Tag: theatre

Many performers have been stranded by lockdown, have no work and can’t return to their families interstate, media union says.

With slick suits and sharp wit, Australia’s finest tap dancing performers are a cocktail of pure entertainment, and they are set to hit the boards at The Peacock Theatre this May.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Regardless of its outcome, the Craig McLachlan case has thrown a spotlight on the question of boundaries on and off stage and the need to enforce them more vigorously.

Chinese drama is fun, and no harder than following Italian opera or Shakespearean dialogue. So says intrepid traveller JOHN BURKE.

No-one ever talks about men going through menopause, but they do.

This episode of my love for London is brought to you by gin.

REVIEW: “The play is hilarious. Jeff’s witty banter, mainly in Aussie slang, is delivered perfectly as he struts around the stage in a towel.”

Gene David Kirk directs an all Australian cast in David Stevens’ touching comedy-drama about a father and son in Australia looking for ‘The One’ in a time that wouldn’t let you love.

Theatre review | Once We Lived Here @ King’s Head Theatre, London

INTERVIEW | On stage at the Barbican from the 11th February, the powerful one-man show Jack Charles v The Crown, sees Aboriginal actor and Australian legend Uncle Jack Charles sharing his extraordinary life story.

REVIEW | In A Question of Consent, theatre company CRAFT use techniques of physical exhaustion to capture the real life suffering of its characters. This provocative performance is currently playing at The Rag Factory.

After a stellar season at the Edinburgh Fringe, critically acclaimed Aussie theatre maker, Stuart Bowden is back in London for the premiere of his solo show She Was Probably Not A Robot.

Set in a shut down psychiatric ward in London, Australian theatre director Chris Hosking's new production explores the stories of its mental health patients. This performance is part of the Shuffle Festival.

REVIEW | Written by Emma Deakin, and presented by Shaky Isles Theatre, Expectations is a game show where couples compete for life's biggest prize. It is currently playing at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington.

Australian Times have a special reader offer for you to see Expectations, a new play at the Pleasance Theatre by kiwi company, Shaky Isle Theatre.

9 to 5 comes alive in BLAM! a new show at the Peacock Theatre where four office workers use their imagination and any available office equipment to create action packed adventures.

Ancient history and artistic expression combine in Origins 2013, a cultural festival of artists and performers with deep roots, coming together to share ideas about the past, present and future.

INTERVIEW | Named Best Newcomer at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the world is now Luke McGregor's oyster. His awkward quest to find the woman who will be his pearl is bared in My Soulmate is Out of My League, on at Soho Theatre until 17 August.

London has been blessed with a sensational summer but like all good things it must soon come to an end. Make the most of the final days of the season at London's best summertime activities.

After 10 years in London Zöé Caldwell has got her fingers in many creative pies, taking full advantage of the opportunities London has to offer. In addition to her role as Associate Producer, Zoe also finds time to dabble in music management, comedy and co-found IronBark — a theatre company ...

Nicola Samer is a theatre director and co-founder of IronBark in the UK. IronBark presents the best new Australian writers to UK audiences using the talents of local cast and creative teams. Next week we talk to Zoe Caldwell, associate producer and co-founder of IronBark.

Combine your usual Sunday evening at the pub with a bit of culture, and support Australian playwrights and theatre in London with IronBark's PubPlays. This Sunday Camden's Colonel Fawcett will play host to a play by award winning Australian playwright Declan Greene, 8 Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography.

INTERVIEW | Fresh from performing at Australia’s famed Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne’s Spiegeltent, EastEnd Cabaret bring their newfound love of Bundy and Cola back to London’s Soho Theatre with their show Notoriously Kinky.

THE EXPAT FACTOR | Liz Koops is a theatrical entrepreneur who brought sell-out shows Tap Dogs and Priscilla Queen of The Desert to the UK stage. She is managing director of Back Row Productions, winner of 2012 Australian Woman of the Year in the UK and has recently launched a ...

REVIEW | The revival of The Vortex at Rose Theatre Kingston captures Noël Coward’s depiction of a unconventional and intoxicating relationship between mother and son with energy and enthusiasm.

REVIEW | Tina, In The Green Dress is the ambitious collaboration between emerging electro-pop group A History and theatre company TwistedHip. The interactive show tells the story of Tina, an American girl who is estranged from her lover Jimmy when he is drafted to Vietnam.

Tim Minchin has confirmed the March dates for the UK tour of Jesus Christ Superstar will be postponed to October.

INTERVIEW | Ahead of her role as Florence in Noël Coward’s 1920s classic The Vortex, Antipodean Kerry Fox has been busy practising her Charleston shuffle.

REVIEW | Ordinary Darkness by Shaky Islands Theatre at Hen and Chickens Theatre in Highbury, London.

Award-winning Australian musical The Hatpin makes its European debut in London, retelling the chilling true story of one mother’s desperate plight to retrieve her missing child.

Shakespeare for the masses: A madcap, playful romp through the classics with CW Productions & Straylight Australia’s double bill of Shakespeare’s Queens and The Madness of King Lear.

REVIEW | Benedict Andrews directs his version of the classic Russian play, Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, at the Young Vic.

After a successful tour in Europe, Geelong-based theatre company Back to Back are back in Australia but still looking to reclaim the swastika with their elephant-headed deity and a theatre group of stars.

London's Old Royal Naval College is the stunning setting for the theatrical and dramatic performances BT River of Music is bringing from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, the V&A is the largest museum of decorative arts and design in the world. The collection includes over 4.5 million objects, spanning 5,000 years of art, housed in 145 galleries.

EastEnd Cabaret have returned to London after a very successful tour Down Under, bringing with them their raunchy, and often shocking, style of entertainment. BIANCA SOLDANI caught up with the Melbourne misfits to discuss their unique brand of comedy and their promiscuous residency at a specially commissioned Speigeltent.

In an interview with BIANCA SOLDANI, Australian actor Michael Budd shares his experience of the London theatre world and gives us a behind the scenes glance at working alongside Bruce Willis in his latest blockbuster, The Cold Light of Day.

Australian acting legend Cate Blanchett is wowing London's theatre-going public with an energetic but moving depiction of isolation in the Sydney Theatre Company's new production "Big and Small" at the Barbican.

Australian Times' Will Fitzgibbon spoke to Director of DV8 Physical Theatre, Australian Lloyd Newson, before going to see the much-discussed performance Can We Talk About This? at London's National Theatre.

Nicola Samer, co-founder of the exciting new theatre production company IronBark, spoke to BIANCA SOLDANI about promoting the work of Australian playwrights in the UK, her experience of the London theatre scene so far and her latest undertaking, Ruben Guthrie.

REVIEW | We’ve all got a chequered Australian past. But could yours destroy your life?

REVIEW | There is a certain irony for a London audience watching Our Country’s Good in 2012.

A new Aussie play is about to split London down the middle. Conor McGlone got down to the Etcetera Theatre in Camden for a sneak preview to see what the fuss was all about.