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You will be aware that Carclew Youth Arts, South Australia’s peak youth arts organisation, has decided it is unable to continue providing t...
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Opcoming Masterclass by internationally renowned UK performance group ‘Fevered Sleep’ still has places ...
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Eleven young pianists links to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, who competed at the prestigious Australian Natio...
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Written by Australian playwright and Academy Award nominee David Stevens, The Sum of Us is a bitter sweet comedy ab...
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1 Sep
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Canberra Youth Theatre will be welcoming Children’s Book author, Nikki Slade-Robinson, to see CYT&rsquo...
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You will be aware that Carclew Youth Arts, South Australia’s peak youth arts organisation, has decided it is ...
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The Come Out Festival Board has announced announced the appointment of NSW artist Noel Jordan as Artistic Director ...
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CYT is responding to the needs of emerging and independent artists to learn about the process of how to get their o...
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PlayWriting Australia offers travel grants of up to $2,500 to connect playwrights, dramaturgs a...
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1 Aug
Polyglot is gearing up for a busy second half of the year performing in five languages and in f...
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1 Aug
Still Awake Still! A Jump Leads Production involves one grand piano, three mischievous musician...
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1 Aug
The third production of Sydney Theatre Company’s 2011 Next Stage program is Africa
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Adored by children around the world, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s award-winning p...
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1 Aug
Merrigong Theatre Company and Illawarra Children’s Services present the SOUTH COAST CHILD...
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Australian experts in young people's theatre, Young People and the Arts Australia (YPAA) Ex...
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1 Aug
The Australia Council for the Arts is pleased to launch the Creative Australia ArtistsGrants, a...
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Fresh from a highly successful London Festival, the Goldner String Quartet will join with long ...
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1 Aug
When Amy, a 9/11 Widow, falls in love with an al-Qaeda terrorist, it forces her to question eve...
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A (mostly true) story of two girls exploring their sexual identities against a metatheatrical b...
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1 Aug
The 2011 Sydney Children’s Festival program is the biggest to date, covering every aspect...
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Queensland Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company present Harold Pinter’s classic No ...
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Youth Arts Queensland invites young and emerging artists from across Australia to make their ar...
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TheatreSpace is a four-year research project investigating the responses of young people. The t...
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1 Jul
For over 16 years violet moon works have supplied performing arts resources to: education autho...
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1 Jul
Presented by Shopfront Contemporary Arts and Performance and framed against a bustling suburban...
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1 Jul
Read the latest review by Lowdown's Adelaide based reviewer Jane Howard who visited the lat...
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Artists from around Australia are encouraged to apply to perform at the annual Peats Ridge Arts...
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1 Jul
Canberra-based QL2 Dance and QL2 Dance Artistic Director Ruth Osborne was recognised for excell...
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1 Jul
QL2 Dance Presents Quantum Leap in Identify, 3 to 6 Aug 2011 at The Q (Queanbeyan Performing Ar...
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1 Jul
Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) presents Cursed Hearts. This dynamic new production ...
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1 Jul
Australia’s centre of excellence in contemporary circus NICA announces National Auditions...
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1 Jun
Its crunch time for Lowdown and we need your help. We would like to know what you value in the ...
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1 Jun
Auditions for NAISDA (National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Association) are being held on th...
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1 Jun
When Aleksander journeys to the hallowed city of Robotika he is captivated by the technological...
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1 Jun
Barking Gecko’s adaptation of Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree started rehearsals this week...
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1 May
With performances by Alex Manglet and Kate Mulvany, Peter Evans, Bell Shakespeare’s new A...
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1 May
How real is the online reality for Australia’s young people? And is there a deep connecti...
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1 May
The 17th ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival for Young Audiences (ASSITEJ 2011)...
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1 May
Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) presents Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs by Jo...
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1 May
The Australian String Quartet is currently calling for submissions from emerging composers for ...
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1 May
How far would you go to be truly free? Step across the line with these 23 breathtaking young ar...
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1 May
Sydney Opera House are advertsing for a Education Specialist (Education and Young People) who w...
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1 May
Monkey Baa has been madly at work on our two new productions; Emily Eyefinger adapted from Dunc...
