Sydney news

Details: 12 January 2008

Short+Sweet Sydney kicks off its record-breaking seventh festival next week with the first eleven tasty theatrical treats of the season.

Details: 19 December 2007

The Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA) announces the newest performer and presenter for the 36th CMAA Music Awards: Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian.

Details: 18 December 2007

If you’re interested in politics, Stanislavsky, balloons, meerkats, Iraq, Harold Bloom, Juanita Nielson or sex, you’ll be at the Seymour Centre and Newtown Theatres this summer, as the 2008 Short+Sweet play festival explodes into creative life with these - and scores more - thrilling themes.

Details: 17 December 2007

From one man movie epics to the world’s leading stand-ups and an outstanding show case for emerging local talent, Sydney’s FOURTH CRACKER Comedy Festival is back in 2008.

Details: 13 December 2007

In 2008, the company’s ensemble of 17 dancers will premiere the works of three significant international choreographers over three seasons in Sydney.

Details: 04 December 2007

Short+Sweet Festival Director Van Badham has announced a mouth-watering shortlist of entries for the ‘biggest little play festival in the world’

Details: 15 November 2007

Short+Sweet and The Australian Film Commission have announced a mouth-watering creative collaboration.

Details: 23 October 2007

Winners of the inaugural Short Sweet + Dance have been announced.

Most read Sydney reviews

The Lark | Hey Dowling
Noni Hazlehurst brings Rose and The Lark to colourful and compelling life in this one-woman show.
Uked! | Bondi Theatre Company
Uked! is a sing along, string along, immersive jukebox musical, that's more folksy balladeering than an all out, all that jazz razzmatazz.
Doubt | Sydney Theatre Company
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.
The Can Principle | Jonny Pasvolsky
Following the unedifying edict that "there's a sucker born every minute", the show skewers the modern self-improvement economy in a piss-take parody of today's 'gurus' and snake-oil salesmen.
Heartbreak Hotel | EBKM
Heartbreak Hotel invites its audience into an intimate portrait of the universal and isolating experience of heartbreak.