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Doors Close at Lowdown Magazine posted 30 Sep

You will be aware that Carclew Youth Arts, South Australia’s peak youth arts organisation, has decided it is unable to continue providing t... Continue reading

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Attention NSW based teachers Sydney Opera House have some great news! posted 30 Sep

Bookings can be made by calling Amy Mathews or Anne Bruce on 02 9250 7770.

Opcoming Masterclass by internationally renowned UK performance group ‘Fevered Sleep’ still has places ...

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Con-nected Pianist wins Australian National Piano Award posted 1 Sep

Eleven young pianists links to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, who competed at the prestigious Australian Natio...

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Glenn Street Theatre present The Sum of Us by David Stevens posted 1 Sep

The Cast from The Sum of Us. JOHN JARRATT, PATRICK HARVEY, GLENN VAN OOSTEROM, NELL FEENEY

Written by Australian playwright and Academy Award nominee David Stevens, The Sum of Us is a bitter sweet comedy ab...

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Sydney becomes a Playground for Children posted 1 Sep

Put it in the diary, jot it on the calendar, write it on your hand - the Sydney Children’s Festival is coming!

Sydney has long been Australia’s premiere entertainment destination for grownups, but this September – ...

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Author Travels Across The Seas For CYT’s World Premiere At Floriade! posted 1 Sep

The cast of 13 young actors aged 7 – 12yrs of THAT’S NOT JUNK

Canberra Youth Theatre will be welcoming Children’s Book author, Nikki Slade-Robinson,  to see CYT&rsquo...

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Message to Lowdown readers and colleagues posted 1 Sep

You will be aware that Carclew Youth Arts, South Australia’s peak youth arts organisation, has decided it is ...

1 Aug
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Come Out Announces New Artistic Director As The Festival Comes Of Age posted 1 Aug

Noel Jordan, Artistic Director of Come Out Youth Arts Festival for 2013 and 2015

The Come Out Festival Board has announced announced the appointment of NSW artist Noel Jordan as Artistic Director ...

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Independant Artists Series @ Canberra Youth Theatre (CYT) posted 1 Aug

3 programs on offer this semester and now with our new website, all enrolments can be completed online

CYT is responding to the needs of emerging and independent artists to learn about the process of how to get their o...

1 Aug

State Exchange 2011 - travel grants for Australian playwrights.

PlayWriting Australia offers travel grants of up to $2,500 to connect playwrights, dramaturgs a...

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1 Aug

Polyglot lives up to its name while travelling the globe.

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! Image by Honey & Gruener

This September school holidays prepare for the World Premiere of Still Awake Still!

Still Awake Still! A Jump Leads Production involves one grand piano, three mischievous musician...

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1 Aug My Darling Patricia, a company renowned for their unique approach to design and performance

Sydney Theatre Company presents AFRICA by My Darling Patricia

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1 Aug It’s all about kids at Sydney Opera House

Sydney Opera House Presents The Christine Dunstan And Tall Stories Production Of The Gruffalo

Adored by children around the world, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s award-winning p...

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1 Aug

Inspiring Childrens Creativity at the South Coast Childrens Festival in Wollongong.

Merrigong Theatre Company and Illawarra Children’s Services present the SOUTH COAST CHILD...

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1 Aug Riverland Youth Theatre's Artistic Director Olivia Allen at the Delhi Opera House

Australia's experts in theatre for young audiences catalyse on Indian theatre practices for young people.

Australian experts in young people's theatre, Young People and the Arts Australia (YPAA) Ex...

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1 Aug

New funding for artists to build a creative Australia

The Australia Council for the Arts is pleased to launch the Creative Australia ArtistsGrants, a...

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1 Aug Dene Olding,Dimity Hall, Irina Morozova, Julian Smiles and Ian Munro.

Musica Viva’s Dream Team, Ian Munro & the Goldner String Quartet, in Concert.

Fresh from a highly successful London Festival, the Goldner String Quartet will join with long ...

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1 Aug

Product by Mark Ravenhill

When Amy, a 9/11 Widow, falls in love with an al-Qaeda terrorist, it forces her to question eve...

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1 Aug

Country Matters

A (mostly true) story of two girls exploring their sexual identities against a metatheatrical b...

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1 Aug

Kids Theatre Comes Alive At The Sydney Children’s Festival

The 2011 Sydney Children’s Festival program is the biggest to date, covering every aspect...

