Sydney Theatre Company News

Monty Python's SPAMALOT will welcome a new king when Michael Siberry arrives at the Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street) on Tuesday September 16.

Monty Python's SPAMALOT will welcome a new king when Michael Siberry arrives at the Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street) on Tuesday September 16.

Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct the European premiere of 'RIFLEMIND', a new play by Sydney Theatre Company Co Artistic Director Andrew Upton. 'RIFLEMIND' will open at the Trafalgar Studios in the hubbub of London's West End on Thursday 18 September, following previews from 15 September.

Peter Polycarpou will play 'Daniel Warshowsky', the head of a family of actors, in the new musical 'IMAGINE THIS', which will have its premiere at the New London Theatre in the West End on Wednesday 19 November, following previews from 4 November

Sydney Theatre Company's forthcoming production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Liv Ullmann, is to tour to the United States. The production which will play at Sydney Theatre from 1 September to 10 October 2009, featuring STC Co-Artistic Director Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois, will run at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington from 29 October to 21 November 2009 and Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), New York from 27 November to 20 December 2009.

Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct the European premiere of 'RIFLEMIND', a new play by Sydney Theatre Company Co Artistic Director Andrew Upton.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Artistic Director John Ortiz; Co-Artistic Director Philip Seymour Hoffman; Co-Artistic Director and Executive Director John Gould Rubin) and The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) announced today that the world premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis' THE LITTLE FLOWER OF EAST ORANGE will extend its run through Sunday, May 4. The production, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, will open on Sunday, April 6 and was originally scheduled to close on Sunday, April 20.

LAByrinth Theater Company and The Public Theatre join forces with Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and Director Philip Seymour Hoffman for the world premiere of The Little Flower of East Orange, an inter-generational ghost story set in an upper Manhattan charity hospital. The Little Flower of East Orange will begin previews on Tuesday, March 18 and run through Sunday, April 20 with an official press opening on Sunday, April 6 at 7 PM. Tickets go on-sale on Sunday, February 17.

Today at Melbourne's Federation Square, the Australian cast of Monty Python's Spamalot, was announced under a massive inflatable recreation of Monty Python's iconic 'Foot of God'.

Neil D'Souza's new play Small Miracle, which receives its world premiere at Colchester's Mercury Theatre on 1 June, will transfer to the Tricycle Theatre from Tuesday 19 June (press night). Directed by Janice Dunn, Small Miracle is designed by Chloe Lamford, with lighting by Tony Simpson and sound by Marcus Christensen.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will continue its 2006-2007 season with its first-ever production of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett and her husband, playwright/translator Andrew Upton, will assume artistic leadership of the Sydney Theatre Company at the end of 2007

Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman--both stars of stage and screen--will direct productions for the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia next year

International superstar Hugh Jackman--currently touring his native Australia in The Boy from Oz--may soon be performing with the famed Sydney Theatre Company--in a straight play

Complete casting has been announced for the West End production of Wicked.

On March 1st, the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, starring Cate Blanchett, will begin performances