Australian Theatre Company Launches in Los Angeles
By: Tyler Peterson
The newly created Australian Theatre Company will launch on April 23 at an exclusive media reception hosted by Karen Lanyon, Australian Consul-General for Los Angeles.
"Our goal is to harness the huge breadth of Australian creative talent here in L.A.," said ATC co-founders and producers Nate Jones and Nick Hardcastle. "The company will focus on sharing Australian stories and culture and developing new works by Australian artists."
First up will be a production of Holding the Man, opening May 10 at the Matrix Theatre with an all-Australian cast. .Adapted by Tommy Murphy from the best-selling memoir by Australian writer, actor and activist Timothy Conigrave about his 15-year relationship with former classmate and captain of the football team John Caleo, Holding the Man is one of Australia's most successful plays of all time. The original production smashed box office records for Griffin Theatre Company in 2006, then went on to complete four sold-out seasons in Sydney, transferring to the Sydney Opera House and Belvoir, before moving to the Brisbane Powerhouse, Melbourne Theatre Company and into London's West End. In 2013, La Boite Theatre Company brought the original production back to Brisbane for yet another run.
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Good Night, Oscar North Coast Repertory (9/16-10/11) |
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Much Ado About Nothing McCadden Place Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
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6 Out of 10 Theatre 68 (8/20-8/20) |
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After the Blast The Broadwater Second Stage (8/05-8/13) |
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Catch Me If You Can Colony Theatre (9/17-10/18) |
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Emily Skinner: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/14-8/15) |
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Gershwin and the Golden Age Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) (10/11-10/11) |
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John Lloyd Young Feinstein's at the Nikko (8/21-8/22) |
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Love, Loss and What I Wore Sawyer's Playhouse (8/08-8/30) |
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Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding Odyssey Theatre Ensemble (9/10-9/20) |