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Mamma Mia,
this girl is on the rise
August 12: Melbourne-based performer ESTHER HANNAFORD is part of a talented family,
and she is set to do them proud when it comes to musical theatre, as TROY DODDS
discovered...
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Helpmann Awards 2008: Photo Special
July 30: Monday night's Helpmann Awards saw the stars come out and JAMES MORGAN was
on deck to photograph all the fun...
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AussieTheatre.com Video: Jolene Anderson
July 21: We catch up with Tell Me On A Sunday star Jolene Anderson.
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Helpmann Countdown 2008: Best Musical Nominees
July 20: Four musicals are battling it out for Best Musical at the 2008 Helpmann
Awards. ERIN JAMES looks at the chances of each show as the countdown to the Helpmanns
continues...
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Wicked Photo Special
July 14: Here's some shots from the hit musical Wicked.
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Video Special: Tell Me On A Sunday
May 28: A sneak look at Tell Me On A Sunday.
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The Jungle Opening Night Photo Special
May 19: The Jungle opened at the Cleveland Street Theatre in Sydney on Friday
night. AUSSIETHEATRE.COM was there to bring you all the fun of the performance, and the
show's after party....
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Ultimate Entertainer: Capsis is still rocking
May 4: He is one of the most talented and confident entertainers on the Australian
theatre scene. But as AussieTheatre.com's ERIN JAMES discovered, Paul Capsis wasn't always
sure of himself....
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AussieTheatre's 2020 Summit
April 22: Unhappy with some of the ideas to come out of the Federal Government's
2020 Summit over the weekend, the AussieTheatre.com team sat down and came up with our own
plan for the future...
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Guys And Dolls Photo Special
April 8: Guys And Dolls has created a buzz since opening at the Princess Theatre in
Melbourne on Saturday night. With camera in hand, SERGE THOMANN checked out all the on
stage action...
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A Chat With James Lee
April 8: He's been a mainstay on the Australian theatre stages for some 20 years.
Later this month, JAMES LEE presents his first cabaret show in five years.
AussieTheatre.com's TROY DODDS caught up with him...
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Avoiding the South
April 1: Despite its arts loving culture and history of supporting major shows,
Adelaide is missing out on some of Australia's biggest theatrical productions. TROY DODDS
reports....
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Aussie girls take New York by storm
March 29: Two Australian youngsters are taking New York by storm as part of a
special scholarship initiative that gives local artists the chance to shine overseas. ERIN
JAMES reports from New York...
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Putting It Together
March 24: It is often said that musicals aren’t written, but they are
re-written. There are famous stories of songs being lost in Boston and exactly the right
song replacing it – or not. RATS – with book and lyrics by Pete Greenway and
music by David Church is one of the 10 mini musicals that make up this year’s Short,
Sweet & Song. It is a dark comedy about a streetwise rat – Jarynx (Vincent
Hooper), Synthia – a lab rat (Anita Margiotta) and Daron (Andrew Threfall) who is
hopelessly in love with Synthia. AUSSIETHEATRE.COM, through the diary of Pete Greenway,
has tracked this show from page to stage....
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Guys And Dolls Photo Special
March 7: As Guys And Dolls prepares to swamp Melbourne, SERGE THOMANN heads along
to the rehearsal room with camera in hand to check out all the fun on the road to opening
night...
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20 years for Riverside
March 4: The Riverside Theatres in Parramatta has helped revitalise the arts in
western Sydney. On March 15, the theatre celebrates 20 remarkable years....
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Photo Special: The Rocky Horror Show
February 22: Holly Bradford on the red carpet for The Rocky Horror Show.
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Sneak Peak: Wicked TV Commercial
February 16: A sneak peak at the Wicked TV commercial that will hit
screens in Melbourne.
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Hello Again Photo Special
February 5: A very special look at the Darlinghurst Theatre's production of Hello
Again.
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Home grown shows suit Caroline to a tee
February 2: Caroline O'Connor is back in Australia and preparing for the world
premiere of a brand new musical that she believes has the potential to take on the world.
