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‘We didn’t make it for a white audience’: how black theatre took centre stage in Australia

In the last five years, African diaspora theatre has swept from the fringes on to the country’s main stages – fuelled by artists like Zindzi Okenyo

The Guardian - AU

John Farnham comeback Whispering Jack becomes a musical

John Farnham returned to the charts in 1986 with Whispering Jack. A musical about his comeback will have its world premiere at the Sydney Theatre Company.

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Impressive performances and production values – but Joanna Murray-Smith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley doesn’t quite land

Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has a long held fascination with the brilliance of Patricia Highsmith, who published the classic novel The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1955.

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Theatre company's box office boost from bumper season

More than half a million people saw a Sydney Theatre Company show in 2024, making for record revenues of just over $47 million.

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Sydney Theatre Company books $10m revenue boost after Dorian Gray production becomes global hit

Company due to reap more millions from cut in award-winning Broadway run starring Sarah Snook

The Guardian - AU

Pamela Rabe shines in this hypnotic revival of Samuel Beckett’s classic play Happy Days

Samuel Beckett is justly regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century – and unquestionably one of the most demanding. Few of his works illustrate this more clearly than Happy Days, first performed in 1961, and currently playing at the Sydney Theatre Company.

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STC's Broadway hit Dorian Gray nominated for six Tonys

Sydney Theatre Company's 'cine-theatre' adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway is in the running for six Tony awards.

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From irreverent musicals to unresolved histories, live theatre will provide rich entertainment in 2025

Australian voices will be centre stage in the Sydney Theatre Company’s 2025 program

The Guardian - AU

Heather Mitchell delights in return as RBG in hit play

The Sydney Theatre Company's RBG: Of Many, One was a sellout in 2022. It's returning with a second run followed by a national tour.

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Morning Mail: Bowen’s climate warning, theatre protest, Israeli hostage ‘killed’

Minister to tell MPs that global heating poses existential threat to Pacific region

The Guardian - AU

Chekhov called The Seagull 'a comedy'. The Sydney Theatre Company seems to forget it was a tragedy, too

What is comedy?

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Three things with Brooke Satchwell: ‘I don’t go anywhere without a head torch’

In our weekly series about objects, the actor tell us about her blended bear family - and her rubber band habit

The Guardian - AU

I can't imagine anybody would come out of On The Beach and not hold their loved ones just that little bit closer

Review: On The Beach, directed by Kip Williams.

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'This is the way the world ends': Nevil Shute's On the Beach warned us of nuclear annihilation. It's still a hot-button issue

One of the most haunting poems of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men (1925), concludes:

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Sarah Snook to play all 26 roles in West End production of The Picture of Dorian Gray

‘Succession’ star set to undertake impressive challenge on the London stage

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