The winners of the 2012
Sydney
Theatre Awards have been announced with around 300 members of the Sydney theatre
community attending the auditorium at Paddington RSL to cheer on their fellow thespians.
International stage royalty presented awards including
Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and
Barry Humphries.
Best Mainstage Production went to Belvoir Street's
Medea while Best Actor in a Leading Role of a
Mainstage Production was won by
Josh McConville for Griffin’s
The Boys.
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| Angela Lansbury |
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| Lucy Durack |
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| James Earl Jones & wife Cecilia Hart |
Caroline Brazier won Best Actress in a
Leading Role in an Independent Production for
I Want To Sleep With Tom
Stoppard, while
James Lugton won Best Actor in a Leading Role in an
Independent Production for
The Taming of the Shrew.
South
Pacific was awarded Best Production of a Musical, while
Lucy Durack won
the Judith Johnson Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a
Leading Role in a Musical for
Legally Blonde, and
Ben Lewis was
awarded the Judith Johnson Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a
Leading Role in a Musical for
Love Never Dies.
Wacky Hairstyle of The Month
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| David Lynch. New York Social Diary |
Pictured : filmmaker
David Lynch with his magnificent cockatoo parrot inspired thatch at a recent fundraiser in New York for the
David Lynch Foundation. Fab!
It's an unusual name for a play, The Dog /The Cat opened tonight at Belvoir Street. It stars (heartthrob) Xavier Samuel of Twilight Saga fame, Andrea Demetriades of the ABC's Janet King fame and Benedict Hardie who just appeared in The Water Diviner (pictured above) and it's a romantic comedy with two interconnected tales of true love and stupidity from two of the hottest playwrights around, Brendan Cowell and Lally Katz (right). Opening night was packed and the audience roared with laughter and gave a rapturous ovation. And that's a good thing. The Belvoir season has been extended due to popularity but you need to book asap here.
