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STC Calls For Entries For the Patrick White Playwrights Award And Fellowship
by BWW News Desk - October 19, 2018
Sydney Theatre Company is inviting applications from Australia's talented playwrights for the 2018 Patrick White Playwrights Award and expressions of interest for the Patrick White Playwrights Fellowship. The prizes are designed to benefit both emerging and established writers and have a total prize pool of $32,500.
Midnight Feast Is Heading To The Opera House
by BWW News Desk - October 19, 2018
FIRESIDE, an original new work by independent theatre company Midnight Feast, will delight audiences at The Studio Sydney Opera House with three performances, 7.30pm on Thursday, November 29, followed by a 2pm and 730pm on Friday, November 30, 2018.
Hear Me Roar Announces Additional Performers
by BWW News Desk - October 19, 2018
The Sydney Opera House today announced that two more songstresses will join the cast of Hear Me Roar, a sensational new music event that presents some of the greatest songs written by women performed by some of Australia's leading female artists. Tania Doko, one half of Bachelor Girl, and Sarah McLeod, lead singer of Australian rock band The Superjesus, will bring their unique voices to the Concert Hall on 13 and 14 December.
BWW REVIEW: New Australian Musical EVIE MAY Is A Poignant Peak At The Past When Vaudeville Was In Vogue
by Jade Kops - October 18, 2018
Hugo Chiarella (Book and Lyrics) and Naomi Livingston's (Music and Lyrics) new Australian musical EVIE MAY, directed by Kate Champion tells an Australian story about Australian women with humor and heartbreak.
Damien Ryan Adapts Shakespeare's History Cycle for Sport for Jove's 10th Anniversary Summer Season
by BWW News Desk - October 18, 2018
This summer Sport for Jove celebrates ten incredible years of theatre-making, ten summers of thrilling and surprising outdoor theatre, with our most immersive and ambitious season yet: Shakespeare's Rose Riot.
Kerrie Anne Greenland And Teddy Tahu Rhodes Join Sydney Philharmonia Choirs For Carols At The House
by BWW News Desk - October 18, 2018
Get ready for the ultimate Christmas music event at Sydney Opera House this December, when two of Australia's favourite performers, Helpmann award winners Kerrie Ann Greenland and Teddy Tahu Rhodes, join the combined Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for their much-loved Carols at the House.
National Theatre Of Parramatta Presents JESUS WANTS ME FOR A SUNBEAM
by BWW News Desk - October 18, 2018
Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta will present the world-premiere production, Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam, from 18th to 27th October.
DEGENERATE ART Comes to Old Fitz Theatre
by BWW News Desk - October 17, 2018
A twice-rejected art school applicant rises to political power through the use of charm, cunning and violence. From there, he declares merciless war on 'cultural disintegration', ordering an aesthetic purge of the entartete Kunstler - the 'degenerate artists' - and their work.
Bel a Cappella Presents THRESHOLD OF NIGHT
by BWW News Desk - October 16, 2018
Bel a Cappella presents Threshold of Night Sunday 4 November 3.30pm at the Independent Theatre, North Sydney.
Belvoir Presents THE DANCE OF DEATH
by BWW News Desk - October 15, 2018
Two time Academy Award® nominee and Australian theatrical legend, Judy Davis, returns to Belvoir to direct August Strindberg's The Dance Of Death, with an impeccable cast of Colin Friels, Pamela Rabe and Toby Schmitz.
New Theatre Ends Its Year With BROADWAY BOUND
by BWW News Desk - October 14, 2018
The theatre world lost one of its greatest writers with the passing of Neil Simon in August, so New Theatre's programming of Broadway Bound to round off 2019 holds a certain piquancy. It's an opportunity for Sydney theatre lovers to reacquaint themselves with his comic genius.
BWW REVIEW: Ibsen Is Updated For The 21st Century With Melissa Reeve's Adaptation Of AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
by Jade Kops - October 13, 2018
Melissa Reeve turns Henrik Ibsen's AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE upside down to speak to a new generation gender politics, media manipulation, and power plays in the middle classes.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY's Sydney Engagement Finds its Charlies!
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2018
Charlie Bucket has been found and he has a Golden Ticket! Producers John Frost, Craig Donnell, Warner Bros Theatre Ventures, Langley Park Productions and Neal Street Productions today announced the four boys who will play the role of Charlie in the spectacular new musical Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Roald Dahl's delicious tale will be playing only in Sydney at Sydney's Capitol Theatre from 5 January 2019.
