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  Sydney Theatre Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is one of Australia's most well-known and notable theatre companies operating from the Wharf Theatre near The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as the Sydney Theatre and the Sydney Opera House.
The Sydney Theatre Company was formed by a grant from the New South Wales State Government in 1979, with Richard Wherret as artistic director and productions followed the year after.
The Wharf Theatre opened in 1984 and has produced notable international and local plays, such as works by David Williamson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Theatre_Company   (186 words)

  
 Canberra Theatre Centre
It is committed to the engagement between the imagination of its artists and its audiences, to the development of the artform of theatre, and to excellence in all its endeavours.
STC operates out of its home venue, The Wharf, on Sydney's harbour; and is the Resident Drama Company of the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre.
Sydney Theatre is designed as a specialist drama and dance venue and will provide the missing link between the Drama Theatre and Sydney's larger venues such as the Opera and Capitol Theatres.
www.canberratheatre.org.au /pages/page216.asp   (352 words)

  
 Sydney Opera House > About The House > Presenters
Sydney Opera House is consolidating its position as Australia's leading performing arts centre by significantly increasing the profile of its own programming and by nurturing the development of new artists and audiences.
The companies merged in early 1997, creating the third busiest opera company in the world and building on the traditions of excellence and innovative excitement.
STC has been a major force in Australian drama since its establishment in 1978, producing up to 12 plays each year including works from the classic repertoire, Australian plays, musicals, contemporary foreign works and cabaret.
www.sydneyoperahouse.com /sections/about_the_house/presenters/?sm=4&ss=12   (806 words)

  
 Sydney Theatre Company - Privacy Policy
Sydney Theatre Company has produced collection statements that will be made available to you at the time of, or as soon as practicable after the collection of your personal information occurs.
Sydney Theatre Company does not adopt as its own identifier of an individual an identifier that has been assigned by a Commonwealth agency such as a tax file number or Medicare number.
Sydney Theatre Company has taken reasonable steps to ensure that the information it transfers will not be held, used or disclosed by the recipient inconsistently with the National Privacy Principles.
www.sydneytheatre.com.au /privacy.html   (2553 words)

  
 Sydney Theatre | Australasia | Arup
Sydney Theatre is located at Walsh Bay and is the new home for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC).
The drama auditorium is on two tiers with the audience wrapped around the stage in a modified horseshoe form, with boxes located close to the juliet balconies.
The ability to run consecutive productions in the theatre was demonstrated at the opening by the performance of two plays back-to-back requiring the changeover of stage sets within 3 hours.
www.arup.com /australasia/project.cfm?pageid=4297   (277 words)

  
 Sydney Theatre Company's Hedda Gabler bound for New York in 2006 - State of the Arts
Sydney Theatre Company's Hedda Gabler bound for New York in 2006
Hedda Gabler, directed by Sydney Theatre Company's Artistic Director Robyn Nevin, in a new adaptation by Andrew Upton, was invited to New York by BAM Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo after he saw the production in Sydney in August.
BAM is one of the most exciting theatre destinations in New York, the BAM Harvey is a beautiful theatre, and Joe is a brilliant producer.
www.stateart.com.au /sota/news?fid=3117   (548 words)

  
 Copenhagen, Sydney Theatre Company - smh.com.au
Indeed, one of the strengths of Frayn's text is the way it clarifies its big ideas and difficult concepts without a hint of the lecture theatre that the set seems to be going for.
It's also a stunningly theatrical work, in the sense that this text, with its time shifts and quantum-esque refusal of time and space logic, could not be done in other media.
Blakemore and the cast deliver wonderful work, and the result is one of the most intelligent and stimulating productions seen on Sydney stages for a while.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/09/1020914031561.html   (561 words)

  
 Theatre Sydney | Footprint Guides
Naturally the focus for the performing arts in Sydney, the Opera House offers five venues, the Concert Hall, the Opera Theatre, the Drama Theatre, the Playhouse and the Studio, all presenting a diverse range of performances.
The Drama Theatre is a performing venue for the Sydney Theatre Company while the Playhouse is used for small-cast plays, lower-key performances, lectures and seminars.
Theatre, concerts, comedy, dance and musicals from around $40-80 for a major performance.
www.footprintguides.com /Sydney/Theatre-Arts-and-Entertainment.php   (264 words)

  
 Sydney Theatre Company
The Lost Echo is a theatre epic containing 12 stories of love, lust, madness and revenge, told over 8 hours by 38 performers.
Sydney Theatre Company (STC) and its Media Partner, Adshel, invite you to take part in a competition to bring The Lost Echo to life on the streets of Sydney.
STC is a member of the Australian Major Performing Arts Group
www.sydneytheatre.com.au   (315 words)

  
 AUSTRALIA COUNCIL: ARTS IN AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY
In 2004 STC will open its state of the art 850 seat theatre situated on the site of the old Bond Stores opposite Pier 6/7 on Hickson Road, Walsh Bay.
Sydney Theatre is designed as a specialist drama and dance venue and will provide the missing link between the Drama Theatre (seating 544) and Sydney's larger venues.
STC's commitment to Australian work is paramount and, in 2003, the Company features four Australian plays in its mainstage program.
www.ozco.gov.au /arts_in_australia/artists/artists_major_performing_arts/sydney_theatre_company   (359 words)

  
 High stakes on the road less travelled - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
The theatre company's record at the academy is patchy.
The Sydney Theatre Company is not the only local group scrambling onto the tour bus.
The mission of the small company, powered for decades by general manager Wendy Blacklock, is to tour eclectic works within Australia and overseas.
www.smh.com.au /news/arts/high-stakes-on-the-road-less-travelled/2006/02/09/1139465799874.html   (1079 words)

  
 "The raw dream of Oedipus" Seneca's Oedipus, directed by Barrie Kosky Sydney Theatre Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Seneca's Oedipus, directed by Barrie Kosky, Sydney Theatre Company
Barrie Kosky's recent Sydney Theatre Company production of Seneca's Oedipus, the Greek legend of the tormented King of Thebes who, unknowingly, kills his father and weds his mother, completes a cycle of four plays by the director (Tartuffe, Mourning Becomes Electra and King Lear) dealing with the issues of destiny, fate and the family.
Born in Melbourne in 1967, he began acting and directing in 1985 at Melbourne University and in 1991 formed the Gigul theatre.
www.wsws.org /articles/2000/sep2000/oed-s02.shtml   (2188 words)

  
 Festen - Sydney Theatre Company
Tom Long makes a stunning debut with STC in his role as the embattled Christian who is driven by his inner demons to exorcise the past once and for all.
STC’s production of Festen is a visceral, disturbing and deeply moving experience.
This is what theatre is all about – to have an emotional impact on the audience, to take your audience to another world and let them soak in it, so that whatever happens on stage, they feel as if they’re up there too, going through it all with the players.
www.theblurb.com.au /Issue60/Festen.htm   (652 words)

  
 Sydney Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It’s a sometimes unnerving journey from theatre to theatre.
It’s Earth as an abstracted floor map pierced by a long wedge, on which physicists Bohr and the Nazi Heisenberg (and Bohr’s wife as accuser and commentator) create versions of their 1941 meeting and its abrupt ending, some predictable, one at least horrific.
I left the theatre longing for the delirium of Polish cyberneticist and sci-fi writer Stanislav Lem’s chilling transformations of theories into projected realities in the novel Solaris and some hilarious short fictions where people bump into themselves with nasty consequences.
www.realtimearts.net /rt49/gallasch.html   (1371 words)

  
 Sydney Theatre Company - 2005 season preview
In fact, the STC’s production of the NZ play The Daylight Atheist opens the season on 8 January as part of the 2005 Sydney Festival.
STC artistic director Robyn Nevin takes the reins for the company’s next production (from August 5), Summer Rain by the Australian favourites, Nick Enright and Terence Clarke.
There’s also a fair dollop of Australian theatre in the mix, as well as a sprinkling from elsewhere in the world.
www.theblurb.com.au /Issue47/STC05.htm   (861 words)

  
 Cate Blanchett
On graduating from NIDA, she joined the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, then played Felice Bauer, the bride, in Timothy Daly’s Kafka Dances, winning the 1993 Newcomer Award from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for her performance.
From there Blanchett moved to the role of Carol in David Mamet's searing polemic Oleanna, also for the Sydney Theatre Company, and won the Rosemont Best Actress Award, her second award that year.
Other theatre credits include Helen in the Sydney Theatre Company's Sweet Phoebe, Miranda in The Tempest and Rose in The Blind Giant is Dancing, both for the Belvoir Street Theatre Company.
www.dragons.dk /Catebio.htm   (279 words)

  
 Ricochet Working Productions > About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A graduate of Theatre Nepean, Andrew has performed for a number of prestigious companies including the Sydney Theatre Company (All Star Cabaret), the Griffin Theatre Company (Puplick the Musical, and Muftee) and Sydney's Cabaret Convention.
Theatre credits include, Boyband season one and the return 06 season (Seymour Centre) Ricochet R Rated (Big Laugh Comedy Festival), The Pitch (Short and Sweet), Rules of the Game and Ten Tits, Five Lips (ricochet/Darlinghurst Theatre).
Nick was last seen playing the lead role of Joey for Jigsaw Theatre Company’s production of Vin which was awarded the 2004 AWGIE for Best Australian Play for Young People and was voted the Best Play of 2005 for the Canberra Critics Circle Awards for its season at The Canberra Theatre Centre.
www.ricochetproductions.com.au /about.html   (1721 words)

  
 Perth Theatre Company
In 1993 she was seconded to Sydney Theatre Company and was Co-artistic Director of Playworks; National Women’s Committee workshop
Sally received director development grants from ArtsWA and the Australia Council in 1998 and is currently Director of Stages, WA Playwrights’ Consortium for which she has coordinated a range of projects including New Movees 1&2, NW Development Project 1995 &’97, Young Playwrights Studios and WAAPA/Stages Playwrights Studio.
She is working as Director/ Dramaturg with Yirra Yakkin Noonga Theatre Company on a work by Alice Haines for the 2001 Perth International Arts Festival.
www.perththeatre.com.au /artist.asp?id=94   (242 words)

  
 Les Miserables Australasian Tour - the cast
After training at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, William worked in England as an actor and theatre director before coming to Australia to take up the post of lecturer in Movement at the Drama School of the Victorian College of the Arts in 1976.
He has appeared with all of the major theatre companies in Australia and played leading roles in Skylight, Les Parents Terribles,Saint Joan, The Threepenny Opera, The Gift of the Gorgon, Siren, The Country Wife and The Seagull for the Sydney Theatre Company.
He has directed productions for Playbox, VCA and West Theatre Company and has worked as a fight arranger for STC, MTC, The Australian Opera, VSO, STCSA, VCA and NIDA and runs workshops on Movement for Actors.
abc-cafe.com /lesmis/company/bios/zappa.htm   (318 words)

  
 Sydney Theatre Company Funding - 29/10/1998 - QWN
I ask the Treasurer, Minister for State Development, and Vice-President of the Executive Council whether it is a fact that the Government’s funding for the highly successful Sydney Theatre Company has been slashed by $87,000, which almost equals the budget for its youth and education program.
The honourable member knows that the Sydney Theatre Company would not have a venue if it were not for the foresight and vision of the Wran Labor Government.
The Walsh Bay development will be a precinct of Sydney of which the world will be proud, thanks to my colleague the Minister for Public Works and Services, who has done a fabulous job on this project.
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC19981029013   (362 words)

  
 Some Rooms - Sydney Dance Company
Receiving its premiere on 22 November 1983, Some Rooms has enjoyed three return seasons to the Sydney Opera House and has been staged in New York, Los Angeles, Creteil, the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and the Caracas and Bogota Festivals.
The Company’s current ensemble of 18 dancers will recreate roles made famous by Paul Mercurio, Ross Philip and Janet Vernon, to name only a few.
His company’s art is in the creation of these images with vigour, conviction, elation and a physical technique second to none in the world of major dance companies.
sydneydancecompany.com /repertoire/some.html   (529 words)

