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Top Picks for the Melbourne International Arts Festival
Brisbane comes alive for the Festival
Nigel Havers: 'I'm so loved up - 60 really is the new 40'
What a dump... but what a treasured dump
MOMIX dances through the seasons with 'Botanica'
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts: the galas, part one (updated)
Stage on Crossroads
Belgrade International Theatre Festival
Award-winners stage BUS STOP at Raven Theatre
Corner Street at the State Theatre in October
Broadway retells battle against Prop 8
Mel C loses accent due to stage work
Mary Tyler Moore to Present 'Distinguished Dedication and Service to the American Musical Theater' Award to Bernadette Peters at WCP
Rak Patravadi Theatre - เชิญชม Art Exhibition Collection No. 7 ประจำเดือนตุลาคม - Right then Left
Macbeth
Duna Art Ensemble, Festival Theatre Budapest, 21 September
Suzie Mathers steps into Glinda’s shoes
Rak Patravadi Theatre - เชิญชม Art Exhibition Collection No. 7 ประจำเดือนตุลาคม - " Right then
REVIEW: Broadway Bard (Sydney Fringe) | Sidetrack Theatre
Boy Girl Wall
Kes, Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
Plane was changed 'radically' to compete
Minnesota: 'New day' for fraud, waste accountability, top sleuth says
Homeroom East Ridge High School, Woodbury: Teacher turns teens on to 'real science'
Mixed Blood actor in stable condition
Baldwin out of Emmys after hacking joke nixed
Red was primary color on carpet; electric blue there, too
Minn. actor has cardiac arrest on stage
The Invisible Men of Tennessee Williams @ Addison Theatre Center
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Top Picks for the Melbourne International Arts Festival

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 01:05 AM PDT

With the Melbourne International Arts Festival just weeks away, we thought we'd offer our Top Picks of the festival. The team here at AussieTheatre.com have had a look at the 2011 program and have come up with our top 4 (well, technically 7) shows we

Brisbane comes alive for the Festival

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 01:05 AM PDT

Yes, it costs more than 10 shillings to gain entry into the Brisbane Festival these days, but for the amount of art and entertainment on offer at Brissy's premier cultural event this year, who's counting pennies? Brisbane Festival is nearly over, but

Nigel Havers: 'I'm so loved up - 60 really is the new 40'

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 01:01 AM PDT

The old smoothie has not lost his charm. As he takes roles in 'Downton and onstage, Nigel Havers talks about marriage the third time round. At last we can breathe easy. It was only a matter of time and, deep down, we knew it would happen eventually. I

What a dump... but what a treasured dump

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:57 AM PDT

We were led around in groups of just four people to see places that the public never visited, like the communal upstairs backstage dressing room and outside steel spiral staircase that the actors had to descend to get to the stage level, and the cramped

MOMIX dances through the seasons with 'Botanica'

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:57 AM PDT

It was a world that MOMIX founder/choreographer Moses Pendleton found in his very own Connecticut backyard, filled with sunflowers and snow, leaves and loons. But Mr. Pendleton's "Botanica," which opened the Pittsburgh Dance Council season at the Byham

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts: the galas, part one (updated)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:44 AM PDT

Kansas City's new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts opened this weekend with several giant parties: a gala performance for each of the new halls - the opera house on Friday, the orchestra hall on Saturday - and a community-wide open house planned

Stage on Crossroads

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:35 AM PDT

A project supported by Madrid's International Institute of Mediterranean Theatre, is an international theatre festival where Bulgarian and other European companies present their latest productions. The main venue is Plovdiv's State Puppet Theatre.

Belgrade International Theatre Festival

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:35 AM PDT

Established in 1967, the (BIFTEF) has placed itself at the forefront of contemporary Serbian theatre for over 40 years. This competitive event takes place in various theatres, as well as the Sava Centre and town hall.� Website:

Award-winners stage BUS STOP at Raven Theatre

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:33 AM PDT

"Raven's mission is to present plays that illuminate the American experience and you can't get more American than cowboys and a showgirl stranded in Kansas," says Raven Theatre Co-Artistic Director JoAnn Montemurro of the season's opener Bus Stop.

