The Australian Theatre Festival - NYC has announced the upcoming 2020 online season, which includes 5 commissioned short plays, an online cabaret and an industry panel. The program will run December 4th and 5th, 2020, featuring Australian artists and stories over a virtual festival weekend.
Artistic Directors Mark Barford (Hadrian & Antinous, F*cking Men), Connor Delves (Daniel's Husband, Precious Little Talent) and Jillian Geurts (Holy Day, The Collector) today announced that The Australian Theatre Festival - NYC will go online this December, showcasing work by and with Australian artists in New York City.
Sam Worthington will join the cast of the Sydney Theatre Company production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins dark comedy, Appropriate, directed by Wesley Enoch at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in March 2021. Worthington will play Bo, joining Lucy Bell as his wife, Rachael, and Mandy McElhinney as Bo's sister Toni.
Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Kip Williams today unveiled Act 1, the first five plays of the 2021 season with the remaining two thirds of the season to be announced in March. To celebrate the company's return to its newly renovated home at The Wharf, Williams will direct a new adaptation by Kate Mulvany of Ruth Park's classic Sydney story, Playing Beatie Bow. The 2021 season will also feature the Australian premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' dark comedy, Appropriate directed by Wesley Enoch at Roslyn Packer Theatre and three plays rescheduled from the 2020 season: Home, I'm Darling, Fun Home and The Wharf Revue: Goodnight and Good Luck.
Sydney Theatre Company has announced the first five plays of the 2021. The plays are: Playing Beatie Bow, Home, I'm Darling, Fun Home and The Wharf Revue: Goodnight and Good Luck.
The Sydney Opera House will present its sixth annual Dance Rites festival online next month, bringing together 28 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance groups in a celebratory digital event with more than 350 performers spanning generations, nations and clan groups.
The board of Sydney Festival has today announced the appointment of their new Festival Director for 2022, Australian curator and producer, Olivia Ansell.
The Board of State Theatre Company South Australia has announced Julian Hobba as its new Executive Director.
Dynamic and unique Australian arts production company Performing Lines are thrilled to announce their vibrant 2020 program, which sees them working with over 200 artists across 30 productions and 3 development programs. After almost four decades, Performing Lines continue their vital work supporting independent artists and arts companies to realise their potential, to make thought-provoking and inspirational live projects happen in Australia and around the world.
Festival Director Wesley Enoch has today been announced as a Member of the Order of Australia, in recognition of his significant contribution to a?oeTheatre and the Arts as an Indigenous Director and Writer.a??
While Australian sports, particularly cricket fans may have heard of the 1868 Aboriginal Cricket Tour of England, it is possible that the truth of the team may not be known. BLACK COCKATOO seeks to rectify this along with raising a wider awareness that history doesn't always honesty tell all the details.
An essential fixture of Sydney's summer calendar, Sydney Festival today embarks on three weeks of theatre, music, dance, family-friendly and free events that transform the city in a diverse celebration of culture, country and coming together.
TodayTix, the premier digital gateway to theatre and performing arts experiences, is making Sydney Festival's popular TIX FOR NEXT TO NIX programme easier and more accessible for all audiences powered by TodayTix mobile Rush technology.
Bringing the very best of Sydney Festival to the Riverside Theatres, Prince Alfred Square, Parramatta Park and the Granville Town Hall, the 2020 Parramatta Program will host three world premieres; the debut of Opera Australia's much-anticipated reprisal of Bran Nue Dae; and the return of festival family favourite, Sydney Symphony Under the Stars.
Muruwari* woman and playwright Jane Harrison's new work, The Visitors, will premiere in January, 2020. This world premiere play, directed by Moogahlin Artistic Director, Bunuba* man Frederick Copperwaite, will transport audiences to the shore of Gadigal land at a pivotal moment in history. As the tall ships drop anchor in 1788, seven senior law men meet. Should these strangers be welcomed, or should they rise as one and resist? Presented by Sydney Festival, Moogahlin Performing Arts and Carriageworks, The Visitors is a powerful, imaginative response to the beginnings of modern Australia.
Set to engage minds, stir souls and transform the city, Sydney Festival today announces its blockbuster 2020 program a?" inviting audiences to discover the best of new Australian and international theatre, music, visual art, dance and ideas in corners of the city both known and unknown.
Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Kip Williams unveiled the STC 2020 season tonight a?' a year brimming with fantastic writing, electric performances and beautiful designs. The season will consist of 12 plays performed over four venues a?' the Roslyn Packer Theatre in Walsh Bay, the Drama Theatre and Playhouse Theatre at the Sydney Opera House, and Riverside Theatre in Parramatta.
Mark Kilmurry, Artistic Director, Ensemble Theatre today announced the 2020 Season which, says Kilmurry, will be a season of forty of Australia's most talented actors in eleven plays of firsts and lasts, classics and comedies including eight new works, seven brilliant comedies, three much-loved classics plus a collaboration for the first time with Sydney Festival.
Sydney Theatre Company announced today that it has appointed its former Richard Wherrett Fellow and Directing Associate Jessica Arthur in the role of Resident Director in 2019. Jessica joins the Resident Artist team of Associate Director Paige Rattray and Resident Designer Elizabeth Gadsby.
Moogahlin Performing Arts has announced six playwrights from around Australia chosen to participate in the biennial Yellamundie National First Peoples Playwriting Festival 2019, and the world premiere of a new play - The Weekend by Henrietta Baird (Kuku Yalanji, Yidinji)* - which had its first reading at Yellamundie 2017. Both Yellamundie and The Weekend will be presented at Carriageworks as part of Sydney Festival in January 2019.
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