Image: Georgie Parker - The Great Divide. Photographer: Brett Boardman.
Australia’s most successful playwright, David Williamson, has burst out of retirement to premiere three new plays this year in Sydney, Adelaide and Noosa. In a wide-ranging interview with David Spicer, the 82-year-old discusses the prevailing themes of Australian theatre, the issues raised in his latest offerings, and names the best and worst plays of his career.
The Tony®, Olivier®, and Grammy® award-winning production The Book of Mormon will return to Sydney from July 2025.
Winner of nine Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the Grammy® for Best Musical Theatre album, The Book of Mormon follows a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that’s about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get. It will play at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney from July 2025.
In the hugely privileged world we inhabit as theatre reviewers, there are often experiences that continue to haunt us (mostly in good ways), long after we have seen and written about them. The Gary Lang NT Dance Company’s The Other Side of Me remains, for me, one such experience.
Victoria’s theatre industry came together on April 8th at the Melbourne's Comedy Theatre for the presentation of the 2024 Green Room Awards with the Melbourne Theatre Company taking eight awards including Best Theatre Production for My Sister Jill, while Best Commercial Musical went to Mary Poppins.
Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Kip Williams, will leave at the end of the year after 13 years with the Company, eight as Artistic Director, to prepare for a career on Broadway.
Following the success of The Picture of Dorian Grayin London’s West End, Kip has decided to hand over the reins to a new Artistic Director at the end of 2024 as he makes space in his schedule for a proposed Broadway season in 2025.
Ahead of the Green Room Awards, Melbourne's top honours in the performing arts scene, Mark Hamilton toasts the success of The Marvellous Elephant Man the Musical, which has attracted a cult following and sold
Queensland Theatre has today announced it is set to farewell Lee Lewis as Artistic Director at the end of this month, following four years of artistic leadership, award-winning creative work and significant progress for the company.
Ms. Lewis took up the leadership role for the state-wide arts company in 2019 and throughout her tenure the company was nominated for 53 Matilda Awards, winning 11 of these including two for Best Main Stage Productions.
Darwin’s Dry Season cultural calendar kicks off with the release of Garrmalang (the Larrakia name for Darwin City) Festival’s program. Garrmalang’s Creative Director, Ben Graetz, who returns to the helm for 2024, said, “Having been involved with the Festival since 2014, I am so proud seeing the event grow and build over the years and support so many local and national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers, artists and community members.”
Image: The Crocodile. Photographer: Jack Dixon-Gunn
The Green Room Awards Association is thrilled to announce the nominees for the 41st Annual Green Room Awards, set to take place on Monday 8th April 2024, at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne.
The Green Room Awards Association looks forward to honouring the outstanding achievements of all nominees and the enduring impact they have on enriching Melbourne's cultural landscape.
