Join award-winning pianist Simon Tedeschi and acclaimed jazz partner-in-crime George Washingmachine as they return to The Joan, this time with a hand-picked six piece jazz band in tow. Together they’ll swing and improvise over their favourite classics from the jazz repertory, including Benny Goodman’s Don’t Be That Way, Duke Ellington’s It Don’t Mean A Thing, […]
Internationally acclaimed French Canadian virtuoso violinist / conductor Alexandre Da Costa, returns to Australia in March. Alexandre has performed with the most renowned orchestras and conductors across four continents. He is Music Director of the Longueuil Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Stradivaria Festival. Works performed include Bellini, Donizetti, Bizet, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Strauss. […]
The third production in the Joan’s 2016 Brave New Work season is a multi artform sensory experience about the evolution of technology produced by The Q. Using original text from Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein, this new production examines the original story of the making of a monster, while drawing on modern day uses of technology. […]
Never Did Me Any Harm Produced by Force Majeure and Sydney Theatre Company Devised by Force Majeure 10 August at 12pm & 8pm Brave New Work The second production in the Joan’s 2016 Brave New Work season is the critically acclaimed Never Did Me Any Harm. Receiving rave reviews at its premiere at Sydney […]
MEDIA RELEASE July 2016 THE ADVENTURES OF ALVIN SPUTNIK: DEEP SEA EXPLORER Created By Tim Watts Presented by The Last Great Hunt 29 & 30 July at 12pm & 8pm The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer is a tiny tale set in the deepest dark blue sea, of a solitary explorer with a […]
NEVER DID ME ANY HARM Co-produced by Force Majeure & Sydney Theatre Company Devised by Force Majeure The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre August 10 Click here for online Bookings
MEDIA RELEASE Waste Not Free family arts festival celebrating sustainability Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre Sunday June 5 Penrith City Council in conjunction with Ausdance NSW present Waste Not, a free festival to celebrate the Penrith community’s achievements in diverting waste from landfill, funded by theEnvironmental Protection Authority. Throughout the day, in and around […]
The Joan’s 2016 Brave New Work season opens on 23 April with They Saw a Thylacine, a lyrical tale of adversity and survival. On an unseasonably cold September day in 1936, the world’s last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity at Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo. Out of the darkness, Sarah Hamilton and Justine Campbell conjure the […]
MEDIA RELEASE March 2016 Brave New Work For Lovers of Theatre April | August | November Brave New Work, The Joan’s annual season of fresh and exciting Australian theatre, is back in 2016 and better than ever. The Joan’s programming team has curated a three work series made up of immersive and enthralling […]
We’ve had an amazing start to the year working with the New York team bringing our fantastic Australian show, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, to off Broadway. We have also had the great pleasure of working with some amazing artists, companies and organisations so far in 2016, from New York to Penrith, Bermagui to the Gold […]