  
 Phoenix Theatre Productions- Sydney
Phoenix Theatre Productions is a Sydney based theatre company operating from the Zenith Theatre, located at Chatswood.
While the starting point is known, like many travels, the excitement of the journey and the chance of new awakenings extend the experience.
In the past few seasons we have produced a series of successful costume plays: The Madness of George III (2004), The Burning (2005), Gaslight (2006) and Playhouse Creatures to come in October 2006.
www.phoenixtheatre.com.au   (417 words)

  
 Theatre sydney - Darling Harbour attractions: Sydney Aquarium, Cockle Wharf, Imax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The garden was a gift to Sydney from its Chinese sister city of Guangdong.
Beginning in the 1950s Bain pioneered similar courses, initially at the Independent Theatre, Sydney, at the request of Doris Fitton, and later at the
The Capitol Theatre was built on the site of the 1893 Sydney Fruit and Look it up via Google on the internet: capitol theatre sydney australia.
ogqq.com /?q=theatre-sydney   (301 words)

  
 Sydneyscene 2006: Sydney Cinema, Theatre, Art, Music
Presented by the Lingalayam Dance Company, Kuruntokai marked a departure from work previously undertaken by the group, tackling for the first time the combination of poetry, dance and music.
Produced by Go Theatre and directed by Julie Baz, the play focuses on five lonely singles who head out to the local pub on a Friday night for an entertaining night out.
Go Theatre established Glebe’s only operating theatre at The Roxbury Hotel a year and a half ago by converting the pub’s function room into a performance space.
www.writeaway.net /sydneyscene   (728 words)

  
 Sydney Theatre Company - Wharf 1 Theatre - Sydney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sydney Theatre Company - Wharf 1 Theatre - Sydney
In the early days of WW II, author Dymphna Cusack (Come in Spinner) was banished from Sydney by the NSW Education Department for her rebelliousness.
A brilliantly tense and ironic drama, flooded with wit and love, Morning Sacrifice is one of Dymphna Cusack's finest achievements.
www.theatrechannel.com /Sacrifice.htm   (199 words)

  
 Cate // cateblanchett.net
After graduating from the N.I.D.A., Cate joined the Sydney Theatre Company, where the first play she starred in was Caryl Churchill's Top Girls.
Her performances with the Sydney Theatre Company did not go unnoticed, she won the Newcomer Award from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle in 1993.
The Sydney production was the first ever production of the play, it then moved to The Warehouse in London.
www.cateblanchett.net /index.php?section=stage   (574 words)

  
 Candide
Last year the Sydney Theatre company had THE smash hit musical, with a record-breaking run of Chicago.
Sydney's Nimrod Theatre has disclaimed any intention to tackle its rival, the Sydney Theatre Company, head on when it comes to creating spectacular shows.
But in the theatre, as in diplomacy, such disclaimers are often more apparent than real —as Nimrod's Australian premiere production of the Leonard Bernstein musical Candide, at the Seymour Centre, abundantly proves.
www.empirenet.com /~wildcard/quast/candide.htm   (1460 words)

  
 Griffin Theatre
As their father dies in the master bedroom above the huge Beauchamp mansion living room, three sons fight for control of the family construction company.
Griffin Theatre Company is the resident theatre company at the historic SBW Stables Theatre in Sydney's Kings Cross.
Griffin is Australia's leading new writing theatre - and the only Sydney theatre company entirely dedicated to the professional development and production of new Australian writing for the stage.
www.griffintheatre.com.au   (252 words)

  
 Julius Caesar - Sydney Theatre Company
In the program Andrews reveals he was inspired by the “appalling theatre of ‘live’ press conferences” that emerged from coverage of George Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
It would be easy to dismiss the STC’s production of Julius Caesar as one that is less than the sum of its parts.
But everything that happens incites in the audience what the characters should be feeling – the sense that the stressors in play are about to unleash something so horrible as to be earth shattering.
www.theblurb.com.au /Issue55/JuliusCaesar.htm   (641 words)

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