Mathew Frank News

The Production Company announces it's 2014 Season. All tickets for The Production Company's 2014 Season go on sale at 9am next Monday, May 5.

Fresh from award-winning productions in Melbourne and New York, Australian musical Once We Lived Here is to get its UK premiere at the King's Head Theatre in a brand new production directed by Dean Bryant (worldwide Associate Director of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - the Musical). Check below for production photos!

Jeanne Pratt AC, Chairman of The Production Company, announces her Company's 2014 season. She states, 'Three very different musicals are coming to Melbourne for our 2014 Season. Spanning sixty years of Broadway creativity, they are three of my favourite Broadway classics. Guys and Dolls opens our season on July 19, Show Boat opens on August 16 and our third musical is La Cage Aux Folles, which opens on November 22. To star in these musicals, we have engaged artists who will shine and enchant our audiences. Unique stagings for each musical will be created by our brightest directors, choreographers and conductors. Melbourne is in for another great year of musical theatre entertainment.'

Fresh from award-winning productions in Melbourne and New York, Australian musical Once We Lived Here is to get its UK premiere at the King's Head Theatre in a brand new production directed by Dean Bryant (worldwide Associate Director of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - the Musical).

After sell-out seasons in New York, Sydney, Hong Kong, Hobart, Auckland, Perth and Edinburgh Fringe where he earned five stars, Jersey Boys star Michael Griffiths will be back in Adelaide with not one but two shows during the 2014 Adelaide Fringe Festival performing at Le Cascadeur in the Garden of Unearthly Delights.

Melbourne Theatre Company celebrates the opening of its 2014 season with Noel Coward's Private Lives, a sparkling comedy about love, lust and marriage directed by MTC Associate Director Sam Strong.

After sell-out seasons in New York, Sydney, Hong Kong, Hobart, Auckland, Perth and Edinburgh Fringe where he earned five stars, Jersey Boys star Michael Griffiths will be back in Adelaide with not one but two shows during the 2014 Adelaide Fringe Festival performing at Le Cascadeur in the Garden of Unearthly Delights.

The Production Company's new staging of the Broadway version of The Pirates of Penzance opens in Hamer Hall on October 30 for a season of six performances only.

Currently in its fifth year running, The ANZ Trustees Foundation: Rob Guest Endowment is excited to announce the finalists for 2013, are Euan Doidge, Rob Mallett, Edward Grey, Angelique Cassimatis, Elisa Colla and Samantha- Leigh Dodemaide.

AUSTRALIAN MADE ENTERTAINMENT has announced the U.S. premiere production of ONCE WE LIVED HERE, with book and lyrics by Dean Bryant, music by Mathew Frank, and directed by Matthew Foster. ONCE WE LIVED HERE will play a two-week limited engagement at Urban Stages (259 W. 30th Street). Performances begin tonight, September 13. Opening Night is Saturday, September 14 (8 p.m.).

AUSTRALIAN MADE ENTERTAINMENT has announced the U.S. premiere production of ONCE WE LIVED HERE, with book and lyrics by Dean Bryant, music by Mathew Frank, and directed by Matthew Foster. ONCE WE LIVED HERE will play a two-week limited engagement at Urban Stages (259 W. 30th Street). Performances begin Friday, September 13. Opening Night is Saturday, September 14 (8 p.m.).

Today Jeanne Pratt AC, Chairman of The Production Company, announces her company's new season.

In only its second year, Sydney's only Cabaret Festival, hosted by Slide Lounge, is back with a stellar lineup of international cabaret starts, interstate icons and local legends!

Today Jeanne Pratt AC, Chairman of The Production Company, announces her company's new season.

Dean Bryant directs musical theatre legend Trevor Ashley in the divinely decadent drag cabaret, I'm Every Woman at The Famous Spiegeltent from Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 February. A diva of multiple personalities, Trevor Ashley will delight audiences with a degustation of drag interpretations of Whitney Houston, Liza Minnelli, Shirley Bassey and many more.

The Green Room Awards took place at The Famous Spiegeltent in Melbourne last night, and global favorite MARY POPPINS led the night with a total of nine awards out of its twelve nominations. Yana Alana and the Paranas in Concert, a cabaret production, was a close second for total awards with six out of eight cabaret awards.

Since 2002 fortyfivedownstairs, a not-for-profit organisation, has offered an evocative urban space and a personalised service to an eclectic mix of artists for theatre, visual arts, forum, music and dance.

Still art to see and music to hear, until 19 December - and it all starts again with Midsumma from 17 January 2011.

Currently playing at fortyfivedownstairs is Once We Lived Here. It will be followed up with two shows as part of the Fringe Festival.

Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and Qantas by arrangement with Poor Boy Enterprises Pty Ltd and Llegup Pty Ltd present Poor Boy a play with songs by Matt Cameron and Tim Finn 6 July to 1 August 2009. Opens 9 July 2009 at 8pm at Sydney Theatre, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay