Headlining Events - Thursday, 11th March
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Unvaulted Exhibition - Town Hall Reopen... |
10am - 4pm @ Sydney Town HallFREE    Literary & Educational | |
Unvaulted Exhibition - Town Hall Reopening UNVAULTED is a celebration of the rich civic legacy which successive Councils of the City of Sydney have preserved in Sydney Town Hall. The collection is significant because it charts the growth of Council and the increasing prestige afforded to the city and its civic leaders. Many items are civic memorials, associated with personalities achievements and events associated with the City of Sydney. 
Sydney Town Hall - 483 George St, Sydney, NSW 2001 - 02 9265 9007
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Taste Of Sydney |
5.30pm @ Centennial Park$27.50 - $120   Community & Lifestyle | |
Taste Of Sydney The internationally renowned food festival 'Taste' will be held in Sydney from March 11-14, 2010. Following the success of last year's Taste of Sydney, this unique social event is back again to celebrate the city's most prestigious chefs and restaurants in an elegant outdoor environment. Food lovers can tempt their taste buds with the best the hospitality industry has to offer. Ticketek - 132 849 
Centennial Park - Oxford St, Centennial Park, NSW, 2021 - 02 9339 6699
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Artist Talk by Rew Hanks |
| 6pm - 7pm @ Watters GalleryFREELiterary & Educational | |
Artist Talk by Rew Hanks Rew Hanks is a Sydney-based printmaker whose narratives are amongst the most complex and challenging in contemporary Australian printmaking.
Watters Gallery - 109 Riley St, East Sydney, NSW 2010 - 02 9331 2556
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 7.30pm @ Sydney Opera House, Opera Theatre$55 - $270Theatre & Performing Arts | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream Britten's music captures the spirit of Shakespeare's mischievous tale of enchantment and love with uncanny accuracy... weaving together fascinating orchestral colours and seductive melodies in a spell-bindingly beautiful score, in this restaging of Baz Luhrmann's legendary production. Sydney Opera House Boxoffice - 02 9250 7777
Sydney Opera House, Opera Theatre - Bennelong Point, Sydney - 02 9250 7777
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King Lear |
7.30pm @ Sydney Opera House, Drama Theatre$30 - $68 Theatre & Performing Arts | |
King Lear A father in his twilight years divides his assets between his three daughters. She who loves him most will gain the most. Goneril and Regan are more than happy to flatter him so they share the spoils. Cordelia, his youngest and favourite, is too honest for her own good. Furious, he disowns her and sends her away. Betrayed by the elder two who have all he once owned, Lear is left destitute. Still blinded by pride and vanity, it's not until Cordelia returns to save him that he realises his catastrophic mistake and recognises true love. Ticketmaster - 136 100
Sydney Opera House, Drama Theatre - Bennelong Point, Sydney - 02 9250 7777
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Eilen Jewell |
| 7pm @ Notes$44Music | |
Eilen Jewell Ragged Company, Shock Entertainment, ABC Dig Music and Rhythms Magazine are proud to announce the very first Australian tour by Boise-born and Boston based alt folk roots superstar on the rise, Eilen Jewell. Over the course of three albums, including her latest Sea Of Tears, Eilen has won a legion of fans across the globe with critics falling over themselves to announce a new leading light on the musical horizon. OzTix - 1300 762 545
Notes - 75 Enmore Road Newtown, 2042 - 02 9557 5111
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Bent |
| 8.15pm @ Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre$24 - $32Theatre & Performing Arts | |
Bent From the decadence of 1930s Berlin to the inhumane excesses of the Nazi concentration camps, Bent explores one gay man's fight for self-acceptance in the face of hatred and persecution. Told with brutal honesty and integrity, this redemptive story illuminates the treatment of homosexuals during the Third Reich who were arrested, interned in concentration camps, and branded as deviants with what is now a universal symbol for gay pride - the pink triangle. Belvoir Theatre Box Office - 02 9699 3444
Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre - 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills - (02) 9699 3444
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Jeff Green, Sam Bowring & Desh |
| 8.30pm @ The Laugh Garage, Sydney$11.50 - $16.50Comedy | |
Jeff Green, Sam Bowring & Desh Award winning comedian Jeff Green has established himself as one of the most popular comics working in the UK today. Jeff's razor-sharp observations combined with an abundant natural charm have marked him out as one of the brightest talents on the British comedy scene. In 1994 Jeff was nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh festival. He also hosted The Comedy Club (LWT) and toured with Jo Brand. 1996 proved to be a great year for Jeff with a sell out solo tour of the UK and a 45 minute television special - Jeff Green Live
The Laugh Garage, Sydney - B1, 60 Park Street, Sydney NSW 2000 - 02 8883 1111
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Wicked - The Musical |
| 8pm @ Capitol Theatre$89.90 - $119.90Theatre & Performing Arts | |
Wicked - The Musical Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the
Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years. WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award® winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman. Ticketmaster - 136 100
Capitol Theatre - 13 Campbell St, Haymarket - 1300 855 445
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Ojos De Brujo |
| 8pm @ Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall$52 - $75Music | |
Ojos De Brujo Dramatic and rhythmic, Ojos de Brujo present an inimitable sound forged from a genre-bending mix of Catalan rumba, flamenco solea and bulerias, urban Afro-Cuban percussion, hip hop, funk and jazz. Sydney Opera House Boxoffice - 02 9250 7777
Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall - Bennelong Point, Sydney - 02 9250 7777
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That Face |
8pm @ Belvoir St Theatre$35 - $57 Theatre & Performing Arts | |
That Face Henry's dropped out of school, Mia's been expelled, dad's in Hong Kong with a young new wife, and mum's an alcoholic mess. That's where Polly Stenham's remarkable debut play begins. It ends in a thrilling showdown between destruction and regeneration.
Polly Stenham was 19 when she wrote it and 20 when it wowed audiences at London's acclaimed Royal Court Theatre in 2007.
Directed by Lee Lewis, with Emily Barclay, Krew Boylan, Kenji Fitzgerald, Marcus Grahem, Laura Hopkinson and Susie Porter. Belvoir Theatre Box Office - 02 9699 3444
Belvoir St Theatre - 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills - 02 9699 3444
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