SYDNEY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 177

Former Midday maestro, veteran composer and grand piano virtuoso Geoff Harvey has teamed up with Return Fire Productions to present Geoff Harvey in Concert.

The world's favourite musical The Wizard of Oz is returning for an Australian tour later this year, starring Anthony Warlow as The Wizard and Professor Marvel, Lucy Durack as Glinda the Good Witch and Jemma Rix as The Wicked Witch of the West.

The Marais Project and The Muffat Collective join Forces at Independent Theatre Sun 16 July.

Kristian Bezuidenhout - the virtuoso pianist known as 'Mozart reincarnated' - will reunite with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) next month on a nationwide tour from 24 June to 9 July.

Warm the depths of winter at Hot Gin Punch, a wild, gin-fuelled speakeasy presented by Mother's Ruin: A Cabaret About Gin and Four Pillars Gin at Giant Dwarf for one night only.

Following the success of Songs for Nobodies and Pennsylvania Avenue, producer Harley Medcalf and Duet Productions are proud to present a brand new show "THE SHOW GOES ON", featuring the incredible talents of Bernadette Robinson.

Wayne Tunks' (Writer, Co-Director, Actor) latest work, BITCH shines a spotlight on an average Australian family to remind us that we are all facing struggles but it's how we come together that makes the difference.

Patrick White's bizarre play, THE HAM FUNERAL is given new life in the intimate space of Griffin Theatre's SBW Stables.

Nakkiah Lui's new work, 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.

This school holidays from July 4th to 8th, Monkey Baa Theatre Company will present The Theatre Division's original Australian play Thai-riffic!, adapted from the best-selling novel by children's author Oliver Phommavanh.

On 28th June for two shows only, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Belvoir and Riverside Theatres present Coranderrk, a powerful story about the forgotten fight for land against the Aboriginal Protection Board.

Neglected Musicals will present MAME at Hayes Theatre Co from Wednesday 5 July.

Following heats in Australia and New Zealand, the National Adjudicator, Swedish mezzo-soprano Catrin Johnsson, with assistance from local Adjudicators, has selected ten impressive young singers to compete at the Semi Finals Concert of the IFAC HANDA AUSTRALIAN SINGING COMPETITION on Sunday 4 June 

Andrew Kay AM, President of Live Performance Australia, today announced that Richard Tognetti AO, Artistic Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, will be the recipient of the 2017 JC Williamson Award.

A new independent theatre company will stage the hit comedy Motherhood the Musical at the Bondi Pavilion Theatre this coming August.

Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical, RENT, details one year in the life of seven modern day artists & musicians, living in New York's run down 'Alphabet City' in the late 1980s.

Erin Helyard leads Pinchgut Opera into a new era this winter with two Australian premieres, including works by one of the most important French composers of the Baroque era, Jean-Philippe Rameau.

BWW Review: ONLY HEAVEN KNOWS is the Tonic; Touching and Wonderful at Hayes Theatre

Seraphim Trio presents the latest Independent Theatre Sunday afternoon musical treat on 25 June when the award-winning chamber ensemble takes music lovers on a journey through time in the agile and expressive vehicle of the piano trio.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) will next month unveil the world premiere of Mountain LIVE - an epic cinematic and musical collaboration between the ACO and BAFTA-nominated director Jennifer Peedom (Sherpa).

Following a successful Premiere season in September 2016, HIDDEN SYDNEY - THE GLITTERING MILE returns as part of VIVID KX, giving those that missed out on the earlier seasons, the chance to experience this glimpse into Kings Cross' colourful history.

The Trout Quintet is said to evoke the splash of darting fish in the Austrian alpine stream, where Schubert was inspired to compose in the summer of 1819, drawing from his earlier adaptation of a poem.

John Patrick Stanley's DOUBT: A PARABLE is a confronting and compelling work that asks the audience to challenge what they believe to be true and leaves them with questions rather than conclusions.

Andrew Bovell, one of Australia's foremost playwrights, is the new STC Patrick White Playwrights' Fellow, it was announced tonight, 26 May 2017, at a special event at Sydney Theatre Company (STC) as part of the Sydney Writers Festival.