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1 Aug No Man's Land Cast: Andrew Buchanan, Peter Carroll, John Gaden and Steven Rooke.

Theatre Greats Tackle Pinter’s Masterpiece

Queensland Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company present Harold Pinter’s classic No ...

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1 Aug

Jump National Artist Mentoring Program - MaKe your match in 2012

Youth Arts Queensland invites young and emerging artists from across Australia to make their ar...

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1 Aug The Importance of Being Earnest, QTC 2008. L-R: Georgina Symes, Francesca Savige, Bryan Probets & Paul Bishop. Photo: Rob Maccoll.

Get the latest on TheatreSpace Research - the investigation of young people and theatre

TheatreSpace is a four-year research project investigating the responses of young people. The t...

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1 Jul violet moon works - Performing Arts and Makeup Specialists

violet moon works - Performing Arts and Makeup Specialists

For over 16 years violet moon works have supplied performing arts resources to: education autho...

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1 Jul Machine Atlas Performer, Daniel Tomalaris.

Age Against the Machine - Young artists create machines for the future

Presented by Shopfront Contemporary Arts and Performance and framed against a bustling suburban...

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1 Jul

Latest Lowdown Review - Aleksander and the Robot Maid - Drop Bear Theatre

Read the latest review by Lowdown's Adelaide based reviewer Jane Howard who visited the lat...

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1 Jul

Peats Ridge, a Global Launch Pad for Australian Artists – Entries Now Open

Artists from around Australia are encouraged to apply to perform at the annual Peats Ridge Arts...

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1 Jul Ruth Osborne has devoted her professional life to youth dance, challenging old ideas and developing new methods.

Canberra's QL2 Dance wins two Australian Dance Awards

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

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...A plague o' both your houses!

Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) presents Cursed Hearts. This dynamic new production ...

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1 Jul Dont hang around - apply now

NICA announces National Auditions for 2012 Circus degree.

Australia’s centre of excellence in contemporary circus NICA announces National Auditions...

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1 Jun

Lowdown Survey - we need you to give us the lowdown on Lowdown

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

Naisda - National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Association call for auditions.

Auditions for NAISDA (National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Association) are being held on th...

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1 Jun

Dropbear Theatre presents Aleksander and the Robot Maid at The Seymour Centre

When Aleksander journeys to the hallowed city of Robotika he is captivated by the technological...

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1 Jun

Boom! Bap! Pow! The Red Tree has music!

Barking Gecko’s adaptation of Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree started rehearsals this week...

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1 May “Julius Caesar is a play that is never out of date, in fact feels today relentlessly modern.”

Bell Shakespeare presents Julius Caesar directed by Peter Evans.

With performances by Alex Manglet and Kate Mulvany, Peter Evans, Bell Shakespeare’s new A...

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1 May

St Martins Youth Art Centre presents THE LOST GIRL

How real is the online reality for Australia’s young people? And is there a deep connecti...

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1 May

Youth arts sector builds 'bridges across borders' at global Festival

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

Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) presents Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs by Jo...

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1 May

ASQ National Composers’ Forum – Call for Submissions

The Australian String Quartet is currently calling for submissions from emerging composers for ...

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1 May

The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) presents CODA

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

Position Vacant: Are you the next Education Specialist for the Sydney Opera House?

Sydney Opera House are advertsing for a Education Specialist (Education and Young People) who w...

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1 May

Get the Lowdown on all things Monkey Baa...get your tickets for Emily Eyefinger.

Monkey Baa has been madly at work on our two new productions; Emily Eyefinger adapted from Dunc...

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1 May ASSITEJ Honorary Presidents Award for Artistic Excellence. Teatret Gruppe 38 - Bodil Alling

Great International Award for Danish Teatret Gruppe 38

The Danish theatre, Teatret Gruppe 38, is the first Danish theatre ever to have received one of...

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1 Apr Nathan O’Keefe and Astrid Pill in Me and My Shadow, also guest starring the red balloon.

Patch Theatre Company - ME AND MY SHADOW hits the Opera House

Sydney Opera House’s 2011 Kids at the House program continues with internationally renown...

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1 Apr

Sydney Opera House’s Kids at the House program - NEARLY LEAR

Nearly Lear, a mischievous retelling of one of Shakespeare’s greatest dramatic masterpiec...

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1 Apr Actor Thomas Conroy will be joining the production in the role of Sebastian for Moth’s 2011 seasons.

Awards and accolades for Arena Theatre Company and new blood for Moth.

