David Finnigan News

This July, Theatre Deli presents the best upcoming fringe theatre before it hits the world famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival next month.

Shoreditch Town Hall announces premieres, partnerships, and hit shows this autumn in the first season curated by Head of Cultural Programme Ellie Browning and CEO Beth Byrne since their appointments in 2021.

Tickets go on sale to Barbican Patrons today, Barbican Members Plus on Thursday 16 June, Barbican Members on Friday 17 June and on general sale on Saturday 18 June 2022.

What might an equitable, sustainable, decarbonized, and just society look like? Downstage's Climate Change Theatre Action, a live staged-reading of short plays on December 9 & 10th, tackles the challenging conversation around climate change and taps into the creative minds of playwrights from around the world to envision possibilities for our future.

What might an equitable, sustainable, decarbonized, and just society look like? Downstage's Climate Change Theatre Action, a live staged-reading of short plays on December 9 & 10th, tackles the challenging conversation around climate change and taps into the creative minds of playwrights from around the world to envision possibilities for our future.

Following a sold-out season at Belvoir’s Downstairs Theatre in 2020, 44 Sex Acts in One Week will return to Sydney - bigger and (if it’s actually possible) even better, for a revamped and reimagined season from 12th to 16th January at the Seymour Centre, as part of Sydney Festival’s 2022 program. 

The Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award winner was announced as Sonali Bhattacharyya. Her play Chasing Hares presents the Jatra (Bengali folk theatre) stage, the factory floor and the routes of delivery drivers as sites of resistance and transformation in Britain and India. 

Moving into Theatre Uncut's 10th year, the second Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award will be announced in the first ever binaural award ceremony, streaming on 6th May at 5pm on Theatre Uncut's website and YouTube channel.

Climate Change Theatre Action will return in 2021 for its fourth iteration. A worldwide series of readings and performances of short plays about the climate crisis, CCTA 2021 will take place from September 19 to December 18 to coincide with the United Nations 26th Conference of the Parties (COP 26).

Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis is now available in paperback and ebook from Lulu and Amazon. Edited by Chantal Bilodeau and Thomas Peterson, this anthology includes 49 inspiring plays by writers from across the world.

Up Late with Belvoir and Moonshine & Tits Productions are pleased to present the premiere of 44 *** Acts in One Week, an apocalyptic rom-com created in extraordinary times. Premiering from 16 – 20 December at Belvoir St Theatre, 44 *** Acts in One Week is part gig, part radio-play and part stab in the dark, in a subversive and joyful response to the madness that was 2020. 

Dylan Van Den Berg has been awarded the 2020 Griffin Award for new Australian playwriting for his play way back when.

Mad Cow Theatre's original Science Play Festival returns using, guess what!?...Science! To bring their unique festival of science related plays to life, they will be live-streaming their events online.

Cabaret stars from across Australia and around the world will mark Adelaide Cabaret Festival's 20th anniversary with online celebrations starting tonight until June 20.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival is going digital with a curated collection of bite-sized clips from artists who were set to feature in the 2020 program.

Arts House will showcase two inspiring and exhilarating Australian premieres as part of the 2020 Asia TOPA program.

With Traverse Festival 2019 presenting a total of seven Traverse Theatre Company productions - more than any recent year documented - we are thrilled to look ahead to our autumn/winter season, which is similarly abundant with fresh and provocative Traverse Theatre Company new work. We have a total of three world premiere productions - The Monstrous Heart, Strange Tales, and I Can Go Anywhere - as well as a new writing showcase (First Stages Festival) and the return of our long-running flagship education project Class Act.

With an immense and exciting programme of 265 shows, Pleasance has programmed a bumper year for you to enjoy this summer with theatre, comedy, music, circus, family shows, magic and dance. There's surely nowhere else you'd rather be!

Joining the cast of the European premiere of Kill Climate Deniers are Home and Away's Kelly Paterniti as Bekken, the critically acclaimed stand-up Bec Hill as Catch and Coronation Street's Hannah Ellis Ryan. Exploring in parallel a hostage situation as it teeters on the brink of calamity and what happened when writer David Finnigan first tried to stage this play, the production blends fact and fiction as Nathan Coenen stars as Finig (The Sleepover Club; Teen Wolf).

Griffin Theatre Company will present the premiere of Prima Facie, Suzie Miller's gripping one-woman show starring Sheridan Harbridge, directed by Lee Lewis at the SWB Stables Theatre from 17 May 2019.