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1 May
The Danish theatre, Teatret Gruppe 38, is the first Danish theatre ever to have received one of...
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1 Apr
Sydney Opera House’s 2011 Kids at the House program continues with internationally renown...
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1 Apr
Nearly Lear, a mischievous retelling of one of Shakespeare’s greatest dramatic masterpiec...
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1 Apr
Arena Theatre Company follows up its recent success at the 2010 Green Room Awards with great ne...
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1 Apr
Babies Proms introduces those aged 2 to 5 to the joys of live music and storytelling in a relax...
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1 Apr
After a hugely successful Newcastle season Tantrum Theatre’s As You Like It retu...
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1 Mar
COCKROACH is a bold and confronting work about the challenges that teenagers face in a conflict...
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1 Mar
This is Bell Shakespeare’s third production of Much Ado About Nothing, following producti...
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1 Mar
Tantrum Theatre says goodbye to Brendan O'Connell and hello to new Artistic Director Toni M...
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1 Mar
Sydney Opera House’s 2011 Kids at the House program continues with internationally renown...
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1 Mar
STC Ed presents Hamlet by William Shakespeare in a new adaptation by Naomi Edwards. In a twist ...
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1 Mar
This year, the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) in Melbourne celebrates ten successful ...
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1 Mar
Come one, come all to Tantrum Theatre Companies 2011 Treasure Hunt! Gather the family and join ...
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1 Mar
If you want to take your artstic practice to the next level, why not put your skills on the lin...
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1 Mar
Sydney will come alive in April for the smart ARTS Festival, that will showcase some of the bes...
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1 Mar
Entries for the 2011 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize are now open for writers. So get th...
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1 Mar
If you are an indpendent producer in a performing arts platform, then you may be interested in ...
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1 Mar
Ruby Moon plays as part of Sydney Theatre Company’s extensive 2011 Education (ST...
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1 Mar
Sydney Theatre Company gives Shakespeare's Hamlet a new twist for their 2011 Educa...
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1 Mar
Leah Purcell leads young audiences back to the very beginnings of Pamanyungun, sharing stories ...
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1 Feb
Next Stage, STC's artform development strand presented throughout 2011, features the work o...
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1 Feb
Tantrum Theatre presents the first work of its 35th anniversary season with its production of W...
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1 Feb
QL2 classes provide young dancers with the skills and training they need to succeed in their da...
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1 Feb
The call goes out to Quantum Leap dancers for a new project in 2011, Identify.
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1 Feb
Currency House have released Platform Papers 26, Not Just An Audience: Young People Transformin...
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1 Feb
2011 marks the 30th Anniversary of Babies Proms, introducing kids aged 2-5 to the joys of live ...
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1 Feb
Wanted: Performers and performance makers aged between 21 and 26 years who are interested in jo...
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1 Feb
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Babies Proms at the Sydney Opera House, Lowdown are giving...
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1 Feb
The relationship between Canberra's QL2 and the Bangkok Dance Academy has continued with a ...
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1 Feb
Moving Opera! is on the road again, so keep an ear out at your school! Moving Opera! i...
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1 Feb
Award-winning artist Locust Jones creates a 25-metre canvas with Sydney refugee students for pi...
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1 Feb
Fraser Corfield, atyp's Artistic Director announces Under the Wharf, their new theatre seas...
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1 Feb
Jigsaw Theatre Company and Courthouse Arts in association with Canberra Theatre Centre
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1 Feb
Arena Theatre Company is delighted to announce that Moth has been nominated for 7 Gree...
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1 Jan
Courtesy of Hopscotch Films and Lowdown Magazine Online, WIN tickets to see CATFISH. W...
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1 Jan
The Canberra Youth Theatre’s 2011 season sees the company navigate their way toward the e...
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1 Dec
Due to popular demand, Sydney Opera House's final Babies Proms show for 2010, The Three...
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1 Dec
In 2011, Newcastle's Tantrum Theatre will be celebrating their 35th birthday in style, with...
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1 Dec
Seymour's Companies Season is back in 2011, giving small and/or emerging performance compan...
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1 Dec
It's all systems go for Western Sydney's Powerhouse Youth Theatre, with three exciting ...
