Ensemble Theatre has announced its 2023 season, with everything from classics to new works, hilarious comedy, to touching drama. Next year sees another 10-play season take to the stage, featuring huge cast names and brilliant playwrights, with a focus on female writing and directing.
Inner West, Sydney, known as Postcode 2044 is regarded as a uniquely creative community with vibrant and diverse neighbourhoods made up of different cultures, ideologies and experiences. Come and celebrate Postcode 2044 over two weekends 12-14 August and 19-21 August.
Emme Hoy has been appointed Sydney Theatre Company's new Patrick White Playwrights Fellow, one month before her adaptation of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – directed by STC Resident Director Jessica Arthur – is due to open at Roslyn Packer Theatre.
To celebrate its recent 50th birthday, Currency Press, Australia's foremost publisher of the performing arts, is convening the Australian Playwrights' Festival. Showcasing our playwrights and the roles they have played in reflecting our society and defining who we are, the festival will be held from 18-20 March 2022 at the Paddington RSL.
Mark Kilmurry, Artistic Director, Ensemble Theatre is thrilled to announce the 2022 Season which, says Kilmurry, will be a season of 10 exceptional shows by the best Australian and international playwrights including 2 special events with theatre legends.
Angus Cerini has been appointed Sydney Theatre Company's new Patrick White Playwrights Fellow, just six months after his gothic two-hander Wonnangatta starring Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair marked the Company's return to the stage following last year's industry shutdown.
Atlantic has announced a new lineup of free virtual Technique Tuesday classes, every Tuesday March 9 - April 13 at 5:30pm ET for those seeking a creative release during this time. Technique Tuesdays are free hour-long acting workshops rooted in the Atlantic Acting School technique, led by renowned school faculty and Atlantic Ensemble members.
Dylan Van Den Berg has been awarded the 2020 Griffin Award for new Australian playwriting for his play way back when.
Garry McQuinn and NIDA (Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art) have announced a collaborative partnership to produce the musical STARSTRUCK. Both organisations are keen to support the development of new Australian musicals: NIDA assisted as a platform to workshop the draft material in 2018 with students engaged with industry practitioners in a studio presentation. Following further development from writer Mitchell Butel and Hilary Bell, the piece will be realised under the direction of Kim Hardwick as a fully-staged performance as part of the NIDA October 2019 Season of Student Productions, co-produced with Garry's company RGM Productions in association with Palm Beach Pictures.
Mark Kilmurry, Artistic Director, Ensemble Theatre today announced the 2020 Season which, says Kilmurry, will be a season of forty of Australia's most talented actors in eleven plays of firsts and lasts, classics and comedies including eight new works, seven brilliant comedies, three much-loved classics plus a collaboration for the first time with Sydney Festival.
Hilary Bell's disquieting and downright chilling thriller channels tabloid news and primal fears alike. [29 July 2019] Griffin Theatre Company's Artistic Director Lee Lewis (The Bleeding Tree, Prima Facie) will direct Splinter, a spine-tingling psychological thriller from acclaimed Australian playwright Hilary Bell, starring Lucy Bell and Simon Gleeson, from 6 September.
Australian artist, writer and filmmaker Shaun Tan's award-winning picture book, The Red Tree, will be brought to life on stage in a new musical theatre work at Arts Centre Melbourne from 3 - 4 August, 2019. The much loved darkly beautiful book is the work of multi award-winning playwright Hilary Bell, award- winning songwriter and composer Greta Gertler Gold, production designer James Browne and director Neil Gooding.
Sydney Theatre Company announced last night that Nakkiah Lui is the 2018 STC Patrick White Playwrights Fellow. It was also announced that this year's Patrick White Playwrights Award recipient is Mark Rogers for his play Superheroes, which was presented as a rehearsed reading to a sell-out audience at the Richard Wherett Studio in the Roslyn Packer Theatre.
Sydney Theatre Company is inviting applications from Australia's talented playwrights for the 2018 Patrick White Playwrights Award and expressions of interest for the Patrick White Playwrights Fellowship. The prizes are designed to benefit both emerging and established writers and have a total prize pool of $32,500.
Gothic, a multidisciplinary, eerie and elegant music performance which surveys European, Australian and American expressions of 'gothic' from medieval to contemporary times will be performed at Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse on 25 November.
Griffin's Artistic Director Lee Lewis has announced a powerful and timely line-up for 2019-five Main Season plays, urgent stories, intense experiences and the extraordinary imagination of Australian playwrights.
Hilary Bell's adaptation of Moliere's classic satire The Hypochondriac will make its long awaited debut at Darlinghurst Theatre Company from 9 June - 1 July.
Sue Smith is the new STC Patrick White Playwrights' Fellow, it was announced tonight, 21 May 2018, at a special event at Sydney Theatre Company (STC). It was also announced that this year's Patrick White Playwrights' Award recipient is Kim Ho for his play Mirror's Edge, which was presented as a rehearsed reading to a sell-out audience at the Richard Wherrett Studio at the Roslyn Packer Theatre.
The 49th Annual NASHVILLE Film Festival continues its rollout of film announcements with the short films in competition. This year the festival received nearly 5,000 shorts submissions and 215 shorts were selected. Selected shorts this year include films made by Dev Patel, Justine Bateman, and Neill Blomkamp and starring Natalia Dyer, Armie Hammer, Alfred Molina, Sigourney Weaver, and Kerri Kenney.
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.
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