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Sydney this week

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    Fri 24 May Julie Andrews has been in the biz for a long time now – she made her stage debut in London at age six! And now, some six-odd... More details
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    19 Apr-26 May Lally Katz ’s star is on the rise: over the last two years, Melbourne’s Malthouse commissioned and then produced her play... More details
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    19 Apr-26 May With John Bell as both director and Falstaff, it's not surprising that this condensed production demonstrates convincingly... More details
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    23 Apr-25 May Witness the comically tragic consequences that result when a young, naïve poet finds himself drawn into a desperate and... More details
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    30 Apr-25 May Off the back of directing the world premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play for Red Stitch Actors Theatre in Melbourne,... More details
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    01-26 May At the gory conclusion of A Butcher of Distinction , the audience is left with a dilemma: should we laugh? Should we be... More details
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    22-25 May For the  Sydney Writers' Festival , acclaimed photographer and man-about-town William Yang and his erstwhile partner in... More details
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    10 Mar-31 May The world's most perverse and odd family is coming to town in early March. The extremely successful Broadway show is bringing... More details
  • (Theatre)

    19 Apr-26 May Lally Katz ’s star is on the rise: over the last two years, Melbourne’s Malthouse commissioned and then produced her play... More details
  • (Theatre)

    19 Apr-26 May With John Bell as both director and Falstaff, it's not surprising that this condensed production demonstrates convincingly... More details
  • (Theatre)

    23 Apr-25 May Witness the comically tragic consequences that result when a young, naïve poet finds himself drawn into a desperate and... More details
  • (Theatre)

    30 Apr-25 May Off the back of directing the world premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith’s new play for Red Stitch Actors Theatre in Melbourne,... More details
  • (Theatre)

    01-26 May At the gory conclusion of A Butcher of Distinction , the audience is left with a dilemma: should we laugh? Should we be... More details
  • (Theatre)

    22-25 May For the  Sydney Writers' Festival , acclaimed photographer and man-about-town William Yang and his erstwhile partner in... More details
  • (Theatre)

    10 Mar-31 May The world's most perverse and odd family is coming to town in early March. The extremely successful Broadway show is bringing... More details
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    16 Mar-30 Jun After a sell-out season in London and on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning mega-production War Horse is coming to Sydney in... More details
  • (Theatre)

    19 Apr-26 May Lally Katz ’s star is on the rise: over the last two years, Melbourne’s Malthouse commissioned and then produced her play... More details
  • (Theatre)

    19 Apr-26 May With John Bell as both director and Falstaff, it's not surprising that this condensed production demonstrates convincingly... More details
  • (Theatre)

    01-26 May At the gory conclusion of A Butcher of Distinction , the audience is left with a dilemma: should we laugh? Should we be... More details
  • (Theatre)

    10 Mar-31 May The world's most perverse and odd family is coming to town in early March. The extremely successful Broadway show is bringing... More details
  • (Theatre)

    16 Mar-30 Jun After a sell-out season in London and on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning mega-production War Horse is coming to Sydney in... More details
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    15 Apr-08 Jun The way teenagers define their sense of self in reference to their parents is always intriguing. Some admire their parents... More details
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    02 May-08 Jun Hands up if you’ve ever had a broken heart; your friends and family told you to get over it, but you saw it for what it was... More details
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    15 May-02 Jun We’ve all seen the posters; we’ve all seen the quote from Richard Wilkins saying it’s the best live show he’s ever... More details
  • (Theatre)

    10 Mar-31 May The world's most perverse and odd family is coming to town in early March. The extremely successful Broadway show is bringing... More details
  • (Theatre)

    16 Mar-30 Jun After a sell-out season in London and on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning mega-production War Horse is coming to Sydney in... More details
  • (Theatre)

    15 Apr-08 Jun The way teenagers define their sense of self in reference to their parents is always intriguing. Some admire their parents... More details
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    02 May-08 Jun Hands up if you’ve ever had a broken heart; your friends and family told you to get over it, but you saw it for what it was... More details
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    15 May-02 Jun We’ve all seen the posters; we’ve all seen the quote from Richard Wilkins saying it’s the best live show he’s ever... More details
  • (Theatre)

