One of the world’s great thrillers plays at Newtown’s King Street for four performances this September as part of 2017 Sydney Fringe festival.
Deathtrap by Ira Levin (A Kiss Before Dying, Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil) holds the record for the longest running comedy-thriller on Broadway with 1793 performances. Winner of the American Mystery Writers’ Edgar Award, it was adapted into a 1982 film starring Christopher Reeve, Michael Caine and Dyan Cannon.
State Theatre Company might be starting 2018 in London but will end the year in Port Pirie with its largest ever state-wide touring program taking productions to 14 venues across South Australia.
Touring venues will include Port Pirie, Elizabeth, Golden Grove, Noarlunga, Mount Barker, Goolwa, Renmark, Mt Gambier, Barossa, Whyalla, Pt Lincoln, Roby Downs, Port Augusta and Leigh Creek.
From a planet on a course to wipe out all of humanity to an ad man’s controversial vision of purgatory, an indigenous superhero on a mission to one of the most notorious plays of the last century, Malthouse Theatre’s Season 2018 will present a series of epic confessions, hilariously mad entanglements and beautiful consequences including:
Black Swan State Theatre Company (WA) has announced its 2018 season, the first that embodies the vision of Artistic Director Clare Watson, featuring a line-up of classic and contemporary works that sit side by side, in a series of mini festival ‘feasts’ between the Heath Ledger Theatre and Studio Underground. Each pairing will be enriched with pop up activities, discussions, podcasts, film screenings and more…
Artistic Director Lee Lewis has announcedGriffin’s line-up for 2018 – urgent voices, intense experiences and the extraordinary visions of Australian playwrights.
Melbourne Theatre Company Artistic Director Brett Sheehy AO has revealed MTC’s 2018 Season.
“Melbourne Theatre Company is where stories come alive and Season 2018 is bursting with plays as relevant, irresistible and complex as any we have presented in recent years,” Brett Sheehy said.
Coral Drouyn gives some insight into her second favourite medium after Musical Theatre.
Despite all the best attempts to kill it (Rap, Reggae and Kenny G), Jazz refuses to die and is even having a resurgence in all its forms – from Dixieland to Swing and Bebop.
Black is the New White + The 39 Steps + Twelfth Night + The Longest Minute + Good Muslim Boy + Jasper Jones + Nearer the Gods + Hedda
Eight shows, six new Australian stories and four world premieres headline Queensland Theatre’s 2018 Season, unveiled by Artistic Director Sam Strong (pictured below). The plays traverse centuries of time, the breadth of our country, the expanse of the globe, and the inner workings of diverse and brilliant minds.
Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini, Australian theatre producer John Frost and leading UK theatre producer David Ian have announced that Tina Arena will play the role of Eva Peron in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s EVITA, which will return to Australia in 2018, playing at the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House, with tickets on sale from 31 August.
