Kate Mulvany has been announced as the latest recipient of STC's Patrick White Playwrights' Fellowship at a special event at The Wharf on Friday 22 May. Now in its fifth year, the Fellowship is a position for an established playwright whose work has been produced professionally in Australia within the last four years. Mulvany receives $25,000 in recognition of her body of work and previous artistic achievements. As well as including a commission from STC which she will develop during the year-long tenure, the Fellowship provides opportunities for her to share her skills with other playwrights and artists.
BOYS WILL BE BOYS, a Sydney Theatre Company commission at Wharf 2 from 16 April to 9 May, is a bold, risque new work by Melissa Bubnic, winner of STC's 2010 Patrick White Playwright's Award for her play, Beached. The run has only limited ticket availability remaining and the first tranche of Suncorp Twenties ($20 tickets for every STC performance) for Boys will be boys become available on 7 April 2015.
Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Andrew Upton will step down at the end of this year. The company, which is beginning its search for a new artistic director, posted the following announcement on its website.
The Helpmann Awards are Australia's version of Broadway's Tony Awards and London's Olivier Awards. The annual awards recognise achievement in live performance including musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, cabaret, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre.
Sydney Theatre Company's Actor On A Box series returns during the Autumn school holidays, created and directed by the incomparable Jonathan Biggins, who turns his talents to theatre for young people for the first time with The Tale Maker.
Sydney Theatre Company's Actor On A Box series returns during the Autumn school holidays, created and directed by the incomparable Jonathan Biggins, who turns his talents to theatre for young people for the first time with The Tale Maker.
Actor on a Box is a series of school holiday shows designed to introduce the magic of theatre to the youngest audiences aged 3 and up. Combining one actor, classic storytelling and physical theatre these fun, intimate and interactive performances will be staged at the Richard Wherrett Studio, Sydney Theatre, from 21 September to 30 September, after it was a hit with little and big people when it was first presented in 2010.
In Actor On A Box: The Dreaming, director Leah Purcell will lead young audiences back to the very beginnings of Pamanyungun, respectfully sharing stories passed on to her about the great spiritual powers of the ancestors and the awakening of the land - Wake Up Australia!
In Actor On A Box: The Dreaming, director Leah Purcell will lead young audiences back to the very beginnings of Pamanyungun, respectfully sharing stories passed on to her about the great spiritual powers of the ancestors and the awakening of the land - Wake Up Australia!
Next Stage, Sydney Theatre Company's artform development strand presented in Wharf 2 throughout 2011, features the work of emerging artists and offers distinctly different experiences to the Company's Main Stage program.
Next Stage, Sydney Theatre Company's artform development strand presented in Wharf 2 throughout 2011, features the work of emerging artists and offers distinctly different experiences to the Company's Main Stage program.
Actor on a Box is a series of school holiday shows designed to introduce the magic of theatre to the youngest audiences aged 3 and up. Combining one actor, classic storytelling and physical theatre, these fun, intimate and interactive performances will be staged at the Richard Wherrett Studio, Sydney Theatre, from 13 April to 17 April 2010.
