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BANANALAND, a new musical directed by Simon Phillips is on at Sydney Festival this summer! On at Riverside Theatre from January 3 – 14 2024. Read more and book your tickets HERE!  

After three critically acclaimed seasons, we bid farewell to THE GREAT. Tony McNamara’s multi Emmy-nominated series will be remembered as one of the most unique and watchable shows on television. Read more here 

Kitty Green’s new feature film, THE ROYAL HOTEL, is set to premere at Toronto International Film Festival this September. The thriller features production design by Leah Popple and costume design by Mariot Kerr.   Read more via iF Magazine, and grab your tickets on the TIFF website.

Suzie Miller’s PRIMA FACIE has won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre.   Read more here!

The Broadway season of Suzie Miller’s smash hit play PRIMA FACIE has recouped. It closes this week after a critically acclaimed run at The Golden Theatre. Read more here

Bernadette Robinson embodies the DIVA spirit in this acclaimed emotion-packed Simon Phillips production. The DIVAS tour will take place over three cities. QPAC July 20-23 Sydney Opera House August 3-13 Arts Centre Melbourne August 24 – 27

Matthew Lutton has received an order of Australia Medal for his service to the Arts as a Director. See the announcement here.

Screening this weekend at Sydney Film Festival RACHEL’S FARM, a documentary by Rachel Ward Alice Englert’s BAD BEHAVIOUR JANE CAMPION, CINEMA WOMAN Check out more and buy tickets via the Sydney Film Festival website.

Check out the trailer for THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART. Directed by Glendyn Ivin, Production Design by Melinda Doring, with costume design by Joanna Mae Park. Edited by Deborah Peart. Coming to Amazon Prime August 4th.

Take a look behind the scenes at BANANALAND, a new musical comedy directed by Simon Phillips. Running at Brisbane Festival 16 Sept – 1 Oct, grab your tickets here 

Check out the trailer for the Stan original series YEAR OF. Episodes directed by Taylor Ferguson and shot by Alex Cardy. YEAR OF premieres June 9 on Stan, you can read more about the series here.

Congratulations to all HLA Clients nominated for Green Room Awards this year. OUTSTADNING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: OA Chorus for IL MAGO DI OZ, directed by Con Costi OUT STANDING SET DESIGN: Marg Horwell for THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN: Marg Horwell for THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Eddie Martin’s documentary WE WERE ONCE KIDS will screen at the Golden Age Cinema and Bar in June. Purchase your tickets here   

Check out the teaser for POOR THINGS, written by Tony McNamara.   Coming soon.

Here’s a first look at POOR THINGS, written by Tony McNamara. The film, starring Emma Stone and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos is in cinemas Septemer 8.

Rachel Ward’s uplifting documentary RACHEL’S FARM will screen at Sydney Film Festival. Read more via the SFF website.  Stay tuned for announcements on session times!  

Read the 4.5 star review for IN OUR BLOOD, a new drama series directed by John Sheedy. The 4 part drama from Hoodlum is set against the backdrop of the early HIV / AIDS epidemic in Sydney -and the corridors of Canberra- from 1983. In Our Blood | TV Tonight  

We are thrilled to announce Suzie Miller’s PRIMA FACIE at Harold Pinter Theatre has been nominated for 5 Olivier Awards! Best New Play – PRIMA FACIE, Harold Pinter Theatre Best Actress – Jodie Comer, PRIMA FACIE Best Lighting Design – Natasha Chivers, PRIMA FACIE Best Sound Design – Ben & Max Ringham, PRIMA FACIE Best Director – Justin Martin, PRIMA FACIE The ceremony, named after legendary English actor Sir Laurence Olivier, will take place on 2 April at London’s Royal Albert Hall. ...

CAMP, directed by Kate Gaul opens tonight at the Seymour Centre Sydney. A backdrop of violence and uncertainty frames the first part of the play which taps into this energy and imagination: the birth of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP). Four fictional activists Krissy, Jo, Tracy, and Dave fall in love, fall out of love, find their individual voices, and forge paths spanning 5 decades. In 2022, Krissy, Jo and Tracy reconnect. Through personal and political challenges – which ...

Suzie Miller’s PRIMA FACIE opened at Melbourne Theatre Company over the weekend to rave reviews. “I’ve seen the UK version of this play starring Jodie Comer, and I have to say Lee Lewis’ production outshines it by some margin.” – The Age Read The Age review here. Pictured Suzie, Anne-Louise Sarks and actor Sheridan Harbridge, image credit: Heath Warwick

Justin Kurzel is set to direct THE ORDER, starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult, for AGC Studios. Read the full story via Deadline.      

THE DISMISSAL, lyrics and music by HLA’s Laura Murphy opens August 26, 2023 at the Seymour Centre The Dismissal: Gough Whitlam’s removal from government is the subject of a new muscal (smh.com.au)