Andrew Upton

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speed-the-plow @ roslyn packer theatre

“Everybody’s a dreamer/Everybody’s a star/And everybody’s in show biz/It doesn’t matter who you are.”

                                     The Kinks : Celluloid Heroes

David Mamet sets his play – the obscurely titled  “SPEED-THE-PLOW” in Los Angeles in the late 1980s.  

The Kinks lyrics

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the present @ roslyn packer theatre

It was a thrill to be present at the opening night of THE PRESENT at the Roslyn Packer theatre. Expectations were high, and they were more than met with Irish auteur John Crowley’s production of Anton Chekhov’s first play variously …

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endgame @ sydney theatre

A Samuel Beckett night at the theatre is like no other. One is just taken over by his bold, raw take on life. Even after all these years, one is still gobsmacked, stunned, by what one is taking place on …

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a dazzling cyrano

French playwright Edmond Rostand’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1897) is one of the all time, great works of World Theatre. Prestigious theatre companies love to have a crack at it, and give audiences a night to remember.

The great plays have

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stc season 2015

The Sydney Theatre Company (STC) season tickets for 2015 go on sale from next Tuesday (14th October) now that their priority booking period for existing subscribers has ended.

Here is a snapshot- in chronological order- of the different plays on

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travelling north

David Williamson’s play TRAVELLING  NORTH is now 35 years old. Many people will know this piece from the film adaptation which starred the late Leo McKern as the larrakin, left wing, classical music loving Aussie, Frank.  For the current Sydney …

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