Peter Carroll News

International hit musical Girl from the North Country, by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, will have its Australian premiere tonight at the newly re-opened Theatre Royal Sydney.

Producers GWB Entertainment and Damien Hewitt today announced that the hit musical Girl from the North Country, by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, will open at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne on Friday 29 April for a limited season.

Girl From The North Country opens this January at the newly restored Theatre Royal Sydney as part of 2022 Sydney Festival.

Forget what you knew. With a bold ambition to reimagine how we experience and interact with the city itself, Sydney Festival's 2022 line-up – the first helmed by artistic director Olivia Ansell – is set to explode onto (and into) the city's parks, pools, streets, stages and screens this summer.

Netflix has released the trailer for Jane Champion's The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst. The cast also features Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Frances Conroy, Keith Carradine, Peter Carroll, and Adam Beach. Watch the new trailer now!

AFI Winner Peter Kowitz, Helpmann Award-winners Christina O’Neill and Greg Stone, and Grant Piro join previously announced cast members Lisa McCune, Zahra Newman, Terence Crawford, Helen Dallimore and Peter Carroll.

Trafalgar Entertainment Group will be welcoming patrons into the building from December 2nd, 2021, with two of the most exciting current new Broadway musicals.

From new Australian works and a big, bold new musical to a shaken-up classic and celebration of an Australian sporting legend, State Theatre Company South Australia’s 2022 season is a platform for powerhouse performances. 

Critically acclaimed musical Girl from the North Country, written and directed by Conor McPherson and with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, is the first new international production to be announced for Australia since the NSW Government announced the return of live theatre to the state.

Highlighting the precariousness of entitlement and shifting social status Eamon Flack’s (Director) adaptation of THE CHERRY ORCHARD proves that Anton Chekhov’s work retains a relevance in the 21st century as the mighty families can fall and those that once served may end up in charge. 

50 fearless and inspiring short works from some of Australia's best playwrights will be simultaneously livestreamed by more than 30 performing arts organisations from across Australia between the 2-5 July.

Bertolt Brecht's LIFE OF GALILEO is given a modern makeover in Tom Wright's adaptation, directed by Eamon Flack for Belvoir St Theatre.

With a cast led by Hugo Weaving, Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winner A CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF is given a 21st century makeover by Director Kip Williams. 

Acclaimed Australian playwright Kate Mulvany delivers another triumph with her latest adaptation, this time of Friedrich Schiller's MARY STUART, presenting the famous Queens from a long overdue perspective which ensures the women regain their rightful place at the center of their story.

Full casting has been announced for The 77th Annual Dolphin Show's production of 'Hello, Dolly!'

Following the tremendous success of her adaptation of Ruth Park's The Harp in the South in 2018, Kate Mulvany will work her magic on Fredrich Schiller's Mary Stuart in 2019, with Caroline Brazier and Helen Thomson playing two of history's most intriguing women - Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England, now directed by Lee Lewis. Imara Savage has had to withdraw as director due to scheduling conflicts.

Full casting has been announced for The 77th Annual Dolphin Show's production of 'Hello, Dolly!'

Melissa Reeve turns Henrik Ibsen's AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE upside down to speak to a new generation gender politics, media manipulation, and power plays in the middle classes.

A brand new Belvoir production of An Enemy of the People reunites the powerhouse team behind critically-acclaimed hits Medea and Jasper Jones, director Anne-Louise Sarks and the superb Kate Mulvany in this timely new version of a prophetic masterpiece.

Peter King's final training camp tour edition of “Football Morning in America” on NBCSports.com includes a visit to Seahawks-Vikings from Minneapolis, Minn., where Seattle head coach Pete Carroll discussed a roster rebuild that could make the franchise a surprise contender.