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The worlds of science and theatre will collide at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre with double headline theatre extravaganza Back to Back (15 March - 24 March, 2018).

Hugo Weaving will make his much-anticipated return to the Sydney Theatre Company's stage this March in Bertolt Brecht's 1941 classic The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

As of today, 5/03/2018, a newly established company Limelight Arts Media Pty Ltd, co-directed by Robert Veel and Bruce Watson, will be publishing Limelight magazine both physically with its 11 issues a year as well as its comprehensive website offering daily news, reviews of performances around Aust

Sydney Theatre Company Chairman Ian Narev has announced that the Executive Producer of Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP) Annette Shun Wah and actor Heather Mitchell have joined STC's board.

At the age of nine, Xavier de Maistre fortuitously fell in love with a local harp teacher.

The Sydney Opera House today announced that the Hayes Theatre Co's critically acclaimed production of the darkly entertaining, revue-style musical Assassins, will play in the Playhouse this June, starring the acclaimed actor, singer and showman David Campbell.

Inspired by the life and work of the American poet Emily Dickinson, The Depot Theatre in Marrickville presents the (lost) American classic and Pulitzer Prize winner, ALISON'S HOUSE by Susan Glaspell.

Originally from Darwin, Amelia Jane Hunter now lives and loves in the land of bone structure, broad shoulders and shouldering eye contact; Berlin.

BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE gives Sydney Theatre Company audiences a glimpse into a different view of contemporary Indigenous family life in a fabulously funny tale of families, politics, love and loyalty.

Hilarious and thought provoking, David Finnigan's KILL CLIMATE DENIERS both entertains and engages the audience to consider their position on science and politics.

Merrigong Theatre Company announces MERRIGONGX.

Direct from The Young Vic London, Edinburgh and Adelaide Festivals, author and performer Amer Hlehel tours his exquisite play TAHA exclusively to the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (IPAC) and Riverside Theatres (Parramatta) throughout March.

Parramasala, the flagship festival of Multicultural March, will return for its eighth year from 9th to 11th March in Parramatta.

Anna Barnes' LETHAL INDIFFERENCE, shares her observations of the justice system and society's inability to protect the victims of family violence with the aim to raise greater awareness of this problem with society and our roles within it.

The Sydney Comedy Festival has unveiled its 2018 program filled with over 210 side-splitting shows delivered by a smorgasbord of comedy stars for the 14th annual comedy extravaganza from April 23rd to May 20th.

This March, White Box Theatre, the team behind Blackrock (Seymour Centre) and Hurt (Belvoir Downstairs), will present the award-winning Australian classic, The Shifting Heart by Richard Beynon.

Nicole Car was 17 years old when she saw her first opera, Tosca, at Melbourne's State Theatre.

Energetic and compelling new stage show Madiba the Musical - a Celebration of the Life of Nelson Mandela opens in Melbourne in October and will tour to Sydney and Canberra in November.

As part of the 40th anniversary of Mardi Gras, Abduction Productions combines drag with the World's Greatest Roleplaying Game.

Imagine an isolated clifftop home on a 'fictional' peninsula in Victoria.

Woollahra Philharmonic Orchestra opens its 2018 four-concert series with two performances at spectacular St Columba's Church in Paddington on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 March.

Director Daniel Lammin brings Tommy Murphy's award winning Australian play STRANGERS IN BETWEEN back to the Sydney stage to consider what has and hasn't changed for young people trying to find their place in society.

In an era when female power and rights are being asserted and America was on the verge of its first female president, Imara Savage opens Sydney Theatre Company's 2018 season with Caryl Churchill's TOP GIRLS.

New Theatre is presenting a long-overdue revival of this award-winning contemporary Australian play.

The UK's critically-acclaimed show BEYOND THE BARRICADE, a glittering concert of musical showstoppers, will make its debut in Australia this year, touring to 24 cities from 1st June.