Lane Cove Theatre Company start 2023 with the laugh out loud comedy The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr. Directed by Andrew Castle, it plays from from 10-26 February at The Performance Space @ St Aidan’s in Longueville.
Castle Hill Players presents A Few Good Men, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Annette van Roden, at the Pavilion Theatre from February 3 – 25, 2023.
When Sydney Youth Musical Theatre’s (SYMT) latest production Big Fish opens in January 2023, it will transport audiences into a magical world filled with giants, witches, circus-folk, and mermaids. However, at the heart of this uplifting show is the fragile relationship between a father, Edward Bloom, who has lived a full and very colourful life, and his pragmatic adult son Will. Having spent his entire life listening to his father’s stories, Will is tired of Edward always portraying himself as the hero.
When you think of the world’s great superheroes, you probably think of Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Superman, or the Black Widow. What you might not know is that the origin of the superhero genre actually dates back to a book written in the 1800s by an exiled Hungarian Baroness.
When Sydney Youth Musical Theatre’s (SYMT) production Big Fish takes to the stage in early 2023, it will be the culmination of a long-held dream for its director Dylan Hayley Rosenthal. Seeing the Hayes Theatre Co production of Big Fish in 2017 was a transformative moment for the musical theatre performer, so much so that Dylan has been determined to one day direct a production of the show herself.
The third play of Heidelberg Theatre Company’s 2022 season is Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon, directed by Llaaneath Poor.
Llaaneath has been a member of Heidelberg Theatre Company virtually since birth, and is a second-generation director. Having worked on and behind the HTC stage several times, more recently she has enjoyed working as a director for the Company (Crossing Delancey in 2018).