Sibling rivalry, class envy and high fashion: a combustible combination in this short, sharp reworking of French bad boy of letters Jean Genet's 1947...
Waiting for Godot is one of those epoch-defining works of art. It was met with bewilderment upon its premiere, yet went on to be one of the most lauded...
Primary School Days is a celebration of literature for children aged 8+ featuring award-winning writers. Students will go on a fantastical adventure with...
A veil of typescript fell from my eyes. I saw banquets and voyages, armies and oceans, battling heroes and ravening gods - all conjured out of thin air by...
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Sydney Theatre is a state-of-the-art home for the best Australian and international performing arts. The space comprises an impressive 896-seat auditorium with outstanding technical capabilities as well as a sprung-floor rehearsal studio, spacious function room and stylish, sweeping foyer spaces. Throughout the year, Sydney Theatre plays host to up to four productions from the Sydney Theatre Company as well as dance and drama productions from the best-loved companies from Australia and around the world.
Writers Ailsa Piper (Sinning Across Spain) and Cheryl Strayed (Wild) have both turned to travel in a bid to find redemption and connection. They talk with...
Faramerz Dabhoiwala has been described as the Stephen Hawking of sex. His book, The Origins of Sex, has been widely praised as one of the best non-fiction...
As Western forces prepare to leave Afghanistan this year, William Dalrymple looks at the first invasion by the British in 1842. Return of a King: The...
Edward Rutherfurd, one of the world’s greatest historical novelists, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, author of the intricately researched The Origins of Sex, and...
This presentation from The New York Times bestselling author Robert Greene will challenge all of your basic assumptions about creative thinking. Drawing...
History is like a story that changes depending on who is telling it. William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra speak to the Lowy Institute’s Michael Fullilove,...
Edward Rutherfurd presents his new novel, Paris, giving the city of lights a whole new dimension. Weaving intricate historical details into sweeping sagas...
Who can forget Kate Mosse’s stunning Labyrinth, a bestseller throughout the world, set in historic France. The last book in the Languedoc trilogy,...
The question, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ has been asked for millenia by people who argue for a creator of our Universe. Taking a trip...
Let us tell you a story. Sit back and settle in as some of Australia’s finest actors choose one of their favourite stories to read to you. Inspired by...
Naomi Wolf is never far from controversy. The Beauty Myth polarised readers and critics, while being called one of the most important books of the 20th...
D.H. Lawrence once said, ‘Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it’....
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, one of the world’s most loved writers, speaks to Suzanne Leal about his exhilarating new book, The Prisoner of Heaven. This is the...
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the...
Five speakers, fifteen minutes: one high-octane encounter with enlightening, entertaining and inspiring spoken word cabaret. Following sell-out events in...
Really smart people have argued that the Western model - market economies and democracy - is no longer the best way forward. Might they finally be right?...
Gillian Mears has been an award-winning writer since her first collection of stories, Ride a Cock Horse, was published in 1988 by Bruce Pascoe. After...
Last year the Prime Minister electrified the world with her misogyny speech. But this was a rare exception, and few modern political speeches capture the...
A Middle Eastern storytelling adventure filled with magic and wonder – The Thousand and One Nights brings you a series of stories straight from the...
In his essay, ‘Imaginary Homelands’, Salman Rushdie addresses the alienation of the displaced: ‘if we do look back . . . we will not be capable of...
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, pretty much everyone ends up dead - including the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.In Tom Stoppard's evergreen comic...
Following the success of the 2012 tour of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, producers Michael Coppel, Louise Withers and Linda Bewick in association with...
For almost a decade, The Australian Ballet's Bodytorque seasons have been a laboratory for the company's dancers to try out new ideas, discover new skills...
The original West End production of the most successful comedy ever staged by Britain’s illustrious National Theatre tours to Australia, directed by...
From the frontlines of dance comes a program of three revolutionary works – a suite of playful, subversive and inspired pieces that push at the boundaries...
A stunning mixed bill featuring Emergence a world-premiere choreographed by Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela alongside the first ever Australian...
Hilarious, musical, and endlessly entertaining, Megan Mullally is a force of nature. World-famous for her iconic role as Karen Walker on the...
Back at STC for the first time in 13 years, Director Neil Armfield collaborates with playwright Andrew Bovell (When the Rain Stops Falling, Lantana) for...