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1 Dec
WIN WIN WIN TICKETS to see The Red Shoes in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, courtesy of Ar...
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1 Dec
A Merry Christmas and jolly splendid New Year from all of us here at Lowdown.
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1 Dec
Funk It Up About Nothin’ is a feisty, urban remix of traditional Shakespeare, funking up ...
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27 Nov
This exciting new play has been commissioned and developed by atyp, written by three time winne...
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1 Nov
2039 is an edgy, satiric, black comedy that looks to the future to examine the present...
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1 Nov
Bite-sized dance with an edge!
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1 Nov
ICE has flicked on the Switch Digital Arts Centre, the brand new state-of-the-art digital arts ...
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1 Nov
Stories of Love & Hate is a headphone-verbatim theatre presentation and workshop f...
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1 Nov
Want a double pass to see Puppet State Theatre Company's enchanting The Man Who Planted...
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1 Nov
Who had the fastest fingers today? Ben & Christine! They are off to see the world premiere ...
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1 Nov
Newcastle plays host to Tantrum Theatre's world premiere of Carl Caulfield's 2039.<...
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1 Nov
Power. Precision. Passion. Don't miss this one night only performance!
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1 Nov
Crossing Divides, a Gold Coast based not-for-profit organisation that runs a variety of arts an...
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1 Nov
Little adventurers of all ages will find something to love in Sydney Opera House's 2011 Kid...
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1 Nov
Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) will host the launch of the Sydney 20...
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1 Oct
The Grenade explodes onto the Sydney Theatre Company's stage!
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1 Oct
Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre and version 1.0 present an intimate, documentary performance.
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1 Oct
An exciting opportunity for Indigenous Technical and Design production.
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1 Oct
Congratulations to Shakespeare fan, George Robson who has won a double pass to the opening nigh...
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1 Oct
Bathurst Arts Council puts the heart into art in the Central West region.
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1 Oct
Art, roller derby, zines and gaming collide in spectacular fashion!
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1 Oct
One of the nation's best young oboists has found a symmetry between making music and roasti...
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1 Oct
Calling all budding authors!
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1 Oct
Calling all playwrights for a new Fellowship.
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1 Oct
Performance Space’s Live Live is a season of performances, events and installati...
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1 Oct
Keep an eye out for interesting objects in a laneway near you.
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1 Oct
The Australian Poetry SLAM is the largest writing and performance competition in the southern h...
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1 Oct
Young dancers from Canberra and Cowra put in the Hard Yards in their October performance.
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1 Oct
Are you the next GM of NAVA?
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1 Oct
Felicity Doukakis is only 22 years old but for her, a rising star of the violin, music is timel...
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1 Oct
Two of Australia's most promising young pianists will be collaborating in Germany in 2012.<...
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1 Sep
Smooth, seductive, completely addictive and (mostly) legal.
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1 Sep
Get your applications ready for the 2011 round of JUMP artist mentorships.
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1 Sep
Free dance performances set to liven up the streets of Canberra.
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1 Sep
The ACT Government is seeking feedback from the community on the findings of an independent rev...
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1 Sep
Canberra Youth Theatre is opening its doors to invite emerging artists from outside the ACT who...
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1 Sep
Arena Theatre Company's latest work is up for a big shiny trophy!
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1 Sep
Central West NSW theatre-makers unite to produce the work of an exciting emerging playwright.
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1 Sep
The Festival of Australian Student Theatre (FAST) is the first national festival of tertiary st...
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1 Sep
There's a new theatre company on the block, or should we say, stage.
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1 Sep
Take a BITE out of these two tasty productions.
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1 Sep
Rubric, an online interdisciplinary journal is calling for submissions for Issue 2, 2010.
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1 Sep
Belvoir welcomes a new AD, new logo, fresh new talent and a new, stripped back name.
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23 Aug
On 17 August, Youth Arts Queensland (YAQ) announced CarriageWorks and Melbourne Fringe as its n...
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1 Aug
A major new musical set to open in Melbourne in March 2011 is holding open auditions in Sydney ...
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1 Aug
Two students from regional Australia will have the opportunity for a week's work experience...
