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For the first time the man known as ‘the Lockerbie bomber’ tells his story. Based on exclusive interviews with Megrahi himself, and conclusive new evidence, it destroys the prosecution case and puts the Scottish criminal justice system in the dock.
This shop is heaven for would-be theatre luvvies, amateur or professional, and those with an interest in any kind of performance art. Devoted entirely to the performing arts, this bookshop is packed with plays and scripts, including screenplays. There are also a huge range of books on dance, music, acting and voice, theatre history, and arts management. Staff are knowledgeable and friendly, and anything you cannot find here can usually be ordered.
The Australian Script Centre is a champion of great performance writing. We've been selectively collecting, promoting and distributing contemporary Australian playscripts since 1979 and now house a comprehensive and extraordinary catalogue of production-ready plays.
Produced by Black Swan State Theatre Company and Perth International Arts Festival, Hilary's 'The White Divers of Broome' opens on Feb 1st. Have a peek behind the scenes here . And there's an interview on The Australian Online . In the boom times of 1912 Broome, Sydney Pigott is a wealthy pearling master looking for a way around the White Australia Policy, anxious to keep his cheap Asian workers – and his high profits.
LA BOITE: A great story, consummately told, and the remedy for anyone who is sick of spiritless, multi-million dollar musicals that are all spectacle and no substance. BRISBANE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL: A powerful performance by transgender actress Harmony Santana ensures Rashaad Ernesto Green’s otherwise pedestrian debut feature rises above cinematic clichés. MALTHOUSE: Playwright Thomas Bernhard takes no prisoners in this Fawlty-Towers-meets-Beckett rampage of satire on art, celebrity and the cult of personality. 'Life in Movement' is a splendid new documentary that pays tribute to the life and art of Tanja Liedtke. We chat to co-director Sophie Hyde about the legacy of this amazing artist.
If you are serious about becoming a writer it is essential that you join the Australian Writers' Guild – to increase your bargaining power and to give you access to industry information as well as a wide range of services. Put simply, membership of the AWG is the best investment you can make in your career.
Click here to access all the latest video content from Bell Shakespeare, including trailers, interviews with cast and directors and behind the scenes footage.
Decades before Shirley Temple, Australasia had its own young starlets. The Beatty sisters, Maud and May, were two of our most famous exports during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Leann Richards reports. Maud and May Beatty had theatre... When faced with mortal danger in World War 1, a showman did what came naturally – he cracked a joke.
ANAT's Echology Seminars; Waterwheel's live stream of the World Water Day Symposium; He Xiangyu's The Cola Project, 4a Contemporary Asian Art; Sydney Chamber Opera's In the Penal Colony; The Art Centre Melbourne's Contact!
Friday, 13 April 2012 Mary Maclane is fierce – fiercely independent, fiercely defiant, fiercely original. She is constantly yearning, constantly unsatisfied with her lot, constantly craving something she can't quite name....
Welcome to Australia's largest and most active theatre website. All services on this site are free. You are actively encouraged to join in , so make yourself at home, this is your website.
Australian Drama and Musical Theatre is an exciting space, which until now has not had a TV presence. The Theatre Show is a syndicated ipTV show that brings Australian Theatre to internet-connected televisions, computers and mobile devices. STOP PRESS: The Theatre Show will now screen on Channel 7s new digital channel TV4me, and also on PRIME, from April 2012. This will take The Theatre Show into 6 million homes across all major markets on mainstream, commercial television.
Now entering its eleventh year, Short+Sweet Sydney is the biggest festival of ten minute theatre in the world! Each week we showcase 10 exciting new plays never before seen in Sydney. There's something for everyone, with a wide range of styles, genres and subject matter being tackled at every show. And at a few dollars per play there's no denying this is some of the best value theatre around. In 2012 the festival will present 180 brand new 10 minute plays from January to March. With over 300 writers and directors and close to 500 actors involved, Short+Sweet Sydney truly is the biggest little play festival in the world.
more more The Play List Make a booking in your diary for your next theatrical evening. We are always in production and the playlist is available here with online booking. about the tamarama rock surfers
2012 promises to be the Q’s best season yet with six fantastic productions filled with laughter, music and romance. Buy a six or five season package and see Henri Szeps, Darren Coggan, Annie Bryon, Maggie Blinco, Bell Shakespeare, 'The Wharf Review 2012' and new production from the Q - 'Truck Stop' developed in Penrith by award winning writer Lachlan Philpott. And if you subscribe to the Q’s 2012 Season before 31 December 2011 you’ll have the chance to buy special discounted tickets to three exciting special events – a brand new show from the world renowned Circus Oz, Oz Opera’s scintillating new production of Mozart’s 'Don Giovanni' and 'This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing' a new play by Finegan Kruckemeyer.