Dawn Walton OBE directs Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (Ismene), Liz Crowther (Tiresias), Wendy Kweh (Creon), Joseph Payne (Haemon) and Adeola Yemitan in her professional stage debut as Antigone.
Shake & Stir Theatre Co's adaptation of Roald Dahl classic Fantastic Mr Fox will not be going ahead in 2021 and the upcoming season of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, directed by STC Resident Director Shari Sebbens, will be rescheduled into the 2022 season.
OzAsia Festival 2021 will feature more than 300 artists in what is expected to be the world's most significant showcase of Asian Australian talent, with tickets now on sale for an exciting range of contemporary works.
Since the introduction of restrictions for Greater Sydney in June, STC has cancelled 172 performances nationally across six productions - Grand Horizons, Triple X, White Pearl, The 7 Stages of Grieving, The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Company’s Rough Draft program.
Triple X examines the relationship between straight ‘Wall Street banker bro’ Scotty and trans performer Dexie (Chase) who begin an affair, just a few months before Scotty is due to marry his ‘perfect’ fiancée. Glace – a self-described trans queen – says, while Triple X is a story deep from her heart, the themes it delves into are universal.
Learn more about all of the affected productions, as a lockdown is now being enforced in Greater Sydney including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour local government areas.
The Australian premiere of Destinations by acclaimed Taiwanese-Australian pianist Belle Chen is one of three shows providing a sneak peek at Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival 2021.
Sydney Theatre Company has announced that Patrick McIntyre, the Company's Executive Director, is stepping down after more than 11 years in the role.
Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room - a wordsmith, a charmer, a ruthless fighter. She works twice as hard and runs twice as fast as any of the pretty boys, because she's deeply ashamed of something about herself. She's fallen hard for Roxanne, the brilliant, beautiful new girl in town with a penchant for poetry and a way with words. Just like Cyrano.
The old adage 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' will be put to the test in spectacular fashion in Anchuli Felicia King's White Pearl - a fast-paced, millennial comedy coming to Sydney Theatre Company in July and touring to Brisbane, Parramatta and Canberra.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat will host nine weeklong in-person residencies for 23 musical theatre writers of nine new musicals between June 27 and August 29. Writers include Tony-nominee Beth Malone, Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls; Jonathan Larson winners Avi Amon, Sara Cooper, Ty Defoe, and Anna Jacobs and more.
New York-based, Australian performer and two-time Griffin Award-winning playwright Glace Chase will finally make her Sydney Theatre Company debut in July with Triple X - a semi-autobiographical trans love story that's evocative, tender and hilarious.
Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), Queensland Theatre and Brisbane Festival have announced the cast for the world premiere of Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe, adapted for the stage by Tim McGarry.
Stage legends John Bell and Linda Cropper lead an exceptional cast in Sydney Theatre Company's production of the Broadway comedy Grand Horizons - which is having its Australian premiere at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in June.
Captivating, heartwarming and heartbreaking, Jeanine Tesori (Music) and Lisa Kron’s (Book and Lyrics) adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir FUN HOME has finally opened in Sydney after a pandemic induced delay
Twenty-six years after it was written, Australian classic The 7 Stages of Grieving is receiving a contemporary update under the guidance of Sydney Theatre Company's Resident Director Shari Sebbens.
Academy Award-winning French playwright Florian Zeller's work is back at MTC with The Truth, opening on Thursday 10 June at Southbank Theatre.
Capitalizing on the popularity of reconnecting with vintage aesthetics, Laura Wade’s (playwright) HOME, I’M DARLING considers the danger of delving too far into the retro fantasy and trying to recreate a 1950’s life in the 21st century.
Three emerging theatre designers have been appointed as Sydney Theatre Company's first Design Associate Program cohort - lighting designer Kate Baldwin, sound designer/composer Brendon Boney and set/costume designer James Lew.
Hit Broadway comedy The Lifespan of a Fact, by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell - a somewhat accurate, sort of factual, mostly true story about the slippery nature of facts - will make its Australian premiere, opening on Friday 21 May at the Arts Centre Melbourne.