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1 Aug
The Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) has appointed Moira Hay as their new General Man...
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1 Aug
ATYP's latest show is a co-production with STC's Next Stage program...
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1 Aug
A new work created with and performed by young people is premiering at Gymea’s Hazelhurst...
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1 Aug
Art Express, an exhibition featuring some of the outstanding HSC student artworks, comes to Gri...
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1 Aug
Congratulations to Margaret Robson and Elizabeth Jarque who have won double passes to Chunky Mo...
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1 Aug
The youth festival of dance Fast+Fresh Dance has opened for entries in its 2010 season.
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1 Aug
Win tix to Rio Saki and Other Falling Debris from ATYP and Lowdown Magazine
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1 Aug
YPAA's Executive Director, Lenine Bourke is traversing the countryside talking all things y...
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1 Aug
Forget millionaires; it seems everybody wants to be a gladiator in the upcoming production of <...
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1 Jul
B Sharp has a packed program with five productions in Belvoir's Downstairs Theatre before t...
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1 Jul
If you're a playwright under 35 years old, applications are now open for a prestigious awar...
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1 Jul
A play about an troubled teenager with a dark imagination is in Sydney for a short season in Ju...
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1 Jul
Kids can learn to improvise, swing, scat and boogie this July school holidays.
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1 Jul
There are many activities around the country scheduled for NAIDOC Week, like this chance to get...
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1 Jul
Regional drama student can audition in Lismore for a chance to travel to Sydney for an intense ...
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1 Jul
They may sound like a babywipes company, but Halper & Johnson are an adorable pair of old f...
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1 Jul
August sees the Sydney premiere of Alaska, an extraordinary first play from an excitin...
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1 Jun
Four testosterone-fueled high school boys decide to stage Romeo and Juliet in this fre...
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1 Jun
B Sharp welcomes Wayne Blair back to Belvoir's Downstairs Theatre to direct British-J...
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1 May
This June, Body Weather are bringing Butoh to Sydney with their physical theatre workshop.
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1 May
Calling young and emerging playwrights, directors and dramaturgs… Want to work with some...
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1 May
Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp), Australia’s leading youth theatre company, to...
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1 May
Northern Sydney’s Epicentre Theatre Company presents a powerful stage adaptation of the J...
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1 May
Arena Theatre Company’s latest production Moth premieres at the C.U. B Malthouse from 13 ...
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1 May
A hilarious new offering from Australia’s master of teen theatre. House on Fire is guaran...
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1 May
June 2010 sees the second bi-annual Song Summit music industry development event hit Sydney.
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29 Apr
Are you Australia?s next big star? Young people can get creative and "Live It Now? by subm...
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1 Apr
Outback Theatre for Young People (OTYP) teams up with Zeal and Golden Rivers to present an Apri...
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1 Apr
Short Sweet+Dance 2010 presents exciting new dance works from over 35 Indepen...
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1 Apr
The society that convict-era Governor Lachlan Macquarie hoped for and what Australia has become...
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1 Apr
Award-winning puppeteer Shona Reppe brings the children's classic Cinderella to th...
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1 Apr
The ever-expanding Sydney Writers' Festival this year has over 250 events taking place in a...
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1 Apr
This year no play was deemed worthy of nomination for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Cu...
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1 Apr
Media presenter and writer Annette Shun Wah and acclaimed photographer William Yang have teamed...
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1 Apr
Expression of interests are now open for a small team of professional and emerging directors to...
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1 Apr
A surreal comedy from British playwright Jez Butterworth is on at Belvoir Street downstairs fro...
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1 Apr
The awful, gruesome murder of 14-year-old school girl Leigh Leigh at a beach party in Stockton,...
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1 Apr
It was bound to happen; as soccer grows ever-more popular in Australia and the 2010 World Cup l...
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4 Mar
The Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts (Brisbane) is seeking young Indigenous performers for...
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1 Mar
An Australian Council for the Arts survey of over 3000 Australians has revealed that 15-24 year...
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1 Mar
Love Me Tender is a new Australian play by Tom Holloway. Fresh from a season at the 20...
