Tom Wright News

Incredible interactive art sensation House of Mirrors, US singer-songwriter Kurt Vile, US godfather of chillwave Toro Y Moi and Aussie music legends The Bamboos are all set to rock the Adelaide Festival's newest and most exciting venue, the Riverbank Palais and surrounding Parc Palais, as part of its exciting first program, unveiled today.

Michael Gow's Away is widely regarded as one of the classic plays of the Australian theatrical canon. In Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre's new production, beginning 18 February 2017 at Sydney Opera House followed by a Melbourne season, director Matthew Lutton will heighten the theatrical breadth and spectacle inherent in this sharply observed and emotionally-charged drama.

Don't Look Away is returning to the Old Fitz Theatre from 13 December to revive the time-honoured tradition of an end of season pantomime. Babes in the Woods is a brand new pantomime developed especially for the Old Fitz Theatre in which fiscal temptation and the Australian dream collide.

*Please Refresh Browser To Stay Updated* BWW Sydney will be attending the 16th Annual HELPMAN AWARDS being presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at Sydney Lyric Theatre on Monday 25th July. *Please Refresh Browser To Stay Updated*

BWW Sydney attended the announcement of the 2016 HELPMANN AWARDS NOMINATIONS at Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf 2 Theatre.

Allstate Insurance Company, a longtime advocate of the motorcycle community, announced today that it is teaming up with country music star and avid rider, Frankie Ballard, for its first-ever Guardians of the Ride initiative.

Writer Tom Wright and director Matthew Lutton seem to have an acute awareness of their audience here, and what that audience brings to this picnic. This version is a retelling of the events that Valentine's Day in 1900, an explicit mythologising of them.

Malthouse Theatre presents Picnic at Hanging Rock at Merlyn Theatre 26 February-20 March.

Tom Wright's World Premiere adaptation of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, based on Joan Lindsay's novel, will be directed by Matthew Lutton at Malthouse Theatre's Merlyn Theatre, running 26 February - 20 March 2016.

'It's a season that will ignite heated debate about sex, death and revolution, and bring a wide range of communities together through new works created by independent and international artists,' said Lutton.

From Freedom Studios, the producers of the acclaimed Home Sweet Home and The Mill - The City of Dreams comes Brief Encounters at Bradford Interchange, a new site- specific promenade production inspired by the people who work and travel through Bradford's iconic Interchange station.

Over one hundred years ago, a bullet from an assassin's gun in Sarajevo sparked a war that ignited the globe. Patriotic young men from all over lined up to join the fight - patriots who included hundreds of Indigenous Australians.

The Helpmann Awards, which has recognised the achievements in live performance in Australia since 2001, is the Australian industry's equivalent of the Tony Awards and the Olivier Awards.

The best thing about Blackbird, Tom Wright's second novel featuring a character named Jim Bonham (who almost nobody calls Jim), is the cover design, which is spare, evocative, compelling. Nothing's wasted there.

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.

From Freedom Studios, the producers of the acclaimed The Mill - The City of Dreams and leading participatory arts company Entelechy Arts comes Home Sweet Home, a new immersive theatre production that explores the experience of growing older and the ageing process in contemporary Britain. Directed by Freedom Studio's associate director Tom Wright (The Container, Young Vic) the exciting new piece by Emma Adams (Forgotten Things , shortlisted for the 2009 Meyer-Whitworth Award and Freakoid, nominated for an Off West End Theatre Award 2013) will premiere in Bradford in September and then tour to The Albany in Deptford and finally the ARC, Stockton Arts Centre.