    10 Mar-31 May The world's most perverse and odd family is coming to town in early March. The extremely successful Broadway show is bringing... More details
  • (Theatre)

    16 Mar-30 Jun After a sell-out season in London and on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning mega-production War Horse is coming to Sydney in... More details
  • (Theatre)

    15 Apr-08 Jun The way teenagers define their sense of self in reference to their parents is always intriguing. Some admire their parents... More details
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    02 May-08 Jun Hands up if you’ve ever had a broken heart; your friends and family told you to get over it, but you saw it for what it was... More details
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    15 May-02 Jun We’ve all seen the posters; we’ve all seen the quote from Richard Wilkins saying it’s the best live show he’s ever... More details
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    28 May-21 Jul " Angels in America is a landmark not just among AIDS plays or gay dramas but in American theatre,” said the Village... More details
  • (Theatre)

    10 Mar-31 May The world's most perverse and odd family is coming to town in early March. The extremely successful Broadway show is bringing... More details
  • (Theatre)

    15 May-02 Jun We’ve all seen the posters; we’ve all seen the quote from Richard Wilkins saying it’s the best live show he’s ever... More details
  • (Theatre)

    16 Mar-30 Jun After a sell-out season in London and on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning mega-production War Horse is coming to Sydney in... More details
  • (Theatre)

    15 Apr-08 Jun The way teenagers define their sense of self in reference to their parents is always intriguing. Some admire their parents... More details
  • (Theatre)

    02 May-08 Jun Hands up if you’ve ever had a broken heart; your friends and family told you to get over it, but you saw it for what it was... More details
  • (Theatre)

    28 May-21 Jul " Angels in America is a landmark not just among AIDS plays or gay dramas but in American theatre,” said the Village... More details
  • (Theatre)

    10 Mar-31 May The world's most perverse and odd family is coming to town in early March. The extremely successful Broadway show is bringing... More details
  • (Theatre)

    15 May-02 Jun We’ve all seen the posters; we’ve all seen the quote from Richard Wilkins saying it’s the best live show he’s ever... More details
  • (Theatre)

    16 Mar-30 Jun After a sell-out season in London and on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning mega-production War Horse is coming to Sydney in... More details
  • (Theatre)

    15 Apr-08 Jun The way teenagers define their sense of self in reference to their parents is always intriguing. Some admire their parents... More details
  • (Theatre)

    02 May-08 Jun Hands up if you’ve ever had a broken heart; your friends and family told you to get over it, but you saw it for what it was... More details
  • (Theatre)

    28 May-21 Jul " Angels in America is a landmark not just among AIDS plays or gay dramas but in American theatre,” said the Village... More details

Theatre reviews

Cavalia: a kid's perspective

Our 8-year-old critic takes the show for a trot

Stories I Want To Tell You In Person

Playwright Lally Katz delivers truths stranger than fiction

A Butcher of Distinction

Bold, strange and a little bit brilliant

Fury

Joanna Murray-Smith's meditation on radicalism, morality and parenting fizzes more than it pops

The Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars

A rom-com of mythic proportions

Henry 4

In Bell Shakespeare's acclaimed production, John Bell gives the don his due

London: War Horse review

A sure-fire whinnyer... Two hooves up from Time Out London

Theatre news and interviews

Van Badham lightens up

The badass playwright gets romantic in The Bull, the Moon and the Coronet of Stars

Joanna Murray-Smith on Fury

Australia's most produced playwright on being accepted in Sydney, growing up radical and the search for the next female wunderkind

How I ‘act’: Ewen Leslie writes

“Take as long to die as possible” and other tricks

The Addams Family: Rick Elice interview

Da-da-da-dum *click, click*

Geraldine Hakewill: Little girl lost

A young actress who has endured one too many dangerous liaisons

New Theatre 2013 season

Nudity, illicit substances, torture equipment and velociraptors

Sydney Theatre Company 2013 season

Blanchett, Weaving, Roxburgh, Tim Minchin on stage and more

Griffin Theatre Company 2013 season



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