Russell Ira Crowe is an actor, director, musician, and singer. He was born in New Zealand, spent 10 years of his childhood in Australia, moved there permanently at age 21, and has twice been denied Australian citizenship. He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the epic historical film Gladiator (2000), for which he won an Academy Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, Empire Award, and London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Leading Actor, along with 10 other nominations in the same category.
Newtown, a suburb of Sydney's inner west, is located approximately four kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, straddling the local government areas of the City of Sydney and Inner West Council in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia's leading centre for education and training in the performing arts. Founded in 1958, NIDA uses a conservatoire model, where students learn through practical experience, working on real productions. NIDA offers bachelor's, master's and vocational degrees in subjects including acting, writing, directing, scenic construction, technical theatre, voice, costume, props, production design and cultural leadership.
Andrew Bibby is an Australian actor who played Lance Wilkinson on the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 1995, 1996–2001 and in 2005. He returned again briefly in 2018.
Crown Perth is a resort and casino located in Burswood, Western Australia, near the Swan River. The resort consists of a casino, a convention centre with meeting rooms, theatre and two ballrooms along with 32 restaurants and bars, a nightclub and recreational facilities. It also features three hotels: the 405-room Crown Metropol Perth, the 291-room Crown Promenade Perth and the 500-room luxury hotel Crown Towers Perth, which was opened in December 2016.
Tourism in Melbourne is a significant industry in the state of Victoria, Australia. The country's second most-populous city, Melbourne was visited by 2.7 million international overnight visitors and 9.3 million domestic overnight visitors during the year ending December 2017.
Matthew Day, credited as Matt Day, is an Australian actor and filmmaker.
Tommy Murphy is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, adaptor and director. He is best known for his stage and screen adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man. His most recent plays are Mark Colvin's Kidney and Packer & Sons.
The Morning Bulletin is an online newspaper servicing the city of Rockhampton and the surrounding areas of Central Queensland, Australia.
Kirrily White is an Australian actress.
Jeremy Cumpston is an Australian doctor, actor and director most known for his work as Connor Costello on All Saints, an Australian hospital drama. Cumpston is a Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts graduate who founded the Old Fitzroy Theatre.
Ned Manning is an Australian playwright, actor and teacher, whose film credits include the lead role in Dead End Drive-In (1986) and an appearance in the teen film Looking for Alibrandi (2000). Manning's television credits include Bodyline, The Shiralee, "Prisoner"", and Brides of Christ. His first major play was Us or Them, and its production by Griffin Theatre Company marked the company's transition to being staffed by professional actors. Other plays have included Milo, Kenny's Coming Home and Close to the Bone; in 2007 Manning played the lead in his own play Last One Standing at the Old Fitzroy theatre in Sydney. The plays have received mixed reviews, with Last One Standing in particular being criticised for its formulaic and predictable narrative. Manning has written for the Bell Shakespeare Company's Actors at Work program, a travelling community and schools theatrical education initiative.
Ewen Leslie is an Australian stage, film and television actor.
The Theatre Royal is Australia's oldest theatrical institution located in Sydney, dating from 1833, though the current theatre was built in 1976. It has offered a broad range of entertainment including dramas, comedy and especially musicals since the 1990s. The theatre has been closed since March 2016, but is scheduled to reopen late 2021, under parent company Trafalgar Entertainment. The reopening comes as a need for Sydney to accommodate a larger capacity venue, since the harbour city does not host as many larger venues as its counterpart Melbourne, which acquired the rights to the JK Rowling West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
The Tamarama Rock Surfers was an independent theatre company that operated out of the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia, and beyond. After 18 years, the group ceased trading in December 2015 due to lack of funding.
Crown Sydney, is a skyscraper in Barangaroo, New South Wales, Australia. Developed by Crown Resorts, it mainly comprises a hotel, residential apartments, and a casino. It was designed by WilkinsonEyre, standing at a height of 271.3 m (890 ft) with 75 floors, making it the tallest building in Sydney and 4th tallest building in Australia. Construction first began in October 2016, before topping out in March 2020. Crown Sydney was completed in December 2020.
The International Convention Centre Sydney is an exhibition and convention centre which opened in December 2016, in Sydney, Australia. ICC Sydney is Australia's second largest fully integrated convention, exhibition and entertainment centre, behind Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Created as a multipurpose event space, ICC Sydney has over 70 meeting rooms, three theatres and two formal ballrooms.
Event Hospitality & Entertainment Ltd is an Australian company which operates cinemas, hotels and resorts in Australia, New Zealand and Germany.
The Garrick Theatre was a theatre and music hall at 79–83 Castlereagh Street in Sydney from 1890 to 1929. The theatre was renamed the Tivoli Theatre in 1893 and operated as a popular vaudeville venue. It was destroyed by fire in 1899 and rebuilt. The theatre closed in 1929.
Hal Cumpston is an Australian actor, producer and writer.