Arena Theatre Company follows up its recent success at the 2010 Green Room Awards with great ne...

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1 Apr I See (Ngarrany Nhama Dätiwuy Ngath I Man)

Sydney Opera House present the second Babies Proms: I See in the 30th Anniversary Season

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

As You Like It Returns for the Gloucester Shakespear Festival.

After a hugely successful Newcastle season Tantrum Theatre’s As You Like It retu...

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1 Mar We need to stop thinking that youth theatre is only children’s theatre.

COCKROACH - Australian Premiere @ Canberra Youth Theatre

COCKROACH is a bold and confronting work about the challenges that teenagers face in a conflict...

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1 Mar

Much Ado About Nothing, Directed by John Bell, coming to a venue near you. (NSW, VIC and ACT)

This is Bell Shakespeare’s third production of Much Ado About Nothing, following producti...

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1 Mar

Tantrum Theatre closes a door just to open a window

Tantrum Theatre says goodbye to Brendan O'Connell and hello to new Artistic Director Toni M...

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1 Mar Me and My Shadow runs from 9 – 17 April in the Playhouse.

Shadow play at the Opera House - Kids at the House program presents Patch's Me and My Shadow

Sydney Opera House’s 2011 Kids at the House program continues with internationally renown...

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1 Mar

Hamlet featuring Shakespeare's language, live music, modern references and created especially for teenagers

STC Ed presents Hamlet by William Shakespeare in a new adaptation by Naomi Edwards. In a twist ...

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1 Mar Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you....

The Launching Pad for High-Flyers turns 10, The NAtional Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) celebrates a decade of excellence.

This year, the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) in Melbourne celebrates ten successful ...

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1 Mar Tantrum Theatre Junior Ensemble members perform in the 2010 Treasure Hunt.

Tantrum Theatre Company Treasure Hunt

Come one, come all to Tantrum Theatre Companies 2011 Treasure Hunt! Gather the family and join ...

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1 Mar Off with their heads!

Splendid Call Out for Artists

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 A showcase of talent from 16-25 year olds.

2011 smart ARTS Festival in Sydney

Sydney will come alive in April for the smart ARTS Festival, that will showcase some of the bes...

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1 Mar

ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Competition

Entries for the 2011 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize are now open for writers. So get th...

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1 Mar

Independent Producers Initiative

If you are an indpendent producer in a performing arts platform, then you may be interested in ...

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1 Mar How will this fairytale end?

Sydney Theatre Company presents Ruby Moon as part of the 2011 STC Ed program

Ruby Moon plays as part of Sydney Theatre Company’s extensive 2011 Education (ST...

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1 Mar Gen Y Hamlet

Sydney Theatre Company's Hamlet

Sydney Theatre Company gives Shakespeare's Hamlet a new twist for their 2011 Educa...

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1 Mar Jump into the fun!

Sydney Theatre Company's Actor on A Box: The Dreaming

Leah Purcell leads young audiences back to the very beginnings of Pamanyungun, sharing stories ...

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1 Feb The inventive hit, Africa, features broken toys, puppets and inspired performances from My Darling Patricia...

2011 NEXT STAGE Season Announced at Sydney Theatre Company

Next Stage, STC's artform development strand presented throughout 2011, features the work o...

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1 Feb Michelle Pastor as Rosalind (disguised as Ganymede)

No tantrums from us... it's just "As you Like It"

Tantrum Theatre presents the first work of its 35th anniversary season with its production of W...

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1 Feb QL2 = Australian youth dance at its best – transforming young lives and nurturing Australia’s future dance professionals. yeah!!

Join QL2 - Start with Classes

QL2 classes provide young dancers with the skills and training they need to succeed in their da...

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1 Feb Quantum Leapers are selected by an audition process from dancers with training, experience or aptitude in movement...

Quantum Leap Major Project - Identify

The call goes out to Quantum Leap dancers for a new project in 2011, Identify.

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1 Feb The authors show how young people are leading a demand for change in the arts and want to rock the balance of power.

WIN a FREE Copy of Currency Press' Platform Papers No26 - Not Just An Audience: Young People Transforming Our Theatre.

Currency House have released Platform Papers 26, Not Just An Audience: Young People Transformin...

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1 Feb I'd like to be, under the sea!

I Wanna Be a Mermaid - SOH Babies Proms kicks off with a splash!

2011 marks the 30th Anniversary of Babies Proms, introducing kids aged 2-5 to the joys of live ...

