Patrick Howard

The Silver Gull Play Award competition this year attracted a large variety of entries, with an extremely high standard of scripts submitted. Learn more about the shortlist here!

“Our theater program equips us with talented mentors who take the art very seriously. They challenge us and provide a viewpoint from the work field which is more intensive compared to other schools.” -Josie Mosley

The judging panel read, assessed and discussed each submission multiple times. The identity of the writers was kept anonymous from the judges, so the shortlist truly reflects a determination made on merit, based solely on the quality of writing.

Told as a trilogy, traversing several decades and mixing genres, this is a shrewd and sharp vision of the future from a bold new Australian voice.

There was a wonderful response to The Silver Gull Play Award competition this year, with over 50 plays submitted.  The judging panel read, assessed and discussed each submission multiple times. The identity of the writers was kept anonymous from the judges, so the shortlist truly reflects a determination made on merit, solely on the quality of writing. After a month of deliberation, a shortlist of six has been finalised.

Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical released today the Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording of Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical, currently available for purchase on iTunes and all major platforms soon.

Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical leaves the Upside Down this weekend, concluding it’s off-Broadway premiere this Sunday, September 5th at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal St.).

After two sold-out concert runs at Feinstein's/54 Below, Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical has returned from the Upside Down with its off-Broadway premiere in a strictly limited 5-week engagement at The Players Theatre from August 5 to September 5.

Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical has officially returned from the Upside Down with its off-Broadway premiere at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal St.), ahead of an official Opening Night set for Wednesday, August 11th, with the strictly limited engagement set to run through Sunday, September 5th. Before you take your own trip to the Upside Down, learn more about the show from writer and producer Jonathan Hogue.

Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical returns from the Upside Down with its off-Broadway premiere beginning tonight, August 5th at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal St.), ahead of an official Opening Night set for Wednesday, August 11th, with the strictly limited engagement set to run through Sunday, September 5th.

Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical returns from the Upside Down with its off-Broadway premiere beginning this Thursday, August 5th at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal St.), ahead of an official Opening Night set for Wednesday, August 11th, with the strictly limited engagement set to run through Sunday, September 5th.

Sahn Millington (Director) brings together five incredible performers to tell the classic mystery of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK. 

There was a huge response to the Silver Gull Play Award this year, with the plays displaying a wide variety of subject matter and a high standard of writing.

On a blistering summer's day in 1900, three private school girls and their teacher inexplicably vanished while on a day-trip to Hanging Rock in country Victoria. It was supposed to be a Valentine's Day treat. They were meant to be home for dinner. They were never seen again.

Sam Martin's poignant autobiographical account of coming out during the 2017 marriage equality plebiscite will be presented to the public for the first time this November 29 and 30 in a staged reading at The Flying Nun by Brand X in Darlinghurst, Sydney.

Moscow 1938. Not the best place to have a sense of humour, let alone a yearning for freedom.

Patrick Howard (Director) strips New Theatre back to its bare bones for Michael Gow's (playwright) ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID'S CITY, a Brechtian Australian story of connection, compassion and coming to terms with terminal illness.

It's Christmas, and theatre director Will Drummond is having a colossal mid-life crisis.

Have you ever wondered who the Demogorgon gets freaky with in the shadows of The Upside Down? No? Me neither until I watched Stranger Sings! To say it was a wild ride is putting it mildly.