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, […]
We have been busily working on a number of new clients with Barangaroo in Sydney launching the new arts and cultural precinct. This amazing space will have numerous free events over the coming months. The creative team at Sydney Youth Orchestras go from strength to strength with three concerts in March, a new art fair […]
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 Australian Institute of Music’s Dramatic Arts department (AIM Dramatic Arts) tour of STORM IN A TEACUP: THE TEMPEST & TWELFTH NIGHT to three Western Sydney performing arts venues. Directed by Jo Turner (The Tempest) and Peta Downes (Twelfth Night), designed by Megan Venhoek, with lighting design by Martin Kinnane and sound design by Nate […]
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 […]