Sydney Festival announces new Director
Australian producer and former dancer Olivia Ansell will take up the position in November and present her first festival in January 2022.
June 2, 2020
In Your Living Room: Theatre and Musical Theatre
This week, Jo Litson recommends The Tap Pack filmed on the SOH's Digital Stage, James Graham's This House from NT at Home, and In the Company of Actors, the doco about STC's Hedda Gabler starring Cate Blanchett.
May 26, 2020
NSW Government unveils $50 million rescue package for the arts
The announcement, which will provide welcome relief for many in an industry devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has been overshadowed by accusations of “pork-barrelling”.
May 25, 2020
Coronavirus the Musical Musical
When a West End musical they were developing was cancelled due to COVID-19, Sean O'Boyle and Amanda Jane Pritchard set to work on a new satirical musical within a musical.
May 22, 2020
Virginia Gay on Belvoir in Concert!
Currently based in LA, the irrepressible performer tells us about the concert, the special challenge of performing in online events like this, and how her "apoca-puppy" is helping her cope with COVID-19 isolation.
May 21, 2020
Amylia Harris is Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s new Co-Artistic Director
Previously the company’s Creative Producer, Harris is positioned to help guide the theatre out of shut down.
May 19, 2020
A survey finds 9 in 10 will return to cultural events – though safety measures will determine when
The Audience Outlook Monitor predicts 78% will attend as often as they did pre-COVID-19, but only 22% will return as soon as restrictions are lifted. Smaller venues are most likely to attract audiences in the near future.
May 19, 2020
In Your Living Room: Theatre and Musical Theatre
This week Jo Litson recommends the Belvoir online concert, Lin-Manuel Miranda's 14-minute musical 21 Chump Street, Gillian Anderson in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Black Swan's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
May 19, 2020
Latest Australia Council grants announced
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced $5.2 million in project grants to artists, groups and small to medium arts organisations, as well as a further $1.8 million in grants through its Resilience Fund.
May 15, 2020
Anchuli Felicia King is Sydney Theatre Company’s new Patrick White Playwrights Fellow
King has been awarded the $25,000 Fellowship, while Keziah Warner has taken out the Patrick White Playwrights Award.
May 14, 2020
Arts Wellbeing Collective visitation soars due to COVID-19
Arts Centre Melbourne CEO Claire Spencer discusses the support the Arts Wellbeing Collective is giving performing arts workers during the coronavirus crisis, and the path to reopening theatres.
May 14, 2020
In Your Living Room: Theatre and Musical Theatre
This week, Jo Litson recommends Inua Ellams’ exuberant play Barber Shop Chronicles, Sam Mendes’ 1993 Donmar Warehouse production of Cabaret starring Alan Cumming, and Tim Crouch’s I, Malvolio.
May 12, 2020
Trafalgar Entertainment to operate Sydney’s Theatre Royal
The global entertainment company led by British impresario Sir Howard Panter plans to reopen the theatre in August 2021.
May 8, 2020