james elazzi : omar and dawn

Omar, a first-generation Lebanese Muslim Australian, is in and out of foster homes. Hungry for a warm bed and determined not to return to a life on the streets, he reluctantly agrees to be placed with 80-year-old Dawn. His best …

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catch me if you can coming to the hayes

From the producer who brought you Cry-Baby, High Fidelity and Rent, Lauren Peters, comes the upcoming adventurous, inquisitive and ingeniously criminal musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.

Based on the biographical hit film of the same name, which starred …

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the case for good pr

You’ve done your flyers, bombarded your friends and family, spammed your network and generally flooded all the usual suspects with material about your event. Yet interest is waning and your numbers are thinning. What are you doing to reach new

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squabbalogic and a fresh take on the dismissal

I had a chat with playwright Blake Erickson about the new play he has co-authored with Jay James Moody THE DISMISSAL.The show is a fresh take on that ubiquitous time in Australian political history when Gough Whitlam’s government was dissolved

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‘trevor’ coming up @ kings cross theatre

Rehearsals are well under way for the Sydney premiere of Nick Jones’ absurdist tale TREVOR at the Kings Cross Theatre.

I spoke to director Shaun Rennie and lead actor Jamie Oxenbould during a lunch break from the rehearsal regime. They

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gloria @ the reginald

An evening of cutting edge, contemporary theatre awaits you if you make your way to the Reginald at the Seymour Centre.

GLORIA invites us into the world of magazine publishing. The show starts with banter between  some twenties something staff …

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play on @ hunters hill theatre

Theatre makers have a proclivity for navel gazing. Rick Abbott’s play PLAY ON falls into this territory. We see inside an amateur theatre company putting on new murder mystery show with the title ‘Murder Most Foul’ from early rehearsals to …

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the cherry orchard @ chippen street

If you are looking for a meaty play hat you can really get into then make your way across to Chippendale’s Chippen Street Theatre.

At the heart of this play is human beings great difficulty in dealing with vast, weeping …

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thrones – the musical parody @ sydney opera house

 

THRONES – THE MUSICAL PARODY and yes highly recommended because the whole hilarious 120 minutes is an absolutely amazing laugh fest. This unauthorised musical parody of all eight seasons of the delicious cable television show HBO GAME OF THRONES, …

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