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Miranda Michalowski Wins The Silver Gull Play Award for 2024

The winner of The Silver Gull Play Award for 2024 is Miranda Michalowski for her play Macaroni and Dead Things.

The Silver Gull Play Award Reveals Shortlist

The Silver Gull Play Award competition this year attracted a record number of entries, with an extremely high standard of scripts submitted. For the first time, the competition was extended to include writers over the age of 18 from both NSW and ACT.

REVIEW: Guest Reviewer Sienna Brown Shares Her Thoughts on WIT

REVIEW: Guest Reviewer Sienna Brown Shares Her Thoughts on WIT. Brilliant. Intense. Radiant. Nuanced.

WIT Comes to Riverside Theatres Next Month

Riverside Theatres will present the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about life, death, and the significance of a semicolon, WIT, from the 6th – 9th March at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta.

The Silver Gull Play Award 2023 Shortlist Revealed

The Silver Gull Play Award competition this year attracted a large variety of entries, with an extremely high standard of scripts submitted. Learn more about the shortlist here!

The Silver Gull Play Award 2022 Shortlist Announced

The judging panel read, assessed and discussed each submission multiple times. The identity of the writers was kept anonymous from the judges, so the shortlist truly reflects a determination made on merit, based solely on the quality of writing.

The Silver Gull Play Award 2021 Shortlist Announced

There was a wonderful response to The Silver Gull Play Award competition this year, with over 50 plays submitted.  The judging panel read, assessed and discussed each submission multiple times. The identity of the writers was kept anonymous from the judges, so the shortlist truly reflects a determination made on merit, solely on the quality of writing. After a month of deliberation, a shortlist of six has been finalised.

SIGNIFICANT OTHER Will Make Australian Premiere This June

New Theatre will be presenting the Australian premiere of this delightful contemporary queer rom-com, from one of America's most acclaimed young playwrights, Joshua Harmon, and to welcome director Hayden Tonazzi to take the helm in his New Theatre debut.

The Silver Gull Play Award Finds New Home At New Theatre

New Theatre has announced that is has become the new home of The Silver Gull Play Award.

Groundbreaking and Still Relevant, MARAT/SADE Comes to the New Theatre

"We want our rights and we don't care how / We want our revolution NOW" The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, commonly known as Marat/Sade, changed theatre for ever when it premiered in the 1960s.

Playwright Joanna Erskine Wins 2016 Silver Gull Play Award

On Monday night the Sydney theatre community gathered at the Old 505 Theatre to celebrate the Silver Gull Play Award, now in its second year.  Sponsored by The Buzz from Sydney, the award celebrates new work that is brash, bold and cheeky.

BWW Reviews: SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS 2015 Winners Announced

The Sydney's Theatre community gathered at the 2015 SYDNEY THEATRE AWARDS tonight for the 11th annual celebration of the best of the past year's work as judged by The Sydney Reviewers.

BWW Reviews: WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING Proves Family Secrets Can Have A Lasting Impact

New Theatre's latest offering tells the story of a reunion between an estranged father and son in a wet Alice Springs in 2039 as it unearths the history of 4 generations while the world is faced with apocalyptic flooding and falling fish in Andrew Bovell's WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING.

Photo Flash: First Look- WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING by Andrew Bovell

New Theatre's production of When the Rain Stops Falling, the award-winning play by Australian writer Andrew Bovell, opens this week with previews starting from tomorrow night (Tuesday 17 March). Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the show!