SYDNEY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 199

Premiering at Sydney Festival in 2012, Never Did Me Any Harm by award-winning director and choreographer Kate Champion (Not in a Million Years, The Age I'm In) explores the complexities of contemporary family life.

A lesser known side of the enigmatic writer, actor and raconteur Quentin Crisp is exposed in Tim Fountain's RESIDENT ALIEN.

Premiering at Sydney Festival in 2012, Never Did Me Any Harm by award-winning director and choreographer Kate Champion (Not in a Million Years, The Age I'm In) explores the complexities of contemporary family life.

Tony® and Olivier Award winning star Lea Salonga will return to Australia next February marking her Sydney Opera House debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

The 16th Annual Helpmann Awards, presented by Live Performance Australia, will be held on Monday 25 July at 7.

After making waves across the country, cult musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors returns home to Sydney next week for its penultimate season.

Collaborations Theatre Group returns with the premiere of an award winning Australian play, a dark and sticky thriller about asylum seekers sheltering in a house that proves to be anything but safe.

Enjoy a tribute to some of Australia's first ladies of song when Annie Frances performs I Am Woman at Glen Street Theatre for one show only on August 9.

Psychoanalyst Margaret Ford, the author of a best-seller on compulsive behaviour, compromises her professional reputation when she offers to help one of her patients settle his gambling debts.

Seymour Centre resident theatre company, Sport For Jove Theatre are proud to present a brand new Australian translation of one of theatre's defining works, Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, as part of the Reginald Season from 28th July to 13th August, 2016.

Neglected Musicals will present the musical classic CALAMITY JANE at Hayes Theatre Co from Wednesday 3 August.

On Sunday 28 August at the Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Opera Australia and Gordon Frost Organisation in partnership with the NSW Government's tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW will present A Conversation with Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton.

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN is a marvellous blend of singing, dancing, celluloid snippets and 12,000 litres of recycled water.

Melody Beck presents a wonderfully researched insight into career of the woman who made so many legendary movie stars sound good in her cabaret UNSEEN: A TRIBUTE TO MARNI NIXON.

In what is set to be a major artistic highlight of the 2016 season, Sydney Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductor and Artistic Director David Robertson will conduct three great ballet scores Stravinsky composed for the world-famous Ballets Russes at the beginning of the 20th century.

With an original libretto by Hector Cremieux and Ludovac Halevy and now directed by Ralph Bott and orchestrated by Jon Smith, this version is based on 2nd version, of 1874.

A homage to legendary singer, Loretta Lynn, comes to Wollongong, Nowra and Sydney in October when look-alike songstress, Amber Joy Poulton, shines the spotlight on one of Country music's most beloved performers in Coal Miner's Daughter.

Presented with simplicity, YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN is a mix of nostalgia and a reminder that life isn't perfect, but with friends, a loyal dog, it can still be good.

Carriageworks presents the world premiere of Force Majeure's new work Off The Record, co-produced in partnership with Dance Integrated Australia from 17-20 August.

?Australia's foremost jazz vocalist Vince Jones leads a celebration of one of rock music's greatest performers in Van Morrison Masterpieces.

?Ellis Productions & Aleksandar Vass will present the Australian premiere of the epic adventure, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS adapted by Toby Hulse, based on the novel by Jules Verne and directed by Award-winning director Terence O'Connell.

2015 was an excellent year for actor Kurt Phelan.

Sydney, Australia: The Biennale of Sydney today announced Mami Kataoka as the Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney to be held in 2018.

Blue Saint Productions are thrilled to tour their critically acclaimed production of Songs for a New World to Sydney's Hayes Theatre from August 12th 2016.

Mix the face of Brick-era Ben Folds, with the musical talent of Tim Minchin, with the stagecraft of Ross Gellar's music career and you've got Bryce Halliday.