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Virtuosic Classical Chamber Music: Up Close And Personal!
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Event Date: 29/03/2019, 06:30 pm

Up Close and Personal
Melbourne, Sydney & Southern Highlands (NSW) audiences have the opportunity hear some of Australia’s
finest international musicians in intimate chamber music performances this March.

Seven soloists of the magnificent Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra – gathered from interstate and overseas for their Madness & Confrontation and Voyage of Musical Discovery orchestral concerts on 24 and 27 March in Sydney – will also perform a special chamber program in three mouth-watering recitals.
The three performances – at Monash University in Melbourne on Thur 28 March at 1.10pm,
in the Recital Hall West of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Fri 29 March at 6.30pm,
and at St Jude’s Church as part of the Bowral Autumn Music Festival on Sat 30 March at 6.30pm –
feature members of the orchestra, based in Queensland, Victoria, NSW, England and Belgium!

A new era of virtuosity on wind instruments swept through late 18th-century Europe, and Giovanni Punto and François Devienne dazzled listeners with their compositions as well as their playing skill.
In historically informed performances (HIP) on authentic reproductions of instruments of the day, the soloists of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra invite you to discover these remarkable musical treats, in the company of one of Beethoven’s most beloved chamber works.
Punto | Horn Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18
Devienne | Bassoon Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 73
Beethoven | Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20
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Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium of Music,
Sydney New South Wales,2060
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Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium of Music,
Sydney New South Wales,2060
Short And Sweet Week 8
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Event Date: 29/03/2019, 07:30 pm

Week Eight – with 10 short plays nightly
Short+Sweet has spread the popular 10-minute format in theatre, dance, cabaret & comedy across Australia and the globe.
Short+Sweet Week 8 - 28-31 March
The final heat week of Short+Sweet features something for every taste: a resurrection app, two wild friends in a nursing home, a first date with alter egos in-tow… and a trio of out-of-town all-female regional plays. With creatives ranging in age from 15 to 87… this is one not to miss!
Is This a Dream? By Wollongong writer Katina Samaras is an all-Illawarra, all-female presentation directed by Lily Christie Daly starring Lillian Woods, Naoise Champion, Annie Roberts and Olivia Harris. Depressed young Lisa enounters a famous trio of heroines: Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale… and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz!
Roger Reconstituted, written and directed by Short+Sweet favourite Wendy Crew, sees Nancy (Amanda Lieber) bring back her dead husband Roger (Luke Denny) using a special app! Presented by The Performance Crew, this is Wendy’s 9th Short+Sweet play, the 3rd starring Amanda!
The Last Shuffle is likewise a repeat collaboration – this time between 87yo writer Teresa Plane (left) and director Anthony J Langford – who met when she starred in a play he directed in last year’s festival! A palliative care volunteer for 40 years, Teresa’s play is both hilarious and truthful and tells of two nursing home residents with an eye for adventure… and more mischief than that! Writer and part time nursing home recreational therapist Langford directs Mickey Richards and April Pressler.
UK writer Nicky Donovan’s True to You is about an awkward first date when the couple’s alter egos interfere and reveal much more than they intended. Will they help… or hinder? Harriet Hope Street directs and stars with Sebastien Scott.
In the weekend matinee Wildcards section, Riding the Clutch by Central Coast playwright Sally Batley is a delightful piece about a 17yo and her mother on a driving lesson where the GPS leads them into uncharted waters
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Tom Mann Theatre Theatre, 136 Chalmers St,,
Surry Hills New South Wales,2010
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Tom Mann Theatre Theatre, 136 Chalmers St,,
Surry Hills New South Wales,2010
RABBIT HOLE By David Lindsay-Abaire
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RABBIT HOLE By David Lindsay-Abaire

Event Date: 18/04/2019, 07:30 pm

2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama at Chippen Street Theatre
Christie Koppe directs the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama RABBIT HOLE which tells the heart-breaking story of Becca and Howie Corbett who have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.

"With RABBIT HOLE, David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted the most serious, simply told work of his career—a painstakingly beautiful, dramatically resourceful, exquisitely human play." —BackStage.

Our wonderful cast includes: Imogen Morgan as Becca Corbett; Peter-William Jamieson as Howie Corbett; Rachel Giddens as Izzy (Becca's younger sister); Alison Chambers as Nat (Becca and Izzy's mother); Sam Wallace as Jason (a local teenager).

