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After a triumphant USA debut earlier this year, selling out five cities across the States, award-winning artist and Aussie cabaret darling Catherine Alcorn will make her Sydney Opera House debut in her critically acclaimed show The Divine Miss Bette from Thursday 23 August.

The 2018 Helpmann Awards was a star-studded ceremony in front of a full house at the Capitol Theatre Sydney on the set of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical.

Woodcourt Art Theatre in association with Merrigong Theatre Company present Tom William Mitchell, by lauded, local playwright and director and UoW alumni, Mark Rogers.

Ahead of their concert tour of Australia in October as part of their global TIMELESS tour, the world's pre-eminent tenor powerhouse vocal group IL DIVO will be in Australia to promote their brand new album 'Timeless' this August.

Ahead of full company rehearsals commencing next week for Jersey Boys, ticket buyers will be given the opportunity to win a four-night trip for two to New York.

Sydney Fringe Festival, New South Wales' largest independent arts festival, today announced the inaugural Archie Rose Touring Hub to present award-winning performances touring from Fringe festivals around the world and the inaugural Legs Hub of circus and physical theatre showcasing Australia's only

Warwick Dodrell's (Director) presentation of Aaron Posner's adaptation of Anton Chekov's THE SEAGULL sees the work further deconstructed to deliver a very modern interpretation with STUPID FUCKING SEAGULL.

Director Mitchell Butel has gathered a wonderful group of women, and one man, to deliver a captivating expression of the life of Fanny Brice in FUNNY GIRL THE MUSICAL, presented in concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

This year, for the very first time, 43 Helpmann Awards are being presented across two nights and two events in Sydney.

A monster stalks a boy through a formless wasteland; a brilliant psychoanalyst defies the limits of time and space; a carnival talent show goes drastically wrong.

FOREIGN WOMAN: The home-grown comedy cabaret for you and your Granny, Nonna, Nana, Baba, Yaya, Mawmaw, Geema, Savta, Bomma, Oma, Abuela, Babcia, Bibi, Babushka, Mormor, Amma, Lola, Meme, Ouma, Gramms, Nai Nai, Banma, Busia, Lolly, Memere, Grammie, Tutu, Gma, Goma, Gdawg.

Following a huge season at Seymour Centre this school holidays, and after winning over kids and adults alike in 2016, The Listies' very cheeky, very clever, utterly irreverent riff on Hamlet - made especially for children and their families - comes to Riverside Theatres from August 25th to 27th.

Whilst war is always ugly, we often hope that the common person can still retain a degree of decency.

It's 2018 and men are still the biggest threat to women in Australia.

An aspiring young director rages against the art created by his mother's generation.

After announcing the extraordinary line-up of leading ladies Michala Banas, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Casey Donovan, Virginia Gay, Verity Hunt-Ballard, Dami Im, Maggie McKenna, Zahra Newman, Caroline O'Connor, Queenie van de Zandt and Megan Washington who will share the role of 'Fanny Brice' on stag

Sydney Symphony Orchestra is delighted to announce that two fabulous performers NATALIE BASSINGTHWAIGHTE (Rogue Traders, star of Neighbours and X Factor) and MAGGIE McKENNA (direct from her lead role in Muriel's Wedding The Musical) will join the nine leading ladies Michala Banas, Casey Donovan, Vir

Funny, poignant and illuminating, Harvey Fierstein's Tony Award winning cult-classic Torch Song Trilogy makes an electrifying return to Darlinghurst Theatre Company.

Belvoir is now accepting entries for the 2018 Balnaves Foundation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship, an evolution of The Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright Award and an outstanding launching pad for new talent with a $25,000 paid residency at Belvoir.

One Woman.

The ever-entertaining sister duo, Hannah and Eliza Reilly, are back at it .

Mary Rachel Brown's new work PERMISSION TO SPIN pits greed for fame and fortune against the ethical dilemma of an artist's culpability for what other's do with their work once it is released for public consumption.

In celebration of NAIDOC Week, the Sydney Opera House today announced the six First Nations artists whose striking artwork will be projected onto the building's world-famous sails from 24 July 2018.

Celebrating the life of George Michael, the LISTEN TO YOUR HEART concert arrived in Sydney for one day only.