Giving a tantalising taste of Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed’s Vivid LIVE program, Sydney Opera House today announced some of the projects that will make up this year’s festival, set to take place from May 27 to June 11.
It's All the Rage picked up the top awards at the Short+Sweet Gala Awards Final at NIDA on Saturday night. Prizes valued at over $40,000 were distributed to the best of the fest.
It was announced today that Amanda Harrison, who has played the role of Elphaba, the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West in the musical WICKED since it opened in Melbourne two years ago, is moving on.
B Sharp has announced its line up for the first half of 2010. It’s a powerful combination of new writing and older classics by local and international writers, that will make audiences laugh, cry, talk, think and reflect on their place in the world around them.
The Sydney Fringe, a multidiscipline cultural event set within the theatres, galleries, clubs and public spaces of the inner west, and showcasing the independence and irreverence of Sydney’s creative community, today announced the opening of the submission process for the 2010 festival.
Chairman of Sydney Theatre Company Ian Darling has announced that Patrick McIntyre will succeed Rob Brookman as General Manager of Sydney Theatre Company after eleven years in the role.
Opera Australia announced today that Takesha Kizart, the acclaimed American soprano who performed the title role in the 2008 Opera North production of Tosca will replace Cheryl Barker in the forthcoming Sydney Summer season.
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.