Damien Cooper News

The Australian Ballet 2015 season commences in style this February with a Sydney-only run of Graeme Murphy's internationally acclaimed Swan Lake at the Capitol Theatre (20 - 28 February).

Three leading Sydney based performing arts companies have combined forces with some of Australia's most renowned dance and theatre makers, under the direction of Patrick Nolan, to explore the rituals of courtship and young love in PUNCTURE at Riverside Theatres from 21 to 25 January in a world premiere performance at Sydney Festival 2015.

Lally Katz's endearingly quirky sense of humour would surely win over even the grumpiest person in the world.

Brink Productions presents a Belvoir and Malthouse Theatre production -- Stories I Want to Tell You in Person by Lally Katz, today, 29 October - 8 November, 2014 at The Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide.

A century on The Rite of Spring is being used for a contemporary dance piece, Meryl Tankard's amazing work, The Oracle

Brink Productions presents a Belvoir and Malthouse Theatre production -- Stories I Want to Tell You in Person by Lally Katz, 29 October - 8 November, 2014 at The Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide.

William McInnes and Sigrid Thornton make their highly anticipated return to the MTC stage alongside Nathaniel Dean and Zahra Newman in The Effect. Exploring our pill-popping culture, our love of being in love, and what's real in a world where millions are living in a chemically controlled reality, The Effect opens Thursday 21 August 2014 at Southbank Theatre, The Sumner.

This production will leave the audience deeply moved and full of respect for what our armed forces go through during and after their terms of duty.

Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian Defence Force present The Long Way Home in its Melbourne premiere. The show, by Daniel Keene, will run today 27 to 29 March 2014 at the Merlyn Theatre, The Coopers Malthouse.

Australia's theatre doyenne Robyn Nevin reunites with director Simon Stone for the Melbourne season of Belvoir's celebrated production Neighbourhood Watch which returns the play to its

Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian Defence Force present The Long Way Home in its Melbourne premiere. The show, by Daniel Keene, will run 27 to 29 March 2014 at the Merlyn Theatre, The Coopers Malthouse.

The Mike Walsh Fellowships enable young theatre practitioners to travel overseas to further their knowledge and experience in their chosen fields of the performing arts, before returning to Australia to pursue their careers.

The curtain goes up on The Melbourne Ring Cycle today, Monday 18 November, when stars of Australian and international stages come together at Arts Centre Melbourne for the biggest opera event ever seen in Australia. Audiences from across the globe and interstate are now arriving for Ring Cycle experiences destined to form memories of a lifetime.

The curtain goes up on The Melbourne Ring Cycle on Monday 18 November, when stars of Australian and international stages come together at Arts Centre Melbourne for the biggest opera event ever seen in Australia. Audiences from across the globe and interstate are now arriving for Ring Cycle experiences destined to form memories of a lifetime.

Arguably the greatest opera of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, comes to the Canadian Opera Company this fall for seven performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts tonight, October 5 and October 8, 11, 17, 20, 23, 26, 2013. Recognized worldwide as the finest dramatic tenor before the public today, Canadian Ben Heppner returns to the COC in one of his favourite roles as the title character in Britten's gripping opera about an alienated fisherman and the seaside village he struggles to inhabit. Peter Grimes is sung in English with English SURTITLES.

With no green tights in sight, Belvoir's wild and unlikely Peter Pan lands on 42nd Street in Times Square for its U.S. premiere at The New Victory Theater from today, October 4 - 13, 2013.

Arguably the greatest opera of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, comes to the Canadian Opera Company this fall for seven performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on October 5, 8, 11, 17, 20, 23, 26, 2013. Recognized worldwide as the finest dramatic tenor before the public today, Canadian Ben Heppner returns to the COC in one of his favourite roles as the title character in Britten's gripping opera about an alienated fisherman and the seaside village he struggles to inhabit. Peter Grimes is sung in English with English SURTITLES.

With no green tights in sight, Belvoir's wild and unlikely Peter Pan lands on 42nd Street in Times Square for its U.S. premiere at The New Victory Theater from October 4 - 13, 2013. Adapted by award-winning playwright Tommy Murphy (West End's Holding the Man, Belvoir's Gwen in Purgatory) and directed by Belvoir's Artistic Director - dreamer and lost boy leader - Ralph Myers (Private Lives), Peter Pan and his strange story unfurl on a single set, a kid's bedroom in 1980s suburban Australia. This adaptation of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan launches the 2013-14 season of The New Victory Theater, New York's premier performing arts venue for families.

You've seen the traditional version, now be taken on another emotional journey with Graeme Murphy's modern interpretation of Swan Lake. The glinting ice-blue lake is back on the Arts Centre Melbourne stage this winter for an exclusive Melbourne season of eleven performances from tonight, 21 June 2013.

You've seen the traditional version, now be taken on another emotional journey with Graeme Murphy's modern interpretation of Swan Lake.