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Kiss Me Kate
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Sealed with a kiss: Hornsby Musical Society ends the 2019 season on a high note Hornsby Musical Society resuscitate a 1949 classic frame tale in a comedic battle of man and woman against the interweaved backdrop of Shakesp… -
Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art
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This month Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art is taking over Carriageworks for a spectacular program of new and experimental works from Australia and the Asia Pacific. Every day from October 17 - 27 will see an array of thoughtful, q… -
David Bowie's 'Lets Dance' New First Nations Sound Art Installation
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Unusual for its time, 1983 music video David Bowie’s Let’s Dance was unapologetically political – tackling racism, dispossession, forced labour and British nuclear testing. Urban Theatre Projects’ next major artwork installation … -
Jameson One Day Music Food Whiskey Festival
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FREE ONE-DAY FESTIVAL Jameson House of Rounds is celebrating whiskey, live music and community spirit at Vic on the Park Marrickville this month on Saturday 19 October. -
John
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The couple enter an eerie bed & breakfast. A menacing doll stares down at them from its high perch of a shelf, its wide-open eyes appearing to follow the twenty-something duo across the living room. The girlfriend mentions how she once had the exa… -
Mea Culpa
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Featuring intriguing movement and spoken word, Mea Culpa depicts the dramas played out amongst seven female bodies in a futuristic society. -
Taikoz Drumming Seven Flowers
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The Flower is the Mind, the seed is technique.Zeami Fushikaden (The Transmission of Style and the Flower) Noh playwright and theoretician Zeami wrote these words in his once secret 15th Century treatise Fushikaden. In t… -
Patricia on Gene Kelly Legacy
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Lovers of film and Gene Kelly fans will no doubt relish the opportunity to hear Patricia Ward Kelly share some rare and familiar stories and film clips, previously unreleased recordings, personal memorabilia, and insights culled from Kelly’s hours of interviews and conversations with her husband. -
Venue 505 Music Moves
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BIG NEWS is that Venue 505 is closing the 280 Cleveland St Venue at the end of 2019 and relocating the music program to the Old 505 Theatre at 5 Eliza St Newtown in 2020. Exciting times ahead as they will be celebrating non stop up until Christmas… -
Old Fitz Underground + Emerging Theatre
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Following the sudden and unexpected closure of Limelight on Oxford Street, a number of emerging companies were left without a home for their programmed shows. Thankfully, the Old Fitzroy Hotel made some space on the legendary Old Fitz stage, as pa… -
Palestine Film Festival Australia
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The Palestinian Film Festival Australia returns to celebrate with a stacked program of award-winning features, ground-breaking documentaries, thought-provoking shorts and the launch of its exciting new program stream, Arab Cinema Days. -
Charlie Chaplin Not So Silent Movie
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In the 1920s America fell in love with the movies; Hollywood’s first stars were born on the silver screens of silent films. Although silent in name, the films of the 1920s were shown in picture palaces where the images sprang to life through the… -
A Cautionary Tale of Catastrophe
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Crude, witty and a touch of genius U.B.U – A Cautionary Tale of Catastrophe is Richard Hilliar’s reim… -
Celebrity Theatresports for CanTeen
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This August a cast of some of Australia's top Theatresports stars take to the Enmore Theatre stage to raise funds CanTeen. -
Silver Gull Play Award
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Five local Sydney plays were shortlisted for the 5th Silver Gull Play Award. And the winner is... -
Latin American Film Festival
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The 14th annual Sydney Latin American Film Festival (SLAFF) is back this September (4—11). -
Hayes @ The Hayes: 12 shows only
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She is our first lady of Australian theatre, she has a theatre named after her that rejoices in our new found love of musicals, and she told me last year that she best loves the era of stage when it was still called musical comedy. No spoilers, bu… -
Musicians Fighting Indigenous Suicide
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Alarmingly, 40% of child deaths in Indigenous communities are by suicide, and the percentage of youth suicides that are Indigenous rose from 10% in 1991 to a staggering 80% in 2012. The likelihood that Aboriginal people will self-harm is six times… -
ANZAC Musical Hits State Theatre
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Performed by thirty-five Australian actors and ten musicians, new musical Three Weeks In Spring hits the State Theatre this week. The musical, set during the first three weeks of the Gallipoli campaign in April 1915, explores the themes of mateshi… -
Hot August Nights
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Sydney - what's happening? We know and we'll tell you! Here's what will get you going on your Hot August Nights... and some smooth days... …