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1 Feb

Backbone Ensemble – FINAL WEEK TO APPLY

Wanted: Performers and performance makers aged between 21 and 26 years who are interested in jo...

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1 Feb For your chance to win tickets to I Wanna Be a Mermaid on March 2nd, just email your name and contact details to Lowdown

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Babies Proms at the Sydney Opera House - family pass giveaway

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Babies Proms at the Sydney Opera House, Lowdown are giving...

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1 Feb The moments that stick out most for me from the tour was the performances, they were all very different and challenging but...

QL2 Across Thailand

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 Move!

Moving Opera! is on the road again, so keep an ear out at your school! Moving Opera! i...

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1 Feb

Art & Australia initiates collaborative artwork with refugee students for ALNF

Award-winning artist Locust Jones creates a 25-metre canvas with Sydney refugee students for pi...

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1 Feb Parkie, by Daniel Hayward

Look Under the Wharf - it's atyp's 2011 season

Fraser Corfield, atyp's Artistic Director announces Under the Wharf, their new theatre seas...

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1 Feb

The Master has requested your presence for a very special evening that you’ll never forget.

Jigsaw Theatre Company and Courthouse Arts in association with Canberra Theatre Centre
p...

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1 Feb Sometimes there's no scarier place to be than inside your own mind…

Moth has been nominated for 7 Green Room Awards

Arena Theatre Company is delighted to announce that Moth has been nominated for 7 Gree...

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1 Jan It all begins with...click... 'Add as Friend'...

WIN WIN WIN - Tickets to see CATFISH at a cinema near you

Courtesy of Hopscotch Films and Lowdown Magazine Online, WIN tickets to see CATFISH. W...

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1 Jan workshops and productions all challenge  participants to forge new frontiers and join in the excitement!

Canberra Youth Theatre = Season 2011 = Threshholds

The Canberra Youth Theatre’s 2011 season sees the company navigate their way toward the e...

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1 Dec

Babies Proms: The Three Kings season extended

Due to popular demand, Sydney Opera House's final Babies Proms show for 2010, The Three...

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1 Dec

Tantrum celebrates 35 years of theatre and more...

In 2011, Newcastle's Tantrum Theatre will be celebrating their 35th birthday in style, with...

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1 Dec The Downstairs Theatre

Applications Open for Seymour's 2011 Companies Season

Seymour's Companies Season is back in 2011, giving small and/or emerging performance compan...

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1 Dec Even puppets have to protect their eyesight.

PYT puts on a Summer Supernova of Workshops, and seeks a Festival Director for SHORTCUTS 2011

It's all systems go for Western Sydney's Powerhouse Youth Theatre, with three exciting ...

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1 Dec Win a double pass for the Sydney, Adelaide or Perth 2011 shows.

WIN WIN WIN AGAIN - Tickets to the Australian tour of The Red Shoes, 2011

WIN WIN WIN TICKETS to see The Red Shoes in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, courtesy of Ar...

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1 Dec Flexible seasons greetings from NICA

Seasons Greetings from the Lowdown Team

A Merry Christmas and jolly splendid New Year from all of us here at Lowdown.

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1 Dec Image courtesy of Platform Hip Hop Festival

Funk It Up About Nothin' - Hip Hop's take on Shakespeare

Funk It Up About Nothin’ is a feisty, urban remix of traditional Shakespeare, funking up ...

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27 Nov Children’s book illustrator, Rod Clement assists with costumes for the production.

Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) presents the World Premiere of Maxine Mellor's, Desiree Din and the Red Forest.

This exciting new play has been commissioned and developed by atyp, written by three time winne...

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1 Nov Tantrum Theatre's 2039 playing at Civic Theatre’s Playhouse - Nov 18 to 27

Tantrum Theatre presents 2039...reality is coming – the past is the future!

2039 is an edgy, satiric, black comedy that looks to the future to examine the present...

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1 Nov On your marks...get set...

Fast + Fresh Dance

Bite-sized dance with an edge!

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1 Nov

ICE Launches Switch Digital Arts Centre

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 and Hate

Stories of Love & Hate is a headphone-verbatim theatre presentation and workshop f...

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1 Nov How much is that doggie in the window? FREE when you win Lowdown tickets!

WIN WIN WIN tickets to see The Man Who Planted Trees at the Sydney Opera House

Want a double pass to see Puppet State Theatre Company's enchanting The Man Who Planted...

