SYDNEY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 159

Carriageworks today announced the public program for the 2018 Keir Choreographic Award (KCA), Australia's first major choreographic award, in partnership with The Keir Foundation, Dancehouse and Australia Council for the Arts.

Week two - with 10 short plays nightly - features Tiger, by NZ writer Robert Gilbert.

Noni Hazlehurst challenges the audience to consider how they judge and treat the people on the periphery of society in her fabulous performance in MOTHER.

Acclaimed Australian actress Sarah Snook has been announced in the title role of Saint Joan in the Sydney Theatre Company production directed by STC Resident Director Imara Savage at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in June 2018.

STC's smash hit romantic comedy Black is the New White by Nakkiah Lui returns to the STC stage in 2018 as part of a national tour which will include Brisbane, Wollongong, Parramatta and Canberra.

The Wizard of Oz has quickly become Sydney's smash hit summer musical, with almost every performance to date sold out and only a limited number of tickets left until the end of the run.

On Sunday 11th February at Riverside Theatres, David Simes will perform the captivating cabaret, It's De-Lovely, featuring the much-loved music of Cole Porter, Michael Bubl , Bobby Darin and the latest hits from Broadway.

Japanese theatre director Akira Takayama invites Sydney residents to perform a song or poem that was taught to them by their ancestors handed down through generations and across geographies, on the stage of Centennial Hall in Sydney Town Hall on 28 January 2018.

Bangarra Dance Theatre announces two young dancers joining the company for 2018 under the Russell Page Graduate Program, thanks to the generosity of a group of donors and a matched funding grant from the Sherry-Hogan Foundation.

She talks wine, she sells wine.

At a star-studded ceremony tonight, the winners of the 2017 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced, with 37 Awards presented, shared between 18 productions which played in Sydney during the calendar year of 2017.

Harvest Rain Theatre Company brings GREASE THE ARENA EXPERIENCE To Sydney to entertain and engage young performers for a short summer season.

The Genesian Theatre presents their 74th Season in 2018.

Australia's most iconic female Indigenous entertainer, Christine Anu, will join the cast of GREASE THE ARENA EXPERIENCE when it heads to QUDOS Bank Arena for 3 shows only on the 19th & 20th January.

With over 500 performers on stage, GREASE THE ARENA EXPERIENCE is big in every sense of the word.

One of the greatest cult bands in Australia, experimental jazz trio The Necks, will perform at Riverside Theatres on Sunday 4th February as part of their Australian tour.

Australia's international drag sensation Courtney Act has taken the UK by storm since she entered the UK Celebrity Big Brother house.

A twisting tale of friendship, trauma and the need to move on plays out in the comically disturbing TONSILS + TWEEZERS

Alexander Berlage (Director/Lighting Design) brings his brilliantly baffling piece of physical theatre, THERE WILL BE A CLIMAX, to the Old Fitz Theatre.

Enjoy a stunning gala concert combining classical and contemporary songs from east and west when superb Chinese and Australian singers perform jointly with talented musicians from the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater and Sydney Symphony Orchestra at Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Thurs

Bard On The Beach presents two Shakespeare classics The Tragedy of King Richard 3rd and The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Eccentric and original trio Too Many Zooz have added a Melbourne and Sydney dates to their returning Australian tour through February.

Sydney Theatre Company opens its 2018 season with the Caryl Churchill classic Top Girls, directed by STC Resident Director Imara Savage with an extraordinary all-female ensemble including Helen Thomson, Kate Box, Michelle Lim Davidson, Paula Arundell and Heather Mitchell.

From 7th to 17th February, bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company and the Kings Cross Hotel will present the exciting immersive theatre production, Visiting Hours, updated and extended for 2018 following a sold-out season at Vivid Sydney in 2016.

The Backstories is a rare glimpse behind the public persona of one of the most influential Australians in women's football, Moya Dodd, as she shares the experiences that have shaped her life.