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    Silent Disco

    Monday, May 2 - Saturday, June 4, 2011

    SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross

    Young love can make a whole lot of life's rotten, unfair burdens bearable, but for teenagers Tamara and Squid, it may not be enough. Lachlan Philpott's script, in its first performance after winning the 2009 Griffin Award that sent it into production, is bold, poetic, insightful, truly affecting and wonderfully, literally close to home. It's extraordinary the levels to which he's been able to penetrate and embody the teenage mind - Facebook-checking and headphones-dependency unpatronisingly explained - as well as the minutiae of the school world most of us have happily repressed (Philpott couldn't; he's a teacher). Still, it's a hard one to pull off, so it's fortunate this show is so well cast and directed (by Lee Lewis, fresh off the Sydney Theatre Company's ZEBRA!).

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    Me Pregnant!

    Monday, April 11 - Saturday, April 23, 2011

    Old Fitzroy Theatre, Woolloomooloo

    Let Nick Coyle tell you a tale of a wretched village, a fallen hero and an angsty beast waiting for revenge.

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    Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires)

    Thursday, March 31 - Wednesday, April 27, 2011

    Dendy Newtown, Newtown

    With his distinctive visual style, Xavier Dolan's may be next year's Pedro Almodovar or Michel Gondry, and you'll want to say you saw him first.

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    Missing the Bus to David Jones

    Tuesday, March 29 - Saturday, April 2, 2011

    It's worth facing ageing and death when visiting the surreal nursing home of Theatre Kantanka.

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    ZEBRA!

    Monday, March 14 - Saturday, April 30, 2011

    Wharf 1, Wharf Theatre, Sydney

    Two men walk into a bar. One, Larry (Colin Friels), waiting to meet his daughter’s fiance, is a Bostonian self-made man whose suave banker get-up is interrupted by a broken arm and accessorised with a reckless ownership over all that he touches. The other, Jimmy (Bryan Brown), is an Australian real-estate broker on the wrong […]

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    Art Month Sydney 2011

    Tuesday, March 1 - Thursday, March 31, 2011

    Various Sydney venues, Sydney

    Art Month Sydney is back to unite over 80 galleries and artist-run initiatives in four weeks of celebration, collaboration and bigger-than-oneself thinking.

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    In the Next Room, or the vibrator play

    Wednesday, February 9 - Sunday, March 27, 2011

    Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney

    Making its debut with the Sydney Theatre Company, In The Next Room casts light on the sordid past of the 'hysterical paroxysms' which cure all lady ailments.

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    Speaking in Tongues

    Tuesday, February 8 - Saturday, March 19, 2011

    SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross

    The play that became the film Lantana is being revived for the next-gen audience and comes complete with all the theatrey touches that were excised on the screen.

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    Soap

    Tuesday, January 18 - Sunday, January 30, 2011

    Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney

    A company of acrobats, dancers, jugglers and contortionists transform the generally private and uninspiring bathroom domain into one of wonder, daring, cheekiness and sublimity.

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    Bigger Than Jesus

    Tuesday, January 18 - Saturday, January 29, 2011

    Wharf 1, Wharf Theatre, Sydney

    Do not rush to judge this blasphemous heathen, good believers; the last person to lie claim to being bigger than Jesus was John Lennon, and, well, he had a point. Bigger Than Jesus is a self-labelled ‘multimedia mass’ that uses one man and a high-tech toolbox to explore the role religion plays in our lives. […]

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    Made in Dagenham

    Thursday, October 28 - Wednesday, December 22, 2010

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Anything set in the 1960s will draw the inevitable comparison with Mad Men, so let’s get it done with in the first sentence: Made in Dagenham shares none of the glamour of that particular zeitgeist-definer, although it does have a charm all of its own. The movie charts the days when if you wanted to […]

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    Angela’s Kitchen

    Wednesday, November 17 - Saturday, December 18, 2010

    SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross

    A fascinating play on the practice of biography, a microhistory of the migrant experience, a touching ode to a deeply loved woman and a reflection on his own lifetime of pretending and identity-seeking.

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    Uncle Vanya

    Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - Saturday, January 1, 2011

    Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay

    It's a classic text heaving under the weight of its all-star cast, so you'll have to fight to secure a ticket.

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    True West

    Tuesday, November 9 - Saturday, December 18, 2010

    Wharf 1, Wharf Theatre, Sydney

    With Philip Seymour Hoffman directing, Wayne Blair and Brendan Cowell play two brothers who explore their latent undersides, admit mutual admiration, co-write a Western, drink and trash the joint.

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    The Loved Ones

    Thursday, November 4 - Wednesday, December 15, 2010

    Various cinemas in Sydney

    Want to see what glitter and blood look like combined? Inventive Aussie horror The Loved Ones has recently scooped a handful of film festival prizes, so it’s being released to some hype. The points of difference to the average slasher are its investment in character (so you care when someone has a cordless drill pointed […]

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    Reportage 2010

    Friday, November 5 - Sunday, November 21, 2010

    Australian Centre for Photography, Darlinghurst

    It can be hard to connect with a story happening a world away - until you see a photograph that makes it feel like it's taking place next door. This annual photo festival celebrates this moment of insight, showcasing works from photographers around the world.

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    The Animals and Children Took to the Streets

    Tuesday, October 26 - Saturday, November 6, 2010

    The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Sydney

    There's something we just know to be magical about interacting with animation right there on stage, and these quirky innovators do it particularly well.

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    The Pigeons

    Tuesday, October 12 - Saturday, October 30, 2010

    SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross

    You won't be left wanting for what's lost in translation here. [i]The Pigeons[/i] is great fun and, in that way only the foreign can be, entirely unexpected.

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    Festival of Dangerous Ideas

    Sunday, October 3, 2010

    Sydney Opera House, Sydney

    This provocative weekend festival should really be called the 'Festival of Ideas Slightly More Radical Than One Would Normally Bring Up in Polite Society, Addressed By the Minds and Working Belief Systems of People Known to be Really Quite Smart'. Presented by the St James Ethics Centre in conjunction with the Sydney Opera House, the festival is looking to build on its successful debut last year with a host of new, compelling speakers on the program. With talks entitled 'What we can learn from terrorists', 'Art doesn't make us better people' and 'Are children worth it', you can expect to be challenged, provoked and maybe just a little enlightened after during this two-day talk-fest. So go along and live dangerously this long weekend.

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    The Big Bang

    Thursday, September 16, 2010 - Monday, January 31, 2011

    The White Rabbit, Chippendale

    This popular converted warehouse space makes the most of its four storeys, whether through the whirlwind of plastic refuse that reaches to the third landing or the musky, ethereal parchment man that, stretched out, snakes through the roof.

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