Madeleine Gray News

The 2026 Sydney Writers' Festival has announced its program , delivering 200+ events from 250+ authors to transform Sydney into a week-long celebration of storytelling, 17–24 May.

Trevor Nunn's production runs until 13 April

Orange Tree Theatre has announced the full casting for Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Learn more about who is starring in the show here!

It’s a show about everything and nothing, with comic patterns that are so deliciously millennial and referential that a lack of contextual knowledge from the audience destroys its outcome. When the pieces fit together, however, your cheeks will be sore from laughing for an hour straight. They’re unafraid to overdo all of it, resulting in effectively caustic observations on the entertainment industry and how its advocacy is ultimately a self-serving sham.

A season of new plays and musicals are to get their world première as part of 'Riverside Reads', a series of read-through events at Riverside Studios on the first Tuesday of every month that will also be streamed live online to a global audience.

W and M are thrown together as scene partners on the first day of their Drama degree. Their off-stage relationship soon develops into a real-life love story. Amateur dramatics free, their romance unfolds without incident and in the haze of young passion; they meet the families, go away together and carry one another through the stresses of their degree. They listen to each other. They respect each other.

The eighth annual Bard SummerScape's opera presentation, Franz Schreker's The Distant Sound ('Der ferne Klang,' 1910), though familiar in Europe, has never yet - in the century since its composition - been fully staged in North America.

The eighth annual Bard SummerScape's opera presentation, Franz Schreker's The Distant Sound ('Der ferne Klang,' 1910), though familiar in Europe, has never yet - in the century since its composition - been fully staged in North America.