Hoy, whose adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall opens next month, has been appointed as the new Fellow, while Kamarra Bell-Wykes has received the Patrick White Playwrights Award.
After being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID lockdowns, Melbourne’s new winter arts festival has announced its program for June 2022.
Act 2 features Richard Roxburgh as Prospero in The Tempest, Meyne Wyatt’s City of Gold, and the premiere of five new plays by Australian playwrights.
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Symphonie Fantastique pick up four awards each at a “family reunion” after two devastating years.
Noongar man Ian Michael will spend this year at STC gaining experience as a director, while Courtney Stewart has been appointed as STC's Directing Associate.
After a turbulent two years for Sydney Theatre Company, Artistic Director Kip WIlliams discusses what went into his new production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
This new production doesn't always hit the mark, but it is inventive, audacious and imaginative, with three superb performances, and it certainly makes you see the play afresh.
Features this month include summer reads for music lovers, the Limelight Artists of the Year for 2021, the transformation Simone Young will bring to the SSO, and Henry Handel Richardson's love of music and her treasure trove of songs.
The six productions include the return of The Picture of Dorian Gray, a collaboration with Bangarra Dance Theatre and the STC debut of drag star Courtney Act in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit.
The agreement could see STC productions toured around Australia and internationally by Michael Cassel Group. The first show to benefit is The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Anne Dunn is leaving Sydney Dance Company to take up the position of Executive Director at Sydney Theatre Company.
The Dismissal, a co-production between Sydney Theatre Company, Squabbalogic and the Canberra Theatre Centre, which was to have opened in Canberra in October, will not proceed.
The playwright, whose Wonnangatta premiered last year starring Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair, is this year’s recipient of Sydney Theatre Company’s $25,000 Fellowship, while Ra Chapman has won the Patrick White Playwrights Award.
