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Sarah Snook to play Dorian Gray as hit Australian production heads to London’s West End

The Succession star will take over role from actor Eryn Jean Norvill in The Picture of Dorian Gray, which toured Australia to sell-out audiences

The Guardian - AU · Jun 22, 2023

Snook bound for West End in Australian hit Dorian Gray

Succession's Sarah Snook will take Sydney Theatre Company's groundbreaking one-woman show The Picture of Dorian Gray to London's West End.

The New Daily · Jun 22, 2023

A gothic, brilliant success: The Poison of Polygamy brings the first Chinese-Australian novel to the stage after 113 years

Review: The Poison of Polygamy, directed by Courtney Stewart, La Boite and Sydney Theatre Company.

The Conversation · Jun 13, 2023

Fences review – Australian debut of August Wilson play is a remarkable achievement

Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre CompanyThe STC’s production of the Pulitzer-winning play, about a flawed patriarch wrestling with self-destruction, is lead by a uniformly excellent cast

The Guardian - AU · Mar 31, 2023

At the 2023 Adelaide Festival, the best works shimmer with a brutal honesty on incarceration, exile – and Nikolai Gogol

Few Adelaideans remember a time before the Adelaide Festival. Formed in 1960 as a civic enterprise and financed against loss by prominent Adelaide businessmen, the festival today remains arguably the most robust international arts festival in our region.

The Conversation · Mar 24, 2023

Björk was the big-ticket name – but Perth Festival’s heart was found in Bikutsi 3000’s afrofuturist musing on African resistance

For the culturally curious, February and March in Perth can be a rich maelstrom, with Perth Fringe and Perth Festival. We have apparently the world’s “third largest” fringe festival (after Edinburgh and Adelaide), but I’m not sure why this is good.

The Conversation · Mar 17, 2023