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7 days in the Life of Simon Labrosse is a smart surreal comedy by award-winning French Canadian playwright Carole Frechette.

Support Act are proud to announce that Australia's unofficial poet laureate, Paul Kelly, will be presented with Support Act's charity award in recognition of their invaluable services to the Australian community at the Music in the House lunch today, 18 May 2016, at The Ivy Ballroom in Sydney.

Aleksandar Vass and Vass Theatre Group are excited to announce the Broadway and West End hit BAD JEWS will have its Sydney premiere at the Everest Theatre at the Seymour Centre in May.

Cirque du Soleil has announcde that 20 additional performances have been added to the upcoming Sydney season of its all-new, breath-taking production, KOOZA.

The Southern Highlands Symphony Orchestra (SHSO) will present two concerts featuring the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein on Saturday 25 June at 7pm and Sunday 26 June at 2.

? Australia's award winning guitar quartet ensemble, Guitar Trek has made a unique musical contribution in Australia over the past 29 years.

Following its Australian premiere sell-out season at Sydney Theatre Company (STC), Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Disgraced, will be brought to the Riverside Theatres stage from 16 to 18 June.

Following their 2011 and 2013 sold out Australian tours, the brassy, all-singing-all-dancing-all-American celebration of Swing Jazz returns to our shores on a massive coast to coast run throughout September and into October.

After six Sydney Theatre Awards nominations and a shared win for Best Actor in a Leading Role in an Independent Production in 2014, Sean Hawkins and Andrew Henry return to the Old Fitz Theatre stage to reprise their winning roles in Red Line Productions' first show HOWIE THE ROOKIE by Irish playwrig

You've seen her as Bette Midler, you've seen her as Christine McVie now see celebrated cabaret performer Catherine Alcorn as you've never seen her before.

One of Australia's most popular annual variety shows, the Schools Spectacular, returns bigger and better than ever this year, in its new home, the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney's Olympic Park.

Direct from the esteemed Dublin Dance Festival, FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres will present a new contemporary dance work from Liz Roche Company, Time Over Distance Over Time, from 22 to 25 June.

Known internationally as one the world's great opera events, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour returns in 2017 with one of the most well-known and loved operas of all time, Bizet's Carmen.

If there is anything an audience can relate to in contemporary theatre, it is the concept of struggling to forge ahead with one's own individual passions whilst navigating the traditions of the past and the expectations of those who, having grown up in more desperate times, had only such traditions

Jenny Morris and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy have today announced the final details of the 2016 Art of Music Collection to be auctioned at Sydney's most unique and dynamic fundraising events, Art of Music, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Saturday, 18 June, 2016.

After a run of hot shows for the Australia now festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Circus Oz will returns to the main stage in Adelaide for the first time in ten years with a raucous new show entitled TWENTYSIXTEEN.

Tom Holloway's AS WE FORGIVE asks the audience to re-evaluate their perceptions of vengeance, hatred and the extent of forgiveness through three separate stories, presented by sole performer Robert Jarman.

*Photos & Video* BWW Sydney Gets A Preview of XANADU THE MUSICAL

Sydney Theatre Company presents The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark - a "badaptation" of Shakespeare's tale by children's comedy duo The Listies this June at Wharf 1 Theatre, directed by Declan Green with design by Renee Mulder.

Today Leo Schofield AM and Jarrod Carland, together with the NSW Government launched an exciting new cultural event - to be staged exclusively in Sydney - SYDNEY SINGS.

Sport for Jove's interpretation of William Shakespeare's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW highlights that society hasn't come that far since the 16th Century.

?Handpicked for the Australian production of Jersey Boys by Frankie Valli and after more than 850 performances, Bobby Fox returns to the stage to enchant audiences with his show Four Seasons in One Night.

Don't Look Away in association with Red Line Productions at the Old Fitz is presenting Louis Nowra's Inner Voices.

Mother's Day gives the most important women in our lives a chance to be celebrated, treated to a little breakfast in bed, and for some, a nice day at the opera! Pacific Opera, a company developing Australia's emerging talent, presented Sounds Like Heaven yesterday to standing ovation, a showcase of

In a partnership that proved you can teach an old dog new tricks, Squabbalogic and Sydney Philarmonia Choirs paired choral force with vaudeville vibes to reinvent Leonard Bernstein's classic Wonderful Town.