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.
Pilot Theatre has today announced the casting for the world premiere of S. Shakthidharan's adaptation of The Bone Sparrow, Zana Fraillon's award winning moving novel about a Rohingya refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre in Australia.
Mercury Theatre, led by Executive Director, Steve Mannix and Executive Producer, Tracey Childs, today announces its 50th anniversary season.
Forget what you knew. With a bold ambition to reimagine how we experience and interact with the city itself, Sydney Festival's 2022 line-up – the first helmed by artistic director Olivia Ansell – is set to explode onto (and into) the city's parks, pools, streets, stages and screens this summer.
Belvoir has announced the productions making up its 2022 season. Next year sees nine plays (and one repertory season) take to the stage to introduce some astonishing new stage talent.
Following their critically acclaimed productions of Noughts & Crosses and Crongton Knights, Pilot Theatre, in co-production with York Theatre, will next year stage the world premiere of award-winning Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan's adaptation of The Bone Sparrow, Zana Fraillon's beautiful, vivid, and deeply moving story about a Rohingya refugee boy who has spent his entire life living in a detention centre in Australia.
Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival will put a spotlight on cultural engagement between Australia and Asia during tonight's opening event for its innovative new online series, OzAsia Talks.
Contemporary artists and arts professionals from across Asia will share their stories with a worldwide audience for OzAsia Talks a?" a series of critical conversations presented by Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival.
Screen Australia has announced two feature films, a television series, two children's dramas and an online project that will share in $6 million of production funding.
The winners of the 2019 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced tonight at a star-studded ceremony, with 35 Awards presented, shared between 18 productions which played in Sydney during the calendar year of 2019. More than 400 members of the Sydney theatre community packed the York Theatre at the Seymour Centre to celebrate.
Nominations were announced today for the Sydney Theatre Awards for 2019, which will be presented at a gala ceremony on Monday 20 January 2020 at 7pm at the York Theatre, Seymour Centre.
Belvoir is proud to announce the productions making up its 2020 season. With highlights including new works from established and emerging voices, a stunning array of talent both on and off stage, and an all-new production from the award-winning team behind Counting and Cracking, 2020 at Belvoir is set to be another memorable year.
The 2019 Helpmann Awards Act II tonight was a star studded black-tie gala event hosted by the fabulous dynamic duo of comedian, writer and actor, Susie Youssef, and Artistic Director of State Theatre SA, Mitchell Butel.
This year, for the very first time, 43 Helpmann Awards are being presented across two nights and two events in Melbourne, at the Victorian home of the performing arts, Arts Centre Melbourne.
Alana Valentine will present The Myth of the General Audience as this year's Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture, to be held at the Upstairs Theatre at Belvoir St Theatre on Monday 3rd December. The Philip Parsons Memorial Lecture will conclude with the announcement of this year's recipient of the illustrious Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights, presented by previous Philip Parson's Fellowship winner, Tommy Murphy.
Belvoir is pleased to announce that the theatre-making team behind Ruby's Wish, Holly Austin, Adriano Cappelletta and Jo Turner, have received the NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights.
National Theatre of Parramatta bursts onto the theatre scene creating theatre that reflects contemporary Australia and Western Sydney in all its diversity and complexity appealing to both new and existing theatre audiences. National Theatre of Parramatta is putting the nation on stage.
From stolen tea to online dating, experience electrifying new stories from five playwrights in MTC's Cybec Electric, a series of semi-staged readings in the Lawler, at Southbank Theatre between 6 to 22 February 2014.
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