Congratulations to all of our nominees and winners at the 2009 Sydney Theatre Awards!
Greening the Wharf shopping bags are now available to purchase for $12 at The Wharf Box Office. The bag is 100% biodegradable and made with 100% recycled materials. For each bag sold, $5 will go directly to Greening The Wharf.
Sydney Theatre Company’s 2010 productions went on general sale on Tuesday 1 December 2009 and the Company’s all-time one day box office sales record was broken, with more than 5,000 tickets sold throughout the day!
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Ian Darling, has announced he is to retire from the STC board after seven years as a director, and three years as Chairman. He will remain in the post until February 2010 at which time David Gonski AC will take up the position.
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Sydney Theatre Company congratulates all of our Helpmann Award nominees and winners.
Earlier this month, ten young playwrights from across NSW congregated at the wharf for the STC Ed Young Playwrights Residency.
Uncle Vanya director announced! Internationally renowned Chekhov interpreter, Tamás Ascher joins us in 2010.
Direct from success in Melbourne and Edinburgh, Optimism, Tom Wright's adaptation of Voltaire's Candide, directed by Michael Kantor and featuring Frank Woodley, plays at Sydney Opera House as part of the 2010 Sydney Festival. Web deals now available!
A new generation of exceptional performers burst on to the Sydney Theatre stage for the hotly-anticipated Australian premiere of the smash-hit rock musical Spring Awakening. Extra week of performances on sale now!
On Friday 12 February, Sydney Theatre Company presents an intimate post show performance by one of Sydney’s up and coming indie/folk rock outfits Dead Letter Chorus as part of The Wharf Sessions.
On February 17 at 7pm in Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre Company will present a free rehearsed reading of The Slow Sword by Russian playwright Yuri Klavdiyev, translated by Noah Birksted-Breen.
Set in a backwater village in the West of Ireland, The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a brilliant black comedy by award winning Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.
The first Rough Draft of 2010 will play host to the widely acclaimed and deliciously funny contemporary performance collective, post. Zoe Coombs Marr, Mish Grigor and Natalie Rose will have the run of Wharf 1 for a week long workshop on their latest work: Who’s The Best?
Groundbreaking British physical theatre company, Frantic Assembly, remount their lauded production of Bryony Lavery’s Stockholm featuring Australian actors Socratis Otto and Leeanna Walsman.
For centuries, Shakespeare’s most dangerous tragedy has spawned a legacy of theatrical superstition. In this radical version of Macbeth The Residents team up with Adelaide’s The Border Project (Highway Rock’n’Roll Disaster) to tackle the curse head-on.
Actor on a Box is designed to introduce the magic of theatre to our youngest audiences. Combining classic storytelling, physical theatre and a whole bag of fun, Actor on a Box is a joyful and enticing theatrical ride into timeless tales told by fine actors.
From Galway to Edinburgh, from London to New York, the Druid Theatre Company’s production of The Walworth Farce has wowed audiences everywhere.
Paula Arundell, Wendy Hughes and William Zappa feature in this revival of a modern Australian classic from one of our great playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith.
In 2010, we are joining with the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists to present The Wentworth Talks, a series of free bi-monthly presentations and panel discussions at The Wharf led by guest speakers addressing a wide range of topics relating to climate change and the environment.
This moving and powerful story of survival in both English and Pitjanjatjara is interspersed with sand storytelling, choreography, video art, shadow play, weaving and a highly atmospheric musical score.
Burnt is about how a family, be they from the city or the country, copes with the hardship brought on by the financial strain. Relevant and poignant, this really is physical theatre at its best.
The Residents take on the momentous trilogy of Greek tragedies, Oresteia, adapted and directed by Tom Wright.
The only Australian season of the new work from director Peter Brook.
An ice-cream van springs to life as everything in it transforms to tell a wild and epic story! Great holiday fun for audiences aged 5 plus.
William Hurt and Robyn Nevin in Eugene O'Neill's major masterpiece.
We partner with Griffin Theatre Company once again to present this brilliant, enthralling and intensely moving new Australian play that explores our desire for connection and meaning in the world.
The Residents tackle Shakespeare’s hilarity, puns, word play and slapstick head-on in this new production directed by Charmian Gradwell.
We present Steppenwolf Theatre, arguably the finest ensemble company in the US, with their originating production of this internationally renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Dancing a fine line between hilarity and heartache, Tusk Tusk is the new offering from 22-year-old English sensation, Polly Stenham. Straight from a sell-out season at The Royal Court, London, to Wharf 1, this haunting work will stay with you long after you have left the theatre.
Revelling in Kafka’s wit, clowning, farce and obsession with the erotic, this production, directed by Matthew Lutton, marks our second collaboration with his celebrated Perth-based company ThinIce, and features John Gaden and Ewen Leslie.
Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play from 1938 celebrates the everyday and is a powerful call to appreciate life while we are in it.
A dollar fight gone wrong, a classy Sheila with a mind for revenge and a private detective hot on her heels… We’re delighted to welcome The Suitcase Royale to The Wharf.
The ever-popular Wharf Revue returns in 2010, serving up Sydney’s tastiest smorgasbord of irreverent humour, pastiche and extravagant production values.
Philip Seymour Hoffman returns to The Wharf to direct Sam Shepard's darkly delicious and ferociously funny play.
Garry McDonald makes a welcome return to the Company in this explosive new comedy from Melbourne playwright, Tony McNamara.
John Bell, Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving in a new adaptation of Chekhov's treasured classic.