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1 Nov Where's that Snow on Mars cake?!?

Congrats to Ben & Christine.... Our 'Snow on Mars' Family Pass Winners!

Who had the fastest fingers today? Ben & Christine! They are off to see the world premiere ...

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1 Nov

World Premiere of 2039

Newcastle plays host to Tantrum Theatre's world premiere of Carl Caulfield's 2039.<...

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1 Nov

Tetrafide & TaikOz band together for one night only!

Power. Precision. Passion. Don't miss this one night only performance!

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1 Nov Workshop 3, 2010

Crossing Divides calling workshop facilitators!

Crossing Divides, a Gold Coast based not-for-profit organisation that runs a variety of arts an...

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1 Nov

Sydney Opera House launches 2011 KIDS AT THE HOUSE program

Little adventurers of all ages will find something to love in Sydney Opera House's 2011 Kid...

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1 Nov Magicians and vampires and Tom Cruise-oh my!

Playwrighting at its shortest and sweetest, NIDA hosts the 2011 launch

Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) will host the launch of the Sydney 20...

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1 Oct

Sydney Theatre Company presents 'The Grenade'

The Grenade explodes onto the Sydney Theatre Company's stage!

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1 Oct

The Bougainville Photoplay Project

Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre and version 1.0 present an intimate, documentary performance.

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1 Oct

Urban Theatre Projects and Belvoir's Professional Development Program (NSW)

An exciting opportunity for Indigenous Technical and Design production.

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1 Oct See you in 2011 George Robson!

Lowdown announces winner of STC Ed Hamlet giveaway

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 announce new film initiative

Bathurst Arts Council puts the heart into art in the Central West region.

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1 Oct

Digital Culture Fund

Art, roller derby, zines and gaming collide in spectacular fashion!

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1 Oct

Musician Angus has the touch of a Barista

One of the nation's best young oboists has found a symmetry between making music and roasti...

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1 Oct

The search for a great Australian writer begins

Calling all budding authors!

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1 Oct

The Patrick White Playwrights' Award and Fellowship

Calling all playwrights for a new Fellowship.

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1 Oct

Performance Space 'Live Live'

Performance Space’s Live Live is a season of performances, events and installati...

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1 Oct Beware of Babushkas down backstreets

Streetware to transform Sydney laneways

Keep an eye out for interesting objects in a laneway near you.

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1 Oct

Sydney Theatre Company hosts the Australian Poetry SLAM 2010

The Australian Poetry SLAM is the largest writing and performance competition in the southern h...

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1 Oct

QL2 went the Hard Yards

Young dancers from Canberra and Cowra put in the Hard Yards in their October performance.

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1 Oct

NAVA is looking for a new GM

Are you the next GM of NAVA?

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1 Oct

Young violinist heads Stateside

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

In a class of their own in 2012

Two of Australia's most promising young pianists will be collaborating in Germany in 2012.<...

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1 Sep All the party people say

Crack Theatre Festival 2010

Smooth, seductive, completely addictive and (mostly) legal.

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1 Sep

Calling young artists for JUMP 2011

Get your applications ready for the 2011 round of JUMP artist mentorships.

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1 Sep

In the Public Domain

Free dance performances set to liven up the streets of Canberra.

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1 Sep

Input Sought on ACT Arts Review

The ACT Government is seeking feedback from the community on the findings of an independent rev...

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1 Sep Image from the CYT production of Storm in a Teacup

Calling ALL Emerging Artists! Canberra Youth Theatre OPENS HOUSE for Australian Artists

Canberra Youth Theatre is opening its doors to invite emerging artists from outside the ACT who...

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1 Sep

MOTH nominated for Victorian Premier's Literary Award

Arena Theatre Company's latest work is up for a big shiny trophy!

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1 Sep

Before and After Knockoff joins Sydney Fringe Festival

Central West NSW theatre-makers unite to produce the work of an exciting emerging playwright. Continue reading »

1 Sep Festival of Australian Student Theatre

Festival of Australian Student Theatre this weekend!

The Festival of Australian Student Theatre (FAST) is the first national festival of tertiary st...

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1 Sep

National Youth Theatre Company takes first steps with "Growing Up"

There's a new theatre company on the block, or should we say, stage.

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1 Sep

2010 Best of Independent Theatre Program announced

Take a BITE out of these two tasty productions.

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1 Sep

Rubric: Call for Submissions

Rubric, an online interdisciplinary journal is calling for submissions for Issue 2, 2010.

