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Musical Theatre & Cabaret
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Australian Musical Theatre Festival unveils 2025 program

Caroline O'Connor and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra land in Launceston for a five-day celebration of musical theatre.

January 23, 2025
Opera, Theatre
Live Review

Review: Candide (State Opera South Australia & State Theatre Company South Australia)

Perhaps Candide, like its hero, is never destined to find its true form as a work of theatre. But there is still much to enjoy.

May 24, 2024
Theatre
Live Review

Review: To Barbra, With Love (Live Nation)

This classy concert is an exhilarating, loving tribute to the one and only Barbra Streisand.

January 14, 2023
Theatre
Live Review

Review: 9 to 5 the Musical (Sydney)

The plot may be simplistic and cartoon-like but it's a feel-good musical with an important message, and the Australian cast delivers it in style.

February 25, 2022
Theatre
features

2022: A year full of musicals (we hope)

There are a large number of musicals to look forward to this year, COVID permitting, from the well-known to the less familiar, with several new Australian musicals among them.

January 14, 2022
Classical Music, Dance, Theatre
news

Arts figures acknowledged in the 2020 Australia Day Honours

Roland Peelman, Claire Spencer, Tim Minchin, Caroline O’Connor, Hugo Weaving and Wesley Enoch are among those recognised in the 2020 Australia Day Honours.

January 26, 2020
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Melbourne Theatre Company)

A wobbly fantasy-versus-bleak reality balancing act for Kander and Ebb’s under-appreciated musical.

November 24, 2019
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Darlinghurst Theatre Company)

Geraldine Hakewill is heartbreaking as LV, with Caroline O’Connor in fine form as her bulldozer of a mother.

February 7, 2019
Opera
Live Review

Review: Candide (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)

A delightful concert version with a top cast led by Alexander Lewis, Caroline O'Connor and a glittering Annie Aitken.

September 30, 2018
Theatre
Live Review

Review: The Boy from Oz (The Production Company)

Rohan Browne leads a talented cast in this energetic, crowd-pleasing take on the 20-year-old Australian musical.

August 13, 2018
Theatre
Live Review

Review: Funny Girl – The Musical in Concert (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

A dozen leading ladies shine as Fanny Brice in this brilliant, semi-staged SSO concert.

July 13, 2018
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
news

Sydney Philharmonia releases casting details for Candide

Alexander Lewis, Anne Aitken, Caroline O'Connor and Kanen Breen will star in this semi-staged production of Bernstein's operetta.

March 23, 2018
Musical Theatre & Cabaret, Theatre
features

Alex Rathgeber finds the heart of the Tin Man

From Raoul in the West End to the Tin Man in Australia, the versatile leading man chats about Lloyd Webber's Wizard of Oz and his own debut album.

December 29, 2017

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