Lachlan Philpott

Wendy Mocke has been awarded the 2023 Griffin Award for new Australian playwriting for her play I am Kegu. 

Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) has announced the return of Lachlan Philpott's hit inter-generational story M.Rock from Tuesday 21st June to Sunday 17th July at Pier 2/3 in the Walsh Bay Precinct, eight years after it first hit the stage.

To celebrate its recent 50th birthday, Currency Press, Australia's foremost publisher of the performing arts, is convening the Australian Playwrights' Festival. Showcasing our playwrights and the roles they have played in reflecting our society and defining who we are, the festival will be held from 18-20 March 2022 at the Paddington RSL.

Critical Stages Touring, Australia's national touring theatre company, will present a world premiere anthology of new stories for the stage in a live-streamed staged reading at the FringeHQ Newtown theatre on April 28th.

Inspired by the ‘life’ of the famous street artwork “Saint George”, THE RISE AND FALL OF SAINT GEORGE captures the heart and soul of the Queer community as it grappled with the destructive forces that were magnified when the right for same sex marriage was put to the public vote in 2017.

Dylan Van Den Berg has been awarded the 2020 Griffin Award for new Australian playwriting for his play way back when.

Australian music legend Paul Mac has teamed up with playwright Lachlan Philpott and director Kate Champion to deliver an inspiring tale of strength and community in The Rise and Fall of Saint George at Arts Centre Melbourne's Hamer Hall for Midsumma Festival this 23 a?" 24 January.

Arts Centre Melbourne is thrilled to present a kaleidoscope of life-affirming performances and events as part of Midsumma Festival 2020 in January and February. The diverse line-up will feature The Rise and Fall of Saint George, an electronic choral celebration of resilience and community, Daddy, a delicious confection of dance and storytelling, BOOBS, an inspiring tale of body autonomy and the Midsumma Extravaganza, an ultra-glamourous gala returning for its third year. For the 2020 program Arts Centre Melbourne will also present two free events, Escape Velocity: We Are Who We Are, a vital film project made with transgender and gender non-conforming young people and  a staged reading of Flat-Earthers, an emerging musical comedy.

Gavin Roach presents the Victorian Premiere of Lake Disappointment.

Heart Street Theater Company will present acclaimed Australian play 'Truck Stop' by Lachlan Philpott for two nights only on August 1st and 2nd, 2019.

New Ghosts Theatre Company prides itself in facilitating new work, debuting the best international scripts locally and collaborating with Australia's most up and coming writers. Following the success of its sold out seasons of Paper Doll in Sydney and Perth, YEN at KXT and the launch of IGNITE Collective, New Ghosts presents UNFOLD: a new short festival at Sydney's iconic Old Fitz Theatre from the 21st a?" 24th August 2019.

Being a 20-something queer is hard. Being a 20-something queer living in Sydney is… something else, I guess.

Griffin Theatre Company has awarded Mark Rogers the 2019 Griffin Award for new Australian writing for his play Superheroes.

The Seymour Centre has unveiled their incredible line-up of productions for 2019, with a diverse program of world premieres and critically-acclaimed works.

Playwright Suzie Miller was announced as the winner of the 2018 Griffin Award for her play On the Face of It at the SBW Stables Theatre today. Accepting the award from Griffin's Artistic Director Lee Lewis and Jane Curry of Copyright Agency, Miller said: "It's such a joy just to be nominated, especially with the plays I was nominated alongside. I'd been nominated once before but to win is astonishing, and it shows that the whole journey is worth it. The thing for playwrights in this country is really just keeping at it. To all the other playwrights and playwrights to-be out there like I once was: if you're passionate about it, keep doing it."

The feminista supernovas of Retro Futurismus return to fortyfivedownstairs this winter to premiere a new hyper-real show, Brave World, that will fillet the future and conjure grand visions from obsolete technologies.

Dreams and destinies derail in Lachlan Philpott's SILENT DISCO as growing up in a society of broken marriages, drugs and delinquency play out.

New Theatre is presenting a long-overdue revival of this award-winning contemporary Australian play. Says the writer, Lachlan Philpott 'The New played a really important role in supporting me as an emerging writer and it's terrific to have my work on their stage in this fresh production, directed by Johann Walraven.'

At a star-studded ceremony tonight, the winners of the 2017 Sydney Theatre Awards were announced, with 37 Awards presented, shared between 18 productions which played in Sydney during the calendar year of 2017. Over 450 members of the Sydney theatre community packed the Everest Theatre at the Seymour Centre to celebrate the best of Sydney theatre.

Today 27 November, New Theatre launches its 2018 Season.