DSP News

Smashed theatre reborn with The Boy From Oz

Twenty years ago a property developer spent a night smashing Tamworth's historic Capitol Theatre into a pulp. By morning the 1600 seat atmospheric theatre  a jewel of  regional NSW ...

Peter Allen Exhibition opens at The Victorian Arts Centre

The Victorian Arts Centre is celebrating the life of Peter Allen for the next three months. A new free  exhibition includes Peter Allen's maracas,  his ...

HOT Hot Shoe Shuffle set for hire

CLOC Music Theatre  in Melbourne sold more than 6000 tickets to their dazzling production of Hot Shoe Shuffle. What an honour for me to have this company stage two shows  I represent in ...

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 ...

Children's Musicals by Peter Pinne and Don Battye

Peter and Don have completed re-publishing their entire set of delightful children's musicals staged at Monash University during the 1970's. They include beautiful CD backing tracks. New ...

Ned Kelly rides again.

I had great pleasure attending two excellent productions of Reg Livermore's Ned Kelly by the Wollongong Arcadians and Stringybark Productions Newcastle NSW. Reg Livermore saw the show again for ...

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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...