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You don’t have to be a Broadway baby to scratch your onstage acting itch. In fact, all around the country—and outside of it—there are bustling theater communities producing works so vibrant they’d have Edward Albee rolling over in his grave. Want in on that action? You’d be wise to know the ins and outs of industry happenings, and this is a good place to start: From across the pond and back again, here is the week’s biggest regional theater news. You’re an (Australian) wizard, Harry.All 42 performers for the upcoming Australian premiere production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” have been announced. Leading the cast in the title role will be Gareth Reeves alongside Paula Arundell as Hermione, Gyton Grantley as Ron Weasley, Lucy Goleby as Ginny, Tom Wren as Draco Malfoy, among others. Performances will begin Jan. 19, 2019 at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne.

Harmony.

Filming has begun.around.Sydney and the Illawarra region on.Harmony, a new feature directed by Corey Pearson and starring Jacqueline McKenzie, Eamon Farren, Jessica Falkholt, Jerome Meyer, Paula Arundell and featuring Tessa James.

Harmony is the story of a girl who extracts fear from anyone she encounters, a gift she was born with but is unable to control. According to Pearson, the film "explores the co-dependence of love and fear. We all experience fear in our lives, and often we let that fear consume us and govern our actions, which can prevent us from chasing our dreams."

Peter Drinkwater, the film's producer and co-founder (along with Pearson) of Film Grit, said: .We listen to our audience and Harmony has a clear female teenage target market. At a script level, we used the company Screen Audience Research Australia (Sara) to run focus groups at a table read with the...

Gods of Egypt, Alex Proyas. fantasy action-adventure starring Gerard Butler, Game of Thrones. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Geoffrey Rush and Brenton Thwaites, started shooting on Thursday at the Fox Studios.

The budget is reportedly $150 million, financed by Us studio Summit Entertainment with support from the Nsw government.s Investment Attraction Scheme.

When he announced the grant, Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner said the production will create an estimated 400 jobs in the local industry and contribute around $75 million in direct production expenditure to the Nsw economy.

Stoner said several of the State.s visual effects companies would be used to create the film.s sets, landscapes and creatures.

Entertainment One (formerly Hopscotch eOne) gets the Australian rights via its output deal with Summit. Based on Egyptian mythology, the screenplay is by Proyas, Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the team behind Universal.s Dracula Untold, which opens here in October.

Thwaites plays Bek, a young...