DSP News

Merry Widow From Bluegum Creek

2005 is the 100th anniversary of the first performance of the Merry Widow, the most popular operetta of the 20th Century. A perfect excuse to stage the sparkling new comic Australian ...

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 ...

Theatre of the Year

Laycock Street Theatre under the vision of Manager Patrick Corrigan has become the DSP Theatre of the Year. It’s a beautiful 400 seat theatre on the NSW Central Coast which produces magnificent ...

100th production of Back to the 80's

Neil Gooding's musical Back to 80's will celebrate its 100th production in a few months time less than two years after it was written. I have another 40 schools and major amateur theatres booked ...

PARIS..sensational opening seasons.

Only seven more sleeps until Jon English's rock opera Paris opens in Melbourne for the first time. From January 29 until Feb 7 in the National Theatre St Kilda and Frankston Arts Centre Feb 11-14. ...

DISCO INFERNO

" Never before have I seen a capacity audience on their feet, singing and dancing in the aisles...a show quite unlike any other. " The Stage. Time to get your platform shoes ready ...

MEET AUNTY JACK.

Grahame 'Aunty Jack'  Bond is one of the guest lecturers at the 2004 Stagecraft conference at NIDA on September 11 and 12. The writer of Boy's Own Mcbeth will share his secrets on the art ...

AUSTRALIAN MUSICALS EXHIBITION

A number of DSP musicals are on display this month and next in Melbourne Making a Song and Dance - The Quest for an Australian Musical   is an Exhibition  at the George Adams Gallery, ...

ENGLISH PANTOMIMES BY JOHN MORLEY.

A big welcome to NODA pantomimes to the DSP catalogue. (Australia only) NODA pantomimes has 50  brilliant new titles to choose from - including  some gems by the doyen of pantomime ...

BEACH BLANKET TEMPEST meets THE GG.

Canberra Girls Grammar School is staging Beach Blanket Tempest to  celebrate the opening of it's new theatre this week. The Governor General Michael Jeffrey will be on hand to ...