Corner Street at the State Theatre in October

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:28 AM PDT

Corner Street returns to the State Theatre after a successful run at the Mzansi Fela Festival in 2010. Article Tools: The play revolves around a certain community in a township called Corner Street where people live a typical vibrant, lively and unified

Broadway retells battle against Prop 8

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:19 AM PDT

th September, 2011 (Source: China Post Online) (Source: China Post Online) The Academy Award-winning screenwriter, who is a board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, was in federal court in San Francisco last year hoping a judge would

Mel C loses accent due to stage work

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:15 AM PDT

Mel C has reportedly lost her Liverpudlian accent after completing a spell on the stage. Singer and former Spice Girl Mel C is pictured leaving the ITV studios following a guest appearance on the 'Loose Women' show. - Simon Earl / Splash News The former

Mary Tyler Moore to Present 'Distinguished Dedication and Service to the American Musical Theater' Award to Bernadette Peters at WCP

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:11 AM PDT

Mary Tyler Moore will present Bernadette Peters with Westport Country Playhouse's Distinguished Dedication and ServIce To the American Musical Theater Award at the historic theater's annual gala on Monday evening, September 19. Moore and Peters are

Rak Patravadi Theatre - เชิญชม Art Exhibition Collection No. 7 ประจำเดือนตุลาคม - Right then Left

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:07 AM PDT

Rak Patravadi Theatre - เชิญชม Art Exhibition Collection No. 7 ประจำเดือนตุลาคม - " Right then Left" Rak Patravadi Theatre - เชิญชม Art Exhibition Collection No. 7

Macbeth

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:03 AM PDT

THE clash of steel echoed across the battlements of Farleigh Castle this week as the Players prepared for the autumn production. Director Sylvia Seaman has always wanted to stage and considers the timing for Trowbridge Players is right. She has chosen to

Duna Art Ensemble, Festival Theatre Budapest, 21 September

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:02 AM PDT

"The performance of the Duna Art Ensemble aims to immerse the audience in the wonderful world of folk dance theatre through a combination of visual arts, world music sounds and virtuosity. It takes as its influence and underlying idea the concept of the

Suzie Mathers steps into Glinda’s shoes

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 11:57 PM PDT

Erin James talks with Suzie Mathers – Wicked's new Glinda. It's a fairytale story, really. From swing, to ensemble and understudy, to leading lady in one of musical theatre's most successful blockbusters: WAAPA graduate Suzie Mathers is

Rak Patravadi Theatre - เชิญชม Art Exhibition Collection No. 7 ประจำเดือนตุลาคม - " Right then

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 11:56 PM PDT

กรุงเทพฯ--19 ก.ย.--Gallery by the river Left" 11 ตุลาคม - 5 พฤศจิกายน 2554 @ Club Arts (Gallery by the river) อรุณอมรินทร์ 18 ซอยวัดระฆัง

REVIEW: Broadway Bard (Sydney Fringe) | Sidetrack Theatre

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 11:49 PM PDT

To Morrow, and to Morrow, and to Morrow! Fans of The Chaser will know Julian Morrow?s a pretty smart guy. Perhaps less well-known is his dad, Melvyn Morrow, is, too. He?s a backroom boy, but if I mention that he?s written, way back when, for Phillip

Boy Girl Wall

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 11:45 PM PDT

Rating: 50 out of 5 stars ?This is not a love story,? announces the narrator of as he slides, in trainers and a suit, down a ramp into the theatre. ?This is a story about love.? There's a difference. In love stories, humbly deferential/unnaturally

Kes, Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 11:43 PM PDT

Torches flash, voices yell: "Billy Casper" but the figure that tumbles into view isn't the young lad at the heart of Barry Hines's 60s novel, or the Ken Loach film, Kes. The Man (Sean Murray) is the here-and-now adult Billy: but not spotting that

Plane was changed 'radically' to compete