PACT Centre For Emerging Artists Presents PACT Salon: artifice x interface
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2018
PACT Centre for Emerging Artists will present a creative exploration into the authenticity of art and the art-making process in artifice x interface today 13th October.
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR SHOW Comes to The Seymour Centre
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2018
One of the most-famous and loved children's books of all time will come to life on stage in The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show at the Seymour Centre from 13th to 14th October.
BWW REVIEW: A MIDNIGHT VISIT Immerses Visitors Into Edgar Allen Poe's Mysterious And Macabre World
by Jade Kops - October 12, 2018
New Australian immersive theatre experience, A MIDNIGHT VISIT serves as an homage to the works of Edgar Allen Poe as the audience is drawn into his dark Victorian world of death, disease and dangerous creatures. 
Belvoir Presents RANDOM Starring Zahra Newman
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2018
Zahra Newman stars in a powerhouse, solo performance that sees her morph seamlessly through 17 characters to create an entire family, an entire street, an entire community. debbie tucker green's random journeys through laughter to sorrow, and bristles with the rage and humanity experienced by a family rendered helpless in the face of personal sorrow.
Belvoir Street Theatre's 25A Program Presents THE OVERCOAT: A MUSICAL
by BWW News Desk - October 12, 2018
The Costi siblings Rosemarie, Constantine, and Michaelare all forging significant careers in the theatre and music worlds. They have joined forces for the first time to create a new work which will be premiered at Belvoir St Theatre in November.
Red Line Productions presents the World Premiere of DEGENERATE ART
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2018
A twice-rejected art school applicant rises to political power through the use of charm, cunning and violence. From there, he declares merciless war on 'cultural disintegration', ordering an aesthetic purge of the entartete Kunstler - the 'degenerate artists' - and their work.
Pop-Up Globe Announces Final Extension
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2018
The creators of Pop-up Globe and Live Nation today announced a final extension of two weeks after critical acclaim and unprecedented popular demand. Final tickets for the additional performances will be released at 12 noon AEDT today, Friday 12 October, with Pop-up Globe closing on 16 December and no other extension possible.
THE SERPENT'S TEETH By Daniel Keene Comes to The King's Cross Theater
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2018
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, The Serpent's Teeth is acclaimed Australian playwright, Daniel Keene's unflinching look at the true human cost of armed conflict. Spanning two narratives - Citizens and Soldiers - Sydney/London director Kristine Landon-Smith directs a 15-strong cast in a study of human frailty and the insidious effects of global tensions.
Griffin Theatre Company Presents the World Premiere of THE FEATHER IN THE WEB By Nick Coyle
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2018
A Lysicrates Prize finalist, The Feather in the Web is Nick Coyle's wild and unpredictable take on infatuation and self-discovery. Griffin's former Artistic Associate Ben Winspear returns to direct Tina Bursill, Gareth Davies, Michelle Lim Davidson and Claire Lovering in what can only be described as one of the most inventive plays to land on the SBW stage and a startling coming of age story. Part picaresque, part fable, moving from engagement parties to improv comedy, the play skewers our obsession with couples and careers and asks just how much we're willing to give, and lose, for love?
Mon Sans Productions and Actors Anonymous Present IN WAITING
by BWW News Desk - October 11, 2018
Mon Sans Productions and Actors Anonymous will present In Waiting, a new and confronting play tackling the realities of life and death, at the Blood Moon Theatre from 11th to 19th October.
Aus Musicians Pay Tribute In Centenary Of Armistice Concert
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2018
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows will commemorate the centenary of the Armistice that ended the First World War with a concert on Sunday 11 November at Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
BLAME TRAFFIC, A New Play About Chance, Forgiveness, And Traffic, Comes to The Old 505
by BWW News Desk - October 10, 2018
Alice is cut off every day after work by the same Mercedes. One night, she decides to take a chance and follow the car home in order to vent her rage. Meanwhile, Jacquie believes that she is personally responsible for all the random car crashes in Sydney; Richard is concocting a plan to change his luck after a mechanic tells him that his car can't be fixed; Sharif has run out of luck since his brother disappeared, and Rachel, well, she's going to re-write this whole story so it best suits her, and, perhaps, the insurance company she works for.

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