Two of Australia’s most respected artists come together for the first time to adapt Kate Grenville’s award-winning novel for the stage. Directed by Neil...
The Wharf Revue will return in 2012 with a futuristic odyssey of sketch and song, going beyond the rings of satire for a rocket blast against the...
A wildly absurd coming of age story about the sexual awakening of two very different sisters.Two sisters, Pauline and Bianca, are on the verge of...
The NSW Finals comes ahead of the National Finals on December 1, where the top two finalists from each state will get together in Sydney. They will...
Australia Day: A day off work, an excuse to fire up the barbeque, an opportunity to drink copious amounts of beer and, most importantly, a celebration of...
Sydney Theatre Company presents Sex With Strangers By Laura Eason Meet Olivia. She’s your typical literary type: bookish, private and deeply disinterested...
Sydney Theatre Company presents A Regan de Wynter production Sasha Regan’s The Pirates of Penzance By W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan On December 10th, 1879,...
NSW’s spoken-word wizards will go head to head for a chance to win the tour of a lifetimeThis is not a poetry reading, just raw verbal passion and waves...
Music RAMEAU Dances from Dardanus, les Boréades and castor et pollux and others. A mutual passion for Rameau’s infectious French Baroque dance music...
RAMEAU Dances from Dardanus, Les Boréades, Castor et Pollux and others Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and Lead Violin Rafael Bonachela Artistic...
Sydney Theatre Company, Black Swan State Theatre Company and Commonwealth Bank present Signs of Life By Tim Winton On a farm that has been parched by a...
Australia's two most internationally acclaimed arts companies, Sydney Dance Company and the ACO, join forces in a new production featuring Rafael...
RAMEAU Dances from Dardanus, Les Boréades, Castor et Pollux and othersRichard Tognetti Artistic Director and Lead Violin Rafael Bonachela Artistic...
Some of the World’s best dancers and choreographers will be on show in Sydney when the West Australian Ballet bring their high flying diamond anniversary...
Playing to sold out houses all over the world, POTTED POTTER takes on the ultimate challenge of condensing all seven Harry Potter books (and a real life...
Potted PotterThe Unauthorized Harry Experience – A Parody by Dan and JeffThe West End and New York Smash Hit To Open In Australia2012 Olivier Award...
Sydney Theatre presents A Filter and Lyric Hammersmith Co-production In association with Warwick Arts Centre Water Created by Filter and David Farr When...
When one of Britain’s most innovative new theatre companies, Filter, joined forces with David Farr, the director who brought us Metamorphosis in 2009, and...
Sydney Theatre presents the visually arresting theatrical experience, Water, from one of Britain’s most innovative theatre companies, Filter, this...
By Hilary Bell A mother and father celebrate. They thought they would never be happy again but today the best thing imaginable has happened: Eliza has...
A Film by Ingmar Bergman Adapted For the Stage By Andrew Upton and Simon Stone Something is wrong with Jenny but not even she can understand what. She is...
Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and Allens Arthur Robinson present Australia Day By Jonathan Biggins Australia Day: A day off work, an...
Sydney Theatre Company presents The Splinter By Hilary Bell A mother and father celebrate. They thought they would never be happy again but today the best...
Sydney Theatre Company presents Face To Face A Film by Ingmar Bergman Adapted For the Stage By Andrew Upton and Simon Stone Something is wrong with Jenny...
By Thomas Bernhard Translated by Tom Wright Utzbach. A town with 280 human inhabitants, a pig population of slightly more and a pub-cum-theatre named The...
Agatha Christie’s iconic play, The Mousetrap will tour Australia for the first time ever in 2012.This all-Australian production is one of 60 professional...
Utzbach. A town with 280 human inhabitants, a pig population of slightly more and a pub-cum-theatre named The Black Hart. It’s a venue that could not be...
We are thrilled to announce that Agatha Christie's classic "whodunit", The Mousetrap will tour Australia for the very first time in 2012. This...
Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre Present The Histrionic (Der Theatermacher) By Thomas Bernhard Translated by Tom Wright Utzbach. A town with...
Hugo Weaving and Pamela Rabe lead a cast that also includes Justine Clarke, Jane Harders and Heather Mitchell, in a new production of the scintillating...