Director Christie Koppe notes: "This is a deeply personal play for anyone who has lost a family member. It speaks truth about the endeavour to continue life after the initial grieving process has passed. While this play provides no resolution to the action, it is in this that its beauty lies. This is real life on stage and the audience is invited to share in the emotion that underlies regular everyday events that parents stomach after the loss of their child."

Rabbit Hole is a tightly focused five-character drama punctuated with sharp, surprising flashes of aching humour.

VENUE: Chippen Street Theatre
BOOKING: https://www.trybooking.com/BAMHZ
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Chippen Street Theatre, 45 Chippen Street,
Chippendale New South Wales,2008
Location:
Chippen Street Theatre, 45 Chippen Street,
Chippendale New South Wales,2008
Saturday Night Fever
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Saturday Night Fever

Event Date: 28/03/2019, 07:30 pm

Saturday Night Fever, which will premiere in Sydney at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from 27 March 2019.
The coveted lead role of Tony Manero has gone to rising star Euan Doidge, Helpmann Award nominated for his role in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, after performing in Les Miserables, A Chorus Line and the Gordon Frost Organisation’s Grease and Legally Blonde. As Stephanie Mangano, the best dancer at the nightclub, will be Melanie Hawkins. Melanie has previously appeared in Singin’ In The Rain, Strictly Ballroom the Musical, King Kong Live on Stage and Rock of Ages.
Tim “Timomatic” Omaji will join the cast of Saturday Night Fever as Monty, the MC at Disco Odyssey 2001, the nightclub where Tony Manero dances every Saturday night. Tim has starred in the musicals Fame, In the Heights and Madiba the Musical. Tony's older brother, Frank Jr., will be played by Stephen Mahy, recently seen in Mamma Mia!, as well as in Miss Saigon and as Kenicke in Grease. Angelique Cassimatis (Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Mack & Mabel, Strictly Ballroom) will play Annette, a neighbourhood girl who longs for a closer relationship with Tony. The troubled Bobby C will be played by Ryan Morgan, a recent NIDA graduate who has appeared on stage in A Town Named War Boy and Ironbound.
Australia’s original disco diva, Marcia Hines, will play the role of The Diva, who performs at Disco Odyssey 2001. Bobby Fox (Jersey Boys, Assassins, Hot Shoe Shuffle) joins the cast as part of the star vocalists alongside Paulini, Natalie Conway and Nana Matapule. Together they will give voice to the much-loved disco Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
The cast also includes the best dancers working in Australia today - Justin Anderson, Giuliana Carniato, Lachlan Dearing, Lauren Elton, Mitchell Fistrovic, Gaynor Hicks, Elysha Manik, Kiara McGowan, Coby Njoroge, Maddie Peat, Stephen Perez, Erica Stubbs, Lola Thompson, Benjamin Turland and Chris Van Doren.
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Sydney Lyric Theatre,
Pyrmont New South Wales,2009
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Sydney Lyric Theatre,
Pyrmont New South Wales,2009
Impro Legends
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Impro Legends

Event Date: 27/03/2019, 07:30 pm

WE'RE BACK! Some of the funniest impro comedy legends of the last 30 years
WE'RE BACK! Some of the funniest impro comedy legends of the last 30 years mixed in with some of the brightest up-and-coming stars, make for a night of super-charged, ad-lib comedy. After a bunch of great shows last year, with huge laughs, wonderful performers, great impro comedy... and GREAT AUDIENCES they returns on Wednesday, March 27 to do it all again.
Marko was there at Belvoir St Theatre in 1985 when Theatresports first came to Australia. Since then he has performed in, directed and produced scores of Impro Comedy shows around and Australia and the world. From short-form to long-form to genre satires to improv Shakespeare, he's played with the best and now he brings them home to play at the wonderful, inner-west, community club, the Petersham Bowlo - kid's welcome!
Joining him this month:

CALE BAIN, legendary improviser (and that wonderful guy at Improv Theatre Sydney).
ANNA RENZENBRINK, impro star originally from Impro Melbourne, then the world, now (lucky for us) in Sydney.
DAVID CALLAN, creator and star of I SPIED, one of the only comedy shows ever to get 6 stars out of 5 from the critics at the Adelaide Festival.
DANIEL CORDEAUX, truly one of Australia’s impro greats, and also one of the stars of the legendary impro TV show "Thank God You’re Here".
LINETTE VOLLER, my current best/favourite improviser - we’re now in rehearsal for our Sydney Comedy Festival show “Rome Sweet Rome”.
Get set for a night of super-creative, inventive, hilarious ad-lib comedy, from sketches to long open scenes, to group mayhem.
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Petersham Bowling Club, 77 Brighton St,
Petersham New South Wales,2049
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Petersham Bowling Club, 77 Brighton St,
Petersham New South Wales,2049
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Impro Legends Last Day
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Event Date: 27/03/2019, 07:30 pm

WE'RE BACK! Some of the funniest impro comedy legends of the last 30 years
WE'RE BACK! Some of the funniest impro comedy legends of the last 30 years mixed in with some of the brightest up-and-coming stars, make for a night of super-charged, ad-lib comedy. After a bunch of great shows last year, with huge laughs, wonderful performers, great impro comedy... and GREAT AUDIENCES they returns on Wednesday, March 27 to do it all again.
Marko was there at Belvoir St Theatre in 1985 when Theatresports first came to Australia. Since then he has performed in, directed and produced scores of Impro Comedy shows around and Australia and the world. From short-form to long-form to genre satires to improv Shakespeare, he's played with the best and now he brings them home to play at the wonderful, inner-west, community club, the Petersham Bowlo - kid's welcome!
Joining him this month:

CALE BAIN, legendary improviser (and that wonderful guy at Improv Theatre Sydney).
ANNA RENZENBRINK, impro star originally from Impro Melbourne, then the world, now (lucky for us) in Sydney.
DAVID CALLAN, creator and star of I SPIED, one of the only comedy shows ever to get 6 stars out of 5 from the critics at the Adelaide Festival.
DANIEL CORDEAUX, truly one of Australia’s impro greats, and also one of the stars of the legendary impro TV show "Thank God You’re Here".
LINETTE VOLLER, my current best/favourite improviser - we’re now in rehearsal for our Sydney Comedy Festival show “Rome Sweet Rome”.
Get set for a night of super-creative, inventive, hilarious ad-lib comedy, from sketches to long open scenes, to group mayhem.
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Petersham Bowling Club, 77 Brighton St,
Petersham New South Wales,2049
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Petersham Bowling Club, 77 Brighton St,
Petersham New South Wales,2049
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Short And Sweet Week 7

Event Date: 22/03/2019, 07:30 pm

Week Seven – with 10 short plays nightly
Short+Sweet has spread the popular 10-minute format in theatre, dance, cabaret & comedy across Australia and the globe.
Short+Sweet Week 7 - 21-24 March
The heartbreak of dementia, sibling issues, a call-centre comedy, a lying librarian yoga enthusiast, murder, millennials and love with an audience feature in this penultimate heat week of Short+Sweet!
US writer Dan O’Day’s Clues is a heart-wrenching examination of the relationship between a daughter and father as they struggle with his decline into dementia. Karen Illesca directs Don Ferguson and Pia Derya Thunderbolt.
Emmy-winning US Sitcom writer Ken Levine’s hit from Short+Sweet Hollywood Avocado Toast comes to Sydney with Felix Carlyle direcing Brett Watkins and Alanna Lawson as a young couple resolving their differences in a restaurant designed especially for millenials: with a live audience around each table!
Stellar Collision is a powerful play about two siblings who confront their issues on an astonomy reatreat. Natalija Karna directs Katrina Maskell & Ben Dewstow in Leonie Jordan’s piece.
Festival regular Ruth Fingret’s Your Call is Important starring Maria Karambalas, Alice Furze and Jyotsna Sharma is a hilarious comedy about customer service, banks and calls centres!
Cheryl by Katrina Samaras follows a librarian who creates a fictional daughter in order to get away to her yoga class… but the lie sticks and ‘Cheryl’ won’t go away! Jane-Ann Scott directs Cindal Endean, Judi Jones, Graham Vale and introducing Maddi Calverly-Haack & Faith Lawley.
In the weekend matinee Wildcards section, David Jeffrey’s play The Letter features Nicole Brittain, directed by Christine Snell. A woman considers murdering her family in order to be with her lover. Will his family be next?
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Tom Mann Theatre Theatre, 136 Chalmers St,,
Surry Hills New South Wales,2010
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Tom Mann Theatre Theatre, 136 Chalmers St,,
Surry Hills New South Wales,2010
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Madness & Confrontation
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Madness & Confrontation

Event Date: 24/03/2019, 03:00 pm

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra continues its spectacular rise with the first of the
2019 “In Celebration” concert series Sunday afternoon 24 March at Sydney’s City Recital Hall.