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1 Mar
SYO has announced a tantalising program for 2010 featuring 100 talented classical musicians age...
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1 Mar
‘Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music’ returns to the State Theatre on Thursday 4 – S...
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1 Mar
The biggest little theatre festival in the world, Short and Sweet, features ten-minute plays fr...
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1 Mar
The Seymour Centre has entered a partnership with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras this ye...
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1 Mar
Fresh from a triumphant 2009 season where hundreds of Sydney students enjoyed this acclaimed pr...
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1 Mar
Simon Stone returns to Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre to direct his new adaptation of Nikolai Er...
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1 Mar
The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is calling for applications from creativ...
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1 Mar
Glen Street Theatre’s children and family programme, KidsPlay, opens the 2010 season pres...
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1 Mar
A fresh and innovative new theatre company is set to debut in March when it brings EDGES - ...
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1 Mar
This is your chance to secure great seats for the fantastic performances and workshops for the ...
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1 Feb
Glen Street Theatre are proud to present their first literary lunch for 2010, featuring promoti...
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1 Feb
PYT has welcomed new team members Danielle Antaki and Naomi Lane to the positions of Artistic D...
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1 Feb
The University of Technology, Sydney has limited spaces available in its upcoming short journal...
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1 Feb
version 1.0’s THIS KIND OF RUCKUS is an alcohol-fuelled, techno-beat driven performance a...
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1 Feb
The atyp performance season will open with The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman. Based on over...
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1 Jan
Kicking off its 2010 season, Company B Belvoir presents That Face – the acclaimed first p...
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1 Dec
On Saturday 28 November 200, the Regional Student (Youth) Art Exhibition and Awards took place ...
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1 Dec
Sydney Opera House continues to expand its ongoing commitment to young audiences with the relea...
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1 Dec
Fraser Corfield, Australian Theatre for Young People's (ATYP) new Artistic Director, has la...
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1 Dec
CarriageWorks’ Platform Hip Hop Festival returns in March 2010 with a 2-day celebration o...
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1 Nov
The Book of Everything centres on nine-year old Thomas, a little boy who dreams big. D...
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1 Nov
Fast+Fresh Dance is a youth dance festival that cultivates choreographic talent and performance...
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1 Nov
This November, Newcastle’s Tantrum Theatre will present a spectacular visual feast in Whe...
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1 Nov
After sell-out seasons of Back Home (2006) and The Last Highway (2008), Austr...
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1 Nov
This past Monday 9th November, Tantrum Theatre launched its 2010 season at the Playhous...
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16 Sep
Bustown playwright Lachlan Philpott has been announced as the winner of the 2009 Griffin Award ...
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1 Aug
The 2009 national Fastest Boy in the World Tour is zooming through NSW, ACT, QLD and t...
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1 Aug
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus won a major national industry prize in Sydney last night. Albury Wo...
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1 Aug
The NSW government recently announced a budget boost of $16.1 million to it’s arts fundin...
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1 Aug
Music Play For Life continues to assist school children around the country to access music educ...
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1 Aug
The Sydney Youth Orchestra will celebrate spring on September 19 with eight of the SYO’s ...
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1 Aug
As part of it’s 150th Anniversary celebrations, Kiama, NSW will host what promises to be ...
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1 Aug
From September 16 to 18, Gundagai will host the Spring School of Irish Music and Dance. The thr...
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1 Aug
You have until September 30 to enter Toyota Star Maker 2010, the country music event that has t...
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1 Aug
The 6th International Drama in Education Research Institute (IDIERI) Conference will be held in...
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28 Jul
Got an urge to tell Australia a story? Are you a young filmmaker? SBS and the New South Wales F...
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28 Jul
Theatre of Image is in pre-production for The Book of Everything, their major show for...
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28 Jul
Watch out boys, the girls are coming to town! The all female cast of Bell Shakespeare’s p...
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28 Jul
The Australian Theatre of the Deaf (ATOD) has embarked on development of two of the productions...
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28 Jul
Monkey Baa is thrilled to announce the appointment of Australian authors Morris Gleitzman, Jack...
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28 Jul
Imaginary Theatre is bringing Tashi back to the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of Brisbane Festiva...
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