In Garry Stewart’s Be Your Self the athletic dancers of ADT are transformed into erupting, powerful, creative entities projecting startling physical...
Australia's clown prince of polyester has been making the world laugh for more than 25 years.....and he's funnier than ever in his brand new solo show!...
Sydney Theatre Company presents Under Milk Wood A Play With Voices By Dylan Thomas A chorus of voices beckons us into the small Welsh town Llareggub,...
Had it not been for James Cook’s mission to observe the 1769 Transit, he might never have encountered the east coast of Australia. In the closing address...
If we haven’t been able to solve some of the world’s big problems, such as climate change or combating terrorism, maybe it’s because we are asking the...
With Rip Tide, the latest in her two-word titles series about MI5 Intelligence officer Liz Carlyle, Stella Rimington, herself the former head of MI5,...
Politician turned author Bob Katter’s book, An Incredible Race of People, is a history of Australia from 1890 to 2010. He talks about his love of country...
The visual arts challenge the art writer to do something just as interesting. Jill Bennett, Edward Scheer and Stephen Muecke of UNSW enliven art writing...
Ali al Jenabi’s story is so remarkable as to be almost unbelievable. After he escaped from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and made his way to Indonesia, he was...
Little is known about Joseph Lyons, Australia’s tenth and one of the country’s most popular and long-serving Prime Ministers, partly because he deserted...
Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham collaborate to create beautiful picture books based on foreign folklore and legend, combining the essence of traditional...
With her latest book, the exuberant Kathy Lette comes down to earth, with a story that touches on some very personal territory. It is the story of Merlin,...
Almost 500 years ago today, following the judges’ call to “Bring up the bodies”, Anne Boleyn was led from the Tower of London to the Tower Green where she...
Chair of judges of the Man Booker Prize Stella Rimington caused a stir last year when she called for novels to be “readable” yet why shouldn’t readers...
With a third in her Rowland Sinclair series under her belt, Sulari Gentill is now adept at the genteel 1930s based crime fiction genre. She tells us about...
Joe McGinniss’s book has been credited with playing a large role in deterring Sarah Palin from seeking nomination as Republican candidate for US...
In her 1981 classic work The Aboriginal Tasmanians, historian Lyndall Ryan refuted the belief that Tasmania’s Aborigines had been exterminated. Now she...
Roddy Doyle’s incomparable literary career includes a memoir, children’s books, famous screenplays and his many novels. At the centre of his work is his...
Forty years ago Dennis Altman’s book on the oppression and liberation of gays literally helped create a revolution in the personal lives of thousands of...
Sebastian Barry is described by Salon.com as “the best prose writer in the English language”. In his latest novel, On Canaan’s Side, 80 year old Lilly...
Before the computer and the calculator there was the abacus because we needed to be able to count if we were to record our output and to calculate our...
The apple might have fallen on Newton’s head but it was two women, Émilie du Châtelet in France and Mary Somerville in Scotland, who popularised his...
Vladimir Putin has made a mockery of Russia’s nascent democracy by manipulating his way back to the nation’s Presidency, all the while ruthlessly putting...
Tim Burstall singlehandedly revived the Australian feature film industry in the 1960s with such “ocker” movies as Stork and Alvin Purple as well as many...
A Sydney Writers’ Festival institution. Join international guests Sebastian Barry, Emily Perkins, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Geoff Dyer, and Jesmyn Ward...
Some of the greatest male characters in fiction have been created by women (think Heathcliff, Rochester) yet current orthodoxy (or is that stereotyping)...
Who knew that Elizabeth Jolley’s life contained even more mystery and dark secrets than her fiction? Her stepdaughter Susan Swingler reconstructs the...
The Internet is the greatest tool ever for sharing knowledge and ideas with people around the world, argues Jeff Jarvis. Its liberating benefits must be...
Families and their secrets have always been rich ground for novelists to till as is attested by Michael Sala in his debut fiction The Last Thread and...
Rolling Stone writer Michael Hastings went along for a rollicking ride with General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the US forces in Afghanistan, and...
The world’s finances have for too long operated like a giant Ponzi scheme, argues ex-banker and author Satyajit Das, with already indebted nations being...
Until there were tools to measure money, it was not possible to create ways of expanding wealth, argues Jane Gleeson-White in her fascinating account of...
