Tim’s playing Northern Irish ex-convict Smasher Sullivan in the ABC mini-series The Secret River, adapted from Kate Grenville’s acclaimed novel.
The two part series starts 8:30pm this Sunday, 14th June and concludes on Sunday 21st June.
Both episodes will be available on ABC iView.
Details about the programme can be found on the ABC website where (if you scroll down and to the right a bit) they describe Smasher Sullivan’s background and character. Below, Tim talks briefly about playing him:
Tim’ll be joining the Festival Supreme line-up, at the Shrine Expo Hall & Grounds, Los Angeles, on Saturday 10th October, 2015.
Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D have once again put together an extraordinary line-up for their third LA comedy rock festival, including Die Antwood, The Kids In The Hall, The Darkness, Dan Deacon, Jenny Slate, Big Freedia, Amy Poehler, Kristen Schaal, Tenacious D (of course) and many many more. See the poster below.
You’ll find the full line-up and detailed festival information on the Festival Supreme website.
Pre-sale tickets are available Tuesday, June 9th at 10am PST through to Wednesday, June 10th at 10am PST from FestivalSupreme.com, password “SUPREME”.
Tickets will go on general sale Thursday, June 11th at 12pm PST.
Yesterday evening Tim attended the official Matilda The Musical US Tour opening night at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. The show will enthrall LA audiences at the Ahmanson until July 12th, before heading around the country to a theatre near or near-ish to you!
There are performances at cities all over the US, including San Francisco’s SHN Orpheum Theatre, Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre, Dallas’ AT&T Performing Arts Center and many more. It’s a delightfully long list!
To see the full touring schedule listed, and viewable on a map, head over to the Matilda The Musical National US Tour website, where you can also purchase your tickets.
The three girls sharing the title role are Gabby Gutierrez, Mia Sinclair Jenness, and Mabel Tyler. The principal cast also features (alphabetically): Jennifer Blood (Miss Honey), Quinn Mattfeld (Mr. Wormwood), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull) and Cassie Silva (Mrs. Wormwood).
Below you can see the three US Tour Matildas with Tim and Lucy Dahl. For the sake of fairness, Tim picked a name out of a hat to see which of them would play Matilda on opening night. Click here if you’d like to see who was chosen.
(L-R Front) The Matildas – Gabby Gutierrez, Mabel Tyler and Mia Sinclair Jenness with (L-R Back) Lucy Dahl and Tim at the opening night party.
Next month Tim will be doing a charity show for Guardian Scholars at Largo, in Los Angeles.
Monday June 8th, 2015
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8:30pm
Tickets are $50 and available here.
Tim: “I’ll play and chat for an hour or two. We’ll drink some wine. It’ll be fun. Please note that this is a “greatest hits” show. Not that I’ve had any hits, but you know what I mean. It’s old material. (There is new stuff afoot, but not just yet.) Tx”
You can learn more about the work of Guardian Scholars here.
The ABC mini-series The Secret River, adapted from Kate Grenville’s acclaimed novel, will be shown at 8:30pm, Sunday 14th June and Sunday 21st June, on ABC.
This is your chance to see Tim, as Northern Irish ex-convict Smasher Sullivan.
Directed by Daina Reid, the series, which will air on ABC in two 90 minute episodes, stars British actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen as William Thornhill, a convict, and Sarah Snook as Sal, his free settler wife, who are transported to the new colony of New South Wales in 1805. Tim is amongst a stellar cast which also includes: Lachy Hulme, Genevieve Lemon and Trevor Jamieson.
The Secret River was shot in locations across Victoria and on The Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney, last year. If you’ve not seen it already, then take a peek at the trailer to fire up your anticipation:
Photo by Joan Marcus
Lucky folk of Seattle, Tim’s coming to play for you!
Friday, 12th, June 2015.
8pm PDT
The Moore Theatre
Seattle, WA
Tickets will be available online here at 10am PDT today, 15th May, 2015.
This will be a show featuring your vintage satirical lyrical favourites and just maybe a song or two from one of his musicals Matilda (already on in the West End and on Broadway, soon to open in Sydney and about to tour the US) and Groundhog Day (opening in London’s West End, 2016 and then heading to Broadway in 2017).
