Category: Phil Scott

Darlinghurst Theatre Company presents, TORCH SONG TRILOGY, by Harvey Fierstein, at the Eternity Playhouse, Burton St, Darlinghurst. 1-26 August. This production of the 1981 TORCH SONG TRILOGY at the Eternity Theatre is the fourth production of this play that I have seen. The first with Harvey Fierstein in New York, the next with Tony Sheldon at the Seymour Centre, in 1984. The last was in 2013. That production was led by Stephen Colyer as Director and starred Simon Corfield, as Arnold, featuring the live musical support of Phil Scott – and all three are the leaders of this new manifestation…

Monkey Baa Theatre Company present JOSEPHINE WANTS TO DANCE, based on the book by Jackie French and Bruce Whately, adapted for the stage by Eva Di Cesare, Sandra Eldridge and Tim McGarry, in the Darling Quarter Theatre, Darling Harbour. April 16th – May 12th. JOSEPHINE WANTS TO DANCE, is a new Australian playwork for children. Josephine is a kangaroo who wants to do more than hop. She wants to dance. Not just any kind of dance. She wants to be a ballet dancer. It is a story of dreams, of determined aspiration and of believing in yourself and is part…

Photo by Greg Doyle Gaiety Theatre in association with Sydney Mardi Gras present TORCH SONG TRILOGY by Harvey Fierstein at Theatre 19 (The old Darlinghurst Theatre venue), by arrangement with ORiGiN Theatrical, on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. TORCH SONG TRILOGY, by Harvey Fierstein, began as a monologue that became a play called THE INTERNATIONAL STUD. There followed a second play: FUGUE IN A NURSERY and a third: WIDOWS AND CHILDREN FIRST! They then were produced as a collection/trilogy at the Richard Allen Center in October 1981 and then moved to Broadway in 1982 where it played 1,222 performances, winning…

Darlinghurst Theatre presents THE UNSPEAKABLE ITCH by Kate Smith and Drew Fairley at the Darlinghurst Theatre. Matt and Bec, and their friends at work: Belle and Basille, belong to that crowd who have made it and seek the next thing because “they deserve it, darling!”: a big teak (endangered forest or not!) back deck, a humongous barbecue, a big real-estate deal, an interior job of a ‘glorious’ kind, etc, etc. They have that unspeakable itch for more, and in these present economic mores overreach themselves with blazing consequences. The GFC and the credit card crunch push this couple to crisis!…

  Showqueen Productions presents FAT SWAN – An Adults Only Christmas Panto at the Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre. “Showqueen”, “Fat Swan”, “Adults Only Christmas Panto” are all clues and concepts to the boisterous, ridiculous, rough and ready, vulgarity that one can catch at the Seymour Centre in FAT SWAN. Trevor Ashley and Phil Scott found inspiration from the psychological thriller film event of this/last year, BLACK SWAN, by Darren Aronofsky, starring Natalie Portman, and have gleefully, but, for my expectation and money, too superficially, parodied and crammed into the form of the classic Christmas Panto format a show called FAT…