SYDNEY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 147

The latest stage adaption in the blockbuster Treehouse series returns to delight Sydney families, with new shows announced at The Concourse in Chatswood from 27th to 29th July and the Seymour Centre from 3rd to 7th August.

For the first time, Sydney Theatre Company is offering a regional scholarship for its acclaimed Work Experience Week program in 2018.

In Jewish tradition, a new day begins in the evening.

After a smash-hit season on London's West End, home-grown dance quintet, The Tap Pack are returning Down Under to make their triumphant debut at the Sydney Opera House.

The Listies' brand of brilliant comedy for kids and their respective adults returns to delight audiences with THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET: PRINCE OF SKIDMARK, A BADAPTATION OF THE BARD.

The iconic family favourite musical, The Sound of Music, comes to the stage again this July.

A cast of some of Australia's best-known celebrities and top comedy improvisers take to the Enmore Theatre stage on Sunday 5th August, Without scripts and only audience suggestions to inspire them, all to raise money for CanTeen.

New Australian work ROOMBA NATION is an amusing if not somewhat absurd look at the dangers of progress over pathos in the medical care industry.

Marianne Elliott's award winning expression of Simon Stephen's adaptation of Mark Haddon's THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME gives audiences an insight into what life is like for a gifted child with what is best described as high functioning autism.

Following an extensive international search, creators of the compelling new stage show MADIBA The Musical, today announced Perci Moeketsi will play the role of Nelson Mandela.

From 18th-29th July at PACT theatre in Erskineville, Ten Tonne Sparrow will present the world-premiere production of the charmingly sincere and touchingly funny Love Song Dedications (without Richard Mercer).

The hit musical LEGALLY BLONDE explodes on to the stage at Riverside Theatres in July 2018 with a show that is so much fun it should be illegal.

Following heats in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Music & Opera Singers Trust presents Australasia's most prestigious classical singing competition the 2018 IFAC HANDA AUSTRALIAN SINGING COMPETITION.

The Long Forgotten Dream, by Ngarrindjeri writer H Lawrence Sumner, makes its world premiere at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, this July.

Riverside Theatres will present Letters to Lindy, the latest work from award-winning playwright Alana Valentine (The Sugar House, Dead Man Brake, Parramatta Girls) from 12th to 14th July, as part of its national tour.

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, 2018 International Blues Award Instrumentalist / Vocalist and 2017 European Blues Awards For Best Female Vocalist Beth Hart returns to Australia this February for a special run of shows around the country.

The world's premier theatrical ice skating company, The Imperial Ice Stars, returns to Australia with its award-winning masterpiece SWAN LAKE ON ICE, touring to Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney next July.

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.

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs presents the Sydney premiere of renowned contemporary British composer Joby Talbot's acclaimed acapella choral masterpiece Path of Miracles, for two shows only, August 17 and 18.

Frontier Touring has announced that Chromeo's Australian headline shows, scheduled to take place later this month, have been cancelled due to health reasons.

Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore explore the challenges of female friendship and finding a career in their fabulously funny new Australian play UNQUALIFIED.

Sydney's magnificent State Theatre will be transported by the atmosphere and excitement of Parisian-themed revue Cabaret De Paris when a parade of exquisitely bejewelled international entertainers reveal all (nearly all) with 2 shows only on SATURDAY 30 JUNE.

Acclaimed Australian actress Caroline Brazier will replace Jane Turner in the role of the Superintendent in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House this September.

British Touring concert BEYOND THE BARRICADE delivers a delightful tasting plate of musical theatre to Australian Audiences.

Best remembered for his show stopping appearances in HAIR, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR and as the original Dr Frank'n'furter in the Australian Production of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, actor, writer and director Reg Livermore returns to the stage at the Ensemble Theatre for his one-man show, THE WIDOW UNPLUGG