Madness & Confrontation takes its inspiration from the story of the orchestra’s founding artistic director
Richard Gill AO conducting Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (based on the original play “Day of Madness”).
It was the late, much-loved legendary musician and music educator who, together with co-artistic directors
Rachael Beesley and Nicole van Bruggen, had the idea of establishing the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra.

Along with a selection of duets and arias from Figaro, Mozart’s well-known clarinet concerto is performed by
Nicole van Bruggen on basset clarinet – the original instrument for which the work was written.
The climactic piece is Beethoven's magnificent 5th Symphony - which ushered classical music into a new era. Its iconic opening four-note motif confronts and enthrals audiences even to this day.

The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra is directed by Rachael Beesley with soloists
Jacqueline Porter, Soprano; David Greco, Baritone; and Nicole van Bruggen, Basset Clarinet.

Alongside the concert is the first of the year’s companion education programs, Voyage of Musical Discovery, at the same venue a few nights later.

Each Voyage invites exceptional guest musicians to join the orchestra on stage, and together they provide listeners with live examples and explanations of the compositional similarities between historical and Australian contemporary works.
For the March 27 companion Voyage, entitled ‘Phrasing & Form’, acclaimed singer-songwriter, Lior will join the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra and soloists Jacqueline Porter and David Greco to explain and demonstrate the many methods that composers and performers utilise to negotiate phrasing and form in historical as well as Australian contemporary works.
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City Recital Hall, Angel Place,
Sydney New South Wales,2060
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City Recital Hall, Angel Place,
Sydney New South Wales,2060
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Website URL: www.arco.org.au

A Peculiar River
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A Peculiar River

Event Date: 23/03/2019, 07:30 pm

How far would you go to save a loved ones life?
The city of Vienna has been left under the strict charge of Angelo by The Duke, now disguising himself as a friar to observe those in charge in his absence. Under the new leadership, Claudio is sentenced to death for fornication and his only hope of freedom lies with his sister, Isabella. How far would you go to save a loved one?

"This fast paced and very entertaining night of live theatre, directed with style and panache by Roz Riley" Stage Arts

Adaptation by Emma Willis
Directed by Roz Riley
Photography by John Reeves
Production Manager: Lindsay Walton

Starring:
Rohin Thompson
Kurtis Wakefield
Lewis Scamozzi
Lisa Stewart
Tahlia Merlino
Diab Metry
Tivy Siripanich
Daniella Lavorenti
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Location:
Star of the Sea Theatre, Collingwood Rd,
Manly New South Wales,2095
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Star of the Sea Theatre, Collingwood Rd,
Manly New South Wales,2095
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Phone Number: 0407 400 723

The Choir Of Man
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The Choir Of Man

Event Date: 20/03/2019, 07:00 pm

Presented by Sydney Opera House
that the international runaway hit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival “Pick of the Fringe 2018” winner, The Choir of Man, will premiere in Sydney next year from 20 March to 7 April.

Set in a cosy British pub called “The Jungle”, The Choir of Man combines incredible vocals with high energy dance, live percussion and foot stomping choreography. Most pubs have a football club, a darts team, or an intimidatingly vast array of craft beer – this one has a male voice choir. The show even has a real working bar from which the cast will pull pints and invite audience members to get up-close-and-personal with the show, drinking in the action on-stage.

This musical adventure features a cast of nine mates performing pop, folk and rock classics over drinks. With a set-list that includes hits from the likes of Paul Simon, Adele, Avicii, Queen and Guns N’ Roses, there’s something for everyone in this joyous evening. An energetic show for all ages, The Choir of Man brings together world-class singers, dancers, instrumentalists and poets with flawless vocal harmonies.
WHEN: 20 March – 7 April 2019
PRICES: From $49 + booking fee

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Sydney Opera House,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
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Sydney Opera House,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
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