She speaks to TROY DODDS about the journey...
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Five Minute Frolic #1: Wayne Tunks
AussieTheatre.com interviews Wayne Tunks.
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Video Special: The Hatpin
AussieTheatre.com catches up with James Millar
and Peter Rutherford to discuss The Hatpin.
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2008: The Year In Preview
Troy Dodds previews a big year in theatre in
2008.
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Billy Elliot Video
Our opening night special on Billy Elliot!
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Kookaburra looks to future after rough '07
Kookaburra founder and CEO Peter Cousens says
the cancellation of Floyd Collins was “soul destroying” and has spoken
for the first time in detail about the Company scandal that engulfed the theatre
industry earlier this year.
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Coffee with Lucy Maunder
In 2007, AussieTheatre.com followed Lucy Maunder's journey out of WAAPA. You can
now read every column in our archive.
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West End foray a success
Right place, right time, right person and no, Simon Burke is not talking about
himself, but of his co-star, Connie Fisher who was chosen from millions of hopefuls a
little over a year ago by the general public as the star of The Sound of Music on
the West End.
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Woman on a mission
October 16: Out of nowhere, a new theatrical force has emerged and the woman behind
it is determined to prove there's room for another subscription season in Sydney, writes
TROY DODDS...
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Full speed ahead for Tyran
October 6: From producer to venue manager, performer and teacher, Sydney's Tyran
Parke keeps himself incredibly busy. Somehow, he's found time to write a brand new cabaret
show. TROY DODDS reports...
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42nd Street Photo Special
October 4: 42nd Street has opened in Melbourne, with Lucy Durack in the lead role
of Peggy Sawyer. Check out the fantastic production shots from The Production Company's
final presentation of 2007...
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Far from a cultural desert
October 2: It is often labelled the home of "westies" and sports
fanatics, but the fringe Sydney suburb of Penrith is a home to a cultural atmosphere that
continues to flourish, writes TROY DODDS...
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Festival's foray into freebies
September 30: The Melbourne International Arts Festival is about to kick off, and
as ANNE-MARIE PEARD reports, there's plenty of great theatre to see without breaking the
bank balance...
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Miss Saigon: Photo Special
September 23: Miss Saigon has opened at Sydney's Lyric Theatre. On Friday,
AussieTheatre.com's HOLLY BRADFORD was on deck to capture some of the show's most magical
moments...
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Melbourne puts on a show
Melbourne in September sees many passionate folk crowding together to watch
something they love. September 29 is the AFL Grand Final. It’s also the opening
weekend of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, writes ANNE-MARIE PEARD...
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An Aussie producer in New York
Steven Brandon has worked extensively in Australia as a producer of independent
theatre. For the past six months, he's been living in New York thanks to the Green Card
lottery, and now he's writing for AussieTheatre.com....
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Mamet's likeable play heads south
Independent theatre is often enough to send people running for the hills.
For some, it smells of unpaid work, lack lustre performances and plays that are very much
hit or miss.
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Passion, commitment and dedication: Playwright's future assured
David Williamson is probably Australia's best playwright, and certainly
the most well-known. It's not always that his plays are works of creative genius, but he
knows how to connect with an audience so well that his work has been the bread and butter
for some of our biggest theatre companies for longer than most care to remember.
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 Helpmann Awards 2007 Photo Special
Holly Bradford on the red carpet...
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Star in waiting: Draxl dazzles Hollywood
It's hard to believe that 10 years has passed since a 16-year-old Tim Draxl took
the cabaret world by storm.
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The "C" word: Why cabaret will never die
July 17: The emergence of new venues committed to the cause, a range of young
performers giving it new vibrancy and the return of a few veterans means it's time to
declare: cabaret has made a Sydney comeback.
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Talking to the Stars: Amelia Cormack
July 13: She's currently spending hours every night suspended high in the air in
Priscilla, but it's her solo music that could direct her future. AussieTheatre.com's Troy
Dodds catches up with rising star AMELIA CORMACK...
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