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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)

MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS, co-written by Keith Thompson, has been nominated for Best Screenplay at the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards! https://writersguild.org.uk/writers-guild-awards-shortlist-2023/?fbclid=IwAR1JZrF0rPpTFe8XTk-g-y7yOAOwU_8rdGY96IXLAYR1it-fhKm4wXgL_kY

Justin Kurzel’s TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG will screen tomorrow at the National Film and Sound Archive.A Q&A with Justin and photographer Matthew Thorne will follow! Tickets available via the NFSA website.

Check out the cast announcement for NORTH SHORE, directed by Gregor Jordan for Beach Road Pictures, for Network 10 and Paramount UK. Production on this six-part crime drama series is underway in Sydney. ‘North Shore’ welcomes John Bradley, Joanne Froggatt, Kirsty Sturgess – IF Magazine

SAVAGE RIVER, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, is a finalist in the #c21media International Drama Awards!

The Arts Foundation’s highest honour, the Icon Award is bestowed to a living circle of twenty of New Zealand’s most significant artists for their extraordinary lifetime achievements and mark on the arts. Read more here: Jane Campion | Arts Foundation Laureate | Arts Foundation (thearts.co.nz)

HLA is proud to announce that we now represent Cinematographer Kieran Fowler NZCS ACS. Kieran’s feature credits include CARNIFEX, TERMINUS, SKINFORD, and SKINFORD: CHAPTER TWO and the Vietnamese thriller DUONG DUA. He has most recently completed photography on SAFE HOME for Kindling Pictures and SBS. His short film work has been met with acclaim, notably, GIANTS, which is nominated for the 2022 AACTA award for Best Short Film and SOULMATE for which he won the Ross Wood Snr ACS Award ...

https://www.tvinsider.com/1067898/irreverent-colin-donnell-trailer-peacock/ Check out the trailer for IRREVERENT, featuring production design by Paul Heath and episodes written by Angela McDonald.

HLA welcomes writer Grace Chapple. A writer for stage and screen, Grace’s NIDA graduate play NEVER CLOSER was met with critical acclaim in Belvoir’s 2022 25A program, and has been shortlisted for the Griffin Award, the Rodney Seaborn Award, longlisted for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Award, a was a finalist in the Shane & Catherine Brennan Playwriting Award. Grace’s writing explores contemporary issues through a retrospective lens. She is drawn to love stories and comedies with tragically authentic outcomes. Grace is ...

GIRLS & BOYS, directed by Kate Champion, is “a masterclass in how theatre can produce the antithesis of the human experience” Girls & Boys: Nikki Shiels delivers the performance of a lifetime (beat.com.au)

The Lovers (Bell Shakespeare) (limelightmagazine.com.au) “THE LOVERS is an exhilarating breath of fresh air and proof positive that Laura Murphy is something of a genius when it comes to writing musicals.”

Review: The Lovers (Bell Shakespeare) | Suzy Goes See “Director Shaun Rennie demonstrates great attention to detail…technical brilliance and exceptional polish”

GIRLS & BOYS, directed by Kate Champion, opens tomorrow night at Melbourne Theatre Company. Book your tickets via the link below. https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/season-2022/girls-and-boys/