Sydney Theatre Company News

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) announces complete casting and the creative team for the world premiere of POP!, a new musical with book and lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman and music by Anna K. Jacobs, directed by Mark Brokaw. POP! will play for 22 performances only, November 27-December 19. Opening Night is Thursday, December 3.

Sydney Theatre Company and Medina Apartment Hotels in association with PowerArts present Spring Awakening a new musical. Book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Music by Duncan Sheik Based on the original play by Frank Wedekind

Frank Scheck of the New York Post has an interview up today on the Post's web site with the legendary Liv Ullmann, in which she talks about directing Cate Blanchett in one of the greatest parts of all time (and one of the few that Ullmann herself would have liked to play and never did.) Click here to read the full story about the production which comes to Brooklyn starting on Friday.

Sydney Theatre Company's forthcoming production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Liv Ullmann, is to tour to the United States. The production which will play at Sydney Theatre from 1 September to 10 October 2009, featuring STC Co-Artistic Director Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois, and will run at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington from 29 October to 21 November 2009 and Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), New York from 27 November to 20 December 2009.

Producers Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and David Mirvish have welcomed Simon Burke to their Toronto production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Burke, a versatile star of stage and screen originally from Australia but with a large body of work in the U.K., will take over the role of Captain von Trapp, having played the role in the West End London production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, opposite the 'Marias' of Connie Fisher and Summer Strallen.

Playwright Edward Albee, best known for Who's Araid of Virginia Woolf?, gave a rare public interview at the Sydney Theatre Company, and had not too many complimentary things to say about the state of theater production today, according to a report in moreintelligentlife.com.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts calendar of events for the fall months has just been released. All events are subject to change without notice. Free performances are held each evening at 6 p.m. on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

NATIONAL THEATRE: JANUARY - MARCH 2010 Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw lead the cast of Boucicault's LONDON ASSURANCE, directed by Nicholas Hytner in the Olivier

On Friday 4 December, Sydney Theatre Company welcomes Waiting for Guinness as part of The Wharf Sessions - the regular series of free post-show gigs at The Wharf, Sydney Theatre Company's harbour-side home at Walsh Bay.

Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Festival, Malthouse Melbourne and Edinburgh International Festival present Optimism by Tom Wright, after Voltaire.

Sydney Theatre Company presents THE WHARF REVUE: Pennies from Kevin, Written and created by Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott

Company B Belvoir has appointed a new Artistic Director. Set Designer, Director and Company B Associate Artist Ralph Myers will lead the company from the end of 2010.

Australia's most honored, beloved, (and Tony-winning) housewife, Dame Edna Everage, is proud to welcome producers Robert G. Bartner and the Ambassador Theatre Group on-board her new Broadway extravaganza It's All About Me.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts calendar of events for the fall months has just been released. All events are subject to change without notice.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts calendar of events for the fall months has just been released. All events are subject to change without notice. Free performances are held each evening at 6 p.m. on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

One of the world's foremost interpreters of Chekhov, Tamás Ascher, the Hungarian director of Ivanov which was a major hit at this year's Sydney Festival and around the world, will direct Uncle Vanya, a highlight of Sydney Theatre Company's 2010 Main Stage Season. The production at Sydney Theatre in November 2010, featuring Co Artistic Director Cate Blanchett alongside John Bell, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving in a new adaptation by Co-Artistic Director Andrew Upton, is already proving to be the most popular choice for 2010 Season Ticket holders.

Playwright Steven Soderbergh's newest play, TOT MOM, surrounding the disappearance and subsequent murder of Florida toddler Caylee Anthony, set to begin previews at the Sydney Theatre Company on December 18, has received considerable backlash from the public who have been uneasy about dramatizing such a controversial subject matter. Today, the shows producers, including Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Cate Blanchett are pushing back, defending both the project and Soderbergh.

THE WHARF SESSIONS SKYBOMBERS FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2009 AT 10PM (APPROX START)- FREE POST-SHOW LIVE MUSIC AT THE WHARF

Sydney Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Liv Ullmann, has embarked on its U.S. Tour. The production, which played the Sydney Theatre from 1 September to 10 October 2009, featuring STC Co-Artistic Director Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois, is now in previews at run at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington from October 29th to November 21st 2009 - with an opening night of October 31 - and Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), New York from November 27th to December 20th 2009. The Washington D.C. engagement is now completely sold out.

Sydney Theatre Company presents THE WHARF REVUE Pennies from Kevin, Written and created by Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott