Rhonda Burchmore News

Hey Melbourne, welcome to the 60's! It's time to put on your most colourful and crazily patterned outfit, tease your hair big, bold, and beautiful, and head on down to the Regent Theatre. Hairspray is back and this time it's the original Broadway version of the musical! Having grown up listening to the original Broadway cast album, it was a sheer delight for a theatre nerd like me to see the original version of Hairspray here in Australia. Seeing this production's opening night performance which coincided exactly 20 years from Hairspray's Broadway premiere was also a big fat cherry on the top! While some elements of the original version do now feel slightly dated and some of this production's casting choices don't always allow Hairspray's vibrant characters to shine as brightly as one would like, you can't deny that this show is just so much fun. From the moment the show opens with 'Good Morning Baltimore' to the standing ovation worthy finale of 'You Can't Stop The Beat', Hairspray will put a smile on your face and have you dancing in your seat.

Producers of the original Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray are have announced that the beloved production, which is soon to premiere at Melbourne's Regent Theatre, will be touring to Adelaide and Sydney from late 2022.

The final cast members have been unveiled for the highly-anticipated Australian premiere of the original Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray, which is set to open at the Regent Theatre in August.

The iconic Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide is adding another national award to its list of accolades, winning the Master Builder Association's (MBA) National Commercial/Industrial Construction Award $50 million to $100 million at the weekend.

Some of Australia’s most-loved performers including Todd McKenney, Rhonda Burchmore, Rob Mills, and Asabi Goodman are joining Shane Jacobson, as Edna Turnblad, to star in the upcoming premiere of the Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray, set to open at the Regent Theatre in August.

Adelaide cabaret artist, Libby O'Donovan has been presented with the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2022 Icon Award at The Variety Gala on the Festival Theatre stage tonight.

The iconic Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide has delivered another stellar performance, winning a major award at the Australian Institute of Building (AIB) Professional Excellence in Building Awards at the weekend.

A star-studded line up of some of Australia's most loved performers including Anton Berezin, Rhonda Burchmore, Fiona Choi, Peter Coleman-Wright, Amy Lehpamer, Ainsley Melham, Anna O'Byrne and Josh Piterman will celebrate the life of virtuoso Stephen Sondheim in the Australian tour of the Tony Award-nominated Sondheim on Sondheim.

Be transported by the atmosphere and excitement of a Parisian-themed revue with a parade of first-class entertainers and the daring beauty of exquisitely bejewelled dancers. Following sold out shows in Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide, the stage Spectacular Cabaret De Paris comes to Brisbane on 12 March 2022 at the Concert Hall, QPAC, then to Sydney on 22 and 23 April at the State Theatre.

Joining the Orchestra will be an all-star line-up of singers and performers from across the city’s theatres, playhouses and band rooms coming together to celebrate the return of live music and the arts in Melbourne. We are thrilled to share the spotlight with so many artists, most of whom will be making their MSO debuts. Show tunes, soul tunes, ballads and rock’n’roll under the stars –everything we have all missed for so long.

South Australia's iconic and recently redeveloped Her Majesty's Theatre was a big winner at the weekend's Master Builders South Australia Building Excellence Awards 2021, adding two major awards to its growing list of accolades.

Artists from Victoria's diverse arts community have joined forces with some of Melbourne's leading arts organisations to create an awareness campaign encouraging Victorians to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Cabaret De Paris celebrates old-fashioned showgirl glamour combined with the skill of adagio dancers, aerial pole artistry, comedy circus performers, quick change acts, illusionists, and of course the famous French Cancan Dancers!

Through the magic that only ‘real-life’ live television can bring, Dolly Diamond rescues ‘real-life’ contestants from their mundane existence and transforms them into their favourite music icons. Presented by Adam Lowe Group and proudly supported by the City of Stonnington, as part of this year’s Midsumma Festival.

This Midsumma Festival, Dolly Diamond will be rescuing contestants from their mundane lives, transforming them into their idols and making them stars for a night! Which stars will be unveiled? And who will win?

Hundreds of thousands of Australians have experienced the sheer delight of Director and Producer, Bonnie Lythgoe's  pantos. With incredible sets and special effects, star-studded casts, dazzling costumes, thrilling musical numbers – they're the must see family event that comes to Sydney each July.

Ella Hooper, The Black Sorrows and David Hobson are among a collection of artists who will perform back at Arts Centre Melbourne's Hamer Hall in episodes 9 & 10 of Arts Centre Melbourne's Big Night In with John Foreman.

Much-loved Australian singer-songwriter Lior, soprano Claire Lyon and singer, musical theatre and cabaret artist Danielle Matthews will join John Foreman for Episode 8 of the weekly digital variety series Arts Centre Melbourne's Big Night In.

Star of the stage and screen Hugh Sheridan, journalist and musical theatre performer Gorgi Coghlan and humourist and social /political commentator Gretel Killeen will join John Foreman for Episode 7 of the weekly digital variety series Arts Centre Melbourne's Big Night In.