Janet Anderson News

2023 Sydney Theatre Awards nominations have been announced, with leading productions like 'Fences' and 'Hubris & Humiliation' receiving seven nominations each. Find out more about the nominees and the upcoming gala ceremony.

Australia's oldest early-music ensemble, Adelaide Baroque, returns with new impetus in 2023 with a four concert Orchestral Series and a five concert Explorations Series, before finishing the year with their first full performance of Handel's Messiah, in collaboration with Anthony Hunt and the choir of St Peter's Cathedral, in what will be a first performance of the Messiah on historical instruments in Adelaide.

Janet Anderson shines in Margaret Perry’s (Playwright) award winning solo play COLLAPSIBLE. 

Travis Alabanza’s (playwright) OVERFLOW is a brilliantly funny and powerfully informing new theatre work that puts the Trans experience in the spotlight. 

In what is a first for Australian mainstage theatre, an all trans and gender-diverse team has been assembled for the Australian premiere of Travis Alabanza’s critically acclaimed play Overflow. 

Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon, is announcing the opening of “Ghost The Musical” by Bruce Joel Rubin, Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics fame) and Glen Ballard. This timeless musical fantasy about the power of love performs July 31 to August 18 and is based on the Academy Award-winning film by Bruce Joel Rubin.

The  warm welcoming Concerts@KentTown series of Winter and Spring concerts, at the historic Wesley Uniting Church, cnr Fullarton Road and Grenfell Street, Kent Town begins 2pm Wednesday 17 July, tickets, at the door, are $15 and include a delicious afternoon tea.

The blackest of humour comes together for a captivating 110 minutes of theatre that challenges how far someone would go to protect the people they love in Kim Hardwick's (director) presentation of MERCURY FUR. 

Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theatre and Door County's theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce the artistic company for its 84th season, running June 18 through October 20, 2019.  Nestled along Door County, Wisconsin's scenic shore, the award-winning acting company of Peninsula Players has been enthralling generations of audiences in its 600-plus seat, all-weather pavilion, since 1935, presenting hundreds of pre-Broadway tryouts, world premieres, classic dramas, comedies and musicals.

Concerts @ Kent Town, Cnr Fullarton Road and Grenfell Street, Kent Town at 2pm Today 15 November 2017 is closing the season with an outstanding program of music performed by well known musicians Janet Anderson, violinist, Damien Mansfield, piano and John Hall, organ.

Concerts @ Kent Town, Cnr Fullarton Road and Grenfell Street, Kent Town at 2pm Wednesday 15 November 2017 is closing the season with an outstanding program of music performed by well known musicians: Janet Anderson, violinist, Damien Mansfield, piano and John Hall, organ.

Concerts @ Kent Town, Cnr Fullarton Road and Grenfell Street, Kent Town at 2pm Wednesday 15 November 2017 is closing the season with an outstanding program of music performed by well known musicians Janet Anderson, violinist, Damien Mansfield, piano and John Hall, organ.

State Opera of SA star dramatic baritone and professional opera director, Douglas McNicol's career exemplars brilliance in verismo, comedy, tragedy, villainy and modern works, brings his outstanding talent to the popular community Concerts @ Kent Town at Wesley Church, corner Fullarton and Grenfell Street Kent Town at 2pm 18 October. Tickets at door $10 includes afternoon tea.

State Opera of SA star dramatic baritone and professional opera director, Douglas McNicol's career exemplars brilliance in verismo, comedy, tragedy, villainy and modern works, brings his outstanding talent to the popular community Concerts @ Kent Town at Wesley Church, corner Fullarton and Grenfell Street Kent Town at 2pm 18 October. Tickets at door $10 includes afternoon tea.

Twenty-two young talented musicians and singers from the celebrated award winning Marryatville High School Music Centre will bring cheer to the historic neo gothic Wesley Church Kent Town when they present their showcase at Concerts at Kent Town at 2pm Wednesday 20 September, under the direction of Aldis Sils Head of Music at the school.

For their concert at Concerts@Kent Town, 2pm 20 September, instrumentalists and vocal students from the award winning Marryatville HS Music Centre will perform a far ranging program of works varying from Beethoven to jazz, showing their versatility, diversity and talent.

The popular community concerts at Wesley Church Kent Town continue to go from strength to strength.

"The Bridges of Madison County" captured the nation's attention in 1992 as a best-selling novel, then again in 1995 as a major motion picture.  It is a compelling, two-time Tony Award-winning musical now on stage at Peninsula Players through August 13.  "The Bridges of Madison County" is the touching story of Francesca, a lovely Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy. She is looking forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm as her family heads to the 1965 Indiana State Fair when ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid pulls into her driveway seeking directions. What happens in those next four days may very well alter the course of Francesca's life.

Audiences will be swept away by the life-changing, four-day love affair in the lush musical 'The Bridges of Madison County' at Peninsula Players Theatre July 26 through August 13, 2017.   One of the most romantic stories ever written, 'The Bridges of Madison County' first captured the nation's attention in 1992 as a best-selling novel, then again in 1995 as a major motion picture.  It is now an irresistible, two-time Tony Award-winning musical.

Now in its tenth year the popular community Concerts at Kent Town continues to go from strength to strength as it opens the doors of the historic Wesley Church, Kent Town for another season of welcoming monthly Wednesday afternoon concerts. And, yes admission price is still $10 which includes a generous afternoon tea.