SYDNEY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 204

She is a legend of Australian stage, earning a global reputation for her epic vocal performances.

?Neglected Musicals will present the Multby and Shire musical BABY at Hayes Theatre Co playing four performances from Monday 20 June.

SPRING AWAKENING proves that the issues of sexuality, relationships and the need for knowledge that challenged teenagers in the 19th Century are still as relevant in the 21st Century.

Sydney Theatre Company has released the judges' shortlist of five plays in the running for the 2016 Patrick White Playwrights' Award which will be announced with a rehearsed reading of the winning play at The Wharf on Friday 20 May 2016 at 7pm.

Nearly 20 years after its first performance, National Theatre of Parramatta will premiere a new production of Jane Harrison's acclaimed play, Stolen.

Imagine a world of dust.

FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres will present the world premiere of two contemporary flamenco dance works, Forge and Bush Bailando, from 5 to 7 May.

This June, Treehouse Theatre will present a brand new production, Tree of Life, which will see 20 young refugees take to the stage to share their own stories of horror and joy, laughter and pain, and wonder and strength.

Combining dance, poetry, comedy, circus, striptease and song, this acclaimed Australian production has in the last year shocked and delighted audiences at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Brisbane Festival.

On the back of her first Australian tour, smashing her way into the hearts of Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, Jessica McKeirle brings Gender Spanner the to The Sydney Comedy Festival.

Today 4th May signifies the opening night and debut performance for the newly formed Polyamorous Productions.

When the theatre-going Sydneysider is hunting for a story unlike any other, set amongst the most powerful of creatures and the most notable moments in modern history, told with passion and humour and dulcet sublimity, where else but the White House?!

They say it's never one moment that turns paradise into peril, but a series of small, indiscernible hairline fractures that suddenly at the most innocent of moments cause a shattering from which no hope of rebuilding can be drawn.

Today Richard East and Dennis Smith the Producers of Georgy Girl - the Seekers Musical confirmed that Georgy Girl will not be playing in Brisbane during the current Australian tour.

Exposing the complacency of an aristocratic family in a changing world, David Mamet's adaptation of Anton Chekov's farcical tragedy, THE CHERRY ORCHARD unfolds at New Theatre.

Opera Australia's magnificent production of Turandot for the 2016 Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour season came to a close on Sunday night, almost 90 years to the day since it debuted in Milan in 1926.

Following its stunning 2015 debut, Dance Rites, the Sydney Opera House's groundbreaking Indigenous dance competition, returns this year with even more communities across Australia preparing to compete on Sunday 9 October.

Hannah Gadsby is one of Australia's most distinctive comic performers.

Producer and recent inmate on Channel 10's 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here' BONNIE LYTHGOE today announced she has cast award winning actress LARA MULCAHY to play 'Fairy Godmother' in her upcoming Pantomime CINDERELLA at Sydney's State Theatre from Friday 1 to Sunday 17 July.

On the back of her first Australian tour, smashing her way into the hearts of Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, Jessica McKeirle brings Gender Spanner the to The Sydney Comedy Festival.

Wednesday 4th May signifies the opening night and debut performance for the newly formed Polyamorous Productions.

The latest offering at Hayes Theatre, THE DETECTIVE'S HANDBOOK is a well crafted parody of 1950's crime movies, filled with beat poetry, musical pastiche and slapstick comedy.

John Howard, Robyn Nevin, Chris Ryan, Eryn Jean Norvill and Josh McConville are amongst the cast for Sydney Theatre Company's All My Sons by Arthur Miller.

In the last week of April, the award-winning theatre company for young people, Monkey Baa, will be returning to Glen Street Theatre with a new Australian play based on the incredible story of Mao's Last Dancer.

With the 16th annual Helpmann Awards set to dazzle at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on Monday 25 July, Live Performance Australia (LPA) today announced the line-up of hosts for the ceremony, and performances.