Two playwrights, Angus Cerini and Timothy Daly, are the recipients of the 2007 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award for their plays, Wretch and The Man in the Attic, respectively.
Robert Love, Director of Riverside Theatres this week announced a diverse performance season of drama, opera, satire and dance for Riverside’s July to December Season
The 4th big year of the youth version of international hit Short+Sweet is set to launch a new generation of talented writers and actors on the local theatre scene!
Sydney Theatre Companys production of Blackbird by David Harrower opens this week at one of Europes most prestigious theatre festivals, the Rührfestspiele in Recklinghausen, Germany.
‘Short and Sweet’ it seems has metamorphosed into something bigger and better than a good many major stage productions. It’s now about to go to regional Australia. Aren’t they in for a surprise? These shorthand sketches of life are not hors d’oeuvres, rather they’re the cocktails.
The highly-awaited B Sharp Season, not only brings 10 incredible productions to Sydney theatre lovers, but this year also introduces a new visual identity for B Sharp.
A gifted embroider of words, Friel combines soft lyricism and hard meaning in his play, a tragical comical historical pastoral on a spree and spoiling for a spirited spar.
In the care of Pinchgut Opera’s director, Erin Helyard, this music, formulaic as it indeed is in some respects, sprang off the page into an experience rich in emotions.
Iolanthe and Janet Anderson work in cosmic, comedic accord, characterisation charismatic, timing impeccable, delivery precise, together a tour de force that ascends the cliché.
Blind faith and rational belief are always sparring partners in dramatic conflict and so it is here with the power play tinged with superstition and salaciousness.