DSP News

A.C.T. Conference in Sydney

I am helping to co-ordinate the Association of Community Theatre's fifth conference - Stagecraft on the 14th and 15 of October at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. This will be an amazing ...

The New FREE CD

The tracks include Essgee Gilbert and Sullivan montage, Puttin on the Ritz from Hot Shoe Shuffle.. Beach Blanket Tempest, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Liberty! The Siege of the ALAMO, ...

CRUISIN the Musical by Pete Waterman and Rod Christian.

I am very excited to announce my new release  Cruisin...a fifties rock musical that will excite community and school theatre. Cruisin - is set around the 1959 Battle of the Bands... 17 ...

'Paris'

The Jon English and David Mackay musical 'Paris'  will be staged by seven theatres and schools in England, Australia and New Zealand this year. The production which centres on the love ...

DISCO INFERNO and BACK TO THE 80's.

These two musicals are my  most prolific shows with 75 productions booked in 2005 in Australia and New Zealand. Now England's largest theatrical agent Josef Weinberger has agreed to ...

Season's Greetings

I wish you all a very safe and merry festive season. Hope you return from your Christmas break refreshed and renewed.

Essgee's Gilbert and Sullivan.

This year there will be a record 18 productions of Essgee's Pirates, Mikado and HMS Pinafore in Australia, NZ, England and wait for it....Spain.   The Footlight Theatre Group is made up of ...

Frank Hatherley...new musical.

DSP writer Frank Hatherly is having a sparkling year... In November The New Theatre in Sydney is staging his comedy 'Manly Mates' - centred on a riotous day with a corrupt NSW Premier and his ...

BOY'S OWN MCBETH..my next monster hit

" A combination of Welcome Back Kotter, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Shakespeare in Rock n roll" Sunday Telegraph. " The Marx Brothers and the Goons" The Bulletin. " Explosively funny" ...

Rock Apocalypse

The World Premiere of Rock Apocalypse took place in Tasmania late last year. The hilarious musical spoof of B grade science fiction movies was written in England but I found a High School in ...