2014 Helpmann Award Winners Announced
by Tyler Peterson
- Aug 18, 2014
The 14th Annual Helpmann Awards were presented tonight live from Sydney's Capitol Theatre and broadcast on Foxtel's Arena. Host Jonathan Biggins was joined by some of Australia's most talented performers and industry leaders to announce this year's winners while recognising the distinguished artistic achievement and excellence across the major disciplines of Australia's live performance industry.
MTC's GHOSTS Is A Production Of Restrained Theatricality
by Jacqueline Bublitz
- May 24, 2014
For a modern audience, the strength of a classic work can also be its Achilles' heel. So it is with Ibsen's GHOSTS - the 19th Century writer's words are so on point as to feel contemporary, yet this realism also exaggerates any hint of melodrama present on stage.
Melbourne Audiences Set to Experience GHOSTS and ONCE
by Courtnie Mele
- Apr 13, 2014
As internationally renowned director Gale Edwards leads MTC's Ghosts into the second week of rehearsals, the Company is excited to learn that after more than 130 years, Ibsen's classic thriller has proved yet again to be a vital and exciting piece of theatre.
GHOSTS Opens 22 May at Southbank Theatre
by Tyler Peterson
- Apr 8, 2014
More than a hundred years since it alarmed censors, appalled critics and thrilled audiences Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts remains as sensational and electric as ever. Opening Thursday 22 May 2014 at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner, internationally renowned Australian director Gale Edwards returns to MTC to direct this unflinching critique of marriage and social convention.
The Production Company Announces 2014 Season, Opening with GUYS AND DOLLS
by Courtnie Mele
- Mar 4, 2014
Jeanne Pratt AC, Chairman of The Production Company, announces her Company's 2014 season. She states, 'Three very different musicals are coming to Melbourne for our 2014 Season. Spanning sixty years of Broadway creativity, they are three of my favourite Broadway classics. Guys and Dolls opens our season on July 19, Show Boat opens on August 16 and our third musical is La Cage Aux Folles, which opens on November 22. To star in these musicals, we have engaged artists who will shine and enchant our audiences. Unique stagings for each musical will be created by our brightest directors, choreographers and conductors. Melbourne is in for another great year of musical theatre entertainment.'
New Stars to Take the Stage in Melbourne Theatre Company's 2014 Season
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 3, 2014
Already off to a brilliant start with the standing-room only Private Lives and the much-discussed Cock also attracting good houses, Melbourne Theatre Company's 2014 Season just got brighter with the announcement of more stars who will come out to play this year.
MEDIA MTC ANNOUNCES ASSISTANT DIRECTORS FOR 2014
by Robert Diamond
- Feb 2, 2014
Melbourne Theatre Company has announced the appointment of four Assistant Directors for Season 2014. Tanya Dickson will work on Private Lives, Kat Henry on The Speechmaker, Kim Hardwick on Ghosts and John Kachoyan on Pennsylvania Avenue, joining the company as part of MTC's paid Assistant Directors Program for emerging or mid-career artists.
BWW Reviews: SALOME is a Feast for the Senses
by Barry Lenny
- Aug 27, 2013
State Opera of South Australia started their main stage programme for the year with a powerful production of Salome, with a libretto by Richard Strauss based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's play. Richard Strauss, of course, also wrote the score of the opera
State Opera of South Australia to Present SALOME, Begin. 24 August
by Tyler Peterson
- Aug 11, 2013
2013 is set to reinforce State Opera of South Australia's (SOSA) outstanding reputation for bringing new and exciting opera to Adelaide audiences. SOSA will stage three contrasting but equally brilliant main-stage spectacles, including two rarely performed works in brand new productions, and the return of a perennial favourite.
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