Cowboy Mouth (Flight Path Theatre)
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by Jason Blake
1d ago
Sam Shepard and Patti Smith penned this wild-eyed two-hander back in 1971, a short play that feels like something birthed during a drinking game on a hot afternoon. There is no plot, as such. Cavale and Slim are holed up in a dingy room. Slim is having some doubts as to the value of the relationship and seems keen to get back to the wife and child he’s abandoned for Cavale’s assurances that she can help him become a rock’n’roll star. Austen Hayden and Natassa Zoe in Cowboy Mouth. Photo supplied It’s a fascinating relic of the era, when theatre, rock music and poetry were colliding and when t ..read more
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Home Grown arrives in Sydney
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by jo.litson
3d ago
In July, Yve Blake’s musical FANGIRLS opens in London at the Lyric Hammersmith, helmed by the show’s original director Paige Rattray. Yve Blake sings the new song Learning to be Lonely from FANGIRLS at Home Grown, Hayes Theatre Co, 2024. Photo © Jessie Jay Since its premiere at the 2019 Brisbane Festival and subsequent Belvoir season, the award-winning Australian musical has enjoyed a sold-out Australian tour in 2021 and an encore season at the Sydney Opera House in 2022. Now, it begins its international life. FANGIRLS centres on 14-year-old Edna, who is madly in love with heart-throb popsta ..read more
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Read the April 2024 issue of Limelight
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by William Jeffery
3d ago
Play Video about The cover of Limelight's April 2024 isuse The April 2024 issue of Limelight is now available online, with hard copies on their way to those with a print subscription. The PDF version can be found further down this page. Features Fourteen Portraits and a Puzzle Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in The post Read the April 2024 issue of Limelight appeared first on Limelight ..read more
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Opening Doors and Minds
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by Maddy Briggs
3d ago
We are seeing more disability on our stages and screens than a decade ago, but there is still plenty to be done to challenge discriminatory attitudes and change perceptions of normalcy, says Steve Dow. He discusses the issue with a number of performers and directors who are working to improve disability representation. Sarah Mainwaring in a 2022 performance of Back to Back Theatre’s The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes. Actors Scott Price and Simon Laherty sit behind. Photo © Kira Kynd Elly-May Barnes loves all things that sparkle. “I really do; it’s a problem,” the 34-year-o ..read more
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My Music with John Bell
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by Maddy Briggs
3d ago
I grew up in the 1950s in a middle-class home. My father was a bank manager and my parents used to play ABC radio a great deal. There was a lot of Jim Gussy and his ABC Dance Band, popular 50s music and the occasional classical concert. They would tune into a broadcast from the Sydney Town Hall, but it didn’t grab me at that early age. Classical music first hit me when a friend took me to a concert at the [former] Sydney Stadium. I was 18 and had just started going to university. Karel Ančerl was conducting the Czech Philharmonic in Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition a ..read more
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The April 2024 issue of Limelight is now available
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by William Jeffery
3d ago
Play Video about The cover of Limelight's April 2024 isuse The April 2024 issue of Limelight is now available online, with hard copies on their way to those with a print subscription. Click below to go straight to the issue, or continue on to find out what’s inside. April 2024 Fourteen Portraits and a Puzzle Elgar’s Enigma Variations proved an instant hit, but what of its mystery? by Clive Paget Playing for Fun Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb grill the Australian Chamber Orchestra. by Harriet Cunningham Still in the Loop As busy as ever at 87, Steve Reich continues to blaze tr ..read more
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On Stage: the events you need to see in April 2024
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by Maddy Briggs
3d ago
Classical Music Samantha Clarke. Photo © Benjamin Ealovega Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Baroque Festival Bach, Vivaldi and Handel headline the MSO’s Baroque Festival, opening with a showcase of concertos directed from the harpsichord by Erin Helyard and featuring violinist Tair Khisambeev. Soprano Samantha Clarke then joins Helyard for an evening of arias including Handel’s Lascia ch’io pianga, originally written for Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno and reused in Rinaldo. The festival concludes with a 300th-anniversary performance of Bach’s St John Passion under Stephen Layto ..read more
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Newsworthy: April 2024
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by Maddy Briggs
3d ago
Live Performance Australia is pushing for tax relief for local theatre producers to help stimulate sector investment and jobs. Calling on the Albanese Government to introduce a scheme similar to the Theatre Tax Relief (TTR) initiative in the UK, LPA Chief Executive Evelyn Richardson says that tax incentives to offset pre-production costs would bring more performances to Australia and boost employment opportunities on stage and off. According to the LPA, the UK’s TTR, launched in 2014 and revised in the Tory government’s Autumn 2022 budget, now offers producers tax relief of between 45&nb ..read more
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Comings and Goings: April 2024
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by Maddy Briggs
3d ago
In February, Richard Jackson stepped down as Executive Director of Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, after spending 11 years in the role. Adele Schonhardt is acting as interim Executive Director, sharing her time between MCO and Australian Digital Concert Hall, where she is a co-founding Executive Director. Mary Jo Capps is managing the search for Jackson’s permanent successor. Andrea Lam. Photo © Keith Saunders. Australian pianist Andrea Lam and Russian-born, Australian-based pianist Konstantin Shamray have joined the teaching staff at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Head of Ke ..read more
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West Side Story (Opera Australia’s Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour)
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by jo.litson
5d ago
When Francesca Zambello’s production of West Side Story premiered in 2019, it was the first musical presented by Opera Australia on its outdoor Sydney Harbour stage, and was met with rave reviews. Five years on, it remains the most successful Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour production. It returns now with a new cast led by Nina Korbe as Maria and Billy Bourchier as Tony. Nina Korbe and Billy Bourchier in West Side Story, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, 2024. Photo © Keith Saunders Featuring music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents, the 1957 musical pits ..read more
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