present
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG with emerging Australian performers this coming March (7-14th March 2018) for a limited 3-week season as …
Inviting a reviewer to a preview is tricky. Anyone following the London Hamlet furore knows how horribly wrong it can go. People are exhausted, voices are tired, musicians are sore and techies are the walking dead. Writing a review about …
The setting for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at the Everest Theatre is simple. Black risers upstage on the right. On the left, a large, bare branch artfully suspended parallel to the floor above a grand piano. But this is not …
Rockdale Musical Society with a very well chosen cast, is revisiting this Sondheim classic, for the first time since its production in 1994.
How far would you go, to make your wish come true? INTO THE WOODS challenges our perceptions …
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd: he served a dark and vengeful God!” After a visit to the New Theatre’s website advertising their current production of Stephen Sondheim’s SWEENEY TODD, with its graphic image of a throat being cut and …