Tim only performs live occasionally, at the moment, so tickets for this are likely to fly, so be sure to snap them up quickly!
Coming soon to ABC TV Australia: Tim, as Northern Irish ex-convict Smasher Sullivan, in the mini-series The Secret River, adapted from Kate Grenville’s acclaimed novel.
Directed by Daina Reid, the series, which will air on ABC in two 90 minute episodes, stars British actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen as William Thornhill, a convict, and Sarah Snook as Sal, his free settler wife, who are transported to the new colony of New South Wales in 1805. Tim is amongst a stellar cast which also includes: Lachy Hulme, Genevieve Lemon and Trevor Jamieson.
Whet your appetite with this trailer and glimpse Tim, as the Hawkesbury River resident, looking and sounding as you’ve never seen or heard him before:
The Secret River was shot in locations across Victoria and on The Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney, last year.
It will feature as part of the Sydney Film Festival next month.
We’ll announce, on here, as soon as we hear exactly when you’ll be able to see it on your tellys.
As we announced last year, the First National Tour of Matilda The Musical, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Dodgers, will begin this May in the US, with technical rehearsals and performances in New Haven at the Shubert Theater. Then the tour opens officially at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on the 7th June, 2015.
There will be dates at cities all over the country, including San Francisco’s SHN Orpheum Theatre, Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre and Dallas’ AT&T Performing Arts Center.
Further information, the full touring schedule and tickets are available from the Matilda The Musical National US Tour website.
The three girls sharing the title role are Gabby Gutierrez, Mia Sinclair Jenness, and Mabel Tyler. The principal cast also features (alphabetically): Jennifer Blood (Miss Honey), Quinn Mattfeld (Mr. Wormwood), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull) and Cassie Silva (Mrs. Wormwood).
The ensemble includes Cal Alexander, Kayla Amistad, Cameron Burke, Brittany Conigatti, Michael Fatica, Wesley Faucher, John Michael Fiumara, Camden Gonzales, Shonica Gooden, Evan Gray, Cassidy Hagel, Meliki Hurd, Michael Jablonski, Luke Kolbe Mannikus, Stephanie Martignetti, Megan McGuff, Ora Jones, Justin Packard, Serena Quadrato, Aristotle Rock, Jaquez Andre Sims, Ian Michael Stuart, Danny Tieger, Kaci Walfall, Natalie Wisdom, and Darius Wright.
If you’d like to catch up with how Tim came to write the music and lyrics for the stage musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s famous book, then the story so far is here. You’ll also find the reviews and a huge list of international awards Matilda has received, including four Tony Awards and a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards, along with photos and videos marking key chapters.
The four young actresses who are excited to share the title role in the Australian Premiere Season of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The Musical were announced today. They are (in alphabetical order) Molly Barwick, Sasha Rose, Georgia Taplin and Bella Thomas.
Matilda The Musical, commences performances from July 28th, 2015, at the Sydney Lyric Theatre with tickets currently on sale via the Matilda The Musical website for performances through to October 25th.
When news first broke that Matilda was joyfully swinging over to Australia, Tim said: “Working on Matilda has been one of the greatest thrills of my life, and I’ve been aching to let her loose on audiences at home. Most of us grew up reading Dahl – the Australian sense of humour gels so well with his dark, iconoclastic tone. The last time a musical I helped write opened in Sydney, the actors almost outnumbered the audience, the theatre leaked, and my drummer was a bass player. If Matilda’s arrival is half as fun as that was, it’ll be a hoot.”
All four of Sydney’s Matildas will be making their professional musical theatre debut.
Left to right – Molly Barwick, Sasha Rose, Georgia Taplin & Bella Thomas
Tim will be joining the panel on @midnight on Comedy Central again next week. Hosted by Chris Hardwick, the show is an internet-themed improv comedy panel show, where comedians compete to find the funniest take on the day’s social media.
The show will air on Comedy Central on Thursday 16th April, 2015, 12A/11C. Check your local schedules for further details. Episodes can be found on the Comedy Central @midnight website after they air.
