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International hit musical Girl from the North Country, by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, will have its Australian premiere tonight at the newly re-opened Theatre Royal Sydney.

Producers GWB Entertainment and Damien Hewitt today announced that the hit musical Girl from the North Country, by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, will open at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne on Friday 29 April for a limited season.

This is a performance to savour.

Girl From The North Country opens this January at the newly restored Theatre Royal Sydney as part of 2022 Sydney Festival.

Seasons One and Two of The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles podcast series are available now!

Theatre Republic heads to the big apple with the world premiere production of Emily Steel’s sharply observed drama HOW NOT TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

From new Australian works and a big, bold new musical to a shaken-up classic and celebration of an Australian sporting legend, State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2022 season is a platform for powerhouse performances. 

Púca festival is a spectacular, fun and otherworldly festival celebrating Ireland as the original birthplace of Halloween. In 2021 visitors from home and abroad are being welcomed back for a week of music and mythology, sideshows and standup, cabaret and cocktails, and everything else in between.

There is no Planet B.

Honnold, subject of white-knuckled Oscar®-winning documentary, “Free Solo” (now available on Disney+), has always dreamt of exploring Greenland and summiting its most challenging and remote peaks.

The cast includes Chris Asimos and Ezra Juanta (Ripcord), former Artistic Director Rosalba Clemente, former STCSA Ensemble member Rashidi Edward, Elizabeth Hay (The Gods of Strangers), Mark Saturno (A View from the Bridge), Ansuya Nathan (Hotel Mumbai), James Smith (Euphoria) and former ADT performer Kialea-Nadine Williams in her STCSA debut. 

Euphoria is a play with purpose.

Presented by State Theatre Company South Australia and Country Arts SA, Euphoria stars James Smith (Jasper Jones) and Ashton Malcolm (Rumpelstiltskin), under the direction of Nescha Jelk (Jasper Jones, RUMPUS). Following its official opening in Renmark at the end of April, Euphoria moves to the Space Theatre for a limited season in May, before heading on an extensive regional tour.

Moving Arts Theatre Company, known for their adventurous and immersive Site-Specific Theater, hasn't let a little thing like a global pandemic stop them from innovating.  Six writers from their LA based company got together and created a 9-episode Zoom Series called Isolation Inn, streaming now.  

Since 2015, Secret Song in Levis' Corner House has been filled with excited punters and artists, and no one gets to know in advance who's playing.  

A boisterous, topical and entertaining year of theatre is on offer for South Australians in the 2021 season from State Theatre Company South Australia. 

Casting has been announced for the final weeks of The Blank Theatre's 28th Annual Young Playwrights Festival. Being presented this year as digital shorts, the final four of 13 winning plays by young playwrights aged 15a?"19 from nine different states will be available to stream on Vimeo August 29a?"September 19.

If you can't get enough of true crime podcasts, documentaries, and police procedurals, former law enforcement officers Chris Berg and Paul James Smith have written a book of linked stories that you'll be unable to put down.

If you can't get enough of true crime podcasts, documentaries, and police procedurals, former law enforcement officers Chris Berg and Paul James Smith have written a book of linked stories that you'll be unable to put down. The Night Police (March 24, 2020) is a no-holds-barred, unflinching fictionalized version of real events that Berg and Smith experienced firsthand during their time in law enforcement in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. A look behind the curtain of the gritty world of policing, this is a book that will have readers turning pages and leave them wanting more.

When at her blissful best, Barbara Fasano makes the appealing onion-peeling of phrases judiciously considered, mining the potential of points of view and images that wordsmiths articulate. She luxuriates in the moods that melodists and instrumentalists paint.