SYDNEY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 63

Sydney finally receives a fully staged professional production of JEKYLL AND HYDE THE MUSICAL, the musical theatre interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous novella.

Sydney Fringe Festival, the city's largest independent arts festival, has announced its full program of over 500 events across 50 venues and nine festival hubs from 16 August - 30 September 2022, making it Fringe's largest and longest program to date.

For the first time ever internationally acclaimed illusionist and Australia's Got Talent finalist Michael Boyd will bring his spectacular magic and illusion show MYSTIQUE to the State Theatre, Sydney for two shows only on Thursday 29 September 2022.

Riley Nottingham (creator and star of the Nine Network’s hit show Metro Sexual) presents his debut show MANIFESTO at Sydney Fringe Cabaret Hub from September 13.

After five star reviews at Adelaide Fringe Festival with her show Safety Banana, Jacinda Patty is bringing her hit new show Tinder Cindy to Sydney Fringe Festival for the very first time, with tickets on sale now.

The energy in the rehearsal room continues to intensify as the 37-strong company count down towards the first preview of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at the globally renowned Sydney Opera House on 19 August.

Australia's leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, is delighted to bring the profound and deeply powerful production of SandSong: Stories from the Great Sandy Desert to Western Australia and the Northern Territory as part of its 2022 Regional T

Sydney audiences have another chance to experience the pop musical phenomenon SIX as it's never been seen before with enhanced theatrical design.

New tickets are on sale this week for the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella which will waltz into Sydney's Lyric Theatre in October.

The world premiere of immersive audio installation and workshop After the Flood, a hopeful tale about how communities thrive in the future despite the climate crisis, leads the Opera House's spring program of hands-on participatory events and experiences in its Centre for Creativity.

ALBIOB directer Lucy Clements has assembled a fine cast to present this analogical portrait of a nation torn between preserving the past and radically reforming the present.

Katie Yap, the Melbourne-based, Brisbane-born violist has been named winner of the much prized Music Trust's $21,000 2022 Freedman Classical Fellowship.

Produced by TEG DAINTY in special collaboration with Stage Entertainment, Tali Pelman and Tina Turner, the musical reveals a comeback story like no other, of a woman who dared to defy the bounds of her age, gender and race to become the global Queen of Rock n' Roll.

The audience love for Yve Blake’s musical comedy thriller FANGIRLS stays strong as the celebration of the power of female emotion, energy and enthusiasm remains important as society continues to need to shift views on the joyous devotion women of all ages display for strangers they see on stage an

Due to popular demand, an additional performance has been announced for the thrilling new show ORACLE at The Studio, Sydney Opera House, on Sunday 14 August.

Over two weekends (12 – 14 August and 19 – 21 August), arts and community unite for a celebration of Postcode 2044.

The acclaimed independent theatre-makers at Little Triangle will present a staged concert performance of Work of Art, a new musical by NIDA graduate Jesse Layt at ARA Darling Quarter Theatre on August 24.

Inner West, Sydney, known as Postcode 2044 is regarded as a uniquely creative community with vibrant and diverse neighbourhoods made up of different cultures, ideologies and experiences.

Hayes Theatre Co has announced a new production of hit musical GODSPELL, playing at Hayes from 14 October, 2022 before transferring to The Art House Wyong on 10 November.

Fixed Foot Productions, in association with Bakehouse Theatre, will present the Australian premiere of Tom at the Farm as the very first play to grace the stage of the iconic new indie performance venue, KXT on Broadway.

Producers of the original Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray are have announced that the beloved production, which is soon to premiere at Melbourne's Regent Theatre, will be touring to Adelaide and Sydney from late 2022.

In what is a first for Australian mainstage theatre, an all trans and gender-diverse team has been assembled for the Australian premiere of Travis Alabanza’s critically acclaimed play Overflow.

With the return of Just For Laughs Sydney Comedy Festival more laughs are on their way with Three Big Announcements being made.

The Australian premiere of the international touring production of the ferociously funny Madagascar - the Musical will take place in Sydney in December.

OlivIer Award-winning play Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood returns to Sydney, 15 August - 10 September 2022 at New Theatre.