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Les Solomon and Lambert House Enterprises have announced another of their famous nights to benefit the Actors Benevolent Fund of NSW. This is the 80th year of the Fund which works tirelessly to help and support older performers in times of financial need. Learn more about the benefit here!

Les Solomon and Lambert House Enterprises have announced another of their famous nights to benefit the Actors Benevolent Fund of NSW. This show will be a wander through memories of film, theatre and general entertainment - hosted by Les Solomon.

Brilliantly funny, William Finn (Music and Lyrics) and Rachel Sheinkin’s (Book) THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is presented by the new generation of musical theatre stars under Dash Kruck’s insightful direction.

ACTORS BENEVOLENT FUND’S most popular fundraiser event – CAUSE CELEB – NIGHT WITH THE STARS is back. After a break of three years ABF has announced that the popular indoor picnic and cabaret returns on Sunday 13 August with a night of song and laughter to provide help for arts professionals in times of need.

Lambert House Enterprises presents its latest performance – a staged reading of The Disappearance at the New Theatre in Newtown on Wednesday May 3rd at 8pm. A re-working of the classic book The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear, the play is also a partial adaptation of the screenplay Baxter by Reginald Rose (Twelve Angry Men).

COME FROM AWAY is a story that everyone should see so it is wonderful that the Australian production has had the resilience to withstand the challenges of two COVID-19 induced shutdowns, first during its Melbourne season and most recently during Sydney’s 4-month lockdown.

COME FROM AWAY, the warm welcoming hug of hope and the best of humanity has finally arrived in Sydney to the delight of audiences that have been waiting for this incredible piece of theatre based in truth to arrive after a pandemic induced delay. 

The Olivier Award-winning West End production of COME FROM AWAY returns to London's Phoenix Theatre from July 22, with the Tony Award-winning New York production re-opening in Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on September 21. 

Sydney's long-awaited season of COME FROM AWAY opens at Sydney's Capitol Theatre with performances from 3 June.  After being postponed due to Covid in 2020, this internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning musical is finally opening its doors to loyal Sydney audiences who have been waiting for many months to see this production. 

Come From Away will resume its five-week season at QPAC's Lyric Theatre this Tuesday 6th April (until 9th May).

Sydney arts lovers are in for a treat on Tuesday, February 2, when the weekly Arts Tuesday show returns to Eastside 89.7FM between 10.30 and 12 noon.

Come From Away officially returned to performances at the Comedy Theatre from Tuesday 19 January. This marks the first of the global companies of Come From Away to return to the stage, for a strictly limited season that must close on Sunday 21 March, prior to a national tour.

The Australian company is the first to re-take the stage worldwide, with Broadway, London, Toronto and North American Tour counterparts on hiatus.

Leading the way in a triumphant return to the theatre in Melbourne, COME FROM AWAY will be the first major musical back on stage, commencing performances at the Comedy Theatre from Tuesday 19 January.

The producers of Australia's first musical theatre show performed live online have announced that due to popular demand, a recording of the show will be released on an a?oeon demanda?? basis for a two week period. From Monday 29 June, WHO'S YOUR BAGDADDY (OR HOW I STARTED THE IRAQ WAR), which was performed online from 24 - 28 June for five performances, will be available to view until Sunday 12 July.

Neil Gooding's (Director) reimagining of Marshall Pailet (music and book) and A.D. Penedo's (lyrics and book) WHO'S YOUR BAGHDADDY (OR HOW I STARTED THE IRAQ WAR) draws on the technology that has kept the world connected to bring a different style of live theatre to audiences that are not allowed in theatres.

During the current Covid-19 restriction, the arts community has been compelled to move their creativity online due to the inability of people to attend theatre productions. Now comes the first season of a stage musical reimagined to be performed online - WHO'S YOUR BAGDADDY (OR HOW I STARTED THE IRAQ WAR) will be performed online from 24 to 28 June

WHO'S YOUR BAGDADDY (OR HOW I STARTED THE IRAQ WAR) will be performed online from 24 to 28 June for five performances only.

Come From Away had its Melbourne premiere at the Comedy Theatre on Saturday 20 July. Get a first look at the production!

COME FROM AWAY, Irene Sankoff and David Hein's (Book, Music and Lyrics) multi award winning musical about the other side of the 9/11 story, has captivated Melbourne hearts in its beautiful heartwarming celebration of the best of the human spirit.