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1 Sep

Belvoir launches 2011 season

Belvoir welcomes a new AD, new logo, fresh new talent and a new, stripped back name.

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23 Aug

Two new State Partners for JUMP

On 17 August, Youth Arts Queensland (YAQ) announced CarriageWorks and Melbourne Fringe as its n...

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1 Aug

Hey Drew, is that you?

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 spend a week in Sydney with Bell Shakespeare

AUSTAR Stage For Life

Two students from regional Australia will have the opportunity for a week's work experience...

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1 Aug ATYP's new GM, Moira Hay

ATYP Anounces New GM

The Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) has appointed Moira Hay as their new General Man...

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1 Aug AYP's Tusk Tusk

Tusk Tusk: ATYP at the STC

ATYP's latest show is a co-production with STC's Next Stage program...

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1 Aug Zombies at the drive-in!

Zombies At The Drive-In!

A new work created with and performed by young people is premiering at Gymea’s Hazelhurst...

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1 Aug

Art Express in Griffith

Art Express, an exhibition featuring some of the outstanding HSC student artworks, comes to Gri...

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1 Aug My GLOW has been won!

Announcing the winners of the GLOW giveaway...

Congratulations to Margaret Robson and Elizabeth Jarque who have won double passes to Chunky Mo...

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1 Aug

Fast+Fresh Dance 2010: call for entries

The youth festival of dance Fast+Fresh Dance has opened for entries in its 2010 season.

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1 Aug win win win win win win win win win ... go on ...

Win Win Win - Double passes for Australian Theatre for Young People's iconic grunge play ...Rio Saki...

Win tix to Rio Saki and Other Falling Debris from ATYP and Lowdown Magazine Continue reading »

1 Aug

Join the National Conversation and Map the Future with YPAA's Executive Director!

YPAA's Executive Director, Lenine Bourke is traversing the countryside talking all things y...

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1 Aug

Who wants to be a Gladiator?

Forget millionaires; it seems everybody wants to be a gladiator in the upcoming production of <...

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1 Jul

B Sharp Season Launch

B Sharp has a packed program with five productions in Belvoir's Downstairs Theatre before t...

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1 Jul

Philip Parsons Young Playwright's Award

If you're a playwright under 35 years old, applications are now open for a prestigious awar...

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1 Jul

Moth comes to Sydney

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

Kinderjazz at Glen Street

Kids can learn to improvise, swing, scat and boogie this July school holidays.

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1 Jul

NAIDOC Week Weaving Workshop

There are many activities around the country scheduled for NAIDOC Week, like this chance to get...

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1 Jul

Bell Shakespeare Regional Scholarship Auditions

Regional drama student can audition in Lismore for a chance to travel to Sydney for an intense ...

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1 Jul

Halpern & Johnson

They may sound like a babywipes company, but Halper & Johnson are an adorable pair of old f...

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1 Jul

Alaska Under the Wharf

August sees the Sydney premiere of Alaska, an extraordinary first play from an excitin...

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1 Jun Bang!

'Shakespeare's R&J' at the Seymour Centre

Four testosterone-fueled high school boys decide to stage Romeo and Juliet in this fre...

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1 Jun The best way to watch butterflies in London

Dirty Butterfly

B Sharp welcomes Wayne Blair back to Belvoir's Downstairs Theatre to direct  British-J...

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1 May Not even space-age silver trenchcoats can hide De Quincey Co.'s talent.

Body Weather & Butoh Workshop hits Sydney

This June, Body Weather are bringing Butoh to Sydney with their physical theatre workshop.

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1 May

PlayWriting Australia seek Rehearsal Interns

Calling young and emerging playwrights, directors and dramaturgs… Want to work with some...

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1 May atyp welcomes Michael Ihlein (inset) as Chair following the retirement of Antoinette (Popsy) Albert.

Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) announces new Chair

Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp), Australia’s leading youth theatre company, to...

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1 May I see the men...but where are the mice?

Epicentre Theatre Co. presents Steinbeck’s classic 'Of Mice and Men'

Northern Sydney’s Epicentre Theatre Company presents a powerful stage adaptation of the J...

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1 May Moth premieres at the C.U. B Malthouse from 13 to 30 May 2010 in a sold-out season.

Moth - SOLD OUT SEASON

Arena Theatre Company’s latest production Moth premieres at the C.U. B Malthouse from 13 ...

