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BWW REVIEW: Modern Media Is Put Under The Spotlight In TALK
by Jade Kops - April 09, 2017
Jonathan Biggins (writer and director) looks at the apparent state of Australian media and news reporting in his new play TALK.
BWW REVIEW: Exploring A Lesser Known Part Of History, FALLEN Goes Inside A 19th Century Reform Home.
by Jade Kops - April 09, 2017
Sport for Jove Theatre Company has teamed up with She Said Theatre and the Seymour Centre to present Seanna van Helten's new play FALLEN which aims to expose a lesser known part of 19th Century British and Australian history.
BWW REVIEW: Fabulously Funny, Particularly for Anyone Who Has Been Involved In Amateur Theatre, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Is So Right For Family Fun
by Jade Kops - April 08, 2017
The acclaimed play within a play THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is perfection in its precision to create the hilarious image of much less than perfect.
BWW REVIEW: HYSTERIA Combines History, Imagination, Freud And Dali For A Farcical Fantasy With Weighty Undertones
by Jade Kops - April 08, 2017
Terry Johnson (playwright) brings Sigmund Freud (Jo Turner) and Salvador Dali(Michael McStay) together in HYSTERIA for a bizarre and baffling evening of comedy, confusion and conscience.
A Feast of Entertainment Comes to Bondi Pavilion
by BWW News Desk - April 06, 2017
Tim Draxl Joins the Cast of ONLY HEAVEN KNOWS
by BWW News Desk - April 06, 2017
???????After much anticipation, Luckiest Productions is thrilled to reveal Tim Draxl as the final cast member in the 30th anniversary production of Alex Harding's beloved Australian musical Only Heaven Knows at Hayes Theatre Co later this year.
Truth and Consequences Explored in Thrilling Drama DOUBT: A PARABLE
by BWW News Desk - April 05, 2017
???????Apocalypse Theatre Company in association with Red Line Productions is thrilled to present John Patrick Shanley's multi award-winning drama Doubt: A Parable for a limited season at the Old Fitz Theatre from 10 May.
Latvian Violinist Baiba Skride Brings Her Signature Song-Like Playing to the Sydney Opera House Stage
by BWW News Desk - April 04, 2017
Music has always played an important role in the life of Latvian violinist Baiba Skride. Born into a musical family, her father (a choir conductor), mother (an accompanist) and grandmother (a singing teacher), encouraged Skride and her two sisters to practice singing and learn instruments from a young age.
HOT BROWN HONEY and DJUKI MALA Shake it Up at the Opera House
by BWW News Desk - April 04, 2017
The Studio gets steamy this winter as two festival sensations get their own headline seasons: the all-female cabaret Hot Brown Honey and the dance celebration Djuki Mala. 
2017 APRA Music Awards Winners Announced!
by BWW News Desk - April 03, 2017
The 2017 APRA Music Awards were held tonight at the International Convention Centre Grand Ballroom in Sydney culminating in Harley Streten pka Flume being named as Songwriter of the Year.
BWW REVIEW: Family And Tradition Are Challenged In The Modern Day Farce IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU
by Jade Kops - April 01, 2017
Chatswood Musical Society brings Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi's Broadway hit IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU to Independent Theatre for its Australian Premiere. A fun filled farcical musical first produced in in New Jersey in 2011 with a subsequent Broadway run in 2015 is distinctly "New York" in its characters but is very universal and current in its themes.
Monkey Baa Theatre Company to Present New Australian Play DIARY OF A WOMBAT
by BWW News Desk - March 30, 2017
Monkey Baa Theatre Company, the award-winning theatre company for young people, is proud to present Diary of a Wombat, a new Australian play based on the multi-award winning picture book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley.
Sydney Theatre Company and Allens present BLACK IS THE NEW WHITE
by BWW News Desk - March 29, 2017
Black is the New White is a provocative new romantic comedy commissioned by Sydney Theatre Company fromwriter and star of ABC's Black Comedy, Nakkiah Lui. Directed by STC's former Richard Wherrett Fellow Paige Rattray (now Queensland Theatre's Associate Artistic Director), the cast includes Kylie Bracknell, Tony Briggs, Luke Carroll, Geoff Morrell and Shari Sebbens, with set and costumes by former Resident Designer Renee Mulder.
Sydney Season Marks A Whole New World With Disney's ALADDIN
by BWW News Desk - March 29, 2017
It's been a whole new world for Disney's Aladdin as the multi-award winning hit Broadway musical has been seen by more than 450,000 people at Sydney's Capitol Theatre.
New Theatre Presents Dorothy Hewett's THE CHAPEL PERILOUS
by BWW News Desk - March 28, 2017
"We can go wrong in our minds, but what our blood feels and believes and says is always true"
Award-winning Director Kate Gaul Takes On Patrick White's Dark Classic THE HAM FUNERAL
by BWW News Desk - March 27, 2017
Following on from the recent critical acclaim of her direction of The Trouble with Harry at The Seymour Centre, the unstoppable, multi-award winning Kate Gaul is next turning her hand to direct Patrick White's gothic comedy, The Ham Funeral - one of the most challenging and legendary plays in Australia's theatrical history! 
Record Store Day Announces More Ambassadors for 2017
by BWW News Desk - March 27, 2017
Record Store Day in Australia has announced their second cohort of ambassadors for 2017. In alphabetical order by last name, AMRA is very pleased to welcome the following roster of Australian music identities
Power, Passion and Virtuosity Promised for Follow-Up by Helpmann Award-Winning Collaborators
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2017
A muscular and thrilling celebration, where the strength and vigour of the music is matched by acrobatics and circus disciplines
Sydney Symphony Orchestra to Perform LA LA LAND IN CONCERT
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2017
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra will be the first Australian orchestra to present LA LA LAND IN CONCERT, in two performances at the Sydney Opera House announced today. These concerts on 7 & 8 December will feature a 100-piece orchestra performing composer Justin Hurwitz's Oscar®-winning score live on stage in accompaniment to a full screening of the critically-acclaimed film.
ART OF MUSIC LIVE Returns to Sydney Opera House
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2017
Jenny Morris and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy are pleased to announce the return of the highly anticipated, and wonderfully eclectic, Art of Music Live, at The Studio at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday 4 May, 2017.
BETWEEN THE STREETLIGHT AND THE MOON to Play World Premiere in Sydney
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2017
MopHead Productions is pleased to present the world premiere of Melita Rowston's Between the Streetlight and the Moon at the Kings Cross Theatre for a limited season from May 5.
Archie Roach to Receive Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2017
APRA AMCOS are proud to announce legendary songwriter, storyteller and activist, Archie Roach, as the recipient of the 2017 Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music.
BWW REVIEW: A Farce For A New Age, THE HOMOSEXUALS OR 'FAGGOTS' Is Both Hilarious And Enlightening
by Jade Kops - March 25, 2017
Reviving a genre for a new era, Declan Greene's THE HOMOSEXUALS OR 'FAGGOTS' presents a farce where the taboo is less being caught in a compromising position but rather being caught with a compromising opinions.
BWW REVIEW: CRIMES OF THE HEART Uncovers The Magrath Sisters' Unspoken Secrets With Heart And Humour
by Jade Kops - March 25, 2017
Beth Henley's 1981 Pulitzer Prize winning CRIMES OF THE HEART delves into the tragedy riddled lives of three sisters, highlighting the importance of remembering that people have their own secret stories and not everything is as they first appear.
Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen Will Be Together on Stage in Sydney
by BWW News Desk - March 24, 2017
Slide is proud to present the Sydney premiere of LIVVY & PETE Wednesday 5th April at Slide

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