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Darlinghurst Theatre Company has appointed creative and cultural leader and former board member Suzanne Pereira as its new Executive Director.

The greatest love story of all time is told by a fresh young company whose recent sold-out east coast summer tour wowed audiences and critics alike.

Belvoir has announced Gumbaynggirr and Wiradjuri actor and creative Dalara Williams as the 2022 Balnaves Foundation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow.

The winners have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Sydney Awards, honoring the best in regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022

The spectacular Willoughby Symphony Orchestra opens its 2023 season with a concert of epic proportions Gala: Heroes of Hollywood with two concerts on Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 February.

Sydney WorldPride will take over Seymour Centre in February 2023, with a kaleidoscope of comedy, cabaret, dance, and drama presented as part of WorldPride Arts and brought to the stage by a series of much-loved local and international LGBTQI+ artists.

Australian screen legend Claudia Karvan, known for her roles in The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way and Bump, returns to the STC stage for the first time in 25 years to play Stevie in Edward Albee's dark comedy The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?, playing Roslyn Packer Theatre from 2 - 25 March.

Following a string of sold-out cabaret shows around Australia, Soiree Cabaret Productions returns to Sydney for World Pride with 'Pride Soiree'.

Riverside Theatres and David Venn Enterprises presents Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical, back by incredible demand after a successful premiere season in 2022, at Riverside Theatres from the 2nd to 12th February.

Feminazi is the first play programmed for Belvoir 25A's 2023 season as part of Belvoir's Sydney World Pride season.

ROOM is an extraordinary piece of performance theatre 
 It takes you into the rehearsal room and into the machinations of a directors mind.

Mark Hollman (Music and Lyrics) and Greg Kotis’ (Book and Lyrics) self-aware, satirical, comedy musical URINETOWN THE MUSICAL opens at Hayes Theatre to roars of laughter as unusual subject matter makes for powerful metaphors for modern life.

NEIGHBOURS is a contemporary dance work that exhibits the extraordinary movements of Rauf “RubberLegz” Yasit and Brigel Gjoka.

Strut & Fret brings their wonderful brand of cabaret, circus, and burlesque back to Sydney with a return season of BLANC DE BLANC ENCORE, updated for the newly refurbished cabaret venue The Grand Electric.

Mark Thomas, Chair Critical Stages Touring (CST), has announced that CEO and Director Chris Bendall will be stepping down after nine years in the role.

Get obsessed with Boylesque at Sydney WorldPride.

Sydney is back and evidence of its uniquely Australian celebration of Summer will be an unprecedented line up of artists' work at Sydney Festival.

Welcome To The Sixties, Sydney! The nicest kids in town will be here next month when the original Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray opens at the Lyric Theatre for a strictly limited season.

Sydney based theatre company, Theatre Travels (The Sweet Science of Bruising, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, The Laramie Project) will present the Australian premiere of Bright Half Life by Tanya Barfield.

Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) and Auckland Theatre Company will present Kip Chapman’s The Resistance from Thursday 16 February – Saturday 11 March 2023 only at The Rebel Theatre.

Indie theatre outfit Virginia Plain kicks off 2023 with an encore season of their sold out production, Chef by Sabrina Mahfouz.

GlamourPussy shares the secrets of getting older that no-one tells you about.

Sydney Festival's high-summer program of spectacular art and culture lands in the city from tomorrow, 5 January, with an expansive line-up of touring artists, world premiere works, new commissions, Australian exclusives, local talent and an extensive free events program.

Sydney, this is your last chance to experience the Tony and Olivier Award winning hit musical that has welcomed the world, so wherever you're from, the doors open – come on in to the Theatre Royal Sydney.

To celebrate the final three weeks of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, the production and leading Australian footwear and accessories brand Nine West, have continued their exclusive partnership on the tour.