Melbourne Theatre Company Unveils 2025 Season
Melbourne Theatre Company has announced thirteen world-class stage productions for its 2025 season. From classic plays to international hits and world premieres to works that could only have been made in Melbourne, audiences are invited to immerse themselves in stories that ask them to think, feel and reflect in a season that bridges the familiar with the unexpected.
Review: THE ODYSSEY at Red Curtain Theatre
At the end of the school year, The Red Curtain Theatre, 913 W Oak Street, in Conway, puts together a program to spotlight what their students have learned over the year. They have voice lessons, dance in all styles, and musical theatre class for students of all ages including adults, done by professionals that truly care about their budding artists. This year, their finale was themed THE ODYSSEY, which was Produced by Kristen Dickerson and Emceed by Kurt Baumann and performed Thursday and Friday, May 23rd and 24th. It had variety with great costumes and an eclectic cohesiveness throughout the storytelling. Â
Richard Murphet Directs New Interpretation Of Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR
Following the success of their sold out production of King Lear in 2021, Melbourne Shakespeare Company returns to fortyfivedownstairs with their highly anticipated contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare's original political thriller Julius Caesar. Directed by Richard Murphet (Quick Death, Slow Love) with production design by Dale Ferguson (Exit the King - Tony Nominated, An Ideal Husband), Julius Caesar is destined to be the theatrical event of the year.
New Artists Announced For NIGHT AT THE BARRACKS, NORTH HEAD
The Producers of NIGHT AT THE BARRACKS, NORTH HEAD, MANLY, are excited to announce the full program for the inaugural concert series to be held from Friday 9 September over five weekends. This amazing line-up of artists will perform on a specially built outdoor stage in the beautiful setting of the historic barracks.Â
WILSON'S RESTAURANT & LIVE MUSIC LOUNGE Brings Back Old Times
After two years of planning and building, husband-and-wife business partners Mame and Mark Wilson opened Wilson’s Restaurant & Live Music Lounge — a stunning new 7,800 square-foot, 350-seat restaurant and live music and entertainment venue located at 709 South Warwick Road in Hi-Nella, a town just minutes down the road from Lawnside — New Jersey’s oldest incorporated African-American township.
BWW Review: Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE presented by Shoreside Theatre at The Pumphouse, Takapuna.
Opening night of the first play of the Shoreside's Auckland Shakespeare in the Park - and it's a clever comedy, its controversy eloquently driven by polarised emotions: friendship, revenge, love, hate, justice, mercy. Whether this is your first time or another of many viewings, there is much to surprise, engage and amuse you in the superb and imaginative direction by the director, Trevor Sharpe. Shakespeare meant his audiences to be addressed directly and to feel as if the thoughts being spoken, are being spoken immediately and spontaneously to us. His text is dialogue not poetry.
MTC's JACKY Cancelled Due To COVID Border Closures
To date this year, MTC has cancelled 80 performances as a result of COVID lockdowns and associated restrictions. With the cancellation of Jacky, it will bring the total to 120 cancelled performances in 2021.Â
BWW Review: MACBETH & AS YOU LIKE IT at In The Park, The Pumphouse Theatre
The image of Shakespeare peering out, as if hidden from behind a barrier, as the choice of poster, entices and intrigues - and sets the scene for a pair of revealing performances - is he watching us, or are we watching him? Shakespeare's insights into the tortured depths of the ambitious and unscrupulous, paired by his playful reveal of pastoral romance set against the seven ages and stages, in human development.