SYDNEY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 136

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Be transported to the cornfields of Iowa with Dead Fly Productions' Sydney Fringe showing of Scarecrow.

A twice-rejected art school applicant rises to political power through the use of charm, cunning and violence.

This summer, the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall will be transformed into a vibrant Manhattan street corner for the long-awaited Sydney return of In the Heights, the four-time Tony Award-winning musical from one of America's most acclaimed writers and producers, Lin-Manuel Miranda (Moana, Hamilton).

Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta will present the world-premiere production, Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam, from 18th to 27th October.

Seymour Centre and Sport for Jove present the world premiere of the award-winning Ear to the Edge of Time by celebrated Australian playwright, Alana Valentine, this October at the Seymour Centre.

Urban Theatre Projects (UTP) unveils details of Sydney's first place-based festival in the heart of Blacktown.

After three consecutive sell-out Australian tours, comedy queen and RuPaul's Drag Race champion Bianca Del Rio returns to Australia in 2019 with her brand-new comedy show, It's Jester Joke.

Hot Dub's spectacle Wine Machine returns home to South Australia in December this year, hosting their third annual, wine-cheese-hug-fuelled evening of live music and celebrations at Penny's Hill in MacLaren Vale with a wineup that focuses in on inclusivity; bringing women to the front of the crowd a

Andy Peterson (Music), Alex Giles (Book and Lyrics) and David Russell's (Original Concept, Book, and Lyrics) new musical makes its Australian Premiere at Depot Theatre.

Little Triangle continues it's trend to present wonderful interpretations of less frequently performed pieces with it's latest melange of musical theatre characters coming together for A LITTLE CABARET.

POTTED POTTER - THE UNAUTHORIZED HARRY EXPERIENCE A PARODY BY DAN AND JEFF returns to Sydney to present a clever, creative comedy experience for Harry Potter fans of all ages.

Twenty years can really fly by when you've been so many different people.

The Independent Theatre hosts a concert of fresh new compositions by young Sydney composers Alice Chance and Alex Palmer on Saturday 20 October from 8pm.

A Lysicrates Prize finalist, The Feather in the Web is Nick Coyle's wild and unpredictable take on infatuation and self-discovery.

PACT Centre for Emerging Artists will present a creative exploration into the authenticity of art and the art-making process in artifice x interface on Saturday 13th October.

Frontier Touring is delighted to announce that millennial popstar Charli XCX will perform a very special all ages party at Metro Theatre in Sydney on Tuesday 23 October exclusively playing tracks from her Pop 2 and Number 1 Angel mixtapes.

Sydney Fringe Festival, New South Wales' largest independent arts festival, draws to a close on 30 September and with just over one week to go there is still an abundance of shows to attend:

Celebrating theatre created by women, for everyone, Women in Theatre and Screen's critically acclaimed Festival Fatale will return to the Eternity Playhouse on Saturday 27th October following a hugely successful inaugural festival in 2016.

STALKER: THE MUSICAL is a dark, satirical musical, set in a dystopian world where love is taboo, and men and women are free to leer and lust to their heart's content.

Following a sensational summer season in 2016, the international masterminds behind Blanc de Blanc, Cantina and the Helpmann Award-nominated Limbo Unhinged will bring their brand-new, high-end cabaret spectacle Blanc de Blanc Encore to the Sydney Opera House Studio from January 4, 2019.

Earlier this month, the Rob Guest Endowment held auditions in Melbourne and Sydney to search for this year's winner of the Rob Guest Endowment Award.

The stars of the Australian production of Les Miserables will reunite at the Seymour Centre to present Epiphanies, a charity concert supporting research into mental illness, on 27th October.

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.

Alan Ayckbourn's brilliant award-winning trilogy THE NORMAN CONQUESTS will open at Ensemble Theatre in October with a dream cast and, says Mark Kilmurry, Artistic Director, Ensemble Theatre, it is one of the most loved comic masterpieces ever written.