Hulu will post the show the day after it airs and it will be available for 30 days. For more details check hulu.com/midnight.
Tim will be recording this episode on Wednesday, April 15th, 2015, at 7:00pm, at Hollywood Center Studios, so if you’re in or near LA, you might like to apply for tickets from On Camera Audiences (OCA).
UPDATE (15/04/15): The other panellists are Rhys Darby & Rich Fulcher!
Tim is one of 63 comedians interviewed for the new three-part documentary series Stop Laughing…This Is Serious, which starts at 9pm this Wednesday on ABC.
The series, narrated by Eric Bana, explores the development of Australian comedy through social and political change, inter-weaving extensive archive material and intimate interviews with some of the country’s best loved comedians, revealing how humour, laughter and comedy are integral to Australian national identity.
Episode 1: ‘Faark, Faark’ looks upwards at those in authority and “punching upwards”.
Wednesday, March 25th at 9pm
Episode 2: ‘Look at Moi, Look at Moi’ looks inwards at the importance of the Australian ability to laugh
at themselves.
Wednesday, April 1st at 9pm
Episode 3: ‘Hello Possums’ looks at Australian comedy on the world stage.
Wednesday, April 8th at 9pm
Matilda The Musical has been short-listed for the This Morning Audience Award at the Olivier Awards 2015.
It’s the only Olivier to be decided entirely by public vote.
If you voted for Matilda in Stage One (thank you!) you do not need to vote again as your vote has been carried forward.
However, if you have not yet voted then you have until 17:00 on 10th April, 2015, to take part in the Stage Two voting here.
The winner will be announced at the glittering Olivier Awards ceremony on Sunday 12th April, 2015, at Royal Opera House.
More information can be found at www.olivierawards.com.
Tim and director Matthew Warchus caught up with the four Matildas in rehearsals a couple of weeks ago and below the evidentiary photo you’ll find a short video of the Matildas encouraging voting before demonstrating expert execution of the Matilda pose:
L-R: Matthew Warchus, Matilda Shapland, Lara McDonnell, Anna-Louise Knight, Violet Tucker, Tim. Photo by Manuel Harlan
There have been a number of requests for the merch created for Tim’s spectacular Sydney Opera House ‘On The Steps’ show, last month, so it’s now been made available through Tim’s shop here. They ship internationally.
So, if you attended the gig but didn’t get near the merch stall or if you didn’t make it to the show but fancy a souvenir of the event with the unique artwork, here’s your chance.
There are Limited Edition T-shirts in a range of sizes and Limited Edition Posters, some of which are signed by Tim.
You can access the ‘shop’ via the tab above, selecting the ‘Australasia shop’ for these items or directly here: timminchin.bandtshirts.com.au.
UPDATE:The posters are A2 – 42.0cm x 59.4cm.
After the huge success of last year’s relaxed performance of Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge Theatre, The RSC will be putting on a second performance on Sunday 14th June 2015 at 3pm!
They’ll once again be teaming up with the National Autistic Society and Mousetrap Theatre Projects with the aim of making the performance accessible to people with autism and learning disabilities.
This special performance will see elements of the production adapted to reduce anxiety or stress. Lighting and sound levels are adjusted to soften their impact and audience members are free to move around the auditorium during the performance. Designated ‘chill-out’ areas will be provided outside the auditorium with soft seating and activities if being in the auditorium becomes overwhelming.
Tickets are available exclusively from the theatre box office on 0844 412 4652 and the RSC ticket hotline on 0844 800 1110
On Sunday, 1st February 2015, the Broadway production of Matilda the Musical will be putting on an autism-friendly performance!
The show is part of the Theatre Development Fund’s Autism Theatre Initiative, which aims to make theatre accessible to children and adults on the autism spectrum, as well as their families.
There’ll be a few slight adjustments to the production, including the reduction of any jarring sounds or strobe lights focused into the audience. In the theatre lobby there will be quiet areas and an activity area, staffed with autism specialists, for those who need to leave their seats during the performance.
The last few tickets can be booked exclusively, at a reduced rate, through the Theatre Development Fund’s website, which also includes several guides to help personalise the experience.
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