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1 May

Australian Theatre for Young People (atyp) presents HOUSE ON FIRE

A hilarious new offering from Australia’s master of teen theatre. House on Fire is guaran...

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1 May Dom Alessio and Catherine Britt do their best to ignore Rai Thistlewayte's missing torso at the Song Summit launch.

APRA|AMCOS launches Song Summit 2010

June 2010 sees the second bi-annual Song Summit music industry development event hit Sydney. Continue reading »

29 Apr

LAST CHANCE!!! Get your entry in for the National Youth Week Talent Competition...

Are you Australia?s next big star? Young people can get creative and "Live It Now? by subm...

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1 Apr Dave Houston, Angela Frost and Richie Hallal performing The Table

Outback Theatre for Young People

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 provides a much-needed platform for choreographers and dancers...

SHORT SWEET+DANCE 2010 - Bite-Sized Dance

Short Sweet+Dance 2010 presents exciting new dance works from over 35 Indepen...

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1 Apr Students from Macquarie Fields High School.

Teenagers add Botox to famous address on freedom

The society that convict-era Governor Lachlan Macquarie hoped for and what Australia has become...

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1 Apr

Cinderella and the kids at the Opera House

Award-winning puppeteer Shona Reppe brings the children's classic Cinderella to th...

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1 Apr New AD Chip Rolley brings his Texan charms to the 2010 Sydney Writers' Festival.

Sydney Writers' Festival

The ever-expanding Sydney Writers' Festival this year has over 250 events taking place in a...

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1 Apr New releases from Currency Press

Plays no-show in the 2010 Premier's Literary Awards

This year no play was deemed worthy of nomination for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Cu...

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1 Apr

Stories East and West

Media presenter and writer Annette Shun Wah and acclaimed photographer William Yang have teamed...

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1 Apr The Colour Blind Project is a brand new theatre festival of short works created to spark public dialogue about the cultural diversity within the Australian Arts and Entertainment industry.

The Colour Blind Project is calling for talented and emerging directors.

Expression of interests are now open for a small team of professional and emerging directors to...

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1 Apr

Parlour Song

A surreal comedy from British playwright Jez Butterworth is on at Belvoir Street downstairs fro...

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1 Apr

Blackrock returns to Newcastle

The awful, gruesome murder of 14-year-old school girl Leigh Leigh at a beach party in Stockton,...

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1 Apr

Every Single Saturday

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 ACPA is well-respected within the Australian arts industry, with links to some of the countries most recognised performing arts’ professionals.

ACPA Seeking Talented Young Indigenous Performers

The Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts (Brisbane) is seeking young Indigenous performers for...

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1 Mar      “With younger people embracing the arts so eagerly, it’s likely that this is the beginning of a strong trend.

Australian 15-24 year olds are the new creative generation

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' sees five actors teasing out the complex relationship between a father and daughter.

New Australian play by Tom Holloway

Love Me Tender is a new Australian play by Tom Holloway. Fresh from a season at the 20...

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1 Mar

Sydney Youth Orchestra: youth and vigour

SYO has announced a tantalising program for 2010 featuring 100 talented classical musicians age...

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1 Mar

Sound of Music sing-a-long

‘Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music’ returns to the State Theatre on Thursday 4 – S...

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1 Mar Short & Sweet - Pride and Prejudice

Short and Sweet Grand Final

The biggest little theatre festival in the world, Short and Sweet, features ten-minute plays fr...

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1 Mar The Margaritas

Mardi Gras at the Seymour Centre

The Seymour Centre has entered a partnership with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras this ye...

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1 Mar

Shoehorn Sonata

Fresh from a triumphant 2009 season where hundreds of Sydney students enjoyed this acclaimed pr...

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1 Mar

The Suicide

Simon Stone returns to Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre to direct his new adaptation of Nikolai Er...

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1 Mar

Synapse 2010

The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is calling for applications from creativ...

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1 Mar Rhythm Safari - a musical journey around the globe, where the audience becomes part of the show.

KidsPlay opens with rhythm in 2010 at Glen St

Glen Street Theatre’s children and family programme, KidsPlay, opens the 2010 season pres...

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1 Mar L-R: George Youakim, Christie Wykes, Keegan Joyce and Helena Wehbe get Edgy.

Edgy young theatre company bring new musical to town!

A fresh and innovative new theatre company is set to debut in March when it brings EDGES - ...

