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Coconut Theatre has taken an ambitious and challenging project during this World-wide lockdown.

American Repertory Theater at Harvard University announced upcoming free virtual conversations and events offering audiences opportunities to engage with acclaimed affiliated artists and renowned Harvard scholars, and to honor the moments we would have been together if not for the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People)a?"Jack and Algy fabricate delicious double lives to escape the straitjacket of social norms and to find the lovers they desire.

In conjunction with its upcoming revival of 1776 directed by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus, American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University will host a series of conversations with acclaimed Harvard scholars that consider the Declaration of Independence and topics and themes raised by the musical.

Has being home for winter break given your kids the blues? Are they in need of an adventure? Or do you need an escape? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then Kate Godman Children's Theatre's production of David Woods a?oeJames and the Giant Peacha?? is for you. This journey will take you to Central Park, to London, and back all within the confines of 1 hour and 15 minutes. This magical production will excite children of all ages, and I can't wait to tell you about it.

From the backstreets of Melbourne's northern suburbsto the depths of Antarctica, a Scottish Shakespearean spectacle to Oscar Wilde's most famous comedy of lies, Malthouse Theatre brings history, culture, politics, subversion, great odysseys and truth-telling together under one roof. In 2020 Malthouse Theatre is going ALL IN.

Renowned performance makers Everybody NOW's You Should Be Dancing will feature as a highlight of the 2019 Darebin Speakeasy season, hitting the stage from 20 a?" 22 September at the Northcote Town Hall. The non-stop exhilarating party through decades of dance will leave participants smiling from ear to ear, a little breathless and hopefully still discovering glitter and newly found moves for days to come!

A new work of participatory theatre, which takes its audience on an epic journey from Town Hall meeting into the belly of a whale, can be seen at the Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre from 1 - 11 May as a feature of the 2019 Speakeasy season.

Celebrating its sixth birthday in 2019, Darebin Arts Speakeasy season features contemporary and challenging performances by leading creatives including Fleur Kilpatrick, Jessica Wilson, David Woods, Lemony S Puppet Theatre and Joseph O'Farrell.

On Today, October 3, award-winning historian and writer Jill Lepore returns to The Music Hall Loft to talk about her new nonfiction book, THESE TRUTHS. A magisterial account of the origins and rise of our divided nation, it is heralded as the most ambitious one-volume chronicle of American history in decades.

On Wednesday, October 3, award-winning historian and writer Jill Lepore returns to The Music Hall Loft to talk about her latest book, THESE TRUTHS: A History of the United States. This inspiring and meticulously researched work probes the origins and development of our country through the lens of its ideals. With her engaging prose and characteristic ability to illuminate new contours of familiar terrain, Lepore assesses three ideas that shaped the nation of contradictions we inhabit today, providing much needed context to today's hot-button issues.

In a series of nine new and captivating works that expand the notion of mortality and tackle the taboos of peoples inevitable demise, Arts House invite audiences to dig deep into death, dying, grief and celebration in playful and surprising ways.

On Wednesday, October 3, award-winning historian and writer Jill Lepore returns to The Music Hall Loft to talk about her new nonfiction book, THESE TRUTHS. A magisterial account of the origins and rise of our divided nation, it is heralded as the most ambitious one-volume chronicle of American history in decades.

Over four days, from March 21 to 24, the biggest minds and talents in Australian theatre will gather in Sydney at Darlinghurst Theatre Company's Eternity Playhouse for the 2018 National Play Festival, to share their stories through performances, masterclasses, artist talks and panels.

Over four days, from March 21 to 24, the biggest minds and talents in Australian theatre will gather in Sydney at Darlinghurst Theatre Company's Eternity Playhouse for the 2018 National Play Festival, to share their stories through performances, masterclasses, artist talks and panels.

This October, The Big Anxiety festival of arts + science + people and The Seymour Centre present Give Me Your Love, bringing the return of theatre legends Jon Haynes and David Woods (Ridiculusmus) with a funny, fragile and profound fable based on groundbreaking medical research and real-life war testimonies.

Georges Feydeau's early 20th Century French farce is given further complexity in Andrew Upton's adaptation of A FLEA IN HER EAR. Under the Simon Phillips direction, Sydney Theatre Company presents a hilariously delicious layered confection of cotton candy stickiness and fluff.

Andrew Upton's new adaptation for Sydney Theatre Company of the 1907 French farce, A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, is realised in all its clockwork-precision by the creative team behind STC's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: director Simon Phillips, designer Gabriela Tylesova and lighting designer Nick Schlieper. Performances are at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House from 31 October to 17 December (opening 4 November 2016).

Andrew Upton's new adaptation for Sydney Theatre Company of the 1907 French farce, A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, is realised in all its clockwork-precision by the creative team behind STC's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: director Simon Phillips, designer Gabriela Tylesova and lighting designer Nick Schlieper. Performances are at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House from 31 October to 17 December (opening 4 November 2016).