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The Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest (YTICC) wrapped this week after recently holding heats in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Melbourne, Auckland, and Sydney.

Actors/Directors/Writers Gareth Davies and Charlie Garber join together to bring back their play MASTERCLASS to open the 2015 season at the Old Fitz Theatre.

One of Ireland's leading theatre-makers, Olwen Fouere, last seen at Sydney Theatre Company in the 2011 Abbey Theatre highlight Terminus, returns with her own scorching show that has earned excellent reviews in London, Edinburgh and New York.

In a very special Valentine's Day performance, Darren Coggan presents Peace Train The Cat Stevens Story, playing for one night only at Sydney's State Theatre on Saturday 14 February 2015.

Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's Pulitzer Prize winning musical NEXT TO NORMAL looks at the all too common, but not often enough discussed, issue of mental illness as it affects what appears to be a normal suburban family with respect and without judgment.

An exotic expedition of beautiful puppetry and storytelling for the young & the young at heart will be presented at Lend Lease Darling Quarter Theatre from 21 to 24 January.

Indigenous choreographer Vicki Van Hout's powerful new dance theatre work, Long Grass, combines weaving, shadow play, text and video, with an idiosyncratic dance language, to find warmth, humour and play in a community at the edge.

Indigenous choreographer Vicki Van Hout's powerful new dance theatre work, Long Grass, combines weaving, shadow play, text and video, with an idiosyncratic dance language, to find warmth, humour and play in a community at the edge.

The Australian Shakespeare Company's THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS is a wonderful family afternoon in the park with Kenneth Grahame's classic characters.

Fifty primary school teachers, hailing primarily from public schools in regional NSW and Western Sydney, will travel to Sydney this month to participate in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's highly successful TunED Up teacher-training program.

UK Theatre group Tall Stories (THE GRUFFALO, ROOM ON THE BROOM) brings Julia Donaldson's children's story THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE to life in this heart-warming production.

This month, James Thierree returns to Sydney Festival with Tabac Rouge, his largest and most extravagant work to date.

?One of the hits of the 2014 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Everybody's Talkin' 'bout me starring Tim Freedman as Harry Nilsson will play at Hayes Theatre Co from Monday 13 April - Sunday 19 April.

Superb singer Rachael Beck and charismatic conductor Brian Castles-Onion thrill the audience at The Sydney Opera House's CHRISTMAS CAROL SINGALONG, the second of the shows as part of the CHRISTMAS AT THE HOUSE series.

The Concert Hall at Sydney Opera House was filled with Christmas Cheer as Brian Castles-Onion, the Sydney International Orchestra, Christmas Choir and singers Emma Pask and Eddie Perfect presented a somewhat eclectic mix of seasonal songs in CHRISTMAS AT THE HOUSE's JINGLE BELL ROCK.

David Williamson's RUPERT takes audiences on a journey through the life and scandals of the media magnate Rupert Murdoch in this cleverly constructed piece of theatre.

The Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences' new exhibition CIRCUS FACTORY at the Powerhouse Museum is set to delight children of all ages with its mix of live performance, sideshow activities, international and local exhibits and the chance to ride on a 100 year old carousel.

AMBITION.

Nominations were announced today for the Sydney Theatre Awards for 2014, which will be presented at a gala ceremony on Monday January 19, 2015 at 6pm at the Paddington RSL.

A second Sydney show for the tour of Michael Palin - Live on Stage has been announced for Thursday 26 February at the State Theatre due to popular demand.

Judith Kerr's children's book THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA comes to life at Sydney Opera House this summer, to the delight of young audiences.

Three leading Sydney based performing arts companies have combined forces with some of Australia's most renowned dance and theatre makers, under the direction of Patrick Nolan, to explore the rituals of courtship and young love in PUNCTURE at Riverside Theatres from 21 to 25 January in a world premi

AMBITION.

Ten years after its world premiere in Sydney, the worldwide hit musical Dirty Dancing has returned to Sydney for a strictly limited time only.

The Open Talent Workshop is a 5-day musical workshop run by the Talent Development Project and is open to singers and songwriters from the ages of 14 to 24 years.