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1 Mar

Out of the Box, QPAC's festival for children 8 years & under - program on sale

This is your chance to secure great seats for the fantastic performances and workshops for the ...

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1 Feb

Literary Lunch with Harry M. Miller

Glen Street Theatre are proud to present their first literary lunch for 2010, featuring promoti...

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1 Feb

PYT welcomes new team!

PYT has welcomed new team members Danielle Antaki and Naomi Lane to the positions of Artistic D...

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1 Feb

UTS Australian Centre for Independent Journalism March short courses

The University of Technology, Sydney has limited spaces available in its upcoming short journal...

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1 Feb

version 1.0 cause a ruckus

version 1.0’s THIS KIND OF RUCKUS is an alcohol-fuelled, techno-beat driven performance a...

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1 Feb

ATYP- THE LARAMIE PROJECT by Moises Kaufman Directed by Fraser Corfield

The atyp performance season will open with The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman. Based on over...

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1 Jan

Company B Belvoir present 'That Face'

Kicking off its 2010 season, Company B Belvoir presents That Face – the acclaimed first p...

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1 Dec

Regional Student (Youth) Art Exhibition and Awards at the Cowra Regional Art Gallery

On Saturday 28 November 200, the Regional Student (Youth) Art Exhibition and Awards took place ...

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1 Dec

Sydney Opera House - Youth and family audiences up 23%

Sydney Opera House continues to expand its ongoing commitment to young audiences with the relea...

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1 Dec

New Artistic Director launches ATYP's 2010 season

Fraser Corfield, Australian Theatre for Young People's (ATYP) new Artistic Director, has la...

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1 Dec

Platform Hip Hop Festival returns in 2010

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

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 2009

Fast+Fresh Dance is a youth dance festival that cultivates choreographic talent and performance...

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1 Nov The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other

Tantrum Theatre: The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other

This November, Newcastle’s Tantrum Theatre will present a spectacular visual feast in Whe...

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1 Nov

World Premiere of Urban Theatre Project's The Fence

After sell-out seasons of Back Home (2006) and The Last Highway (2008), Austr...

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1 Nov

Tantrum's 2010 Season Launch


This past Monday 9th November, Tantrum Theatre launched its 2010 season at the Playhous...

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16 Sep

BUSTOWN PLAYWRIGHT LACHLAN PHILPOTT WINS GRIFFIN AWARD!!!

Bustown playwright Lachlan Philpott has been announced as the winner of the 2009 Griffin Award ...

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1 Aug Photo: Tamsin Sharp.

Patch On Tour

The 2009 national Fastest Boy in the World Tour is zooming through NSW, ACT, QLD and t...

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1 Aug The Promise - Best Presentation for Children

Youth Circus Theatre Wins Prestigious Award

The Flying Fruit Fly Circus won a major national industry prize in Sydney last night. Albury Wo...

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1 Aug

NSW conservatoriums benefit from budget boost

The NSW government recently announced a budget boost of $16.1 million to it’s arts fundin...

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1 Aug

More music in schools

Music Play For Life continues to assist school children around the country to access music educ...

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1 Aug

SYO Four Seasons Family Concert

The Sydney Youth Orchestra will celebrate spring on September 19 with eight of the SYO’s ...

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1 Aug

Kiama’s Youth Culture Mix Day

As part of it’s 150th Anniversary celebrations, Kiama, NSW will host what promises to be ...

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1 Aug

Irish music school in Gundagai

From September 16 to 18, Gundagai will host the Spring School of Irish Music and Dance. The thr...

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1 Aug

Toyota Star Maker 2010

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

The 6th International Drama in Education Research Institute (IDIERI) Conference will be held in...

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28 Jul

Secrets and Lives initiative call out

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 Matthew Whittet in Theatre of Image’s Book of Everything.

Theatre of Image's Book of Everything

Theatre of Image is in pre-production for The Book of Everything, their major show for...

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28 Jul

Bell Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

Watch out boys, the girls are coming to town! The all female cast of Bell Shakespeare’s p...

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28 Jul

Australian Theatre of the Deaf news

The Australian Theatre of the Deaf (ATOD) has embarked on development of two of the productions...

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28 Jul

Monkey Baa announces new patrons

Monkey Baa is thrilled to announce the appointment of Australian authors Morris Gleitzman, Jack...

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28 Jul

Tashi by Imaginary Theatre in Brisbane and NSW

Imaginary Theatre is bringing Tashi back to the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of Brisbane Festiva...

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