Around one-third of us will face cancer at some time in our lives and most of us hope to be able to tell survival stories at the other end, but it is what...
Few public figures have opened up their private lives more, and more honestly, than former High Court judge and distinguished thinker Michael Kirby. He...
It’s a whole rural revival for a new crop of novels with P.A. O’Reilly creating the town of Gunapan as the setting for her The Fine Colour of Rust while...
Glenn Carle says he would not use physical torture when interrogating a supposed top al Qaeda operative rendered to one of the CIA’s notorious black sites...
A woman about to turn 50 reflects on her life, her character and her sexual identity in a novel that is both humorous and wise, and which reflects on how...
How does it feel to stop America’s most infamous woman from running for President? Or to cause the resignation of the commander of US forces in...
Her first novel, Careless, caused a sensation and now she is back with another beautiful piece of writing with Sweet Old World. Deborah Robertson talks to...
Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award and many other prizes, Rodney Hall’s literary life has been long and distinguished. His latest, a collection of...
As a child, Barbara Arrowsmith Young was diagnosed with severe learning disabilities. Her heroic effort to reshape her brain by training herself to read...
One of El Salvador’s most important writers, the novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya, now lives in self-imposed exile, currently in the USA, as a result of...
Geoff Dyer (Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Paris Trance and many wonderful other books) is renowned for his discursive approach to an almost...
Even private life is infiltrated by a totalitarian regime, says Libyan novelist Hisham Matar. To describe how people love differently under this situation...
A chorus of voices beckons us into the small Welsh town Llareggub, through streets, houses, bedrooms and on into the townspeople’s dreams. Borne along by...
his is the first ever stage play of Yes, Prime Minister from the original writers of the hit BBC TV series. Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay have honed their...
Sydney Theatre Company and UBS Investment Bank present Les Liaisons Dangereuses By Christopher Hampton From the Novel By Choderlos de Laclos Unaware of...
2 one another promises to be a visually stunning piece and will be created during a development with the dancers in September 2011. Together they will...
National Theatre Live returns to Sydney Theatre with a very special sneak preview screening of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, captured live in HD...
George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, the story of a Cockney flower girl’s transformation into a well spoken society lady, has seen many incarnations, most...
Sydney Theatre Company, Force Majeure and Sydney Festival present Never Did Me Any Harm Devised By Force Majeure Our first show of 2012 is the result of a...
One of Europe’s most distinguished directors, Luc Bondy, directs an all Australian cast in Martin Crimp’s specially commissioned adaptation of German...
Actor on a Box is a series of school holiday shows designed to introduce the magic of theatre to the youngest audiences aged 3 and up. Combining one...
At the heart of director Michael Kantor and musical director Richard Gill’s production of the Weill-Brecht masterpiece The Threepenny Opera for Malthouse...
• GQ Magazine Comedian of the Year 2010 •• Best Show Nominee Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010 •• Gen Y Captain on Talkin’ ‘Bout Your...
“Fiery fusion is kindled by the flame of genius! Fantastico!” Daily Express, London “Dance and music making this good are rare. His London fans have been...
Andrew Upton’s adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1926 novel turned play The White Guard was commissioned by London’s National Theatre where it opened...
With the internationally acclaimed Glow and Mortal Engine, Chunky Move transcended the limitations of earthly forms by immersing its dancers in a...
World premieres by two of today’s most sought after choreographers. The incomparable award winning Katie Noonan will perform an aria in LANDforms, a...
David Williamson has been telling his tribe’s story for four decades. In his 40th year as a playwright, he presents Australian theatre audiences with a...
‘With every new production, Legs on the Wall reinvents itself. Every work in its repertoire is distinctly different and original.’ Australian Stage My...
One of the finest casts ever assembled on the Australian stage including John Bell, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving join Co-Artistic Director Cate...
Sydney Theatre Company hosts one of the world’s greatest ensembles, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, with the originating production of August: Osage County...
William Hurt and Robyn Nevin lead an Australian and American cast in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a scorching portrait of a family...
For this world first charity event presented by the CorriLee Foundation, David Williamson is recreating his 1987 classic Emerald City with a 2010...
As one of the founding members of the much-loved Australian group The Go-Betweens, Robert Forster has an enviable cannon of songwriting credits to his...