15th March 2010

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  • Actress Monica Maughan dies

    Created Fri, 8th of Jan 2010

    Australian actress Monica Maughan has died in Melbourne. Maughan launched her career in theatre in the 1950s and worked with every major theatre company in Australia. She also appeared in films ... more

  • Icon_camera Blanchett extends stay at theatre company

    Created Fri, 1st of Jan 2010

    Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett will reportedly extend her term as artistic director of one of Australia's biggest theatre companies until 2013. Blanchett and writer husband Andrew Upton ... more

  • Sex, swearing in kiddies' Christmas play

    Created Mon, 7th of Dec 2009

    Some New Zealand foster children got far more than just Christmas cheer during a theatre outing over the weekend. About 130 foster children went along to see An Adagio Christmas on an outing ... more

  • Icon_camera Blanchett takes Streetcar to Washington

    Created Mon, 2nd of Nov 2009

    It could be compared to trying to sell ice to Eskimos - Cate Blanchett has taken a cast of Australians to the US to perform Tennessee Williams' masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire. It opened in ... more

  • Icon_camera 2010 Adelaide Festival launched

    Created Thu, 22nd of Oct 2009

    The artistic director of the Adelaide Festival, Paul Grabowsky, has launched his program and poster for next year's 50th anniversary event. The $16 million two-week event will feature a ... more

  • Bust up over bare breast show

    Created Fri, 16th of Oct 2009

    Hobart's Theatre Royal is defending claims of discrimination because it has knocked back a show whose female actors expose their breasts. "Busting Out" has been performed in theatres around the ... more

  • Tas theatre pleads for funding lifeline

    Created Fri, 2nd of Oct 2009

    The Tasmanian Theatre company is appealing to the Premier David Bartlett to throw it a lifeline after big funding cuts. Board members held a crisis meeting with staff last night after it was ... more

  • Obama inspires Blanchett's theatre

    Created Fri, 25th of Sep 2009

    US President Barack Obama's influence has spread to the Sydney theatre world, where actor Cate Blanchett says the American leader has inspired her theatre program for the coming year. Blanchett ... more

  • Hip-hop project breaks dancing stereotypes

    Created Tue, 18th of Aug 2009

    A major international cultural exchange project in Sydney is aiming to change the stereotype surrounding hip-hop music by bringing the hip-hop of the streets into the theatre. East London West ... more

  • Low enrolment forces acting school to close

    Created Tue, 9th of Jun 2009

    Declining enrolment numbers and rising running costs made the Ensemble Acting Studios in Sydney unviable, principal Zika Nester says. Last week the curtains came down on Australia's oldest private ... more

  • Icon_camera Rush takes Tony for best actor

    Created Mon, 8th of Jun 2009

    Geoffrey Rush has won a Tony Award - Broadway's most coveted prize - for his heralded performance as King Berenger in Exit The King. Rush won in the best performance by a leading actor in a play ... more

  • Icon_camera Rush takes out best actor Tony

    Created Mon, 8th of Jun 2009

    Geoffrey Rush has won a Tony Award - Broadway's most coveted prize - for his heralded performance in Exit The King. Rush won in the best performance by a leading actor in a play category. The win ... more

  • Cirque du Soleil founder to blast off

    Created Fri, 5th of Jun 2009

    The founder of the entertainment company Cirque du Soleil is set to become the seventh private space explorer when he travels to the International Space Station in September. Guy Laliberte will ... more

  • Wife swap for a harvester

    Created Thu, 4th of Jun 2009

    If a farmer was trying to woo a lady, he might splurge on a romantic dinner or a bunch of flowers. But one Tasmanian farmer is taking a new approach, offering to swap his reconditioned combine ... more

  • Icon_camera Rush's King wins Drama Desk Award

    Created Mon, 18th of May 2009

    Geoffrey Rush has been named best actor in a play at the 54th annual Drama Desk Awards in New York. The Oscar-winning Australian actor won for his role in the Broadway production of Exit The King, ... more

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